Hope Award East and International Finalists

Hope Award East and International finalists

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As one big natural history museum holds onto Darwinist dogma, another plants seeds of humility

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COVER STORY A tale of two museums A natural history museum in Washington o ers Darwinism with no room for doubts, but one in New York o ers a dose of refreshing honesty on what science cannot tell us about the past. Could that lead to bigger strides in intellectual honesty later?

FEATURES DEPARTMENTS Friends and Joel Belz strangers Christians in Southern DISPATCHES California who help News international refugees Human Race rebuild their lives are Quotables discovering a new Quick Takes mission ﬁ eld Janie B. Cheaney Edifying CHAT CULTURE Hope Award East region winner Movies & TV helps poor students thrive Books Charts for churches Q&A Music In the shadow of ISIS NOTEBOOK Hope Award International Lifestyle winner does its work among Technology the shattered families and Religion displaced children in Science Iraqi Kurdistan Houses of God Where are they now? Mailbag ON THE COVER Andrée Seu Illustration by Krieg Barrie Peterson Marvin Olasky

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KRIEG BARRIE Joel Belz For example—and it’s a massive example whose lesson the U.S. electorate should have but has not yet absorbed—the relationship of abortion and Social Security provides a vivid illustration. Everyone has long known that the great threat to the integrity of Social Security was that there were relatively fewer and fewer wage earners in the overall system and rela Too tight to split tively more and more benefit claimers. That Social and economic policies form was true in any case in a pyramid scheme that was apparently flawed from the beginning. But the same piece of cloth now, in our lifetimes, those badly constructed assumptions were exacerbated Are you a fiscal or a social conservative? beyond repair by society’s decision R It’s a critical question, at least in the in the 1970s that it would be all minds of some, as folks are sizing up various right regularly to snuff out a third candidates for the presidency, and especially of all its pregnancies. the 17 campaigning under the Republican That may be the biggest example banner. available—but we’re already seeing But whichever you picked, if indeed you it repeatedly mirrored now in chose one or the other, I suggest that you were Obamacare’s habit of bad statistics. wrong. The distinction is superficial at best. At In a society where every tiny statis worst, it’s phony and terribly misleading. tical nuance of every cause and For in God’s order of things, everything fiscal effect known to humanity has been is also moral, and every social policy has fiscal studied and restudied, why is there implications. In God’s scheme, everything so little public discussion about the hangs together. You might say that He was the statistical validity of the myriad of original holistic thinker. programs embedded in the overall So, yes, I’d argue loud and long that Hillary For anyone to measure? Why have the media not ballyhooed Clinton, although wrongheaded in her policies how costs are higher and benefits are lower? on most fiscal and social issues, is at least pretend that It works both ways, as we have noted here consistent in holding them together and side by he or she has before. Fiscal policies always have moral and side. And the same should be said about the discovered a social implications. We humans are not just other Democratic candidates—socialist Sen. economic beings, as Marx suggested we are. Bernie Sanders, former Gov. Martin O’Malley, neat way to But we rarely make decisions in life apart from former Sen. Jim Webb, and so forth. Let’s give cordon off the economic influences. So when a combination of them credit for being consistent—even if money issues governments at different levels takes 40 or almost always consistently wrong. even 50 percent of its citizens’ earnings every Meanwhile, Republicans seem to live hap from the year, that taxation policy—all by itself—has a pily, if quite naïvely, with a logical disconnect. moral ones profound effect on how much those same citi They commonly assume that a candidate is wishful zens have left to give to their churches, to pass should be free to think whatever he wants on to relief agencies, or to invest in education. about abortion or homosexual marriage so thinking. Indeed, it is not too much to say that tax policy long as he or she is appropriately conservative helps determine whether those same citizens on financial and tax issues. Or vice versa. By develop generous or stingy outlooks on life. leaving space on the Republican slate for some The close interface between fiscal and moral one as crude and careless as Donald Trump, the thinking has other dimensions as well. Ethical Grand Old Party suggests that even an explicit issues in spending the wealth of future genera profession of atheism is no disqualifier for tions are deep and long-lasting, even apart from public office. what the money may be presently spent for. People who try to peel off the moral layers of So for anyone to pretend that he or she has the onion so they can get down to the “real stuff” discovered a neat way to cordon off the money of fiscal and economic issues will always dis issues from the moral ones is wishful thinking. cover that the whole onion—all the way to the It denies the very manner in which God has put

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JULY 29 TURKEY BOMBS KURDS In addition to its campaign against the Islamic State in Syria, Turkey launched airstrikes on Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) camps in northern Iraq, upsetting Kurds who play a vital role in the ﬁ ght against the Islamic State. Turkey said the airstrikes were in response to the killings of policemen and soldiers blamed on the Kurdish militant group. Another Kurdish group, the YPG, is an IMAGES important partner in the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State as the only troops on the ground, but Turkey is concerned about the YPG’s ties to the PKK, and worries its increased strength could encourage Kurdish separatists. AKENGIN/AFP/GETTY ILYAS

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JULY 28 LION’S SHARE OF ATTENTION The same week pro-life activists released undercover videos revealing how Planned Parenthood sells aborted human babies’ body parts for research, mainstream media were more upset about the killing of a lion. Minnesota dentist Walter J. Palmer shot Cecil, the most famous lion in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, with a crossbow after two local guides lured the animal out of the government reserve. Cecil survived another 40 hours until hunters tracked him down and shot him with a gun. A WhiteHouse.gov petition to extradite Palmer to Zimbabwe A family protests outside far exceeded the 100,000 Palmer’s dental oﬀ ice. signatures needed to trigger an administration response.

JULY 28 BRADY SIDELINED NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell upheld the four-game suspension of star Patriots quarterback Tom Brady in the scandal over the use of deﬂ ated footballs in games. MINNESOTA: ERIC MILLER/REUTERS/LANDOV • BRADY: ERIC CANHA/CAL SPORT MEDIA/AP SPORT CANHA/CAL ERIC • BRADY: MILLER/REUTERS/LANDOV ERIC MINNESOTA: Part of the reason Goodell upheld the suspension is that Brady had an assistant destroy his cellphone containing thousands of text messages reportedly near the date of Brady’s March 6 meeting with investigators. Brady says the cellphone was broken, and he’s asking a federal court to overturn Goodell’s decision: “I did nothing wrong,” he said in a Facebook post, “and no one in the Patriots organization did either.” BRAZIL: FELIPE DANA/AP • CINCINNATI: JOHN MINCHILLO/AP

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JULY 29 OFFICER CHARGED A white University of Cincinnati police off icer could face life in prison if convicted of murder for shooting and killing an unarmed African- American man during a traff ic stop. Campus off icer Raymond Tensing pulled over Samuel DuBose on July 19 for not displaying a front license plate. Tensing initially claimed he

MINNESOTA: ERIC MILLER/REUTERS/LANDOV • BRADY: ERIC CANHA/CAL SPORT MEDIA/AP SPORT CANHA/CAL ERIC • BRADY: MILLER/REUTERS/LANDOV ERIC MINNESOTA: opened ﬁ re because he feared for his life as DuBose started driving away, dragging Tensing along. Yet footage from a body camera showed he drew his gun immediately as the car began rolling forward and fatally shot DuBose in the head. DuBose’s mother told reporters that whatever the outcome of the indictment, she knew God would one day bring complete justice. Yet “if [Tensing] asks for forgiveness, I can forgive him. … God forgave us.”

A protester stands outside the courthouse after the announcement of charges. BRAZIL: FELIPE DANA/AP • CINCINNATI: JOHN MINCHILLO/AP

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Protesters City, Calif., gather outside announced they a Planned had transplanted Parenthood clinic in Vista, “ fully intact Calif., on Aug. 3. human fetal kidneys” into lab rats. The company procured the organs of aborted children from StemExpress, a company that obtains baby parts from Planned Parenthood. Animal research with fetal tissue isn’t a recent development, but Ganogen Inc. says its technique is new. That means the possibility of harvesting kidneys from unborn children discarded through abortion—with the goal of transplanting the same kidneys into ailing adults wanting to live—adds another grisly layer to a deeply disturbing story. The company’s tag line: “Ending the donor shortage.” ‘Pieces of children’ Cate Dyer, founder of StemExpress, THE SCANDAL OVER PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND told The New York Times fetal tissue DISCARDED BABY PARTS GROWS by Jamie Dean accounts for about percent of the company’s business. Inc. magazine reported the company’s revenue at Abby Johnson remembers what companies supplying biotech $. million—about , percent R former colleagues at Planned researchers. growth in three years. Parenthood called the storage freezer Undercover videos released by the To the Times, Dyer described the for the dismembered remains of Center for Medical Progress (CMP) remains of unborn babies as “biohaz- aborted babies at a Texas a liate show Planned Parenthood sta ers ardous waste, discarded waste” and where she worked: “The freezer was picking through the remains of spoke of collecting “tissues from those jokingly called ‘the nursery.’ … That unborn children and haggling over waste products.” was where all the babies were held.” fees for their body parts and tissue. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton She also remembers the alternate Planned Parenthood maintains it only testifi ed about those so-called “waste name some Planned Parenthood work- recoups its costs for supplying the products” before the Texas Senate ers used for the so-called “products of parts, a claim CMP disputes with its committee in July, and noted Planned conception,” abbreviated “POC”: “The video conversations. Parenthood also contracts with com- joke was that it stood for ‘pieces of Republicans vowed to continue the panies to collect and burn the remains children.’” battle to defund Planned Parenthood of unborn children: Johnson left Planned Parenthood this fall, suggesting they might block “As my sta ers watched, a technician and became a pro-life advocate in any spending bills that include federal took an aborted child from a jar, rinsed it after witnessing the abortion of funding for the abortion provider. in a colander, and placed the body parts a -week-old unborn child. She For now, other distressing ques- in a tray. Fingers and toes, exceptionally recounted the disturbing practices of tions arise: What happens to the tiny but fully formed, were clearly her former employer during a Texas remains of unborn children once they visible. The remains were eventually Senate hearing on July . reach a lab? deposited in a red plastic bag, about the Johnson’s testimony in Texas came In at least one facility, researchers size of an average grocery sack.” fi ve days before Democratic senators have transplanted fetal organs into lab Paxton testifi ed his o ce would MIKE in the U.S. Senate blocked an e ort to rats, with the goal of learning how to continue to investigate the practices of BLAKE/REUTERS/LANDOV cut o federal funding for Planned grow the organs large enough to Planned Parenthood in Texas: “But Parenthood. The move came in the transplant into ailing adults in need of more than any misdeeds involving the wake of a growing scandal over how donations. sale of aborted baby parts is this funda- the nation’s largest abortion provider In January, researchers at Ganogen mental truth: The true abomination in harvests fetal tissue for middleman Inc., a biotech company in Redwood all this is the institution of abortion.” A

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STATED Missouri state Sen. Bob Dixon has become one of the nation’s most well- known gubernatorial candidates after media dredged up his homosexual past. The Republican issued a statement on July 27 saying that sexual abuse he endured as a child led to years of “teenage confu- sion” he has put behind him. Dixon, who is 46 and has a wife and three daughters, said his Christian faith will continue to guide his actions. He criticized those “who tear down others for their gain.”

REVERSED An anonymous Alabama prisoner who went to EXCAVATED federal court seeking an Archaeologists believe they found the bodies of four of America’s earliest Bill Kelso, director abortion changed her mind leaders buried beneath a former church at the country’s first successful of archaeology July 29. The American Civil at Jamestown English colony, Jamestown, Va. The men were likely Capt. Gabriel Archer, Rediscovery Liberties Union helped the Sir Ferdinando Wainman, Capt. William West, and pastor Robert Hunt. unnamed woman sue her Chemical tests, skeletal analyses, genealogical records, and 3-D scans of sheriff July 20, while the artifacts in the graves helped lead the Jamestown Rediscovery team to the identities. Most state sought to terminate p

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gence agencies the diplomats’ axiom, “it never hurts to can’t live without talk to enemies,” is a lie. his special talents. Jay Cost’s A Republic No More Silva’s writing is (Encounter, ) shows how we moved far above that of from checks and balances to expanding typical thriller the checkbook balances of special inter- authors, his intri- est groups: James Madison called that cate plots work factionalism, and maybe “corrupt brilliantly, and his special- interest democracy” is the better evil characters— term for today. A edition of James terrorists and Burnham’s Suicide of the West Russians who (Encounter) shows how liberalism was employ them— (and is) unable to stand up to dedicated deserve what they and persistent opponents. Macintyre get. Warning: Honest, hard-hitting essays on the violence and Middle East comprise Daniel Pipes’ occasional bad guy Nothing Abides (Transaction, ). verbiage and Fighting the Ideological War, edited by Freedom and adultery. Katharine Gorka and Patrick Sookhdeo Ben Macintyre’s (Westminster Institute, ), has essays A Spy Among showing lessons from the Cold War its enemies Friends: Kim Philby against Communism worth applying to BOOKS HIGHLIGHT OPPONENTS OF LIBERTY, and the Great the lukewarm war against Islamism. HERE AND ABROAD by Marvin Olasky Betrayal (Broadway Kirsten Powers’ The Silencing: How the Books, ) is a Left Is Killing Free Speech (Regnery, ) well-written points out the internal demoralization that Daniel Silva’s The English Spy is his account of the British counterintelli- often accompanies external aggression. R th in a ﬁ ction series featuring gence chief whose work for the Soviet In Universal Man, a biography of John Gabriel Allon, a legendary Israeli spy and Union led to the murder of hundreds of Maynard Keynes (Basic, ), Richard assassin. Allon is also a masterful restorer agents. Michael Rubin’s Dancing with the Davenport-Hines praises Keynesian eco- of Renaissance paintings and prefers to Devil (Encounter, ), takes us through nomics and Keynesian homosexuality: live at peace amid art, but he is so good U.S. attempts to ﬁ nd common ground Many upper-class Brits indulged in both, at his violent tasks that not only Israel’s with rogue regimes: North Korea, Iran, but at or so many of them married Mossad but British and American intelli- Iraq, Libya, and more. He concludes that women and had children.

OTHER SHORT STOPS What Adam Smith Knew, edited by James Otteson (Encounter, 2014) includes essays praising or damning capitalism by John Burton and Anita Folsom’s Death on Hold (Nelson, Locke, Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, and 2015) narrates well how their friendship with a others. David Brooks’ The Road to Character (Random House, death row inmate changed his life and theirs. Agenda Setting: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Infl uencing 2015) is promising in parts but deeply confused: Brooks writes Public Policy by John Miller and Karl Zinsmeister about the importance of humility and understands the need for (Philanthropy Roundtable, 2015) off ers some grace, but it’s grace without the cross. rousing and some depressing stories of how Tom Cooper’s The Marauders (Crown, 2015) is an enter- behind-the-scenes funders have changed American history. taining crime novel set in Louisiana swamps. David Downing’s Rodney Stark and Xiuhua Wang’s A Star in the East: The Rise One Man’s Flag and Jack of Spies (Soho) are World War I of Christianity in China (Templeton, 2015) succinctly tells of novels (warning: sexual situations and language) by the what may be the world’s best hope of avoiding a future war author of the excellent John Russell series of novels set in between the United States and China. Guy Sorman’s The Empire Hitler’s Germany. Thomas Mallon’s novel Finale (Pantheon, of Lies: The Truth About China in the Twenty-First Century 2015) portrays Washington in the 1980s and off ers glimpses (Encounter, fi rst published in 2008) looks at the lives of the of Richard Nixon. Benjamin Percy’s novel The Dead Lands 1 billion poor Chinese we tend to overlook as the lives of 200 (Grand Central, 2015) is a well-crafted dystopia following HANDOUT million upwardly-mobiles dazzle us. some American apocalypse. —M.O. HANDOUT

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David Skeel is a professor of corporate law at because I had never been to Sunday school class. We R the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a read a short story by Wright Morris, “The Ram in the Presbyterian Church in America elder, and a God’s Thicket”—I had no idea what the subtext of the story World Publications board member. He is the author was. After enduring a class where I felt really ignorant, I of Icarus in the Boardroom, Debt’s Dominion, and The decided to read the Bible. The summer after my soph- New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act omore year in college a couple of friends and I drove a and Its (Unintended) Consequences. His most recent van across the country. I started reading the Bible in the book is True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of back of the van, and by the time I’d gotten a few chapters Our Complex World. Here are edited excerpts of our into Genesis I was persuaded it was true. I had never interview in front of Patrick Henry College students. read anything so beautiful, so psychologically real. Your mom was a teacher, your dad an Air Force Muslims tend to dislike Genesis because the heroes doctor: What were they as churchgoers? My parents are often not particularly heroic. I had precisely the both came from churchgoing families that didn’t fully opposite experience. When I read about Abraham, internalize their faith. They went to church because when I read about Noah, when I read about Joseph, I that’s what people did. When my parents got married said, “I know these people.” God is using real people and started moving around with the military, they just in history. Any book that doesn’t look like the world stopped going to church. I was in a church three or we inhabit I don’t fi nd compelling. The fl aws made it four times the fi rst years of my life: no religious real to me, and that’s still a big part of what makes it background at all. I went to the University of North real—that Peter renounced Jesus, when before he was Carolina. I had jumped through all the hoops I was willing to give up his life for Jesus. Those are people I supposed to be jumping through and had this deep understand. I guess, intuitively, at a very early age I sense that there had to be more to existence than had a sense of my own sin and the sin of people what I was seeing in my life. That started me down around me. Seeing that portrayed in a complex way I the road to thinking about Christianity. found very powerful and very real. You majored in English. We read lots of books with Christianity impressed you because it’s complicated? biblical themes. I never knew what the themes were Absolutely. The psychological complexity of Christianity

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17 Q&A.indd 28 8/3/15 11:58 AM of the Bible as an “operator’s manual for planet Earth.” I wrote True Paradox because I found it really frustrating to hear biblical Christianity and Christians described in a way that had nothing to do with my faith and what Christianity is. In our culture Christianity is often characterized as simplistic. This book is for people who think there’s no reason to take Christianity seriously. It’s to show people of that sort—they surround me in my professional life—that Christianity is much more plausible than they think. I should ask you about the last book you wrote in your professional capacity. What is Dodd-Frank and why should anyone care? That’s the giant piece of fi nancial legislation ‘Truth can’t be conveyed put in place in : It’s , pages long and has completely in a single genre, so the restructured the way we regulate banks and other fi nancial institu- Bible’s mix of genres, tions. When you hear about big banks and proposals to break them language, and images up, those are conversations about the Dodd-Frank act. is part of the evidence Has it done any good? It’s a real mixed bag. It introduces some for its veracity.’ regulation of derivatives and other fi nancial contracts. That’s pretty good. Other parts of it are not good at all. It created a form of corporat- was really powerful for me, as was the complexity of ism, which is the way in Europe corporations tend to the language in the Bible. Truth can’t be conveyed in a be regulated. The underlying principle is we’ll allow single genre, so the Bible’s mix of genres, language, these giant institutions to exist as long as they do and images is part of the evidence for its veracity. what the government wants. The Bible’s diff erent genres and writers also make Will it prevent us from again having a debacle like Muslims distrust it: They prefer one writer and the one that of 2008? It was sold as bringing an end to tax- genre of the Quran, speechifying. Unity rather than payer bailouts: That’s what President Obama said diversity. Another of the really compelling things when he signed it. Dodd-Frank sets up a lot of rules about the Bible, for me, is that it actually has both. designed to stop bailouts, to limit what the Federal That Jesus is both man and God, that God is one God Reserve can do. None of those will work, at the end of but also three persons, reinforces the Bible’s com- the day. If we have a big crisis with a big bank, the plexity and truth. Federal Reserve can bail it out if it wants to. That’s Once you read the Bible and believed it’s true—what likely to be what happens. I would not say it’s safe to happened next? Friends and I went to a series of talks rest assured that there will never be another crisis about the gospel designed for fraternity and sorority like . I don’t think one is on the horizon now, but students. One of my roommates turned to me and it’s possible. said, “You don’t actually believe this stu , do you?” I Do your last two books—on Dodd-Frank and on said, “I do.” To identify publicly with Jesus, even in this Christianity—have a common denominator: Law trivial, small way, was absolutely life-changing for doesn’t settle our problems? The theme that underlies me. I had no idea why I said that—I didn’t think I was important parts of both of them is that law can’t save A VIDEO OF THIS a Christian at that point. But when I said “I do,” it was INTERVIEW us. We have a temptation to think that if we just put like being married. That moment I married Jesus and IN ITS ENTIRETY the right laws in place we can prevent fi nancial crises I knew that that was for good—that my life was CAN BE FOUND and we can solve the moral problems of the country. AT WNG.ORG changed and it would never be the same. AND IN THE History tells us, and the Bible tells us, that’s not Since you emphasize the complexity of Christianity, IPAD EDITION OF possible. We need to be humble about what the I suspect you’re not thrilled when you see descriptions THIS ISSUE secular law can do. A

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A tale of two museums A natural history museum in Washington o ers Darwinism with no room for doubts, but one in New York o ers a dose of refreshing honesty on what science cannot tell us about the past. Could that lead to bigger strides in intellectual honesty later? BY MARVIN OLASKY IN WASHINGTON & NEW YORK

National Museum of Natural History

17 COVER STORY.indd 32 8/3/15 4:19 PM A tale of two museums

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ost big cities have natural history museums that display dinosaur bones and sometimes much more. Christians, and particularly homeschooling Christians looking for an educational ﬁ eld trip, tend to view those museums in two ways: Stay away from them because they often o er up propaganda for Darwinism, or visit them and hope the kids ignore that teaching. And yet, all such museums are not the same. I visited America’s two most famous ones, the National Museum of Natural History (I’ll refer to it as the Smithsonian) on the mall in Washington, D.C., and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) adjacent to Central Park in New York City. They provide opposing senses of what scientists know and don’t know. Both provide teachable moments for parents who have done a little boning up on ancient bones. We can ﬁ nd better alternatives than avoidance or ignoring. This article shows how. M AUGUST 22, 2015 WORLD 33 17 COVER STORY.indd 33 8/3/15 4:20 PM irst, let’s examine some specific detail concerning the problem, which becomes apparent on a placard a few steps into the Smithsonian: “EVOLUTION TRAIL. … Shaped by natural selection, some species diverge from their ancestors and adapt to Fenvironmental change. … Evolution is at the heart of this museum. Follow the evolution trail to learn how, and let Iggy the Iguana be

your guide along the way.” Soon, bright lights O’ Bill announce, “Welcome to the Mammal Family L Reunion! Come meet your relatives.” Washing eary/The The evolution trail takes us by an exhibit celebrating Morganucodon oehleri, only four inches long: “A close relative of this tiny crea-

ture was the first mammal on earth. Its DNA to was passed on to billions of descendants— n P o s t

including you.” The trail leads to the Evolution / G e

Theater, which features a film starring “Great- tt y I

grandma Morgie, only four inches long. … A ma

dragonfly for dinner. Mmm, mmm. Tasty. … The • Previ ges dinosaurs towered over our mammal family for a long time, until those dinosaurs had a o really bad day.” s us p

Yup, that’s when a meteorite slammed into re earth, leading to a dust storm that shrouded ad: t the planet. All the dinosaurs died, “but not our he Smithsonian in recent years has Smithsonian visitors he S

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family, no. We mammals survived … the mete- clearly invested millions in creating t

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orite was just the lucky break we needed.” The light, bright rooms in which children various stages of o ni

film’s avuncular narrator then gives one can roam. A kindergarten teacher human development. O’ Bill an: example of how mammal species evolved: The asks her young charges, “Imagine

brown fur on brown bears works well as you’re right here and the dinosaur looks at you. What does L ea

camouflage in the forest, but 150,000 years the dinosaur want to do?” Kids squeal, “Eat you.” Middle-school children Washing ry/The ago some brown bears became stranded in Tlet their imaginations race as exhibits transport them to faraway places, Alaska, and bears that survived “became fostering a yearning for plane takeoffs, train whistles, and caravans lighter and lighter and lighter until voilá, a among some sick of their ABCs—alone, bored, or coddled.

brand-new species, the polar bear.” But in exhibit after exhibit, the Smithsonian insists: “Evolution is the to n P

(If you’re familiar with the difference cornerstone of modern biology. There is no scientific controversy about o s t

between macroevolution and microevolution, whether evolution occurred or whether it explains the history of life on / G e you may be noting that the film cheats. It pur- earth.” That’s just wrong. At DissentfromDarwin.org, over 900 Ph.D. sci- tt y I ports to explain how one kind of animal gave entists have signed a statement agreeing that “we are skeptical of claims ma way—via time plus chance—to other kinds. for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the ges; A

That’s the controversial theory of macroevolu- complexity of life.” me tion, but the film’s one specific example is a Many museum placards are propagandistic: “Since Darwin died in rican

micro one that both evolutionists and creation- 1882, findings from many fields have confirmed and expanded on his M us

ists accept: Sure, bear hair color can become ideas. We learned that Earth is old enough for all known species to have eum lighter and bird beaks longer, but those evolved.” That ignores all the research showing that even 4.5 billion years o f

changes prove nothing about the macro is not enough, given the multi-mutation features that require multiple N a t questions.) components to kick in to provide some survival advantage. ur al al

The film concludes by stating that humans According to Smithsonian sleight of hand, mankind has a clear line of H is

are a recent addition to the mammal family, yet descent from our ape ancestors. But two scientists recently writing in a to ry

we think we are “the life of the party. Truth is, prestigious 2015 Springer-Verlag book on Macroevolution lamented “the : Ben ux

we just arrived. … Life is constantly changing ed

dearth of unambiguous evidence for ancestor-descendant lineages” within H R id

and evolving. Always has, always will. … We all the hominin fossil record. The famous evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr er/ G

belong to a family that is constantly changing acknowledged a “large, unbridged gap” between humanlike species in the e tt ud/laif/ y

and adapting. … If we’ve evolved this far from fossil record and our supposed apelike australopithecine ancestors. iga I ma R er er mammals like Morgie, what new mammals will The Smithsonian notes that “societies worldwide tell diverse stories about ges t

Morgie find at the next reunion?” how humans came into being,” but the museum claims immunity to that Pe

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17 COVER STORY.indd 34 8/3/15 4:20 PM temptation: It “presents research and findings based on scientific methods diles.” AMNH is willing to admit disagreements: that are distinct from these stories.” The Smithsonian refuses to admit that “How plesiosaurs and their relatives swam is in scientists engage in speculation and storytelling all the time—especially some dispute because their locomotion is not when it comes to human origins. As Mayr said, “Not having any fossils clearly similar to that of any living animal.” that can serve as missing links, we have to fall back on the time-honored When AMNH is sure that a particular dino- method of historical science, the construction of a historical narrative.” saur feature existed, it still admits our lack of knowledge. Regarding the horns on some ew York’s AMNH facility, by comparison, seems old-fash- dinosaurs, “Paleontologists have speculated ioned. The darkness of the enormous diorama room focuses that they may have provided a small measure of attention on brightly lit cabinets containing scenes from the protection against large carnivorous enemies.

Bill O’ Bill Libyan desert, the Upper Nile region, and other exotic locales. Or they may have been used for sexual display, The exhibits of taxidermied lions, buffalo, okapi, giant sables, or in combat between competing males during L eary/The Washing eary/The giant elands, and more big game have changed little over the the mating season.” They may also have been past six decades, according to an elderly volunteer, Terry. She stood in her used to break off large pieces of vegetation, Nred vest showing schoolchildren models of skulls, and explained that she “but since no specimens of horned dinosaurs comes once each week because her parents took her in the 1950s: “I have been found that preserve the stomach

to loved the museum. When I retired, I wanted to come here and help these contents, we can’t test this hypothesis.” n P children to love it. We have kids who can name every dinosaur.” Contra numerous books with illustrations o s t

/ The upper-floor dinosaur exhibits show some humility: “Because we purporting to show dinosaur life, a typical G e tt cannot observe how carnosaurs searched for food, we cannot be sure AMNH exhibit asks, “What can the fossils really y I ma whether they were hunters or scavengers.” One placard presents theories tell us, and what mysteries remain unsolved? ges • Previ ges about the eye placement and skull bones of carnosaurs, and then states, Unfortunately, fossils of Barosaurus don’t tell “All these ideas are controversial, because they are based on scientists’ us what color the animal was, what noises it interpretations of fossil bones that are often incomplete, or that have made, or many other details about how it o us s us become distorted over millions of years. We may never have all the evi- behaved. We can’t even be certain whether p re dence needed to support these ideas.” Barosaurus could really rear up on its hind legs ad: ad: AMNH shows a willingness to admit mistakes: “Bones thought to be to feed in the tops of trees or defend its young.” t he he those of juvenile Coelophysis were found inside the body cavities of some G.K. Chesterton a century ago explained that S mi

t of the larger animals. They were used as evidence that Coelophysis was he had “never read a line of Christian apologet- hs

o cannibalistic. However, these bones have been shown to be those of prim- ics” on his road to belief in Christ, but agnostic ni an: Bill O’ Bill an: itive crocodiles.” The museum acknowledges changes: evolutionists “sowed in my mind my first wild

“Pterosaurs, or ‘flying reptiles,’ … were originally The American doubts of doubt.” AMNH exhibits could function

L thought to be mammals related to bats. Today, ptero- Museum of that way regarding faith in Darwin. We learn ea ry/The Washing ry/The saurs are interpreted as archosaurs related to croco- Natural History about stegosaurs, “The vertical plates may have been used for defense, species identification, or radiation of heat, but these are guesses.” Some exhibits make universal statements that to undercut pretensions: “We cannot be sure how n P

o pachycephalosaurs used their skull caps, s t

/ because theories about the behavior of extinct G e tt animals cannot be tested.” y I ma ges; ges; f course, AMNH does an obligatory A me curtsy to the religion of Darwinism. rican rican One screen at AMNH runs a con-

M tinuous loop with confessions of us

eum eum evolutionary faith from Francis Collins (“Without the framework o f

N of evolution to understand what we look at a t ur every day, it would make no sense”), biologist al al O

H Kenneth Miller (“Without evolution to tie it is to together, biology is little more than stamp ry

: Ben : Ben collecting”), and National Center for Science ux ed

H Education head Eugenie Scott (“Evolution is the R id er/ glue that makes biology make sense”). Those G e views contrast strongly with the Bible’s procla- tt ud/laif/ y

iga mation that in Christ all things hold together. I ma R er er ges AMNH also has life-size, lifelike statues of an t

Pe ape-man and ape-woman. One Queens-accented

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17 COVER STORY.indd 35 8/3/15 4:20 PM Lovely. That’s what they want pictures of? Imagine.” The kids moved away, at which point the mom started insisting again: “You want a picture with the naked people or not?” The kids got into position. The mom said, “Say cheese!” Still, many AMNH exhibits display one small step for museum honesty today, and that could lead to one large leap for intellectual honesty tomorrow. Jane Goodall, now an 81-year-old Darwinist considered the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, said, “I was brought up to understand Darwin’s theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London.” But what if the AMNH admission that we don’t have all the answers could lead children to understand what God tells Job: “Do you give the horse his might?… Do you Journalists say a dog biting a person is not much of a story, but man- clothe his neck with a mane? Is it by your under- bites-dog is. Darwinist dominance in museums is sad and worth standing that the hawk soars and spreads his documenting, but unsurprising. What’s new and positive is the dash of wings toward the south?” Museums have consequences, and the New humility evident at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). York and Washington giants do have one trait in An intern and I looked at websites of many natural history museums common: They like to scare children. Parts of across the country to see whether arrogance or humility dominated, but the Smithsonian are a horror film. One poster that was asking for more subtlety than the internet could provide. Clearly, about oceans blares, “Pollution. Climate change. Darwin is still a god, but are dissident curators raising insubordinate Invasive species. Overfishing. Habitat Destruction. questions as hundreds of scientists are? Ocean Acidification.” Another placard shouts, Want to be a WORLD scout? I took the photograph above on the “Global Vanishing Acts. Life can be relatively fourth floor of AMNH. If you go to a big natural history museum near you, stable for ages and then—Wham! Mass extinction do you see any admission like that? Or do you see only exhibits like the hits.” A third includes scare headlines: “Are We one below at the Smithsonian, which cheerily welcomes us to minimize In ANOTHER MASS EXTINCTION?” our humanity? —M.O. AMNH’s continuous loop of a film, The Evolution of Vertebrates, combines Darwinism with warnings of disaster. Narrator Meryl Streep intones, “Just one species of vertebrates, humans, has the ability to cause extinction perhaps on a scale greater than that of dinosaurs.” Cue the dramatic, threatening music. One woman with preschoolers sat down with them in three of the 150 seats, promising, “If you don’t like we don’t have to watch the whole thing.” Two minutes later they left: She told a waiting friend, “It was a little too intense for them.”

arents visiting natural history museums should make sure their children understand what AMNH admits in its display of Allosaurus bones: “Re-creating the behavior of extinct animals is very difficult, and can only mom stood before them with her two fourth- be done by accepting certain assumptions.” Many exhibits offer specula- graders and said, “They’re your great-grand- tion and then conclude,P “These are all intriguing hypotheses, but the parents.” The kids laughed. “Want me to take a fossils do not give us enough evidence to test whether any of them are picture of you with the naked people?” The correct. The mystery remains unresolved.” M children were uncertain. The mom insisted: AMNH’s placard on a Hadrosaurus exhibit should flash on the com- ar vin

“Kids, this is part of life.” They reluctantly puter screen of every Darwinist: “While it is important to make intelligent O la

moved in for the photograph, but the mom speculations about extinct animals, we are overstating the strength of the s seemed to change her mind: “What a memory. fossil evidence if we present these ideas as truth.” A ky

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17 COVER STORY.indd 36 8/3/15 4:20 PM A FINAL WORD on the Issues that Matter Most.

The Final Book by Charles Colson

A clarion call for Christians to think critically about the pressing issues of our day—crime and our system of punishment, natural law, Islam, gay marriage, Christian persecution, and more. In his final published word, influential thinker Chuck Colson shares his vision for Christian public witness and a socially engaged church.

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17 COVER STORY.indd 37 8/3/15 4:28 PM Friends and strangers Christians in Southern California who help international refugees rebuild their lives are discovering a new mission ﬁ eld

by SOPHIA LEE in Anaheim, Calif.

17 REFUGEES.indd 38 8/5/15 9:01 AM hey looked lost and hag- juice, and potato chips, and then gard at the Los Angeles walked them out of the chaotic airport T airport terminal, watching as leisurely as through a botanical human tra c zigzag in all garden. directions. It had been a long fl ight Outside, Benosh introduced himself from Afghanistan via Saudi Arabia for again. “My name is Fadi Benosh. I the family of fi ve and the -year-old work for a nonprofi t Christian organi- bachelor. They’d been strangers back zation called Voice of Refugees that home, but here in this bustling air- helps any refugees in need. We’re not port, the family and young man were your assigned resettlement agency, linked by a temporary kinship: They but we sometimes give refugees were all Muslim Afghan refugees rides. We do this with love, we do this waiting for a stranger to pick them up in Jesus’ name.” in a strange country. The two men grasped Benosh’s Fadi Benosh spotted them imme- hand with both hands and thanked diately. He’d become an expert at him profusely. The wife silently nod- fi nding fresh refugees in an airport ded, while her son and two toddler crowd: This was at least his th time daughters peered curiously about doing so. He knew exactly what they with wide eyes. Then Benosh opened were thinking and feeling, and under- his arms wide and said something stood how overwhelming and terrify- he’d been yearning to say since he ing it is to arrive in a new country gained his own U.S. citizenship in with an armful of bundles and heart May: “Welcome to my country!” full of uncertainties. The world is facing its worst refu- So Benosh greeted gee crisis on record, according to the Students United Nations, with the scale of global at the VOR them with a giant Learning smile. He bought forced displacement “clearly dwarfi ng Center everybody co ee, anything seen before.” Last year alone,

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17 REFUGEES.indd 39 8/4/15 2:11 PM armed conflicts or persecution uprooted 13.9 million people— driving 11 million from their towns and 2.9 million across national borders. Altogether, there are 59.5 million internally displaced persons and national refugees worldwide. Ongoing terrorism in Syria and Iraq has driven tens of thousands of people into neighboring countries such as Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon. Impoverished Africans have resorted to paying smugglers to sail them secretly to Europe. Rohingya migrants have packed into boats to flee discrimination in Myanmar and Bangladesh. Sometimes, when trickles of immi- grants become a flood, sympathy dries up: Southeast Asian nations turned away boats full of starving Rohingya migrants in 31 May, but reversed course under international pressure. The United States, too, is a major destination, taking in (1) Fadi Benosh, a former 70,000 refugees last year. In Southern California, one of the top refugee, now works for resettlement regions, many Christians are viewing refugees and VOR. (2) A VOR tutor assists students with their asylum seekers as an opportunity, not a burden. With wars and English studies. (3) The persecution propelling unreached communities right into their Asian Garden Mall in backyards, they no longer have to look for a mission field: The Westminster’s Little Saigon. 32 mission field has come to them. The city of Westminster in 33 Orange County, for example, transformed into “Little Saigon” in the ’80s after receiving the second massive wave of post– Vietnam War refugees, famously known as the “boat people.” More than 130,000 Vietnamese took refuge at Camp Pendleton, south of Los Angeles, and the majority eventually resettled across Southern California. In response to the boat people crisis, World Relief, an evangelical Christian organization that provides resettlement services, opened an office in Garden Grove, Calif. World Relief mobi- lized local churches to sponsor the Vietnamese refugees, and church members drove to Camp Pendleton to pick them up, some even hosting them for weeks or months. This April, when Orange County’s Vietnamese community commemorated the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, churches m that had sponsored the refugees also celebrated the founding of Today, Southern California receives a huge portion of Middle al l :

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the first Vietnamese-speaking churches in America—fruits Eastern refugees, since many of them have family and friends L reaped from interactions between local churches and strangers. who already live in the area. Migration is shifting the cultural orr en

“It was a big celebration for evangelicals too,” said World landscape of towns and neighborhoods: El Cajon near San A u Ben J

Relief Garden Grove director Glen Peterson. “People were so Diego, for example, is now nearly one-third Iraqi-American, r /Z os U h, open to the gospel in a way that they’ve never been in their own largely due to refugees from the Iraq War. Anaheim is now home M A

country, because churches here responded to their needs.” to Little Arabia, a concentrated row of halal markets, hookah Pr tor e y More recently, his office has been working to mobilize local cafes, and Islamic apparel shops. That’s why Voice of Refugees ss : S / att N o e e ph Christian families to “adopt” refugee families, not just to donate (VOR) chose Anaheim as its headquarters. b

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couches or write checks, but to walk alongside them as friends The building VOR rents belongs to a Southern Baptist Le o che m e

and neighbors. church that shares its sanctuary with a Korean Baptist church, ra

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17 REFUGEES.indd 40 8/4/15 2:16 PM Refugee arrivals by state Top 10 countries processing Fiscal Year 2015 through June 30, 2015 refugees to the USA

1,814 Malaysia 0 306 7,440 Ethiopia 314 3,164 723 1,583 198 310 600 291 919 973 2,693 0 2,025 352 120 Cuba 1,331 518 1,770 Turkey 407 793 181 3,653 1,941 705 6 1,675 1,164 1,184 955 3,720 28 852 Iraq 507 977 4 5,091 1,262 Jordan 1,552 1,675 952 2,151 324 125 2 147 Kenya Nepal 1,962 4 69 1,853 3,612 4,904 91

Uganda Thailand 1,550 125 1,748 3,807 6

SOURCE: WORLDWIDE REFUGEE ADMISSIONS PROCESSING SYSTEM

a Spanish-speaking church, and a nondenominational Arabic- comments during their conversation. Later the younger man speaking church called Christian Arabic Church of Anaheim. mused, “We grew up in a country where we just accept our Senior pastor Nabil Abraham, an Egyptian-American, said his customs and beliefs. I think it’s losing its e ect on me.” church was established with the mission of bringing the gospel The sky was dark when Benosh fi nally shook their hands to all Arabs. Starting with just people in , the church goodbye. The family had friends to host them, but the young swelled to - members, mostly of Egyptian, Syrian, Iraqi, man stayed at a motel. Benosh left his cellphone number and and Lebanese backgrounds, and some of them Muslim converts said, “My organization, VOR, we want to pray for you. Contact and refugees. me whenever you want.” The whole trip took six hours—that’s “Anaheim is turning into a huge mission fi eld, where you in addition to Benosh’s regular work hours. can fi nd people from every walk of life and every tongue and As he drove back to Anaheim, Benosh couldn’t stop thinking nation—so that we can witness to them the gospel of Jesus about the father and the weight of responsibilities he must be Christ,” Abraham said. “In the past, the U.S. sent missionaries to feeling as a family breadwinner. Few understand the trauma and the Middle East, but now, God is bringing the mission fi eld to us trials refugees experience, but Benosh does: He was a refugee in America.” himself, a former youth pastor from Baghdad who survived a For Benosh, much of his mission work takes place in a terrorist kidnapping. donated van. When stuck in LA tra c with passengers restless After being held for six days in a cave by Islamic extremists and chatty after a -hour fl ight, doors to evangelism open and hearing the shrieks and hacks of a beheading, Benosh’s easily. captors inexplicably released him—but he still lived every That evening in the van with the Afghan refugees, the three moment in fear. “I was so scared even to go outside my house,” children dozed o almost immediately. The mother sat quietly he recalled. “Yes, I trust that Jesus Christ protects me, but I pondering, but the two men were thirsty for companionship. couldn’t ignore my feelings. I prayed to Him, ‘Lord, I’m afraid, MALL: They’d both waited two years to enter the United States through so afraid! I don’t want to live with this fear anymore.’” H.

LORREN the Special Immigration Visa—a status granted to individuals So in , Benosh moved with his parents to Egypt, where employed by the U.S. government in Afghanistan or Iraq. Back they applied for refugee status in the United States. For the next

AU home, they feared retribution from the Taliban. Here, they months, they ﬁ lled out tedious paperwork, endured intensive BENOSH, JR/ZUMA worried aloud about ﬁ nding employment. interviews, and waited, and waited. The wait turned agonizing Glancing at their furrowed brows, Benosh paused to think, when Benosh received approval but his parents did not. Then one TUTOR: PRESS/NEWSCOM then said, “I learned one thing in my life: I put my eyes upon our evening, after just having been told to wait at least another year, Lord. I will not depend on others, but I will only look to Him, a dejected Benosh received a call informing him both parents SOPHIA because God is so good. He loves us so much.” It was not an had suddenly received approval. He immediately dropped to his BEATTY

LEE answer the men expected, but they nodded solemnly, and nodded knees. His mother picked up his cellphone and apologized,

RACHEL some more as Benosh continued dropping bite-size gospel “Sorry, my son can’t answer right now because he’s crying.”

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Benosh still presses his thumb into wet eyes when he recalls that moment. In September 2009 Benosh and his parents arrived in California. Today, he’s one of several former refugees working at VOR. When families weep to him about their hardships, Benosh weeps with them: “I so desire that these people open their eyes to see the beauty of Jesus Christ. It’s a secret in life, but if they can just discover it, what joy they can have despite their sufferings!” Three local Christians from Iraq, Kuwait, and Jordan founded VOR in 2009 after they saw the fresh waves of Iraqi refugees in Southern California. Starting from a home garage converted to a donation storeroom, these Californians used their local connections to help refugees with their needs. And their needs are many: Refugees often arrive with few personal possessions and have to rebuild their lives from scratch. They need help finding housing, and then need furniture, cook- ing utensils, clothes, and shoes. They struggle to learn English, find employment, enroll their children in school, navigate the transportation system, and understand American culture. Many suffer from PTSD, depression, and anxiety, and many become angry or disappointed when their unrealistic expecta- tions are not met. Refugees in America get basic help from the government—cash and medical assistance during their first eight 33 months, food stamps, and donated furniture and clothing—but after three years, they slip through the cracks. That’s when a long-term support system becomes crucial. isn’t a single material that we can offer that they can’t find some- Over the years, VOR expanded to include ESL classes, sum- place else. So the only thing we have to offer them is eternity mer tutoring programs, a food pantry, casework assistance, through the gospel.” translation services, transportation, job search help, and financial I spent an afternoon at an intermediate ESL class with eight tru ck

coaching—often facilitated by volunteers from local churches. women in their mid-20s to 40s—four Muslims, three Christians, o ff- al But in terms of funding, VOR is still dwarfed by Muslim-run and one Baha’i from Syria, Iraq, Palestine, and Egypt. Some had lo l ad

groups such as Access California, a major nonprofit that con- spent years in refugee camps at border countries. They all sorely ot in he g r ,

tracts with Orange County and has deep roots in the existing missed their hometowns and families. me ph al Muslim community—a rich resource for jobs, services, and One former pharmacist told me she fled Cairo with her hus- ot : S os

connections. band and three children after witnessing a kidnapping incident. t : S ev o e ph Yet some refugees still choose to attend ESL classes at VOR. She was with her young son when somebody sprayed a liquid A r i n a Le They say something is different about VOR. Executive director into a man’s eyes, pulled his son into a car, and drove off. “We old

and pastor Mike Long says it’s the love of Jesus: “Look, there didn’t feel safe to walk the streets after that,” she said. Currently, e

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17 REFUGEES.indd 42 8/5/15 9:05 AM she’s frustrated about having to retake the examination to morning, she took Sharshar to VOR—just in time for the daily become a pharmacist in a language that still feels like a sock morning devotion. over her tongue. Raised an Orthodox Christian, Sharshar had always assumed At the end of the class, a middle-aged Muslim Iraqi woman she was a believer. But after two years interacting with VOR introduced me to her -year-old daughter, wrote down her sta as an ESL student, she realized, “I’ve just been following home address onto my notepad, and kissed me on both tradition. I have no real relationship with Jesus.” Sharshar says cheeks, saying, “Come visit us anytime. I cook for you deli- she gave her life to Christ in August —“and He changed cious Arabic food, you like?” And then she added, “I very me,” she said, beaming. “By the Holy Spirit, I’m a happy person bored at home.” VOR reminds her of family, which is why she now.”

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(1) Mike Long, VOR executive director. (2) VOR founder (center). (3) Reem Sharshar cares for the kids while their parents attend ESL classes. (4) Volunteers help with food distribution. (5) Fadi Benosh (far left ) helps oﬀ -load the donations for the weekly food services. (6) VOR Thanksgiving.

Today, Sharshar’s English is good enough that she sometimes interprets during devotion time. She works part time at VOR, caring for kids while their parents attend ESL 36 classes. She teaches the children the Bible and how to pray enjoys coming. She ﬁ rst heard about VOR through her neigh- in Jesus’ name. The mothers notice her vibrant joy and unload bors, and doesn’t seem to mind that it’s unabashedly Christian. their burdens to her. A common grievance: “My husband never Her daughter said, “You can’t not hear about VOR in our com- says a single kind word to me.” Sometimes it’s more serious: TRUCK munity. Everybody knows VOR.” Domestic abuse is a signiﬁ cant problem. Sharshar then speaks

OFF-LOADING, That’s how Reem Sharshar found VOR. She and her Syrian about the God she knows and prays with them. One Muslim

LEE SOPHIA PHOTOS: OTHER ALL family waited four years in the United States before ﬁ nally woman exclaimed, “Never have I heard that God is love! I was receiving approval for asylum. During that period of delay and always so afraid of him.”

MEAL: uncertainty, Sharshar said she was “lost in desperation and At VOR’s morning devotion, it’s not unusual to see a woman fear.” She couldn’t speak English and was jobless, lonely, and in a hijab reading a Bible or a grown man crying silently. “I STEVE homesick. At times, she ran out of her apartment, raised her believe the Holy Spirit is here,” Sharshar said. “VOR does these

ARNOLD hands “like a crazy woman,” and screamed, “Oh God, where are many services in Jesus’ name. I’m so proud. In my country, you you?” Then one day, a Muslim neighbor heard her speak Arabic cannot, you cannot! They’ll persecute you, kill you. You cannot and told her, “Meet me here at a.m. tomorrow.” The next be free as here. God gave opportunity here to show His love.” A

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17 REFUGEES.indd 43 8/4/15 2:18 PM EAST REGION WINNER: CHURCH HILL ACTIVITIES & TUTORING EDIFYING CHAT RICHMOND NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP HELPS POOR STUDENTS THRIVE by Emily Belz in Richmond, Va.

he guards at the juvenile detention facility in began having neighborhood children over after school. Richmond, Va., were surprised to see so many Now, years after the organization started, the group has T people in the jail. Forty arrived with a big sheet close relationships with about children in the high- cake and walked down a hall past the cell blocks to a small unemployment neighborhood. Most CHAT sta ers live in room. There they held a high-school graduation ceremony the neighborhood and go to East End Fellowship. The city for Maurice, , who processed in wearing his Sunday has repeatedly “de-prioritized” Church Hill, said Stephen clothes, along with another incarcerated student who had Weir, CHAT’s executive director, leading to a neighborhood made it to graduation. Maurice had fi nished high school, that is often isolated from the relationships that can lead to but he was at the beginning of his incarceration. education and economic development. Maurice went to jail just before Thanksgiving last year. CHAT, unlike many after-school tutoring programs, oper- He and his friend had held up a restaurant; his friend ates with businesslike e ciency—Weir, fi rst a longtime pulled out a gun, and Maurice told his friends and relatives volunteer with the program, came from a job at Capital One. that he should have left the scene. But being part of an The sta has a number of longtime members, a healthy sign, armed holdup, under Virginia law, is the same as being the and the organization builds on the foundation of several one with the gun. Maurice’s sentence: fi ve years in prison. local churches in the area: Other churches provide space Before the holdup, Maurice was a student at Church Hill for CHAT’s preschool, high school, and summer camp. Academy, a Christian high school that is part of Church Many CHAT mentors are black high-school and college Hill Activities & Tutoring (CHAT), a Richmond tutoring students who grew up in the neighborhood and went organization. The organization works with pre-K to through CHAT themselves. Neighborhood children want high-school students in the largely black Church Hill to be involved because their peers and the cool older neighborhood beyond: If one goes to jail, the Church Hill teenagers are. CHAT has waiting lists for every program. sta will follow him there. Shakim Avery, , who has a summer job at King’s Maurice fi nished his degree this year, in jail, and received Dominion, a Richmond amusement park, says, “Anytime I a Church Hill diploma. At the graduation ceremony some- have a day o I’m always at CHAT.” CHAT this summer one brought a keyboard and the gathering sang praise employs of its teenagers and graduates, with six songs. Skip Long, the principal of Church Hill Academy, working at the neighborhood hospital, Bon Secours. gave a short homily, and one of Maurice’s fellow graduates One of the “street leaders,” as CHAT calls the older spoke. Maurice himself spoke about the work God had mentors, is Maoleoeke Watts, who grew up in the neigh- done in his life through prison. People grabbed each borhood, graduated from Church Hill Academy, and is now other’s hands and two sta members prayed over him. a sophomore studying computer science at J. Sargeant “We want kids to know two things,” Long said later. Reynolds Community College in Richmond. Watts is the “There’s somebody thinking the best of you, and there’s oldest of three boys whom his mom raised on her own. somebody praying for you.” One day Watts was playing with his friends in the street,

CHAT grew out of the hospitality of Percy and Angie and the kids said they were leaving to go to CHAT. He HANDOUT Strickland, who are part of East End Fellowship, the wanted to go too. Many CHAT students end up in the pro- neighborhood church closely tied to CHAT. The Stricklands gram through their peers because an adult tells them to go.

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17 HOPE-EAST.indd 44 8/3/15 2:34 PM RICHMOND NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP HELPS POOR STUDENTS THRIVE by Emily Belz in Richmond, Va. HANDOUT

A CHAT volunteer tutors a child.

17 HOPE-EAST.indd 45 8/3/15 2:34 PM On the sweltering day I visited, Watts wore a Pink Floyd project. A few blocks away, another group of teenagers was sleeveless tee and played foursquare with the younger CHAT meeting at Principal Long’s home. The sta all have keys to kids. He said he decided to mentor the boys because he each other’s homes. wants them to know “what it means to be a gentleman.” The high school grew out of the tutoring program eight What does it mean? I asked. Watts answered with years ago. One of the longtime tutoring students dropped Timothy : : “Kindness, gentleness, humility, love.” out of high school, and the CHAT tutors decided they would The tutoring takes place in homes all over the neighbor- try to homeschool the student to graduation. That summer hood, where students meet even during the summer: This students approached CHAT saying they wanted the afternoon students met in six homes: CHAT’s goal is to give same thing, so the organization started a formal high children a safe, warm place to do work, in homes with school which is now beginning the accreditation process. wooden bookshelves and front porches, and to teach them CHAT hasn’t started an elementary or middle school to be equally open and generous with their homes someday. because other like-minded organizations already have One tutoring group met at the home of Murray Withrow, those schools in the neighborhood. the director of the after-school programs, o cially on a The high school meets in the Sunday school classrooms three-month sabbatical but still hosting. His toddler son hap- of Carlisle Avenue Baptist Church, a largely white and pily stumbled around the kitchen table elderly church. Upstairs is a wall with photos of the gradu- where fourth- and fi fth-graders sat read- ates since the school started in , all of them African- ing aloud Freckle Juice by Judy Blume. American. Long, who is black, recalled how the white In fall and spring the children test congregants had in May announced in church, “Our kids into their literacy levels; CHAT focuses are graduating.” He loved the plural language: Our. on those who are behind in literacy and “Christ is at work,” he said. makes sure they make an additional grade-level jump by the end of the year. Each targeted student has an indi- RUNNER-UP vidualized, sta -created lesson plan. During the school year about students along with tutors and sta members meet for two hours at the CHARTS FOR Withrows’ home. Outside is a garden where children Skip Long with learn to grow plants and make salsa Maurice at his CHURCHES that they sell at the local farmers mar- graduation ket, along with homemade ice cream. ceremony. by Emily Belz in Boston Across the street, Bethlehem Baptist Church hosts CHAT’s preschool. That day the church was hosting the kindergarten through sec- he graph is striking. One line shows the population of ond-grade tutoring students. A teenage street leader who TBoston dropping precipitously starting around . had been in the CHAT program Another line representing the number of churches in the since he was little was helping a city surges up against the decline. Boston researchers boy who was struggling to read. call it “the quiet revival,” an exponential growth of Another, older group was MONEY BOX churches—chiefl y immigrant churches in low-income meeting at the home of the 2014 revenue: neighborhoods—over the past years. Stricklands, the founders of the $1,358,414 “The immigrant churches here have revitalized the ministry. Some of the teenagers 2014 expenses: Christian faith,” said Je Bass, executive director of were reading The Devil in the $1,465,724 Emmanuel Gospel Center (EGC) in Boston. White City by Erik Larson, a Net assets at the end EGC started as a church in with the goal of meaty history book. Some were of 2014: $956,261 serving the working poor in Boston’s South End, but it discussing their summer became over the years a support and research organiza- Director’s “majors,” where they focus on a salary: $50,000 tion for churches throughout Boston. Bass has diagrams project for six weeks. Kelis taped up all over his o cial walls: EGC’s nerdy, MIT- Staff : 43 year-round Smith, , was studying psy- degreed sta ers love to draw diagrams on white boards, HANDOUT employees, 16 sum- chology for her “major” and mer interns. About simplifying the city’s problems into what they call “living

working on a personality test 800 volunteers over systems” based o the work of MIT scientist Jay Forrester. HANDOUT the course of the year for all CHAT programs (includes service groups) 46 2015 budget: WORLD AUGUST 22, 2015 $1,698,559

17 HOPE-EAST.indd 46 8/3/15 2:35 PM EGC supported a Cambodian pastor who survived the Khmer Rouge and fl ed to Boston and started a ministry to Cambodian churches. A similar “minister-at- large” to Haitian churches in the area helped coordinate Haitian churches’ response to the earth- quake in . The aftermath of a school shooting in Boston this spring also showed EGC’s infl uence. A youth pastor (una liated with EGC) working at one high school but allegedly running drug deals on the side allegedly shot in the head a student working for him. The student survived, but after that incident EGC sta thought public schools would cut o partner- “Has Je showed you the Ruth Wong, second from left, ships with churches. Venn diagram?” asked leads a discussion on urban Instead, the school asked education (above); Bass (right). Brian Gearin, the head of its partner churches to Starlight Ministries, the bring in leaders for counsel- homeless ministry arm of EGC. It wasn’t the last time I ing after the incident. heard that question over the course of my visit. EGC’s long history in Boston Sta ers contend that diagramming, say, violence in a has also given it credibility with churches. One example: In community, lets pastors and planners know where di erent the s the city slated several blocks of EGC’s South End church services are most likely to bring lasting change. EGC neighborhood, then a slum, for demolition to clear the way then researches neighborhood assets and needs, trains for a new interstate. Doug and Judy Hall, EGC’s leaders who churches on launching social services in their particular recently retired after years, helped establish with other neighborhoods, and connects resources around the city. neighborhood groups an “Emergency Tenants Council” The diagrams go from whiteboards to neighborhoods in that fought the highway project for years. di erent ways. The council o ered the city an alternative plan: A In EGC’s research team found in all the city’s community development group would redevelop the churches only one full-time youth worker. Boston neighborhood with low-income housing. The city accepted. churches set a goal to have youth workers in the city in That housing project, Villa Victoria, still stands, and (unlike the next decade, which they did with EGC’s fundraising public housing projects of help. the era) the homes look like “The church in Boston is probably better documented real homes. Now Villa than any church in the world,” said Bass, who repeatedly MONEY BOX Victoria’s a ordable housing asked that EGC not receive credit for di erent projects sits in one of Boston’s 2014 revenue: where it served a support role, because the organization $1,299,676 wealthier neighborhoods. does not want to take attention from the local churches. “We’ve been planting and Boston is a refugee resettlement area, and EGC sta ers 2014 expenses: watering,” said Bass. “God $1,457,795 refl ect the diversity of the local churches: They speak Arabic, gives the growth.” He wants Cambodian, Cantonese, English, French, Hebrew, Greek, Net assets at the end pastors in Boston neighbor- Haitian Creole, Hindi, Korean, Mandarin, Marathi, Spanish, of 2014: $751,016 hoods to ask not, “How do I Tagalog, and Tamil. EGC also helps with church planting Director’s reach this neighborhood?”

HANDOUT and training indigenous church leaders. Its sta teach at salary: $70,000 but instead, “What would it Gordon-Conwell’s Center for Urban Ministerial Education Staﬀ : 40 employees, take to reach this neighbor-

HANDOUT in Boston, which EGC helped found in the s. 125 volunteers hood for Christ?” A 2015 budget: $1,581,354

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17 HOPE-EAST.indd 47 8/3/15 2:36 PM INTERNATIONAL WINNER: SHIVANI MEDES SCHOOL IN THE SHADOW OF ISIS A CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL DOES ITS WORK AMONG THE SHATTERED FAMILIES AND DISPLACED CHILDREN IN IRAQI KURDISTAN • by Mindy Belz in Dohuk, Iraq

rest the hill and the tents of Khanke IDP Camp children played together in streets of dust. The women stretch far into the distance, rectangular specks of hung laundry in a sti breeze under the morning sun on C white laid out in rows across the hillsides as far as lines strung outside their tents. Local o cials in suits and the eye can see. white dress shirts strode down a hill to a fenced compound, IDP stands for Internally Displaced Person. Close to . where the sounds of children singing rose up from a newly million persons in Iraq have become IDPs since the march poured cement courtyard. The suits were on hand for a of ISIS, or Islamic State, began in . The displaced have ceremony to mark the opening of Shivani Medes School— fl ed their homes, cities, and towns. As fi ghting enters its the fi rst refugee school to operate in fully erected class- second year between the militants and an array of Iraqi rooms for Yazidis, a population targeted by ISIS for forces—including Kurdish peshmerga and Assyrian and annihilation. other militias, with the United States and its allies providing Shivani means Shepherd, and the Medes Shepherd air cover—the IDPs have less and less hope of returning to School grew from a trio of schools operated in Iraqi the life they once knew. Kurdistan for more than a decade under the leadership of For a place epitomizing the limbo these Iraqis live in, Iraqi pastor Yousif Matty, with support from Nashville- BELZ

Khanke was a buzz of activity the day I visited. Young based Servant Group International. Shivani opened in MINDY

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17 HOPE-INTERNATIONAL.indd 48 8/3/15 2:24 PM oud, a traditional Iraqi lute. One group moved to the center of the courtyard, hoisted the fl ag of Iraqi Kurdistan up a pole, and formed rows to stand and salute. A student led in prayer, and more singing followed. Hundreds of young Yazidi schoolchildren rimmed the courtyard. They stood outside their classrooms, prefab units ringing the central courtyard, already equipped with desks and chairs. One mother in the camp said her children had been up the night before, too excited about the day’s events to sleep. The opening ceremony held a particular thrill for students who had lost everything: At the end of the event each student received a new backpack. Of the million plus IDPs across Iraq, about , are children ages to . Many reside in camps like Khanke, which use generators for electricity and hastily dug, often inadequate wells for water supply. Trucks bringing food and the necessities rumble constantly over dirt or gravel roads. Education under such strained conditions takes a lower priority. Nearly a half million children, or percent of the school-age IDP population in Iraq, remain out of school, according to the UN. Islamic State militants “are the enemy of education,” said Nisret Jemal, the assistant manager of the Khanke camp. “It’s very important to plant a school while ISIS is attacking us.” Opening and fi lling a private school is an accomplish- ment. UNICEF has built a school on the other side of the camp but it sits empty, its students still meeting in tents. The UN agency has had a harder time recruiting teachers, and many parents prefer the bright new classrooms, Yazidi teachers, and Christians administrators of the Shivani school. For Yazidis in particular, the needs are enormous. Since last August, ISIS has dislocated or killed nearly all the ,-, Iraq Yazidis, a cloistered group of religious adherents who practice some combination of Zoroastrian, Muslim, and Christian rituals dating to the th century. Their numbers in Iraq represent nearly all the Yazidis living anywhere in the world. The Iraqi March with students. By the end of Thanks to ISIS, the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, once Kurdistan the school year more than , chil- , strong—a city of Yazidis, Christians, and Shia fl ag is raised during the dren of IDP families attended. Muslims—is empty, as are other villages. In August , Medes school “The soldiers fi ght with guns, but ISIS chased tens of thousands up Mount Sinjar, where hun- dedication you are fi ghting with pens and with dreds perished of hunger and thirst. Their plight prompted ceremony. your mind,” Matty told those gathered President Barack Obama to order aerial drops of food and for the dedication. In a world of sectar- water on Mount Sinjar, then to order airstrikes against ISIS. ian and religiously driven violence his ministry crosses By then Islamic State fi ghters already had killed thousands those lines: There he stood, a Christian Arab addressing of Yazidis. They took captive thousands more mostly women Yazidis, Kurds, Muslim o cials, and a few Americans and girls. Many of the schoolchildren at Khanke watched among the students, teachers, dignitaries, and visitors on as ISIS brutalized their parents or siblings. hand for the event last spring. Khanke IDP camp currently houses about , Yazidis, After Matty spoke at the dedication ceremony, high- and you will have to search hard to fi nd one intact family. BELZ school students from one of the other Medes schools sang In one tent, a mother mourns a daughter ISIS captured. In

MINDY traditional Kurdish folk songs to the accompaniment of an another, the father and all the sons are absent: ISIS gunned

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17 HOPE-INTERNATIONAL.indd 49 8/3/15 2:25 PM them down as they fl ed Sinjar. Many survivors, students The Shivani school is not in the same classical Christian included, saw beheadings and executions. Dozens of the school pattern: Classes use existing Iraqi curriculum and Yazidi children attending Shivani are orphans. some are in Arabic, explained Erik Aulie, an American who Eighteen students have no relatives of any kind for school serves as fi eld manager for the Shivani school: “This is o cials to locate. Zero. None. really a ministry to children, providing the schools, and it’s Other fractured families in the camp have taken in most a ministry to the education department and to the Yazidi of those orphans. One Kurdish security guard at the camp community.” This spring Yazidi children attended three cares for an orphaned boy named Achil, perhaps : He days a week and displaced students from Mosul attended knows nothing of his family’s whereabouts. He didn’t the other three days—more than , children in all. speak for weeks when he fi rst started school, but now par- Aulie said a “good spirit” prevailed among what ticipates in class. “Everyone is insecure,” Matty explained: appeared competing interests using the same facility. “Nervous politicians, nervous parents, nervous teachers, School is scheduled to begin again in October, after the and nervous students.” hottest months. (The classrooms have no air conditioning.) The crisis forces new cooper- “We would love to be able to ation across sectarian and provide English instruction and religious lines. “No person, no other things we do at the other country, no humanitarian orga- schools, but that is not our job nization alone can supply this description right now,” Aulie level of need,” Matty noted. added. “This is a means to serv- Churches spared in the ISIS ing the community where it’s onslaught are stepping in to aid hurting, and establishing a track the Yazidis. So are groups like record that may lead to other Matty’s and overseas Christian things later on.” aid groups, helping them along- Matty has long worked with side the , or more ISIS- support from American churches displaced Christians. and Christian nonprofi ts. A year ago Matty had no plans Servant Group International to serve Yazidi students and (SGI) provides the majority of their families. The one-time that support—curriculum, Kirkuk Evangelical Church training, and American teachers pastor opened in his fi rst who supplement mostly Iraqi school in northern Iraq, the faculties—to the three existing Classical School of the Medes. schools plus the new Khanke Following the model of classical school. Matty provides an Iraqi Christian schools in the United face of leadership, integrates the States, the school provides a schools with the local economy, broad, college-prep, K- educa- and makes work with local tion in English. It became governments a priority. popular among Kurdish Muslim Since the schools opened, SGI parents wanting their children Pastor Matty with a student who has provided more than Christian teachers in the to be profi cient in English, able just received a new backpack. three main schools. The new school at Khanke “is to take international examina- not really a change in direction,” said SGI executive tions, and compete for college entrance at the best schools director David Dillard, since the role of his group “is to in the region, or in Europe or the United States. help believers in Iraq serve their nation,” particularly by The Kurds, threatened with genocide themselves in the establishing and strengthening school programs. Of SGI’s s and s under Saddam Hussein, prize educational $. million budget, about percent goes toward sup- opportunities for their children and don’t trust the central porting the schools in Iraq. government in Baghdad to provide for them. The Kurdish Tensions fl ared in for the schools when a great- regional government’s tolerance toward non-Muslims has nephew of then Iraqi President Jalal Talabani shot and become more apparent since ISIS split the country in two killed at the Sulaymaniyah campus teacher Jeremiah Small, MINDY

and Kurdistan became the only safe haven for Christians. . The killer, one of Small’s students, then killed himself PHOTOS

The Kurdish regional government administers and pro- (see “A rush of life,” March , ). The campus closed BELZ

vides security for the Khanke camp. for several weeks and American teachers left, but it then HANDOUT

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17 HOPE-INTERNATIONAL.indd 50 8/3/15 2:29 PM class and a year later read through the national average. The organization has book of Ruth. Christian mentors meet added trauma training for staff and volun- one-to-one with students to encourage teers, and next month plans to have an RH WHERE ARE their emotional, spiritual, and academic graduate head up its fi rst “social enterprise,” success. CWJC executive director Becky the Mane Thing hair salon. Sumrall said the biggest obstacle since Lower Lights Ministries, RH’s parent 2006 has been fi nding enough volunteers organization, allows RH graduates to THEY NOW? and mentors, since some “Christians don’t transition with their families to the Light by Jae Wasson, Katlyn Babyak, want to take the time. … That means we the Way Home program, which provides and Onize Ohikere can’t serve as many students.” nine homes and helps them fi nd aff ordable Still, Nashville CWJC has been able to housing. The program, which includes expand over the past decade. It’s added mentoring, case management, and peer his is the 10th year of WORLD’s awards three locations and is planning two more. In support, can last up to three years. Tprograms for Christian groups that 2009 it advertised classes in a community practice eff ective compassion, the kind church: Even though CWJC is for women, that helps people rise out of poverty and 75 percent of the respondents were men not just stay in it. We wanted to see who wanted to earn their GED diplomas, so whether winners of our fi rst year’s compe- the organization opened the Madison tition, in 2006, had overcome obstacles Men’s center. and persevered in their mission. Rachel’s House (RH) in Columbus, Ohio, was a 2006 fi nalist: We were impressed with its Bible studies for female prisoners and its invitation to regular attendees to live at RH after their release. There, mentors helped residents to become fi nancially Urban Promise Ministries (UP) in crime- and emotionally stable, recover from laden Camden, N.J., was another 2006 addictions, cultivate job skills, and eventu- fi nalist. Last year the organization reno- ally graduate from the program. vated its major after-school building, which Last year the housing project welcomed now includes a dining hall, full-sized its 120th resident, and graduates of the kitchen, gym, and IT lab. UP also runs a program now make up 45 percent of the Street2Leader initiative directed at young The overall winner that fi rst year was the full-time staff . An assessment tool that people who have been in trouble, and a Christian Women’s Job Corps’ (CWJC) measures participants’ progress now food co-op used by 180 families. Nashville site. It off ered and still off ers shows about 12 percent returning to One of UP’s staff ers, Alex Vega, attended women the opportunity to earn their GED prison—that’s much lower than the UP’s Camp Joy with his twin brother when diplomas, take literacy and computer they were fi ve. They took part in the after- classes, or learn English as a second school program, enjoying the art classes language. CWJC requires one class, Bible and weekly trips, and returned each year, study, and that means it does not receive getting help with their school work and any government funds: Instead, it survives eventually serving as “street leaders” who on donations, fundraising, and the help of assisted younger campers. In 2006 Vega, volunteers. then a college senior, helped with the CWJC serves women such as Teresa, camp. Now he has two children, works with who had kept her illiteracy a secret all her UP, and helped restart the camp he life but wanted to read the Bible to her attended as a child. grandchildren. She joined a CWJC reading —The authors are World Journalism Institute interns

reopened and some American teachers came back, includ- we want to cooperate with Muslims. We want to live with ing Aulie, who helps to run the new Shivani school. you, not at the edge of life, we want to be at the heart of The schools now employ about locals, so parents Kurdistan. We don’t want to be lazy, we want to work for the can earn a living and not require a government stipend. good of the community.” O cials reciprocate, Matty says: MINDY

PHOTOS (Since ISIS invaded Iraq last year, o cials have delayed They “have more understanding for private activities, like

BELZ salaries and subsistence payments for government ours. The Ministry of Education advisers do not interfere

HANDOUT employees.) Matty tells Kurdish o cials, “As Christians as before.” A

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patients who did have cancer, according to the Criminal care Detroit Free Press. Detroit oncologist built empire In some cases he administered nearly four on his crimes by Julie Borg times the recommended dosage of aggressive can- Farid Fata, a cer treatments and gave R once highly one patient chemotherapy respected oncolo- for five years when the gist in Detroit, standard treatment was Light Mich., carried a six months. He routinely handkerchief into ordered unnecessary preservers court and wept maintenance doses of Light-emitting diodes (LED when a federal chemotherapy for lights) may be more than judge sentenced patients in remission and just an energy-saving him to 45 years in told terminally ill patients light source. A team of prison. they had a 70 percent researchers from the The 50-year-old, chance of recovery in National University of naturalized U.S. citi- order to keep administer- Singapore has discovered zen from Lebanon ing chemotherapy right that blue LED lights have admits that between up to their deaths, strong antibacterial Reaction outside the courthouse effects on major food- 2009 and 2014 he after the sentencing of Fata. Medscape reported. He borne pathogens. billed $34.7 million undertreated patients Bacterial cells contain to patients and who had cancer when he light-sensitive com- insurance companies and pharmacy, a diagnostic was unable to profit from pounds that absorb blue received payments of testing center, a radiation their treatment. LED light, which can then $17.6 million for work treatment center, and a “I have violated the cause the cells to die. The that was unnecessary and sham charity, by diagnos- medical oath, and I have discovery may lead to a caused harm to his ing perfectly healthy peo- caused anguish, hardship, chemical-free method of patients (see “Human ple with terminal cancer and pain to my patients preserving acidic foods Race,” Aug. 8). and then pumping toxic and their families,” he said such as fresh-cut fruits protest: protest: Fata built an empire chemotherapy into their in court. “They came to and ready-to-eat meat consisting of seven veins, sometimes for me seeking compassion when used in combination T

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JULY 11 , Your article about the Human Rights Campaign’s meddling in the ‘Blindsided’ body of Christ only scratches the sur- , This article and its companion, “Proselytizing face. HRC and other pro-gay groups in Christians,” saddened me. These people try to justify targeted three mainline denomi- homosexuality by discrediting the Bible, suppressing nations; in less than a decade the ﬁ rst opposing voices, and claiming moral high ground, two caved and the third may soon slip but legalization and church membership can’t over the edge. Now an even larger provide peace of conscience. This is an opportunity group is spending millions to train to proclaim the gospel, not crumble under the advocates in emotionally manipulative pressure. storytelling. Only this time, evangelical HENRY SCHUYTEN / CANTON, MICH. churches are in the crosshairs. KAREN BOOTH / MONROE, WIS.

g Thank you for bringing some clarity , I “pay the price” of “chaste singleness” ‘Be on guard’ on the church’s stance regarding the and “faithfulness” every day because I , A senior pastor is not necessarily inclusion of practicing homosexuals know it honors God. Just because you more likely to lead a church astray in the church body. The LGBT move- are attracted to someone doesn’t mean than a junior pastor or others in lead- ment, I believe, is the greatest threat to you have to have sex with that person. ership. I know of examples of both. our nation and one of Satan’s vehicles HOLLY SMITH / FRESNO, CALIF. Perhaps the issue is whether the leader of attack against the church. is seeking to serve or is driven by GLENN JONES ON WNG.ORG selﬁ sh ambition. JOHN ADAMS / NORTH BEND, ORE. The Dead Sea, Israel , Sadly, some of our Christian submitted by brothers and sisters are willing Scott Grunwald , Thank you for this brilliant reporting. to compromise and redeﬁ ne God’s standard of righteousness to reach out to those who are living outside of God’s will. It is tragic. CHRISTOPHER COLE / PENSACOLA, FLA.

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Best of all was the warning about how piece. Still, the vast majority of people warning about the profanity and to detect early the slippery slope of who will never homeschool will sexuality? compromise, reinterpreting Scripture, benefit from Nevada’s school choice GLENN LAFY / TOWANDA, PA. and redefining truth. program. NEIL SLATTERY / FORT WORTH, TEXAS CATHLEEN WINKLER ON WNG.ORG MAY 30 ‘The ones who stay’ ‘Our exile in Babylon’ ‘Trust and obey’ , I thought I knew racial segregation, g Babylon may not be the correct g What a beautiful story of Elisabeth but my short-term missions trip to comparison. As barbaric as the Elliot’s life, and what a precious legacy New Song Church in Sandtown Babylonians and Persians were, Jews she has left us all! changed my perspective completely. could generally live according to their CHERYL SCRIVENS ON WNG.ORG The stories I heard from children and customs, outside of temple worship. I young teenagers about incarcerated believe our time is more comparable Dispatches parents and fatal shootings affected to late first- and second-century Rome, , This humble group of faithful me deeply. A New Song service struck given Revelation’s depiction of the Christian souls who experienced the me with the joy and abandon in its church. Are we ready? “Even so, come horrific shooting deaths of nine loved worship and praise. I also learned Lord Jesus.” ones forgave the shooter. Why? about their close bonds of community JIM VENABLE ON WNG.ORG Because God said so. This poignant act and family that transcended the drugs should have us all on our knees beg- and murder. In the aftermath of g Pendulums always swing back. ging God to show us how to triumph Freddie Gray’s death, I realized again Someday if Christianity is no longer in through His grace. the truth of Corrie ten Boom’s quote, retreat, it would be great if we were MARTHA BALL / PITTSBURGH, PA. “In darkness, God’s truth shines most known as loving people who always clear.” helped and refreshed others with the ‘After we’ve blown it’ CHRISTIAN HAMMOND / MEMPHIS, TENN. good news of Jesus Christ. , As I was grieving over a recent and CHRISTINE WILSON ON WNG.ORG somewhat deserved rebuke, this g I want to thank all of the WORLD column refreshed and instructed me. staff for what you do. Your reporting , In the midst of so much anger, con- JEFF PESHOFF / RUSTON, LA. and writing come from minds that fusion, and discouragement, Janie B. seem clear and free from bitterness. Cheaney has given us some godly ‘Speech, speech’ MICHAEL LOTT ON WNG.ORG perspective. If we who are called by , Mindy Belz uncovered a sore spot Christ’s name do not choose to be light for me: politically correct attacks on Corrections in the darkness around us, who will? I humor. Even the comics avoid themes Shelby Steele was born on Jan. 1, 1946 will pray for the welfare of this city. that might refer to some group or (“Three wise men,” July 25). JOAN M. HOCHSTETLER / ELKHART, IND. other—except Christians, of course. City Church received contributions People who once poked fun at each of $118,000 on four Sundays in May ‘Gays and God’ other and laughed together have and $300,000 on the middle Sunday of  I have Is God anti-gay? Allberry is become afraid to enjoy our foibles. The the month (“Blindsided,” July 11). “same-sex attracted” yet recognizes world is becoming a dreary place. The most expensive house in the that the Bible identifies that desire as ROLLIN MANN / SIERRA MADRE, CALIF. world is billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s one among many we must resist to $1 billion skyscraper home in obey our Creator and find His best for ‘Reasonable doubt?’ Mumbai, India (Quick Takes, June 27). us. g Thanks to Megan Basham for the ELI WALTERS ON FACEBOOK review of Proof. With its compelling topic—God’s existence—and potential LETTERS & PHOTOS , We so enjoy WORLD, but the head- to generate discussions with our , line and photo for this article are mis- neighbors, it was such an opportunity. Email: [email protected] leading. Those who don’t read it could But it’s such a big disappointment. , Mail: world Mailbag, PO Box 20002, Asheville, nc 28802-9998 come away thinking you’re calling GREG THORNTON ON WNG.ORG Allberry’s book “sadly influential.” g Website: wng.org MERIL STANTON / MOSCOW, IDAHO JUNE 27  Facebook: facebook.com/ ‘Mmm … four books wORLD.magazine ‘Archimedes was right’ of the year’  Twitter: @WORLD_mag g If government buys the pie, its , Why didn’t your review of The Book Please include full name and address. Letters fingers will soon be poking into each of Strange New Things contain a may be edited to yield brevity and clarity.

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17 MAILBAG.indd 62 8/3/15 12:12 PM Andrée seu peterson There is something called “breaking the fourth wall,” where the play comes alive and starts talking to the audience. I heard the voices, the water lapping. It was summer. I was at the cement raft my grandfather built in the middle of the pond, cousins diving off the edges and Aunt Simone calling from the shore for lunchtime. Summer The impulse to return is a seductive siren: The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen), “The Sixteen- time travel Millimeter Shrine” and “A Stop at The past has perished, Willoughby” (Rod Serling). At first but the present is one is excited to go back. In Serling’s “Walking Distance” the land of choice (1959), tired business executive Martin Sloan pulls into a service Before she died, my maternal grand- station near his old hometown, R mother threw out the box of family walks to it, and finds it is 1934. photos I used to look through on Saturday If we are on a He heads to the park carousel to tell a little boy mornings as a child. And what my grandmother named Sloan to enjoy his childhood while it missed, my mother tossed before she died. I bad course, lasts, but the encounter scares the boy. His own have retained a fistful of grade B Polaroids that we may turn father, a man his age, entreats him to go back escaped the landfill—“as the shepherd rescues from it and get where he belongs. from the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece Martin walks back to the car and to 1959, of an ear” (Amos 3:12). It is, of course, sheer right with God and the episode ends with this voice-over: coincidence that I grew up 32 miles from a before we “Martin Sloan, age 36, vice president in charge more sensational family breach of etiquette: even finish of media. Successful in most things but not in “Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her the one effort that all men try at some time in mother forty whacks. And when she saw what reading this. their lives—trying to go home again. …” We could she had done, she gave her father forty-one.” have told him so in our saner moments. For I returned to my hometown this summer to somewhere it is written, “Say not, ‘Why were the visit my sole remaining aunt, as I did not want former days better than these?’ For it is not from to be shouting the gospel into a comatose ear wisdom that you ask this” (Ecclesiastes 7:10). on sudden notice. She had a photo (also salvaged What is wise to say then? Only this: “Today, from a graven-image-disdaining mother) and I if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts became immediately obsessed. There was my as in the rebellion” (Hebrews 3:7-8). And this: great-grandmother, austere and flanked by nine “It is appointed for man to die once, and after grandchildren; I spotted my father, well-scrubbed that comes judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). As for in a Sunday shirt, tie, sweater, and Mona Lisa the dead, “their love and their hate and their smile. The others are all poker-faced boys envy have already perished, and forever they (except beaming Rita, whom I heard smiled all have no more share in what is done under the her life), which was the fashion of the day, along sun” (Ecclesiastes 9:6) with the Wallace and Gromit floral wallpaper. But you and I are not dead, but alive! Here, Napoleon in the upper left-hand corner will among the living, is the land of choice, sweet die in WWII. Just in front of him, Raymond will choice, thrilling choice. Here is the only place survive 23 bombing raids over Germany only to of actualization. If we are on a bad course, we be felled by polio at home in 1953. Bob will may turn from it and get right with God before es g wreck his family with philandering. There they we even finish reading this column of print. ma I

y stand, not knowing what’s coming, not yet having Ebenezer, waking from time travel, found it so, tt made bad choices, or perhaps in the course of and he rejoiced: “Yes! And the bedpost was his forming them even as the shutter clicks. One own. The bed was his own, the room was his hive/Ge Gig Young as

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17 SEU PETERSON.indd 63 8/4/15 2:05 PM MARVIN OLASKY inates in favor of Bible-approved marriage. Judges appointed by such a president are likely to curtail freedom of religion and freedom of speech. At the start, the big impact will be financial: Institutions that embrace homosexuality will continue to have tax-exempt and tax- deductible status, but institutions that embrace No foolish romance the Bible will lose those benefits and see their buying power hatcheted. Evangelicals should start voting with Long-range, if trends continue, the issues clear eyes to the future will be not economic but existential: Will evangelical churches and colleges that stay faithful to the Bible be legal at all, or will we descend to Barack Obama became president in 2008 a situation like that of China, with its state- R by gaining 53 percent of the vote against approved religious institutions and its under- John McCain’s 46 percent. That was a sweeping ground ones? Evangelical romantics may say, victory, but think: If one out of 25 Obama voters So what: Despite and in some ways because of had voted for McCain, Obama would have lost the persecution, Chinese Christianity is growing. raw vote and maybe the Electoral College as well. But that’s a historical anomaly, as the sad sagas Let’s think some more: Obama lost votes of of many Muslim countries show: More often those who would not support an African- than not, slow-but-steady persecution saps the American, but he apparently gained more from strength of the oppressed. those who wanted to put a black man in the In a modern, interlinked society, what’s White House. It’s very good in the history of this been called the Benedict Option—create country that an African-American is there, but Christian communities distinct from a larger very bad that this particular gentleman is the culture bound for destruction—doesn’t work one. Every evangelical who voted on the basis by itself: Central governments stifle dissent. of skin and ignored a sinful ideology acted with Another term A terrific new biography, Stalin, by Stephen romantic abandon rather than discernment. or two of a Kotkin, shows how the Soviet kingpin was not OK, let me anticipate some defensiveness. content to rule all within ready reach, but Agreed that good looks and a good voice socially radical headed to Siberia to expand his hegemony. No swayed some voters—but shouldn’t we know president will monastery was an island then. Today, the U.S. that Lady Liberty needs a good husband, not an likely lead to radical left desire is to make us all wards of the impressive date? Agreed that candidate Obama state—with no one left behind. hid his views and conned voters—but we knew discrimination As I wrote last month, evangelicals instead enough. (Those who fall for a con usually want against any should embrace the Daniel Option, modeled to fall for it.) Agreed that Republicans put up evangelical after the biblical hero who for decades stood up mediocre candidates; but when we elect a pres- to kings. Today, most of us don’t want to say NO ident, we’re choosing big chunks of the execu- institution that and possibly end up in a lion’s den. Today, from tive and judicial branches, not just one person. discriminates fantasy football to Second Life, from gated com- Have we learned that romance is wonderful in favor of munities to the Big Sort (so we don’t interact in marriage yet destructive in public policy? Bible-approved with persons unlike ourselves), from pornogra- Political romance has brought us two Supreme phy and homosexuality—in both, guys don’t Court justices who choose ideology over judi- marriage. have to deal with real women—to Martha cial humility. It’s given us foreign policy Stewart perfection, many romantics think we appeasement likely to lead to more war. It’s can avoid education through suffering. now bringing great threats to religious liberty. Daniel Option realism offers pain but also That last sentence makes me hope a crucial gain. Romantics often fall into gushy solemnity, number of evangelicals won’t be all heart and but Daniels can combine seriousness and no brain in 2016, since another burst of evan- smiles, since they know the circus in front of us gelical romanticism will lead to the closing of is not the ultimate reality. Daniels can be happy many evangelical institutions. warriors, and in that way teach others not to

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president will likely lead to discrimination falling, Daniels can and do remember that God g barri against any evangelical institution that discrim- holds up the sky. A e

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