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Christian College CounCil turMoil February 8, 2014 AFRICATHE BATTLE FOR With Islam seeping down from the north, sub-Saharan countries like Uganda face huge challenges Plus: Mental illness s outh sudan s ingleness MS_HCReformAd3_World10.5.13Rev.indd3 CONTENTS.indd 2 1 9/25/131/16/14 1:02:34 9:59 AM PM Contentsf ebruary 8, 2014 / VOLuMe 29, NuMber 3 cover story 34 Africa’s hinge Four out of five residents of fast-growing, 37- million-strong Uganda identify with Christianity. Most Ugandans glowingly welcome evangelical visitors and side with Christian conservatives on many social issues. But beneath the surface, Uganda faces enormous challenges. features 40 Long search, short tenure A key Christian college group quickly fires a president—and tries to regain its footing 44 Saving Seth An Arizona family’s struggle with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder mirrors dispatches a nation’s 5 News 50 Brother vs. brother 16 Quotables As political and tribal conflict splits South Sudan, 18 Quick Takes church leaders hope to be peacemakers reviews 54 Single but not solitary 23 Movies & TV These unmarried Christians face disappoint- 26 Books ments but find with Christ they are not alone 28 Q&A ON THE COVER: illusTRaTiON by kRiEg baRRiE 23 30 Music notebook 59 Lifestyle 61 Technology 62 Science 63 Houses of God 64 Sports 65 Religion voices 30 3 Joel Belz 20 Janie B. 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If you would prefer not to receive these promotions, please call customer service and ask to be placed on our list. 3 JOEL.indd 2 1/20/14 2:56 PM Joel Belz For better, for worse Don’t fall for the conventional wisdom that sells marriage short A on New Year’s Day served as a reminder: With all the media and >> political emphasis on legalizing homosexual marriages, it’s way too easy to get diverted by that grisly debate and to forget that the top challenge for Christians is to nurture and then display the wonders of marriage the way God made it to be. at’s why at the wedding reception I presump- delight. Husbands and wives have bought into the tuously pulled the bride and groom aside for my idea that marriage isn’t much, that boredom is -second marriage counseling course. normal, and that marital happiness is only for those Conventional wisdom, I told them, for too much who pretend. ey’ve bought into the devil’s lie that of the last couple of generations has been that God’s gifts are phony, and that He didn’t know what marriage is OK—but don’t expect too much from it. He was talking about when He said that marriage is When we were little kids, weddings seemed mysteri- so magnifi cent that He intends it as a picture of His ous, marvelous, and full of wonder. But then we were own relationship to His people. taught to get real, to put away our naïveté, discard So, I warned the new bride and groom a couple of our illusions, and grow up to the fact that marriage weeks ago, please don’t ever fall into the trap of low in the real world involves slogging through a whole expectations. Instead, aim for the best—and keep up lot of disappointment, trouble, and sorrow. the eff ort. Determine early to see marriage as an Sometimes, in fact, there’s so much emphasis on expression of the gospel itself, where both partners the grim side of things that we’ve lost seeing marriage constantly and willingly die for each other. at very in the glorious context God intended it. In our grown- process enhances intimacy. up desire to “get real,” we’ve let Satan so disfi gure Indeed, what we understood about marriage when and discolor our ideal picture of marriage that we’ve we were young and naïve was actually true. What we come to settle for way too little. didn’t know then was that “getting married” didn’t At its worst, that diminished target has prompted by any means fulfi ll that promise, but only launched thousands of couples—and that includes Christians— us into a lifelong process of discovering that promise. to give up altogether on marriage and to add to the e process, like the gospel, involves daily dying to divorce statistics. As a result, the Christian community ourselves so that we can live generously toward our has been clobbered by family brokenness in embar- mate. rassing ways. Instead of standing out as a model for Some of us—and that includes me—had the bless- the rest of society to emulate, our divorce statistics ing of seeing such a marriage in our parents. But are only a little better than those of the unbelieving even those who modeled such marriages didn’t world—and we have tended to refl ect the very distress always explain explicitly what they were doing, and we were meant to prevent. It’s tough to look down a why they did it. In my old age, I’ve come to believe pew in a typical evangelical church these days without both the modeling and the explaining are important. seeing marital brokenness scattered along the line. You might call it the word and deed approach to And a lot of that has come about simply because the teaching the art of marriage. bar going into marriage was set way too low. I’ve been a pretty slow learner on this front, I’m But even at their best, the diminished goals for afraid. I hope and pray that the newlyweds who sat BARRIE marriage have produced tens of thousands of joyless patiently through my -second counseling session KRIEG Christian couples and Christian homes without are off to a much faster start. A Email: [email protected] FEBRUARY 8, 2014 • WORLD 3 JOEL.indd 3 1/22/14 11:21 AM bju.edu/why CREDIT For graduation rates, the median debt of students who completed the program and other important info visit go.bju.edu/rates. (16104) 11/13 3 NEWS OPENER.indd 4 1/16/14 10:08 AM DispatchesNews > Quotables > Quick Takes JAN. 13: The grandchildren of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon stand in front of his grave during his funeral near Sharon’s residence in southern Israel. Sharon was laid to rest as the nation bid a final farewell to one of its most colorful and influential leaders—a man venerated by supporters as a warrior and statesman but reviled in the Arab world as a war criminal.