Spring 2003 Wheaton

Responding to the AIDS Crisis

Our New Community Covenant d ear friends—

I think of them as 6:10 endeavors.

In Galatians 6:10 the Apostle instructs us that whenever the opportunity arises, God’s people should try to move out. That is, we should seek to use these kairos moments—Paul’s word—to “work the good” toward (or “to the advantage of”) all people, while yet ensuring that we do not neglect our first responsibility to fellow believers (“the household of faith”).

What does this instruction, and others like it in God’s Word, require of Wheaton College? Many things, no doubt, some of which you will read about in this issue of Wheaton magazine.

For instance, why do our Trustees every year spend thousands of dollars from their own pockets to send new books to alumni missionaries all over the world? Because of their commitment to this faithful segment of “the household of faith.”Why does Wheaton have a Colson Scholar program for ex-offenders? Read the piece on Angulus Wilson’s leadership of our Prison Ministries program. Why is there a desire on campus to involve ourselves in responding to the AIDS epidemic in Africa and elsewhere? Because we have come to see this as a kairos moment in history, an opportunity to “work the good” towards millions of people in desperate need.

And then there is this question:Why does Wheaton persist in such 6:10 endeavors? Because we are confident of the promise of the previous verse: If we do not falter, in the end God will grant his harvest (6:9).

Duane Litfin President volume 6 number 2 Ta ble of Contents

Editor p. 2 Wheaton’s response to AIDS Georgia I. Douglass ’70, M.A. ’94 Designer Michael Johnson Design Consultant p. 22 Football Ministry Alice Isoz Chrismer ’70 p. 15 Student Center life Editorial Consultant Katherine Halberstadt Anderson ’90 Editor Jackie Noden Inouye ’00 Class News Editor Donna Antoniuk Editorial Advisers Marilee A. Melvin ’72 R. Mark Dillon Alumni Association Features President 2 AIDS: Our Samaritan Call Charles V. Hogren ’58 President-elect What is Wheaton’s response to the growing AIDS Robert D. Dye ’73 epidemic? Read about Wheaton alumni working in Executive Director Marilee A. Melvin ’72 AIDS prevention, research, and education. Professor Emeritus LeRoy H. Pfund ’49 10 Notes to Self Along a Southern Highway Alumni Trustee Representatives President Litfin gives his thoughts on Wheaton’s new Robert D. Dye ’73 Community Covenant. Charles V. Hogren ’58 A.Thomas Paulsen ’70

Board of Directors 15 Where Memories Are Made Class of 2003 As alumni recall memorable moments in the Memorial Randal Ellison ’77 Marilyn L. Himmel ’55 Student Center, current students look forward to Dwight E. Nelson ’72 making their own memories in the Todd M. Beamer Leilani Perez ’01 Shane A. Scott ’96 Student Center. Brian J.Wildman ’85 Class of 2004 Susan Fitzwilliam Alford ’77 William R. Alford ’78 Departments Ruth E. Bamford ’50 C. Kevin Bell ’81 19 Under the Tower Carol McEwing Harding ’68 On My Mind: History Professor Thomas Kay answers the Barbara Anderson Kay ’83, M.A. ’93 Estella Moore Tolbert ’82 question:“What can history teach us as Christians?” Class of 2005 Scholarly Pursuits: Spanish Professor Lindy Scott Daniel R. Branda ’61 Frederick W. Claybrook ’73 explores lessons that North American Christians can Laurelyn Domeck Claybrook ’73 Carlene Ellis Ellerman ’77 learn from the Latin American church. Jennifer M. Fichera ’02 Matthew C. Hsieh ’93 Judith Hamer Whitecotton ’64 22 Sports Wheaton College President 24 A Word With Alumni / Alumni News Dr. Duane Litfin Provost Dr. Stanton L. Jones 42 The Journal of Jonathan Blanchard Senior Vice President Diverse notes on activities at Wheaton Dr. David E. Johnston ’65 Vice President for Advancement 47 Letters Dr. R. Mark Dillon Vice President for Alumni Relations Marilee A. Melvin ’72 48 At Last Vice President for Student Development Dr. Samuel Shellhamer

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by Katherine Halberstadt Anderson ’90 with Scott Bryant ’95

At the close of 2002,roughly 42 million people worldwide were infected with the HIV virus. Last year, AIDS killed

3.1 million people—roughly one-fourth of the population of Illinois.And what’s more, experts predict that this virus is only just emerging, that by the year 2020 another 85 million more people will have died, leaving behind some 25 million orphans in sub-Saharan Africa alone.

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t is difficult to know how to respond to cultural issues that shape the epidemic in Africa such staggering statistics.What can one and around the world. Icollege student, or one graduate, do? Convicted to continue his involvement in Questions such as this were raised on the cause even after his college years, Brian says, December 4, when Bono, the lead singer of the “I’m going to be fighting it whether it is my Irish rock band U2, took the stage at Edman official job or not. I believe that it is something Chapel. He did so with the hope of God calls us to respond to.” encouraging students, and the entire Christian Unfortunately, Brian’s response to the AIDS community, to wake up to the urgency of the epidemic has not been the overwhelming AIDS epidemic.“When 2.5 million people die response of the North American church.When in Africa each year from AIDS, that’s not a cause; World Vision conducted a study of North it’s an emergency.” American Christians last year, 54 percent of those Arguing from the Gospel of Matthew, Bono who responded stated that they would be urged the packed audience to see the faces of unwilling to assist with any efforts targeted their neighbors, their brothers and sisters, in these toward combatting HIV/AIDS.Another 61 per- millions.“This is our holocaust,” Bono cent said they would not support any overseas pronounced near the end of the evening,“and work focusing on AIDS prevention or education. we need students like you to sound the alarm. Grace Tazelaar ’72, RN ’70, a nurse who Will you sound the alarm for us,Wheaton worked in Uganda for years, experienced these College?” attitudes firsthand ten years ago when she In the ensuing weeks and months, returned from Uganda and began planning 54 students have joined together, committing to health ministries in the United States.“I felt like fight AIDS through education, direct action, and John the Baptist in the wilderness.To many advocacy. Brian Davis ’04 says the student group Christians in North America,AIDS was God’s has already learned a great deal—about the curse on the homosexual lifestyle.After several falling prices and availabilities of medications; attempts, I gave up. I had burned out.” about the nature of the disease and the scale of More recently, however, evangelical leaders its reach; and about the social, economic, and have been instrumental in not only changing

Wheaton 3 attitudes, but also in encouraging North voices of compassion American congregations to act. In the November by Katherine Halberstadt Anderson ’90 2002 issue of Christianity Today, Franklin WHEATON ALUMNI WORKING IN GOVERNMENT, Graham was quoted asking churches,“How IN MISSIONS, AND IN RESEARCH SHARE THE much money do you have in your budget for HOPE AND HEARTBREAK OF AIDS. HIV/AIDS? Make it a line item so that the elders and the deacons and the pastor, everybody, Debbie’s voice sees it.” “Our focus is on enabling churches to be the church.” At the Bono event on December 4, When Carolyn Abbott Nystrom ’62, M.A. President Duane Litfin urged the Wheaton ’02 traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, last fall, she went community to “stand in solidarity” with those with a purpose: to research and write “Our who see the world’s suffering—and respond.To Children,” a manual guiding church-based care stand with those already on the front for children orphaned by AIDS. She would spend lines of AIDS research, education, prevention, three weeks with Debbie Mull Dortzbach ’71, and care for the suffering and dying.To stand international director of HIV/AIDS programs for with people like Dr. Elizabeth Corwin Marum World Relief, who had enlisted her help. ’70, who was singled out as being one of Friends for many years, the two met the most influential figures in the development after Debbie returned to the United States, and implementation of HIV awareness programs having survived 26 days of captivity at the hands in Uganda; with Dr.Art Ammann ’58, who of pistol-carrying rebels in Ethiopia.That was started an organization with the goal of 24 years ago.The baby that Debbie carried safely preventing HIV transmission from pregnant in her womb throughout her kidnapping (see women to their infants; and with Debbie Mull her book, Kidnapped, by Karl and Debbie Dortzbach ’71, international director of Dortzbach [Harper & Row]), now has a child of HIV/AIDS programs for World Relief, who his own—born during Carolyn’s visit. spoke before the U.S. Senate, giving recommen- Over the years of their friendship, Carolyn dations for targeted U.S. spending on AIDS. had heard stories of Debbie’s work. Now Debbie A century ago, the poet William Butler Yeats led her through the slums of Ongata Rongi, wrote,“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.”These words resonate today, as we begin to understand the enormity of the AIDS crisis, and what it means to an entire generation of men, women, and children around the globe. And yet, as Christians, we understand that it is God who softens hearts; the same God whose image is reflected in His people—people with not only names, but faces and feelings, children and dreams. Following are the stories of several of the many Wheaton alumni whose hearts, despite the gravity of the situation, by grace remain soft as they respond to the many who suffer due to AIDS.

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where the “streets” are sticky mud, and couple have made their home in Kenya for homes are pieced together from corrugated iron, 22 years. Initially trained as a nurse, Debbie got scrap wood, and mud blocks.With a team of involved in AIDS work in the 1980s, when the church women, they visited people who are disease first began to surface.Anticipating the dying of AIDS, including a woman named Jane. enormity of the problem, she returned to the What struck Carolyn as Debbie talked with States for a graduate degree in public health— Jane, was Debbie’s mixture of practicality then headed back to Africa. She sums up her Debbie Mull tempered with compassion.“The situations there work with World Relief saying,“Our focus is on Dortzbach ’71, inter- are so awful. If you just have compassion, it’s enabling churches to be the church.” national director of not going to get you anywhere,” Carolyn says, With this goal, Debbie worked with HIV/AIDS programs noting how Debbie asked gentle questions Meredith Long ’71, M.A. ’72, and Dr. Paul for World Relief. leading toward practical solutions. Robinson (currently the director of Wheaton’s The same day, they visited George Ochieng. HNGR internship program) during the early “His house is a mere 9-by-9 feet, tin roof 1990s to write an educational program titled, and sides, dirt floor. Bone thin and feverish, he “Choosing Hope:The Christian Response to the lifts his head from an old pillow to greet us,” HIV/AIDS Epidemic.” Designed as a manual for writes Carolyn in her journal.With no family, he the implementation of HIV-centered ministry in is alone: the workers plan to bring food, water, Africa, the curriculum is now used in every wash his clothes, and bathe him. George asks, and major region throughout the developing world. receives, the way of salvation. Debbie says she finds inspiration for her Visits such as these are at the heart of World ministry in her African brothers and sisters. Relief’s “Mobilizing for Life” program.“Our Joaquina, for instance, holds a master’s degree in purpose is to encourage and equip churches biblical studies and has served as a pastor in to become radically involved in the HIV/AIDS Mozambique. Debbie says,“As a leader in her crisis, taking their God-given role as leading denomination, Joaquina could command a high all other institutions in building and maintaining position as the most educated woman in her relationships that promote life and sexual church. But her life is now committed to behavior as God intended it, and caring for spreading out to many different churches in many families impacted by AIDS,” explains Debbie. parts of Mozambique—working with illiterate As the international director, Debbie “lives out of a suitcase,” notes Carolyn, but her home is in Nairobi, where husband Karl ’71 is the direc- tor of the Center for Reconciliation at the Institute for the Study of African Realities.The

Wheaton 5 pastors and church leaders, helping them capture As technical advisor in HIV/AIDS with a vision for a very unpopular ministry:AIDS.” the CDC, Elizabeth was responsible for manag- During her three-week stay, Carolyn gained ing $4 million annually in U.S. assistance over a a better understanding of Debbie’s commitment period of eight years.What she did was to devel- and passion for the church in Africa, and around op a voluntary testing program, and to partner the world. She noted Africa’s contrasts: the with non-government organizations and the mil- Dr. Elizabeth tragedy of AIDS, poverty, the threat and itary to develop prevention programs. Corwin Marum ’70, reminders of violence, but also the beauty of the She says,“My role was and still is to identify technical advisor land and the faces of its people. local groups and individuals with the potential with the CDC in What impressed her most, however, was the to do this work, to make sure they get appropri- HIV/AIDS, devel- resilience and strength of the African spirit. ate training, funding, and technical assistance, and oped voluntary testing “These people have experienced trauma, poverty, then to help them monitor and evaluate their and prevention pro- sickness, and death, but they are still able to own work.” grams. laugh, and sing, and dance, and speak of God’s For example, she initiated collaboration grace,” she says, adding,“Trailing Debbie for between the U.S. government and several local three weeks was a rare gift.” religious groups, including the Anglicans and Muslims. She says,“I helped them design Elizabeth’s voice programs where many hundreds of priests, minis- “Our generation will be judged for how we respond to ters, imans, and lay workers were trained in how this catastrophe, this present-day holocaust in Africa.” to conduct AIDS education, how to care Many see Uganda as one of the only success for someone infected at the community level, stories in the battle against AIDS.With infection how to reduce AIDS stigma, and how to change rates of less than 8 percent nationally, the country social norms that make people vulnerable to stands out against the larger backdrop of sub- HIV infection.” Saharan Africa, which accounts for 67 percent of Elizabeth adds that much of the credit goes to the total number of infections worldwide. African leaders with the courage to “go public” Dr. Lawrence Marum ’69, a medical with their HIV status. Rev. Gideon Byamugisha, epidemiologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease for instance, was the first priest or minister in Control and Prevention would be one of the first Africa to publicly declare he was HIV positive. to credit his wife, Dr. Elizabeth Corwin Marum Says Elizabeth,“His testimony helped a great deal ’70, with spearheading that country’s AIDS in fighting the stigma and fears about HIV.” prevention and care programs. The Marums and their 18-year-old twins now live in Kenya, after spending years in Malawi and Uganda.And in fact, Lawrence just returned home to Africa after participating in a meeting relating to President Bush’s AIDS initia- tive.“I came to present a perspective from the field regarding how to make the twinning

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of U.S. government programs with faith-based admiration for the amazing people they have met organizations work,” he notes. and worked with over the years. People like Both feel that helping Africans know their Catherine Phiri, a nurse living with HIV own HIV status and that of their spouses and who started a small organization to care for sexual partners is imperative for effective others with HIV. “Catherine is one of the most prevention—and both know only too well the dedicated AIDS workers I know, even though many cultural and social issues that shape the she herself is a widow, struggling to raise her Dr.Art Ammann ’58, epidemic in Africa. Lawrence’s recent visit to a children as a single mother, and is often unwell,” pediatrician and program providing home health care in Kenya says Elizabeth. immunologist on the served to highlight a few of these issues.There, For Lawrence and Elizabeth, responding to forefront of AIDS he met two widows. the AIDS crisis in Africa is a challenge they don’t research. “One was 17 years old, with stick-like arms. take lightly.“Just as history judges nations for She had two children—one hers; the other, her their response to the slave trade or the sister’s. She had been inherited by her sister’s extermination of Jews in WWII, our generation husband when she was 12 or 13. Now both her will be judged for how we respond to this husband and her sister were dead, and she was catastrophe, this present day holocaust in Africa. dying.The other widow was 15 years old, and ….We feel very privileged to be part of this had also been inherited to fulfill her family’s historic effort.” obligation of providing a wife.” Working in the field of AIDS since the early Art’s voice ’80s, the Marums carry many such memories “This is no longer a financial issue. It is more an issue with them.They began their work just after their of will.” daughter, Heather, died as an infant. Says Few people relate to Michael Creighton’s Elizabeth,“Horrible as this experience was…I Andromeda Strain like Dr.Art Ammann ’58. For began thinking about how I could apply what I this pediatrician and immunologist on the fore- had learned from my own grief experience to front of AIDS research, the devastating nature of the situation of many families dealing with the the disease became all too clear in 1982—years untimely death of a child or young adult, as was before the public at large had even heard the occurring with AIDS.” term “HIV positive.” Unfortunately,Art knew this Twenty years later, the couple shares an virus wasn’t the stuff of science fiction thrillers, but an all-too-real threat to public health. “A group of us would meet once a week…. Our feeling was that this was going to be a big epidemic, but it was difficult to convince people.” As the director of the Pediatric Clinical Research Center at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center,Art was the first researcher to describe the transfer of the AIDS virus from mother to baby, and to identify the first blood transfusion AIDS patients. He reveals that it was the pleading expression on the face of that first child who had contracted AIDS via blood transfusions that moved him profoundly.“I had to find out what

Photos courtesyArthurAmmann, of Dortzbach, Debbie Michael Johnson, Elizabeth Marum, Roger Sandberg, and Photospin.com Wheaton 7 was wrong,” he explains. prevent HIV transmissions to their infants—at a Of course, many would soon understand the cost of as little as 85 cents for both mother and critical nature of the problem. For Art, the child.Already, the Save a Life program has helped numbers say it all. Looking back at old lab sheets, some 50,000 women and infants in 18 nations. he explains,“It went from eight patients we knew “We feel our role is to constantly push the of—to 40 million—in about twenty years.” envelope,”says Art about Global Strategies, asserting Meanwhile, in 1985,Art left the university that with the now lower prices of drugs for setting for private industry.“One of the goals I reducing mother-to-baby transmissions,“This is no had . . . was to work on an HIV vaccine.”Years longer a financial issue. It is more an issue of will.” of working in research on AIDS and other Art and his wife, Marilyn Mihm Ammann diseases dampened his enthusiasm for finding ’58, volunteer together for the organization, a vaccine that would prove a miracle cure. gathering hope from people whose lives have “I personally think that there’s something been changed. He thinks of Rosa Kimu, a we’re missing that hasn’t been discovered that will Kenyan mother who, though infected herself, allow us to understand why you don’t develop received treatment for her baby, who is HIV-free. immunity to this virus,” he says, explaining his “She’s now doing prevention counseling,” he says. current focus on world-wide prevention. Having worked in both public and private In 1998, he founded Global Strategies for sectors,Art hopes to get the church more HIV Prevention, with the hope of seeing the involved in the cause, in part because he believes “next generation free of HIV.” the best programs offer more than just medical He says,“In the States, we’d been claiming and monetary aid. success in preventing viral transmission to their “A critical part of responding to the AIDS infants. ...But we weren’t seeing anywhere epidemic is not just providing money, but very nearly the same success in developing countries, strong spiritual help and compassion,” he says, where it’s estimated that 1,600 to 1,800 babies adding that he’s been discouraged by the church’s are born infected each day.” response.“The Christian response in the United Part of what his nonprofit organization States so far has been muted.” does is to work with developing nations to Art vividly remembers his first visit to a devise the best ways to treat HIV positive developing nation where AIDS was rampant.“I mothers and their babies—especially in rural was afraid. I didn’t know what to say to the areas.Through the Save a Life program, mothers people,” he says. now receive HIV testing and medication to What he learned on this trip, he now carries with him wherever he goes. Reading through the book of Matthew, he took inspiration from Jesus’ actions. “When the leper came to Jesus, he healed him. I guess I took that to mean that our role is to respond—not to the millions, because that would be overwhelming—but to respond to that one person in need.” For information about how your church can get involved in AIDS prevention and care in Africa, visit www.globalstrategies.org, or contact World Relief at 800-535-LIFE or e-mail [email protected].

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You have read the statistics. You have heard the stories. rarely go with her to the slum. It is not that I do not You do not need to be convinced that AIDS is the want to go. But when people see my light skin, greatest tragedy facing our world today. You just need expectations are raised. Rumors begin to fly about how to be told where to go and what to do. But before Josephine must have lots of money she is not you jump on a plane or start a program, remember— sharing. I am a burden rather than a help despite all of you are not alone. my good intentions. Instead I fill a less noticeable role— “Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of in an office behind a computer, editing reports and you is a part of it.” 1 Corinthians 12:27 NIV compiling proposals. I work to provide the technical You are joined to brothers and sisters across the support that enables Josephine’s ministry to continue. African continent and in all corners of the world who “Those parts of the body that seem to be carry the burden of the AIDS crisis. Some of those you weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think join are patients, facing firsthand the reality of sickness are less honorable we treat with special honor.” and death. Others are family and friends who must 1 Corinthians 12:22-23a NIV watch those they love pass away and then struggle to As Christians in North America, we are part of the survive without them. Still others have only seen and body and we do have an important role to play in heard from a distance, but that is enough to spur them the AIDS crisis. Only this time, in terms of experience to respond. and understanding, we are the weaker part. We We always seem to hear of what is not being must rely on the strength and leadership of our African done—not enough donors are giving money, brothers and sisters. We must trust them to be the not enough medicines are available, not enough people eyes, ears, hands, and feet that take, direct, and use the care. Let us stop for a moment to consider what the resources we can provide. Church in Africa is doing. Let us watch and learn from We must acknowledge the power of prayers prayed the parts of the body that bear the weight of this crisis. behind closed doors, and be willing to be found there “If the whole body were any eye, where would on our knees rather than in the midst of an urban slum the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an or remote village “where the action is.” We must ear, where would the sense of smell be?” continue writing letters to people of influence, talking to 1 Corinthians 12:17 NIV others, and giving what we can materially. We must Josephine, for example, is a Kenyan woman in her live lives of sexual purity and strive to have lifestyles that mid-thirties who does not need to walk the paths do not contribute to global inequalities. leading through a slum outside Nairobi. Her husband has I am not saying there are never times and ways in a good job. Her family lives in a middle-class which we, as North American Christians, are called neighborhood far from the corrugated iron roofs of the to go ourselves and work alongside our brothers and slum community. Yet she is there four days each week sisters in parts of the world deeply impacted by poverty because she feels called by God to train women in and AIDS. Yet through my own experiences in the community as volunteer home care providers, to care Africa and Latin America, I have discovered that I am for people affected by HIV/AIDS and to work to mobilize more a rib than a leg—a part that is indispensable local churches to respond to HIV/AIDS. for support and protection, but a part that must follow I work with Josephine. We are good friends. Yet I where the other parts lead.

Wheaton 9 I’m tooling across Alligator Alley in a rental car.

Yesterday I was shoveling snow in Chicago, but today I’m

on a south Florida swing, touching base with some

of the people who help Wheaton College keep its doors

open. The sun is hot, traffic light, and the

monotonous scrub and swamp-lined highway mesmerizing.

But I don’t mind. I’m glad for the steady rhythm

of the pavement. I’m on autopilot, mentally composing

an article for the Wheaton magazine.

by Duane Litfin, President ...notes to self along a Southern

The College recently announced some changes to its lifestyle covenant. The story was picked up by the national media and echoed from coast to coast, north to south. From CNN and NPR, to the major outlets in all the larger markets, to small-town newspapers everywhere, Wheaton’s move was trumpeted. As the College’s cheerleader-in-chief I’m aware of our high profile, but even I was astonished at the level of interest we attracted.

“This is an in-house Wheaton story,” I said to a national reporter last week.“Are you guys having a slow news day?”“Not at all,” he says,“this is great human interest stuff.A wide range of people want to hear about it.”“Apparently so,” I say. Never mind that few got the story straight. Snappy, sound- bite headlines reduced the biblically-informed choices we had made to a few hot-button items. I was scheduled for this Florida trip anyway, but now I’m out clearing up the confusion.

But the article I’m writing in my head is not just about Wheaton College. It’s about lifestyle covenants in general. It’s about why so many Christian organizations—churches, schools, mission agencies and the like—have them, and the differences one finds among them. It’s about the ways these covenants serve us well or poorly.In fact, it’s really about how Christians live out their spiritual obligations apart from any covenant at all.

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It’s been unseasonably warm in Florida and the sun feels hot on my shoulder. But the car’s air conditioner is holding its own, so I focus on the road and think about what I’ve learned over the last two years. That’s how long we spent studying other institutional covenants and wrestling with the changes to our own.

What has the experience taught me? That we were naive in the way we introduced our new Covenant; hindsight being what it is, that much I’ve learned. But the chief lesson is this: I’m seeing with greater clarity these days two contrasting forms of spiritual malfeasance, two ways lifestyle covenants are defeat- ed. Both are addressed in the Bible, so it’s not as if I hadn’t thought about them before. But this process has heightened my awareness of their pitfalls.

How to describe these two forms of failure? The easiest way, I decide, is to show them for what they are, corruptions of two legitimate models. My article will have to examine the legitimate models first, then consider their deformities. I should call the two options Model A and Model B. Clever.

I zip past a large green sign warning that the next fuel stop is a long way off. It’s also a reminder that I’m leaving civilization behind. I glance at the fuel gauge. Not to worry, plen- ty of gas. No stops needed. The stretch between here highway and the other side of the state promises some good think-time. I concentrate on how to describe the two models.

Model A is a rule-based approach.The best example is a religious community with, say,a vow of poverty.The community nowhere argues that their rule means ownership is somehow unholy or that God prohibits faithful Christians from possessing anything.The community’s argument is simply that the rule serves the organization’s stated purposes.What’s more, the only ones to whom it ever applies are those who voluntarily embrace it.Thus Model A meets neither criteria of legalism. It’s a perfectly acceptable way for a Christian community to define some of its boundaries.

The sunlight streaming through the window seems amazingly strong for March. Not even mid-summer in Chicago dazzles like this. Impressed by the intensity of the south Florida glare, I pull down the visor and search for my sunglasses. That’s better, I say to myself after putting them on, observing the illusion that the car suddenly seems cooler. I settle back to think about Model B.

Wheaton 11 The Model B approach is to spell out some of God’s expressed principles for how Christians are to live. For example, a Model B covenant wouldn’t set a rule that its members are not to own anything; it would focus instead on such things as God’s warnings about the spiritual dangers of wealth, His reminders of the sinfulness of greed and materialism, and His call to contentment, seeking first the kingdom of God, wise stewardship, and sacrificial giving. The community aspires to live according to these expressed stan- dards and to hold one another accountable for doing so.This too is a legitimate way for a Christian com- munity to spell out its lifestyle expectations. It better be; it’s the way God Himself tends to do it.

The rental is purring along on cruise and everyone seems to have abandoned the interstate to me. A flock of birds dips and swoops like a kite in the blue up ahead, perhaps refugees from the north like me. Otherwise I have the road to myself. All I have to do is steer, and not much of that on this arrow-straight stretch of pavement. Plenty of time to muse on how we sometimes thwart these two models.

Because both models are populated by sinful people, both are equally vulnerable to abuse, though in different ways. With Model A, the rule-based approach, malfeasance occurs when organiza- tions, or members of those organizations, lose the distinction between their rules and God’s. I conjure up the Pharisees of Jesus’ day.They established stringent laws beyond the bounds of Scripture apparently as a way of guarding against coming close to breaking God’s Law.But with time the distinction was lost; their rules came to look and feel to them like God’s own rules and the two were granted the same authority.The result was that human rules,rules which went beyond anything God actually said, came to be imposed and defended as stringently as what God did say. This—the establishment of extra-biblical regulations, attributing to them God’s own authority, then imposing them on the unwilling—is the very definition of legalism. I’m sobered by the thought that this was the form of spiritual failure against which Jesus leveled His severest criticisms.

I brood on this kind of failure for a dozen miles. How easily we lapse into it with our well-intend- ed regulations. It’s as if a community’s vow of poverty were to morph in the minds of its mem- bers into a God-given standard for all. “I believe God wants me to forswear owning anything” becomes “God wants no Christian to own anything.”A perfectly justifiable but synthetic rule is sup- plied with divine authority and erected as a requirement for all, the unspoken connection being that truly spiritually-minded Christians will see this extension of what God has said as I do. And if they don’t? Well then, what does that say about their spiritual-mindedness?

I like the example precisely because I’ve never seen this happen. Has any religious community ever allowed a rule of poverty to morph into an absolute? Probably not, but all the better.The illustration makes the point without putting the reader on the defensive. Maybe he or she will be the more willing to consider examples where this is precisely what happens. Let the reader fill in the blanks.

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I spot a tall, stately heron posing in the low ditch-water beside the road, one leg hiked as if to keep it dry. In all the times I’ve driven

Alligator Alley I’ve never actually seen an alligator, but there are always lots of birds. Chin up, the heron imperiously refuses me his atten- tion as I breeze past, thinking now about that other kind of failure.

Model B is vulnerable too, not to legalism but its opposite. I remind myself to stick with the poverty illus- tration. Christians may be free of a set rule about their material possessions, but theirs is a “responsible” freedom, that is, a freedom fully accountable to God’s Word.The assumption of Model B is that instead of following a rule, we will attempt to handle our material possessions according to God’s expressed will. We will follow His instructions to judge the greed, materialism, selfishness or lack of contentment in our own hearts, while seeking ways to invest our resources for eternity. It means constantly asking what does or does not constitute wise stewardship; how much or how little we should give away; how little or how much we should consume upon ourselves.We’re truly free here; no set rules. But that’s only half the truth. The other half is that no Christian is ever free of the “law of Christ.”

I consult my mental concordance: 1 Corinthians 9:21 pops up.A shorthand version of the law of Christ goes like this: I may not have a set rule, but I’m a slave to Jesus Christ. He owns me. I’m required to please Him in everything I do.The mammon illustration again:We’re hardly through when we’ve paid a tithe; God is as interested in the ninety percent as He is in the ten. It’s all His, says the law of Christ, and I’m accountable to Him for every penny. No wonder we prefer a rule.

A dozen white birds with long necks—I have no idea what they are— perch in formation in the dense foliage along the highway. They’ve arranged themselves like ornaments on a Christmas tree, each guard- ing its yard or so of equidistance from the others. Their snowy plumage against the lush greenery distracts me as I flash by. Or maybe it’s just that my train of thought was veering too close to home.

Anyway, how to capture this second kind of malfeasance? The failure of Model B occurs when a com- munity’s members catch only the first half of the Model, the “no rules” half. Here lies legalism’s opposite member: antinomianism. No law. I’m free. Autonomy. But Christians are never free in this sense. That notion of autonomy is foreign to Christian thought. It’s our culture’s definition of freedom, drilled into us at every turn, but it’s not the Bible’s. Missing this point is a prescription for spiritual disaster.

I look up to see a semi looming in my mirror. He’s barreling down on me, but I quell the impulse to speed up. The present point is too important to lose; I need to concentrate. The truck rumbles past, fills my windshield for a moment, then recedes into the distance. The high- way is mine again, and I pick up my thought.

Wheaton 13 I know a great illustration of this point, but it’s so homely; could I actually use it in an article? A goril- la sits down at a piano. He experiences “freedom,” complete autonomy. He can strike any note in any order he likes, but his autonomy ensures he will make no music.Yet a concert pianist, bound by years A brochure of the of discipline and the limitations of a score, is wondrously free to make the most glorious music.The Community Covenant was world likes gorilla-freedom, but the law of Christ sets us free to make life-music. recently sent to everyone on our Wheaton magazine mailing list. If you did Too homely; find a different illustration. But ten miles on I still not receive a copy, we’d be don’t have one, so I file it for later. Right now a sprinkling of pleased to send you one. buildings tells me I may be returning to civilization. I’m running out Request it by writing the Wheaton College Alumni of time and need to get to the point. Association, 501 College, Wheaton, IL 60187; Wheaton College has just moved from a Model A covenant to a Model B. Well, not entirely. Few or e-mailing us at covenants are purely one or the other. Our Statement of Responsibilities was by no means all rule- [email protected]. based, and our new Covenant is not wholly free of rules. But essentially this is the move we made. Or, you can find it on Understanding this clarifies a lot. the Web at www.wheaton.edu/ wel- Under our previous covenant, our Statement of Responsibilities, the potential danger was legalism. For come/cov. ten years I strenuously fought off this accusation, insisting that our Statement was a perfectly legitimate Model A covenant.Which it was. But all along I knew its vulnerabilities.We tried to keep it clear: this thirty-year-old document placed our extra-biblical rules in a “prudential” section, just below the “biblical” part. But there was always the danger that in practice we would lose the distinction and treat our rules as God’s. In fact, some of the criticisms of our changes seem to be based on just such a confusion.

But things have shifted now.With our new Community Covenant, the threat of legalism retreated some, but it’s been replaced by a new danger.We’ve lost two or three rules—literally, that’s all—but they’ve been exchanged for the far more stringent law of Christ. Are the demands of this law, so fully expressed throughout our new Covenant, just so much biblical boilerplate, no more than pious- sounding verbiage? You know: Blah, blah, all that biblical stuff’s fine, but where’s the rules? Is it a mistake for a Christian community like ours to try to live according to the Pauline principle that while all things may be lawful, not all things are profitable, not all things edify? In short, is a Model B covenant unworkable for Wheaton College? It would be a slur on God’s way of doing things to suppose so, since this is the way He regularly chooses to deal with His people. But I do not underestimate the potential for Model B failure.

I spy a tollbooth ahead. Having paid on the other end I don’t have to stop, and I glide gratefully past. There’s more traffic now, plus I’ve got to figure out where I’m going, so my think-time is over. But I now have at least the outline of an article in my head.

If I ever get the article written, here will be its point:We understand both the promise and the peril of our new Covenant. We fully appreciate the task it sets before us.That task is to ensure that we do not reduce our exposure to one form of spiritual failure, only to fall prey to its alter- native. It is to guarantee that the loss of some useful rules leads not to license but to a deepened awareness of our obligations to the law of Christ. It is to see to it that Wheaton College con- tinues to exist, more radically than ever,“For Christ and His Kingdom.”

14 Wheaton While only a blueprint today, when complet- ed, the Todd M. Beamer

Student Center will be a place where future students meet and cre- ate lifelong memories like the images evoked among alumni from Remembera place to their days in the

Memorial Student for Virginia Christensen Carrell ’52, the and maternal grandmother. Her parents were chapel on the third floor of the Memorial serving in Africa at the time. Student Center holds sacred memories.There, Years later, the Carrells’s four children in the heart of campus,Virginia and attended the College, and on one trip to Walter Carrell, Jr., ’52 exchanged vows before Wheaton,Virginia and Walt decided to revisit an audience of family, friends, and former class- the site of their wedding.“The chapel was mates on a sunny day in June of 1953. a quarter of the original size,”Virginia notes. “Walt was drafted in January of 1953,” It’s true, today’s chapel is more suited Virginia says,“but he got leave so we could for personal meditation and reflection. For as the get married.”The chapel then seated about needs of the campus changed, the Memorial 50 people, and among those in attendance Student Center evolved as well.And in fact, the were Virginia’s brother, sister, brother-in-law, smaller chapel is just one of many alterations

Wheaton 15 made to the MSC, which gymnasium,Adams Hall. opened on June 11, 1951, to the n Professor Bechtel wrote: accommodate “When the new building a post-World opened, the administration and War II 1951 student leaders urged that a enrollment new name be found for the The boom.The dining and snack area, Memorial College’s something more aesthetic than trustees Student ‘Stupe.’ But the old name was in 1943 Center comfortable and familiar, so authorized ‘Stupe’ it remained.” total cost construction of the building, Portia Cauthen White ’83 $200,000 which would house “a dining spent hour upon hour in the room, the department of home enrollment MSC as editor of the student economics, a student lounge, 1,600 students newspaper, the Record, and as a student services, and such other secretary for the Christian activities as seem function Service Council. Both appropriate,” according “Places and means for organizations had offices on to Wheaton College: meeting friends for the third floor. Most students conversation, lounging, A Heritage Remembered had their favorite Stupe fare, reading the newspapers, for 1860-1984, by Paul and Portia’s was a “balanced dining and refreshment.” M. Bechtel. diet” of Grandma’s chocolate The original space Although the included a designated chip cookies and a Tab. If dining room has found Ping-Pong room, fountain, the cookies were nuked in the a new home, the and bookstore. microwave for 13 seconds— home economics no more, no less—they would fundraising department is no be gooey and delicious, she in April 1951: longer in the says, adding that the balance in Wheaton still needed curriculum, and the diet was a result of the the following to finish no weddings have each project: can of Tab, which contained been held there in $3,000 Stupe but one calorie. She remembers years, the MSC has $5,000 Formal Lounge that students would visit remained a center of student $5,000 Gold Star Chapel the College Post Office on life on Wheaton’s campus, $5,000 Rec. Room the first floor of the MSC a place to meditate or between classes in hopes of goal communicate, a place to word, or gifts, from home. A debt-free MSC. study or socialize, a place “The sense of place was Dedicated June 11, 1951. to eat or meet. probably more important than One constant through the In memory it ever will be again,” she says. years has been the Stupe. The Memorial Center was “We didn’t meet in cyberspace, The snack shop, which takes built to honor like today; we actually met its name from Student “men and women who served face-to-face.” in the Armed Forces in Union and physical education, The television rooms were World War II and to was originally housed on also key gathering places perpetuate the memory of 39 the ground floor of the women’s during her time at Wheaton, who made the supreme sacrifice.” —May 1951 16 Wheaton a place toremember

she says.After the attempted dude walks over and asks, assassination of President Ronald now ‘Don’t you know about [the Reagan in January 1981, long-forgotten technique]?’ students crowded the rooms for ...I tried it,and it was like the latest news. On Friday 2003 magic.” Such nights, eyes turned toward “The quirks bring The Muppets” on television in the a building to Todd M. Beamer lower MSC. life in the Portia recalls the late nights Student memories of putting the finishing touches on Center those who the Record, or, as she experienced total cost remembers English Professor them. $21.6 million Leland Ryken calling it, the And Weekly Astonisher. As for her enrollment memories, work with the CSC, well, the 2,400 students after all, are president of the organization at what built the MSC.The function the time is now her husband, College sought a way to A family room where Richard ’83. remember its alumni and students can talk, study, eat, Randy Gruendyke ’82 was students who were killed in on campus around the same pray, relax, and spend time together. Will include a World War II.A plaque now time as Portia. He was the bakery and convenience honors the 39 young men College’s student body chaplain, store, computer rooms, and a who lost their lives in the war. a position then affiliated with performance platform. Just as a growing student Student Government, which had population compelled the fundraising offices in the MSC. Randy College to build a student In April 2003, Wheaton needs was also co-host of a radio center in the mid-20th $1 million, which will be show on WETN, and, for century, today’s student body matched $2 for every $1 reasons that now escape him, he until June 30th. has outgrown the MSC.The and Mark Davis ’82 once proposed new center will be staged a 24-hour radio marathon goal named for Todd M.Beamer $13.5 million needed to break just outside the Stupe. ’91, who died on September ground in fall of 2003. Another memory of the 11, 2001, aboard United building was triggered when In memory Airlines Randy walked through CPO The Todd M. Beamer Flight 93. not long ago. He noticed a Student Center was named Todd and student fumbling with his after Todd Beamer, a group mailbox, trying to pry it open whose life and heroic actions of other exemplified the ideals, princi- without his key.When Randy passengers ples, and devotion was on campus two decades ago, stormed the to the Lord that Wheaton students were familiar with hijackers in attempts to instill a widespread practice used to and nurture in its students. the cockpit, open the boxes without keys. It will also honor the forcing the (For obvious reasons, we won’t memory of alumni plane to crash in divulge the details.) Randy Jason Oswald ’95 and Pennsylvania, far from its describes the scene:“So the old Jeffrey Mladenik M.A. ’95, likely target of Washington, who also lost their lives on September 11th. Wheaton 17 D.C.The center will also honor the memory of with [longtime coach] Lee Pfund ’49,” alumni Jason Oswald ’95 and Jeffrey Mladenik Randy Gruendyke says.“Students walk by that M.A. ’95, two who lost their lives at the World plaque all day long without giving it a Trade Center. second thought. I happened to look at the Though the new facility will have a differ- plaque and asked Lee how many of those ent name, it too will be a memorial student guys he knew.When he started going through center.“I remember standing next to the plaque that list, it was humbling to realize they at the main door [of the MSC] had been just students on campus like I was.”

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History’s Lesson for the Ages Dr.Thomas Kay ’53, Professor of History

Historians are often asked, peace, stability, order, and com- place, and martial status. “What does history teach?” munity.The laws of the jungle Ironically, the essence of Such an inquiry suggests that became the master. Christianity is also change. history is a measure by which The advent of Jesus Christ There is the change of becom- we might evaluate the present came when many aspects of ing a new creation in Christ and project the future; it makes the Roman Empire and classi- and the ultimate change that the past absolute, definitive, cal civilization were giving will mark the denouement of and normative. Hence, way.Even in the glow of the history: “In a moment in a “Whatever was, was right.” cessation of civil strife and the twinkling of an eye, we shall all Thereby, the past serves as popular hope that Augustus be changed” (1 Cor. 15: 52). It window both to the present Caesar would be harbinger of is only after history is finished Dr.Thomas Kay has and also to the future.The his- peace and a new, enduring that non-change becomes fully been professor of his- torian becomes both pundit order, the rule of the stronger possible; in that place where tory at Wheaton for and prophet. continued. In the midst of there is no day nor night, no 44 years and served My response to such grasping, praying, and hoping tears, no illness and no death. as coordinator of the queries is always,“History for political, economic, social, History teaches change interdisciplinary stud- teaches change.” Each unique and moral stability there were and coping with change.This ies major for 14. He historical event may provide an many changes. Rome fell prey is the human predicament. received his master’s understanding of the past, the to the whims and desires of Change is only transcended by and doctoral degrees present, and perhaps a glimpse leaders bound by their person- both the temporal and eternal from the University into the future, which is not to al goals of power, self-glorifi- foundations of the City of of Chicago and say that the past determines cation, and deification.That God. It is this for which all serves on many local the present or the future. for which Rome yearned— humanity has sought, and will and state historical Sages of ancient Greece peace, order, eternality—would continue to seek throughout society boards, includ- and Rome sought to discover not come through changes the ages. ing chairing the in history the element of a bal- wrought by sheer power, even Illinois State anced and complete social and by those who exemplified the Historical Society political structure that could be highest classical values. Such Symposium this implemented for all time. change came and continues to year. Dr. Kay’s cur- From those elements one come to every person in the rent projects include might develop the best of advent (past, present, and a history of College human associations, perfecting future) of Jesus Christ, whose Church in Wheaton, their members and possessing eternal kingdom, the City of where he represents eternality.Their efforts and for- God, transforms the human the middle of five mulae for well-intended experience now and forever. generations of family reform and renewal broke As throughout history, life attending. Dr. Kay down under their own weight has always been, and will con- and his wife, and a failure to grasp the char- tinue to be full of changes. Janice, have three acter of the fundamental There are the changes of birth, children and seven human condition—sin. Self- growth, and death; the changes grandchildren, interest, personal gain, and in human relationships and including two sets

power undercut the search for changes of residence, work- Michael Johnson of “grand twins.”

Wheaton 19 Lessons from Latin America by Dr. Lindy Scott,Associate Professor of Foreign Languages

When we think of interaction plural form “ustedes” or read,“Seek first the kingdom between North American and “vosotros” instead of “you.” of God and his righteousness Latin American Christians we This Spanish version of and all these things shall be usually think of North “y’all” correctly captures added unto you.” Our Latino American missionaries, funds, the original Greek plural brothers and sisters read the and literature flowing to the “υµεις.”Therefore I, as an same passage but see δικαιο− churches south of the border. individual, am not a letter of συνη translated as justicia, It is usually taken for granted our Lord. Rather, Christians which they understand as that Latin America is the who make up the body of social justice. receiving mission field and Christ, as we serve each other Although Jonathan that North American and our neighbors with God’s Blanchard and Abraham Christians are the givers. love, are an epistle of Christ. Lincoln understood this Nevertheless, in this article I It is the multiple instruments “righteousness” as social would like to explore some of the orchestra, with all justice, and applied this “right- lessons learned by our brothers the musicians playing their eousness of the nation” to and sisters in Latin America instruments under the careful abolishing slavery, we modern that are vitally necessary for direction of the Conductor, evangelicals usually associate the church in the United that best expresses the melody this righteousness only with States.1 of God. prayer and personal piety. Spanish is the language Another key word in the Latin American Christians most spoken by Christians Greek New Testament is around the world.Therefore, δικαιοσυνη, which is usually God speaks Spanish. In fact, translated “righteousness” in sometimes the Spanish lan- our English versions. So in guage captures God’s inspired important passages such as truth better than English. For Matthew 6:33 we example, when we hear the phrases “you are the salt of the earth,” or “you are the light of the world,” or “you are a letter of Christ,” we usually interpret the “you” to mean the singu- lar.We read:“I am the salt,” and “I am the light,” and “I am a letter of Christ.”We might strive hard to live up to this calling. Notwithstanding the implications of these phrases on individual piety, our Latino sisters and brothers see the Michael Johnson

20 Wheaton Scholarly Pursuits

try to obey this passage by from conception to the grave. including most of his Third striving to see God’s reign and Another key issue of Missionary Journey, and wrote his justice lived out here on obedience through social two entire chapters of Holy earth.Through my study of justice is that of economic Scripture (2 Cor. 8, 9) in God’s Word, I have come to equality.3 My Latino sisters promoting an international, see that social justice is a bet- and brothers have taught me intercultural economic collec- ter translation of δικαιοσυνη. that the Bible has much to tion to be raised among the Our Latin American say about economics, very Gentile churches and shared brothers and sisters have urged important teaching that with the poor church in Christians in the first world is usually neglected in our Jerusalem (the same church to seek this justice. Rene churches. God urges that questioned his ministry). Padilla ’57, M.A. ’60, D.D. ’92, Christians to promote eco- The apostle backs up his a leading evangelical theolo- nomic equality! (The shock- collection appeal with Old gian in Latin America, urges ing word “equality” is referred Testament Scriptures and with Christians to practice justice in to in 2 Corinthians 8:13, the example of the its totality. and then repeated a verse later Macedonian churches. Lindy Scott has He wrote,“It is not as well.) The sharing of resources taught Spanish with merely a justice of distribution in meeting human need is an emphasis on Latin (i.e., giving the same to every- The sharing of resources so near to the heart of God American topics at Wheaton College one without considering their in meeting human need that it is best exemplified in particular necessities); nor the incarnation of our Lord since 1995. He is it a justice of retribution is so near to the heart of Jesus (2 Cor. 8:9).This teach- received his doctorate (i.e., giving to everyone ing is repeated by John the from Northwestern according to their merits); it God that it is best exem- Baptist (Luke 3:11), James University with a dis- is rather a justice of restitu- (James 2:14-26), and John sertation on the histo- plified in the incarnation tion, a justice that includes (1 John 3:16-18). ry of Mexican evan- the two former, but goes of our Lord Jesus. God has given most of gelicals. He directs the much further in that it seeks us much more than we need. Wheaton in Latin to restore or return that which It comes as a great sur- Because we know that thou- America programs and has been taken away from the prise to many of us that sands of people needlessly will be taking a group ‘oppressed,’ the ‘hungry,’ the God wants His church to be die each day due to malnutri- of 30 students to ‘exiled,’ the ‘orphans,’ the an instrument of economic tion and disease, we can Argentina this sum- ‘widows,’ from all the victims equality in which richer literally save their lives. Let mer. He and his of the abuse of power and the Christians share their posses- us learn from our Latino Brazilian wife, injustice of a society stained sions so that poorer believers neighbors to be instruments Dinorah, have been by sin.”2 will have enough to fulfill of God’s peace and sacrificially married for 24 years. Obedience for Christians their calling.The Apostle share so that others may live She is finishing her today means that we should be Paul invested five years, and come to know God’s love. doctorate at the at the forefront in seeking University of Illinois peace and justice in the 1The ideas expressed in this article come from the author’s faith and learning paper, recently published on-line at (Chicago).Their three Middle East, in fighting http://www.strategicnetwork.org/index.asp?loc=kb&page=detail&id=3126; in print as North American Christians and children are scattered the Latin American Church: Lessons from South of the Border in the Journal of Christianity and Foreign Languages, 2002 the AIDS epidemic in Africa, 3:48-75; and in Spanish as Del Sur al Norte: Aportes Teológicos desde la Periferia (Buenos Aires; Ediciones Kairos, 2003). over the globe serving in striving to end political 2 In Washington Padilla, Hacia una transformación integral (Buenos Aires: Fraternidad Teológica Latinoamericana, 1989), the Lord in China, p. 10. oppression, and in defending Grand Rapids, and 3 The Apostle Paul urges Christians to promote economic equality (2 Cor. 8:13, 14). For a more thorough discus- the sanctity of human life sion of this topic see the author’s Economic Koinonia within the Body of Christ (Mexico City: Editorial Kyrios, 1980). Philadelphia.

Wheaton 21 Building More Than a Team

Wheaton’s In order to have success on the were about 21 people that did bright red and blue; and doing Football field, a football team must have die,” says group leader Jeff some minor landscaping. Ministry both a strong game plan, and Peltz ’81, adding,“The team “Every time we’ve done Partnership the willingness to modify that ended the tour at City Hall one of these trips, there is travels to plan should the game not looking at the plaque com- always some kind of miracle,” Arad, Romania. unfold as expected. It was this memorating that time....I says Jeff, who adds that this willingness off the field that think it became very real to year’s miracle (in addition to led to greater opportunities for our players.” great weather) was that the the 2002 Wheaton Football The following day, the teachers went on strike the Ministry Partnership missions team broke up into groups to first day the team started. trip to Arad, Romania. work at the three different As a result, the children were After the 23-hour non- playgrounds, each surrounded out of school. stop trip to Romania, the by groups of apartment com- “The kids were all over group of 56 Wheaton football plexes, rather like Chicago’s our guys . ...It ended up players, coaches, and associates Cabrini Green, explains Jeff. being as much about relation- learned that their “game plan” When the players arrived, ships as it was about the work,” of working and living in three the playgrounds were “totally he says, noting that some orphanages and building a dilapidated,” he says.“The groups enlisted the older chil- playground for the church wood had rotted out of the dren’s help in painting, while would have to be modified. teeter-totters and the picnic other groups divided up—half The Romanian church benches.The swings that were worked, while the other half leaders, Doru Popa and there had iron seats, and were played with the children. Christian Barbosu, felt that very dangerous if kids hap- “It was cool to see big the team could better serve pened to be walking by.The football guys showing some the city by working at three stone blocks that had formed love to those little kids,” says communal playgrounds the sandboxes were all over,” Phil Thomas ’04. surrounded by apartment Jeff adds, explaining that for When the lumber finally buildings.The church play- the most part,“The play- grounds would still be built, grounds weren’t being used for Senior Josh Anderson and but the lumber had not yet what they were intended.” a Romanian child work together been ordered. The teams spent the on a service project. As the group leaders eval- day replacing the uated the new work sites and dangerous iron bought supplies, the players swings with rub- spent the day learning some of ber swings they the history of Romania, had brought including about the fall of the from the United Iron Curtain. Doru, who is States; rebuilding also Arad’s mayor, told the sandboxes; sand- group how socialist snipers ing, priming and shot at him while he was painting all the preaching during that time. iron fences and sports “He wasn’t hit, but there swing poles

22 Wheaton Sports arrived, the group had 10 pic- Winter Women’s Swimming nic benches and a church play- Numbers: seventh at NCAA ground to build with just two- Wrap-up championship; first at CCIW championship and-a-half days left. Despite Men’s Basketball Honors: Adrianne Astuno the time crunch, the team Numbers: 18-6 overall; 9-5 in (CCIW: first place in one event); completed all the projects by College Conference of Illinois Stephanie Ewert (CCIW: second Friday at noon—even embed- and Wisconsin (fourth place) place in one event); Stephanie Honors: Nate Collord (CCIW Gibson (CCIW: first place in one ding the new picnic benches Second Team); Joel Kolmodin event); Leah Holt (CCIW: first in concrete,“so they couldn’t (Fred Young Most Outstanding place in two events); Grace be walked away with,” says Jeff. Player, CCIW First Team); Jon Johnson (NCAA: All-American In addition to the heavy Nielson (CCIW Third Team) honors in two events; CCIW: first labor, the team found time to Women’s Basketball place in two events); Emily Numbers: 19-7 overall; 9-5 in Mason (NCAA: All-America hon- hold a youth meeting in the CCIW (third place); CCIW ors in three events; CCIW Most evening.The meeting included championship (second place) Valuable Player, first place in three a skit, personal testimonies, a Honors: Sarah Clark (CCIW events); Lauren Smith (CCIW: message, and an altar call that First Team); Jennifer Clum second place in two events); (Second Team); Sarah Harris Amanda Wells (CCIW: second 20 answered. (CCIW Third Team) place in one event) The women’s “God showed me through Men’s Swimming swim team placed first in one this trip that He’s working all Numbers: sixth at NCAA cham- CCIW relay and earned NCAA over the world and that His pionship; first at CCIW champi- All-American honors in two kingdom is not just right here, onship (seventh consecutive win) relays. Honors: Mark Anderson (CCIW: Wrestling but all over,” says Jeff Mumm second place in one event); Ben Numbers: ninth at Great Lakes ’04, the team’s fourth-leading Cramer (CCIW: first place in one Regional championship; seven- tackler this year. event);Tyler Dobelbower teenth at NCAA championship; The team witnessed to (NCAA: All-American honors in third at CCIW championship two events; CCIW: first place in Honors: Sean Collins (149- many while in Arad, including two events, second place in one pound class; Regionals: second their bus driver, Ranjeet, a event); Dustin Guidry (CCIW: place; CCIW Most Outstanding native of India and a Sikh second place in one event); Paul Wrestler; first place); David Hirt by religion.Though all he Gyorfi (NCAA: All-American in (184-pound class; Regionals: sec- had to do was drive the bus, two events; CCIW Most Valuable ond place; CCIW: second place); Player, first place in two events); To ny Nord (133-pound class; Ranjeet labored with the Sam Gyorfi (CCIW: first place in Regionals: sixth place; CCIW: first group all week. one event); Danny Linn (CCIW: place) “From the interaction we second place in one event) The had with him on the bus, he men’s swim team placed first in For more information on the all five CCIW relays and received got involved in the work we winter sports season, visit NCAA All-American honors in www.wheaton.edu.athletics were doing, and was attracted four relays. to Christ in us. God was really working on his heart a lot,” Says Jeff,“It was an Now in its third year,Wheaton’s says John Diggs ’03. incredible feeling to be used Football Ministry Partnership Though the team had to by God in another land and returned to Arad for spring break alter their plans of where and see it directly as each day 2003, and will also return to how to work throughout the unfolded.” Senegal,Africa, where the team week, both players and leaders by Dan Dykstra ’01, went in 2002. left mindful of the opportuni- communications coordinator ties these changes opened. for kinesiology and athletics

Wheaton 23 a word with Alumni

Word about Wheaton’s new Community Covenant got out to many Wheaton alumni first from sources other than the College. I am grateful for President Litfin’s swift and thoughtful response to the confusion that the skewed news engendered. None of us intended to communicate by the temporary news vacuum our ignorance of your support that is deep, and broad, and wide. The newly framed “Community Covenant” is a cause for great joy.The Community Covenant is permeated by a high call to Christ-centered relationships flowing from Christ-centered thoughts and choices. It’s all about who the Lord Jesus Christ is as revealed in the Bible, and therefore whom we are called to be. It’s about our by Marilee A. identity in Christ and the implications for Christian higher education at Wheaton Melvin ’72, College. Members of the campus community (and alumni!) can share good reasons Vice President for for why we make the lifestyle decisions we do, rather than being muffled from dis- Alumni Relations cussing issues because, the rules being “the main thing,” of course everyone agreed with them and obeyed them.With the Community Covenant we can focus on the main thing as the main thing: God’s love to us in Jesus Christ and what that means for us and for the world. I offer one caution because I love Wheaton College and its people with all my heart: Whereas in the past we may have sinned greatly through spiritual pride in what we “didn’t do” to define our “good Christianity,” in the future we may sin greatly through our ignorance and abuse of the responsible freedom we have in Jesus Christ.As a community ruled by covenant trust with one another, we must learn to really love one another, calling each other to “set our hearts and minds on things above” where Jesus Christ reigns (Col. 3:1-2). This means we cannot do just whatever we want to do. I am my brother’s keeper, and also my sister’s. My free- dom, bought with so high a price as the death of the Son of God, is not cheap, and God’s grace is not cheap. As joint heirs with Jesus Christ we must do everything for Christ and His Kingdom.That is bedrock for Wheaton College—in the past, now, and in the future.

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Have always heard about stills sings beautifully.A Honey Rock. Never been surprising and lovely inti- here before.Wish I’d macy develops as the week brought a nite lite. Cabins goes by.Al Smith holds us are nice. “Welcome, we’re spellbound each day with so glad you came!” Bud his expertise, enthusiasm, Knoedler said it,“So gen- and wit on environmental uine.”Arrived Sunday after- ethics. Rain, Rain, Rain. noon. Gifts-bags, songbooks, Fireside chats, lots of laugh- activities to choose, map of ing. Quiet, busy folks, doing the camp, all ready for us. crafts, painting, identifying table decorated wildly, Everyone is friendly. No trees, finding their way beautifully, colorfully. standoffish folks. Helpful around. Singing, hiking, Mary Chase adds her mixer. Fabulous food. Lots biking, fishing, bogging elegant touch on the tables. of healthy and not so and eating out. Rain. Rain. Lovely time. Sixty folks. healthy choices.Wheaton Rain.A large group of New friends. Rain. Rain. very gutsy Rain.Adds a touch of people, wildly reality to the adventure. paddling across Could our student the lake, days at Wheaton have been rain soaked any better than this? voyageurs.To visit the homes Evaluations are in. on Wheaton “Excellent.” Everyone Alumni ages 55+ go to the Northwoods Campus at HoneyRock Campus at Alumni ages 55+ go to the Northwoods Alumni ages 55+ go to the Northwoods Campus at HoneyRock Campus at Alumni ages 55+ go to the Northwoods Row. Only a agrees. Let’s do it again! hint of fall By Ruth Bamford ’50 Northwoods Adventurers (above) go color.We drink hot choco- exploring in a canoe, and enjoy a

he Diary of an Adventurer late at the Lemon while meal in the Chrouser center (top). finding our way through

T presidents right there with the clouds to search the Northwoods Adventure us. Duane Litfin, a highlight night skies for the miracle at HoneyRock with his vision for the of lights. Final evening. September 14-19, 2003

College and his zeal for Even the four-course turkey An exam-free learning the Lord. Dick Chase, dinner doesn’t compare experience for seniors kindly sharing each morn- with the joy of being (age 55+) at Wheaton’s ing in the Word of God. together. Full of warm Northwoods campus Hudson Armerding, fuzzies, stories, shared Space is limited, so sign-up wonderful memories, shared experiences, we sort of today! For more information, with dignity, joy, insights, know each other. go to www.wheaton.edu/ and serenity; and Miriam Birdhouses gracing each Alumni/tours.html

Wheaton 37 Opera Students Perform Puccini A Night at the Opera Laurelle E. Gowing ’03 and could sing the role of Amy Enke ’04 took on the Angelica—and it’s lucky roles of nuns for one week. if you have even one Both were chosen to star in person. It’s a very demand- Wheaton’s Opera Music ing role, both emotionally Theater presentation of Suor and physically.” Angelica in Barrows By contrast, Gianni Auditorium, January 14-15 Schiacchi, starring Benjamin and 17-18.“We really Gac ’04 as the cunning President Duane Litfin, became the characters,” Gianni, is a “raucous come- Chaplain Steve Kellough explains Laurelle, who dy” says Dr. Holman.The and art professor John enjoyed taking on the part tale of a shrewd man who Walford.“We had a different of the nun,Angelica. uses a family’s argument over celebrity every night,” says The first of two one-act, a will to his own profit, Dr. Holman, who adds that one-hour operas by Giacomo Gianni’s highlights included each celebrity portrayed Puccini, Angelica was present- the famous farcical aria “O a corpse, carried off by ed along with Gianni Mio Babbino Caro,” sung by the cast. Schiacchi. The operas, two of Joyce Ting ’04 in the role of The only art form that the three-part Il Trittico, were Lauretta. combines theater, music, and directed by Conservatory In addition to providing art, Opera Music Theater professors Sarah Holman comic relief, Gianni also offers students the opportuni- and Mary Hopper. offered opportunity for ty to learn not only musical, Says Dr. Holman,“I cameo appearances by such vocal, and dramatic skills used chose these operas because campus celebrities as in portraying a role; but also we had two undergraduates theater arts, such as set Diverse Notes whom I felt design, lighting, makeup, and

on Activities costuming.Though Wheaton students have been putting at Wheaton– on productions for more than 15 years, only recently has Now and Then interest blossomed. “They used to play to audiences as small as 15, says Dr. Holman, adding, “Now we play to over 1,000.There seems to be a real hunger for this form of art on campus.” By Jackie Noden Inouye ‘00 Journal of Jonathan Blanchard

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social work to education Starting Over and evangelism. He has served as the warden of a Rev. Angulus Wilson, the new director of the men’s prison, as the director Institute for Prison Ministries is helping current of a juvenile boot camp, inmates and ex-offenders to begin new lives. as a college instructor, and as an associate pastor. For Rev.Angulus Wilson M.A. tions, in cooperation with all this,Angulus feels it is ’02 came to Wheaton to local churches and missions also his own inner-city study evangelism and spiri- organizations, the California upbringing and conversion tual formation; but when Department of Corrections, within an institution, that Lon Allison, director of the as well as lower court has uniquely prepared him Billy Graham Center, noted institutions.“It’s an extensive for his new role. Says Lon, his talents, he asked Angulus collaborative effort,” he “He has experience on both to stay to work. says, explaining that the sides of the bars . . . and he Recently appointed local churches will follow does everything with the evangelist and director of up with the prisoners. compassion that comes from Angulus and his wife, the Institute for Prison Obviously not lacking knowing Jesus Christ.” Sharon, live in Ministries,Angulus says he’s in vision or the ability to Wheaton with their excited about the opportu- follow through,Angulus by Katherine Halberstadt sons: Lionel, nities for worldwide evan- started out at Wheaton as Anderson’92 Alexander, and Aaron. gelism his new position the coordinator for the offers. Beyond reaching pris- Colson Scholarship oners for Christ, his ministry Program. In one short year, will extend to the entire “he entirely reshaped the prison community—includ- program” says Lon. ing the estimated two mil- Researching the program’s lion behind bars, their fami- past successes and failures, lies, and the many prison Angulus changed it from workers. simply a scholarship “Proclamation is my into what he calls a “life- heart and passion,”Angulus formation program.” He says, adding that the broad recruited nationally for scope of his job suits him.“I ex-offenders with leadership need a lot on my plate to abilities. Bringing seven really fill me up.” of these men, their wives, This spring, he will trav- and children to Wheaton, el to St. Petersburg, Russia, he then created a mentor- to preach in the prisons and intensive, community-based to work with that city’s asso- program. ciation of churches. During Before coming to spring break, led Wheaton’s Wheaton,Angulus honed Gospel Choir on a crusade his talents in fields ranging to five California institu- from law enforcement and

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Proving that youth is no barrier to the East Wing of Edman Chapel. art of making beautiful music,The “It’s such a high quality pro- Community School of the Arts (CSA) gram,” says Melody, adding,“At introduced a new choir for children this age, many children are just taught grades 1 through 6. to sing loudly.” When Melody At CSA, she notes, Arnold Lefley ’87 the children focus on learned about the exercising the choir, she knew it full range of the would be perfect for voice, protecting it, her daughter, Calla, 7. and reading At the 2002 alumni Christmas tree lighting “Calla’s been musical the music. celebration in Blanchard Hall, Brad M.A. ’94 from the time she was Due to limited and Maria Hull Fester ’90 talked about their small. She could knock space and an enthu- “She’s getting the best educa- life in Africa.The Festers work with Wycliffe out the lyrics to Annie siastic response, the tion she possibly can,” says Bible Translators in Central African and other Broadway first class consists of Republic, where Maria’s sister Leanne Hull musicals, but there Melody Arnold Lefley ’87, of 40 members, and a Turk ’87 also serves with her husband Luke. weren’t many opportu- her daughter Calla, 7, who waiting list has been Maria’s and Leanne’s parents, Dr.Walt ’59 nities for her grade sings in the new Children’s formed for next year. and Nancy Rutherford Hull ’60 were med- level,” she says. Choir at the Community For more informa- ical missionaries in Africa.The Festers and Rehearsals began tion on the CSA School of the Arts. their daughters, Christina and Kylie, added on January 18 under the Children’s Choir, a nativity scene carved from ebony wood direction of Debbie Arasimowicz, with contact Jody Harrison Grandlienard ’74 to the tree, which is decorated at Christmas the debut performance scheduled for at 630-752-5981. with several hundred ornaments from Saturday, May 17 at 10:45 A.M. in the alumni missionaries.” Michael Johnson

God uses even our weaknesses.“Man’s many characteristics, and compares her limitations are God’s opportunities,” she wheelchair to a pair of eyeglasses.“God said, speaking from her own experience. didn’t heal my body, but He did heal my Confined to a wheelchair soul,” she explained, encouraging students Wheelchair Olympian Jean since grade school not to place limits on themselves, but to Driscoll challenges students with spina bifida, she use their talents to glorify once defined her- God. In addition to many in chapel not to place limits self by her dis- television appearances and on themselves or on God. ability. Now speaking engagements, she An Olympic champion, and the only a well-known has written a biography eight-time winner of the Boston athlete, speaker, titled, Determined Marathon, Jean Driscoll addressed and author, Jean to Win:The Wheaton’s chapel audience this sees her disabili- Overcoming Spirit of November with a message about how ty as just one of Jean Driscoll.

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Encouraging Words in the English language.“I always look forward to this gift each year,”says IN THE The Wheaton College Board of Trustees Arthur.“I really appreciate what your CLASSROOM once again shared a little bit of Christmas gift has meant to me and want to thank with 550 alumni missionaries serving you again.” COURSE: overseas through their annual Christmas A World of Thanks Kin SP/F 101,Wellness bookmailing.The bookmailing project, (required, 2 credits) “It was such a wonderful surprise to started in the early 1950s, sends a bagful PROFESSOR: receive a bagful of the kingdom treasure of books donated by local Christian pub- Peter Walters, Ph.D. books from our beloved Wheaton.” lishers and a letter as a way to connect SCHEDULE: Teruko Lydia Madono M.A. ’75 (Far East) with and encourage foreign missionaries. 11:15 A.M. to 1:15 A.M.,Tuesday This year’s selection includes two and Thursday, Spring 2003 “We cannot afford to buy books with our books intended for spiritual meditation COURSE OBJECTIVES FROM SYLLABUS: ‘by faith’ missions support, so you can just and growth, Jesus Wants All of Me, by Phil Students will examine and eval- imagine our great joy to receive the A. Smouse, and Not Knowing Where, by uate how cultural beliefs and books.” Oswald Chambers; a work of fiction, practices, which pertain to well- Lina Tomale Villegas M.A. ’73 (Far East) Safely Home, by Randy Alcorn; Let’s ness, reflect or oppose biblical Roll!, by Lisa Beamer; a children’s selec- principles; Students will under- “Once again, the school has scored a great tion, You Are Special, by Max Lucado; stand the fundamental concepts hit with our family as we look over the and a book on evangelism, Reaching Your and principles of each of the books you sent to us as missionary alum- World for Christ, by Andrew Murray. eight major subtopics; Students ni. Since we are not near a well-stocked Arthur Wiens ’49, a missionary in will be challenged to embrace bookstore, the variety of titles and areas of Modena, Italy, with Gospel Missionary habits that glorify God with interest in the selections represent the vast Union, has been receiving the books their body, soul, and mind. overall infusion of new reading material since the first year of the project.Among PRIMARY TOPICS FROM SYLLABUS: into our library during the year.” his favorites are “the good book by Dr. interpersonal relationships, Gordon Roedding M.A. ’84 (Africa) Charles Blanchard, Getting Things From cardiovascular endurance, God; V.Raymond Edman by Earle E. muscular strength, flexibility, “I especially hope to use the kids version Cairns; He Leadeth Me, But God, Not weight management and body of My Utmost for His Highest with the Somehow But Triumphantly,Windows in image, nutrition, rest and recov- children I work with.” Heaven, and Wiser Than They Thought, ery, stress management Marian Tan ’00 (Far East) by Dr.V.Raymond Edman; and also Just REQUIRED TEXT: As I Am, by Billy Graham.” An Invitation to Fitness & Wellness In addition to reading the books by Dianne Hales (Wadsworth, himself,Arthur had passed them along 2001) to his now late wife Erma, who headed a children’s radio program and a maga- zine for youth. She read the books, and used many of them to help the children learn to read and to share the gospel with them. Recently,Arthur has been able to donate many of his books to a local Bible school in need of literature

Wheaton 45 Excerpted from Sandra Robert, have collected The Art of Faith and Robert Bowden’s pri- images for 20 years. Many galleries feature art vate collection, the images It is Sandra’s hope that for art’s sake. But the Billy focus on biblical narratives— this collection will testify in Graham Museum’s scenes from Jesus’ life and years to come to the fact that newest exhibit highlights Passion. Sandra says that the “faith was alive and well in the manifold importance collection informs her own the twentieth and twenty- of sacred art.Titled art, enabling her to track first centuries.” “Biblical Art and Private changes in iconography over The Bowden collection Devotion,” this collection of time, and also encouraging will be on display through art is both a unique archive her own personal devotion. April at the Billy Graham of iconographic techniques Sandra, an artist and Center Museum. For more and a tangible record of the president of Christians in the information, please call 630- Christian faith over time. Visual Arts, and her husband, 752-5909. letters avid fan of the college athlet- Fritz had said when he left an interesting and informa- ic teams. Following the send- that he had a premonition tive magazine. I especially enjoyed the Autumn 2002 We invite your off for the seventeen students he would not make it letters and e-mail as pictured in front of through the war. issue which honored women they relate to topics Blanchard Hall that February I write this because it in science.After the war, I covered in the maga- morning, my father let me seems that the name of the came to Wheaton from the zine. Correspondence ride along as he conveyed a one, from that group of Navy in the fall of 1946. My must be signed and carload of these young men twenty-three Wheatonites first math professor was Dr. may be edited for on the first lap of their jour- reporting for duty on Boyce, and the following length or clarity. ney to Fort Sheridan, depart- February 15, 1943, who lost year, Dr. Brandt was my pro- ing the college campus for his life in combat needs to fessor in calculus. Both of Write: the train station in down- be mentioned and remem- these special ladies will Editor town Wheaton. I squeezed bered for his service and sac- always be remembered by Wheaton magazine me for their knowledge, abil- Wheaton College into a corner of the back seat rifice. I write this also with 501 College Ave. alongside my favorite foot- the hope and prayer that the ity to teach, and most impor- Wheaton, IL 60187; ball hero—stalwart, hand- leaders of our country will tantly for their classroom or send e-mail to some, affable Fritz Lange. find ways to resolve our devotions and prayers for [email protected]. The atmosphere was a mix conflicts with other nations their students. It was a privi- lege to be in their classrooms Oh, what memories the of sadness and high spirits as without again resorting to and to attend Wheaton “February Farewell” article those would-be soldiers violence and devastation. In College. Both of my children and picture (Aut. ’02, pg. 44) boarded the train while we the words my father prayed also had the privilege of evoked! well-wishers on the platform every evening at our supper attending Wheaton and I am I was twelve years old, waved them off in that table,“May the coming of grateful.Thank you again for a seventh grader at the February Farewell . Thy Kingdom be hastened.” providing us with Wheaton. college-operated Junior When word came later Marilyn Coray Unruh ’52 Sincerely, Academy on the third floor that Fritz Lange had been Ken Zuber ’50 of what later became the killed in action in the South Thank you for your work Graduate building, and an Pacific my dad told me that in providing the alumni with

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Continued from the back cover. Simple Beauty bring out the simple beauty Presentation Egg.” Created of a real egg.” But the with Laura Bush’s passion They say that beauty is in her imagination. strongest force behind her for education in mind, the eye of the beholder; but “Sometimes I’ll work is personal conviction: Gloria’s “literacy egg” will sometimes that beauty has sketch out an “God made so many be given to Mrs. Bush after to be brought to the surface idea on paper, things beautiful,” she the annual White House by a skilled hand and a pas- but I get my says.“But so often they Easter Egg Roll this spring. sionate heart.Through the best ideas are out of sight and Despite the accolades, work of Gloria Grover Fine when I’m hidden. Even if no Gloria remains focused on ’82, artistry and devotion are working on the one sees them, they are bringing attention to the married in the deceptively egg itself,” she still beautiful—I want gentle curves and subtle simple shape of an egg. Her says. Her husband to bring out that beauty.” colors of her chosen sub- intricate lacework, sculpting, Bob has also built a clear Gloria’s ability to illu- ject:“I know that my work and precise etching bring acrylic box fitted with a minate the extraordinary is not a necessity; these eggs out the hidden potential in vacuum that houses the egg nature of such an everyday are so fragile that if you ostrich, emu, goose, and during the carving process object has also captured drop them, that’s it,” she chicken eggs. so that Gloria doesn’t national interest. During the says.“But I create them She begins the creative breathe the eggshell dust. summer of 2001, Gloria was because beauty for beauty’s process by purchasing eggs Her work has an asked by the American Egg sake is important.” of all sizes, from one-inch- enthusiastic following at Board to create an egg for tall quail eggs to six-inch- craft shows and egging con- the Easter celebration at the by Lena James Fenton ’99 tall ostrich eggs, which have ventions.While egg art is White House in 2002. already had the contents not uncommon, especially Because she was represent- blown out.“Every egg is beaded and painted eggs, ing Illinois (she and her unique, with its own Gloria’s carvings are family live in Rockford), texture, shape, and true standouts.“The Gloria chose to etch the coloring,” she says. most common state,Abraham Lincoln, and “They might all question I get is prairie flowers on a brown seem the same, but ‘Are they real?’And chicken egg. Her Illinois they’re not.” of course they are,” egg was voted the best of Using a dental drill, Gloria explains.“Part of 2002.Along with this Gloria re-creates intricate the reason for carving and honor, she was asked to designs and patterns from etching is because I want to design the 2003 “First Lady

Continued from page 48 we sit in the moonlight, we only point to it. In silence itself.The willingness to be don’t try to figure it out, we give in to the fact that silent in God’s presence Restfor the explain it, or force it to be our words can never con- results in quietness, confi- Mind anything different than tain God or adequately dence, and clarity that is fall around us, illuminating what it is.We just enjoy it. describe our experiences beyond what the human what they will. It is not the It is the same with with God.We give our mind can generate.This is a same thing as noticing how God. Our words and mental minds permission to just very deep kind of rest everything is transformed in constructs about God are stop and rest themselves in indeed. this numinous light.When not the Reality itself.They the experience of the Reality

Wheaton 47 encounter and life-change—those things that at last my heart truly longs for.The heart of the spiri- Reflections on Restfor the tual journey for me recently has been to experi- the Christian life ence and learn to accept the limitations of the by Ruth HaleyMind Barton ’81 by published human mind and its efforts when it comes to Wheaton alumni the spiritual life. “My heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not I have had to acknowledge that the raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things wordiness, the emphasis on intellectual assent, too great and too marvelous for me. But I have the busyness that has characterized my life as Ruth Barton is a an evangelical Christian, has left me starving teacher, spiritual calmed and quieted my soul like a weaned child in some ways. Starving for mystery—to know director, and retreat with its mother.” Psalm 131 ESV God as One who is, in the end, far beyond leader, and is co- what my mind can figure out. Starving for founder of The Not too long ago my husband informed me intimacy with God that changes me in the Transforming Center, that during the night I sat up in bed and deeper places of my being rather than merely a leadership commu- launched into the introduction to a new monitoring externals. Starving for rest—to nity that exists to message.What surprised him most was that know God beyond all that I think I’m supposed guide, empower, and this sleepy sermon was coherent and came out to do for Him. Starving for quiet—to hear be a resource for in complete sentences! He said that his only the sound of sheer silence that is the Presence Christian leaders regret was that he hadn’t taken notes. (I was of God Himself. establishing spiritual- sorry, too, because then I would have had my Silence is the discipline that has helped me ly transforming com- introduction!) After our laughter subsided, to drop beneath the superficiality of my mental munities. She is the I was sobered by the realization that my mind constructs to that place of longing and desire author of several was busy even when my body was resting. and reaching for that which I do not yet have. books including The No wonder I woke up so tired some mornings! It is in this wordless place that I turn all facets Truths that Free The Psalmist’s description of the mind at of myself (not just my mind) toward God and Us: A Woman’s rest in God is powerful, both in its simplicity wait for His initiative in my life without taking Calling to Spiritual and its seeming impossibility for the modern so much responsibility for it.There is a kind Transformation mind.The truth about me is that I seem to of experiential knowing that comes in the (Waterbrook/Shaw, always be occupying myself with things too silence that doesn’t come in the words. 2002) and has coau- great and too marvelous for me. My mind is The Hebrew word translated be still thored a spiritual for- perpetually busy trying to control things, trying (Ps. 46:10) literally means let go of your grip. Let mation curriculum. to figure things out, clinging to the latest idea, go of your grip on your own human under- Ruth lives with her grasping at the nearest straw, working endlessly standing. Cease striving at the level of human husband, Chris, and to put everything into categories and boxes effort and open yourself to a whole different their three daughters and systems of thought. Sometimes even God kind of knowing. in Wheaton, IL. Himself gets relegated to a category or a box What I’m learning these days is that a lot in my mind rather than being free to be God of our God-talk is like the finger that points to in my life. the moon.The finger that points to the moon The irony of the whole situation is that the is not the moon. Pointing to the moon, talking mind—as wonderful as it is and as tireless in its about the moon, involving ourselves in study efforts—is so limited in what it can accomplish and explanation about how the light of the in the realm of the soul.The intellect can set the moon is generated is not the same thing as sit- stage, but it cannot provide the drama of true ting in the moonlight, letting the moonbeams Continued on p.47

48 Wheaton “If you begin by attracting an excep- tionally talented student body, most Gifts to the WHEATON FUND from of whom are committed Christians, alumni, parents, and friends and then provide them with a help prepare Wheaton students world-class liberal arts education for servant-leadership beyond designed to shape them after the the ordinary. model of Jesus Christ, the result will be extraordinary graduates who The WHEATON FUND has long leave the College with a common provided for the College’s basic calling, the calling to be Christlike necessities. Essentials like servant-leaders wherever they go.” financial aid for students, faculty —PRESIDENT compensation, library learning DUANE LITFIN resources, student ministries, and athletics programming. The Wheaton Fund also helps keep the annual cost of educating each student as low as possible—a difference of more than $5,000 per student per year. To prepare students for servant-leadership To learn more about the Wheaton Fund please beyond the ordinary, contact the OFFICE OF we need to give them ADVANCEMENT or the more than ALUMNI OFFICE at an ordinary education. 1-800-525-9906 or e-mail [email protected]

You may give on-line at www.wheaton.edu/ giving When is an egg not an egg? When it is in the steady hands of a master “egger” like Gloria Grover Fine ’82. Prized by hobbyists and presidents’ wives alike, Gloria’s deft touch with a fragile element captures your atten- tion—and your imagination.

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