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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. Cheaney 32 Mindy Belz 67 Mailbag 71 Andrée Seu Peterson 72 Marvin Olasky

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KRIEG BARRIE 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

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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.

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Thursday, Jan.  Spotlight shame Former pro-basketball star Dennis Rodman apologized after he suggested during an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo that imprisoned missionary Kenneth Bae had done something to earn his harsh sentence: “At this point I DRONE: MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES • POVERTY: ASSOCIATED PRESS • RODMAN: THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN/AP • EARECKSON: MESSIAH COLLEGE should know better than to make political state- ments. I’m truly sorry.” During his fourth visit to the communist nation, Rodman also made headlines for singing “Happy Birthday” to Kim Wednesday, Jan.  Jong Un—who was celebrating his st birthday—before leading a team of American former basketball players U n d e r fi r e in an exhibition game against a North Offi cials in Yemen say a U.S. drone strike killed two suspected al-Qaeda militants in Korean team. the southeastern province of Hadramout. e stepped-up use of drone strikes in the Arabian Peninsula is part of U.S. strategy targeting al-Qaeda, but the aggressive plan has led to blowback. According to locals, a Dec.  drone strike in Yemen struck a In the money wedding party, leaving  persons dead. e Obama administration, which pledged A newly released report from the last May to tighten rules for drone strikes, says it is conducting an internal investigation. Center for Responsive Politics reveals that for the fi rst time in history the majority of U.S. congressional law- Poverty push makers are millionaires. In  at In a speech marking the th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “war on least  of the  current members poverty,” President Obama announced the creation of fi ve “promise zones”—special of Congress had an average net worth districts in impoverished places that will receive tax incentives and other government of at least  million. Congressional funding. As part of his renewed focus on poverty, Obama plans to push this year for Democrats led with a median net worth raising the federal minimum wage of . million, while congressional to . from .. Republicans Republicans trailed with a median net say the measure will destroy jobs, worth of about  million. e richest and two of the GOP’s most vocal member of Congress? Rep. Darrell members—Sen. Marco Rubio of Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Florida and Rep. Paul Ryan of Oversight Committee, who did well in Wisconsin—have already announced the car alarm business their own anti-poverty agendas. and in  had an average net worth

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Nominated “Alone Yet Not Alone,” sung by Joni Eareckson Tada, is in the running for a Best Original Song Oscar at the March  Academy Awards. e song, one of ﬁ ve nominees, is in a movie of the same name set in colonial America and produced by Christian ﬁ lmmakers. Said Eareckson Tada: “A quadriplegic with limited lung capacity is the least likely candidate to record a song for a movie … but isn’t that just like God to display his glory through utter and complete weakness; for that I’m deeply grateful.”

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Named e American Bible Society has named Roy Peterson, CEO of e Seed Company, as its new president. ABS, one of America’s oldest institutions, fi red president Doug Birdsall last year, a move many criticized since it came only months after he took the position. Prior to his work at e Seed Company, a Bible translation group, Peterson worked as president and CEO of Wycliff e USA. Peterson starts at ABS in February and will try to help the organization overcome a string of fi nancial and leadership challenges.

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report Thursday, Jan. 16 A long-anticipated Senate Intelligence Widespread net Committee report determined that the Britain’s Guardian newspaper 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, reported it has documents could have been prevented. The bipartisan from fugitive whistleblower report blamed the State Department for Edward Snowden showing failing to increase security despite known the U.S. National Security vulnerabilities at the diplomatic compound Agency has been quietly and warnings about the growing threat to collecting millions of text Americans. The scathing report concluded messages a day from around that militants tied to al-Qaeda were the globe. “The NSA has responsible for the attacks that killed four made extensive use of its vast NSA: Alex Mil Americans including Ambassador Chris text message database to Stevens. The panel also noted that Stevens extract information on peo- a

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Saturday & Sunday, Jan. - Hello, world Bao Bao, a black-and-white, -month-old giant panda cub, made her public debut at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., on Jan. . Zoo oﬃ cials extended LIFE: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/GETTY IMAGES • BAO BAO: PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES • VIDEO: HANDOUT • BROWN: JEFF CHIU/AP • ABBADO : URS FLUEELER/ KEYSTONE/AP hours to allow curious visitors a peek at the ﬁ rst panda to survive birth at the National Zoo since .

Friday, Jan.  Mixed rulings e nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals tossed out key parts of New York City’s  law requiring pregnancy centers to post signs saying they do not off er abortion referrals. In the mixed verdict, the court ruled that the provision was a violation of the centers’ free speech but went on to reinstate a component requiring pro-life centers to disclose whether the facility has a licensed medical provider. Meanwhile, U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles ruled unconstitutional a North Carolina law requiring women to receive an ultrasound before undergoing an abortion. Eagles allowed other parts of the law to stand, including a -hour waiting period and a Olympic threat mandate that abortionists provide women with information on abortion risks. Concerns about safety and security during the upcoming Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia surged on Jan.  Dry state with the release of a video reportedly California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency and recorded by two suicide bombers who urged residents to begin cutting their water usage by  percent. give an ominous message: “We’ll have e announcement came after California faced one of its driest a surprise package for you. And those years on record and endured a wildfi re season that began in tourists that will come to you, for early May and stretched into December. them, too, we have a surprise. … is will be our revenge.” U.S. intelligence offi cials consider the threat by the No ID needed Islamist militants to be serious and A Pennsylvania judge struck down the state’s nearly -year-old voter-identifi cation have issued strong travel advisories. law, declaring it an unreasonable burden on the fundamental right to vote. e law, which Republican Gov. Tom Corbett signed in March , had not yet been enforced

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3 NEWS-3.indd 12 1/22/14 12:17 PM Feb. 2 With Super Bowl ads costing more than , per second, online broker E-Trade decided against  seconds of advertising time and will be absent from the gallery of Super Bowl ads for the ﬁ rst time in seven years. But, others are picking up the slack. SodaStream will make its Super Bowl debut to take on soda giants like Coca-Cola and Pepsi with an ad featuring Scarlett Johansson.

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LIFE: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/GETTY IMAGES • BAO BAO: PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES • VIDEO: HANDOUT • BROWN: JEFF CHIU/AP • ABBADO : URS FLUEELER/ KEYSTONE/AP While UN inspectors looked on, Feb. 7 After six years of Iranian scientists suspended high production, LEGOs are set levels of uranium enrichment at to star in a feature-length nuclear facilities across Iran as fi lm. More than half a trillion required under an interim nuclear LEGO blocks have been agreement that went into eff ect. manufactured since the In response, the EU lifted certain Danish toy company economic sanctions against Iran started in , meaning Warner Bros. is banking on for six months. As negotiations ready-made demand for a begin in February for a fi nal deal, fi lm franchise. An ensemble critics caution that even allowing cast including Will Ferrell, Iran to continue enriching ura- Morgan Freeman, and Chris nium to  percent for use in Pratt will off er voices for power production will still leave a the animated fi lm. substantial enrichment capacity in the country. UN Secretary-General Ban Feb. 7 Former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will lead the United States delegation to the Ki-moon, meanwhile, rescinded  Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. But it’s the absence an off er for Iran to join Syrian of President Obama—and the presence of openly gay peace talks in Geneva after his athletes as part of the delegation—that has Olympic last-minute invitation threw the watchers talking. e move is seen as a protest against long-awaited conference into Russian policies opposing homosexuality. doubt. Both the United States and the Syrian opposition had protested the invitation.

Feb. 14 Estimates from the    National Retail Federation had . Americans spending more than  billion for Valentine’s Day Read more about state last year. And if form holds, strategies to save babies from Feb. 9 Swiss citizens will vote on whether to tighten Valentine’s Day  shouldn’t abortion, and check out online immigration restrictions in the land-locked country. look too diﬀ erent. Historical commentary from Marvin Supporters of the referendum say the measure will stop trends indicate men spend much Olasky, Mindy Belz, Janie mass immigration they say is causing a housing short- more than women. In , men Cheaney, Andrée Seu Peterson, age and rising crime rate. e growing push to curb planned to spend  on aver- Cal omas, and others. immigration reﬂ ects trends in Europe generally where age whereas women planned to

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Jailed Imprisoned American Christian Kenneth Bae appealed for the U.S. government to secure his release during a brief “press conference” in Pyongyang on Jan. . Bae, who was sentenced in  to  years of hard labor for crimes against the state, apologized for committing anti-government acts, but most people believe North Korean authorities forced the confession. Bae, hospitalized for the past several months, said, “It seems now I should return to prison.”

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  For six months, a German farmer near Regensburg tried in vain to capture his runaway bull. He attempted to lasso the animal, but the bull would always fl ee into the woods. e farmer tried shooting the beast with a tranquilizer, but the darts proved ineff ective. But where the unidentifi ed farmer failed, neighbor Werner Dechant succeeded. In January, Dechant saw the black bull eating grain out of a bucket on his property and tried and failed to snare the cautious bovine. But Dechant had an idea for when the animal returned. e next day, Dechant mixed more grain with a bottle of vodka. e day after, Dechant soaked the grain in two more bottles of the spirit. Once liquored up, the escaped bull was easy

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Jack attack MOVIE: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit shows early promise but descends into spy thriller formula BY SOPHIA LEE

T  J R as America’s from the book and its fi lm predecessors military rehabilitation center, he falls more human, more interesting by rebooting his story as a prequel set in love with Cathy (Keira Knightley James Bond. e British icon’s in the st century—young, inexperi- with an American accent), his physical >> greatest fl aw is having no fl aw at enced Jack Ryan before he became the therapist and future wife. all—he is too smooth, too composed, Jack Ryan. Jack also catches the attention of too perfect to the point of blandness. It’s Sept. , , at the London CIA commander William Harper (Kevin When Daniel Craig fi nally portrayed School of Economics, and a baby-faced Costner), who is impressed by his James Bond as an agent weathered in Jack Ryan (Chris Pine) is taking an patriotism and his half-written college

PRODUCTIONS skin and spirit in Skyfall, critics hailed afternoon nap with his head propped thesis on ﬁ nance patterns. William it as “the greatest James Bond movie on a mathematics textbook. He awak- recruits Jack to ﬁ nish his Ph.D. in eco- ever.” Perhaps fans are ready for an ens to watch the World Trade Center nomics and work undercover for the SKYDANCE

& espionage thriller with more believ- disintegrate into smoke and rubble on CIA as a ﬁ nancial analyst. ability, and Jack Ryan provides that—to TV. Eighteen months later, Jack’s a Ten years later, Jack’s still as fresh- Marine on a military helicopter in faced as ever, but he’s recovered, PICTURES a certain dose. ough based on Tom Clancy’s Afghanistan. e helicopter crashes, engaged, and working as a trader on bestselling novel series, Jack Ryan: but he survives with a broken back. Wall Street, while covertly monitoring

PARAMOUNT Secret Recruit (rated PG-) deviates While learning to walk again in a ﬁ nancial activities that might be linked

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to terrorists. One day he detects strange activity in the global market, and quickly (and correctly) deduces that Russia is plotting a giant investment scheme that may implode the U.S. economy. Jack follows the dots to Viktor Cherevin (director Kenneth Branagh), a Russian businessman who harbors grievances against the United States for the Soviet war in Afghanistan— modern day, modern terrorism, old nemesis. e CIA assigns Jack to Moscow to audit Cherevin’s protected fi les, under his established cover at a bro- kerage fi rm. ings tailspin from there, and Jack goes from analyst to operations. Ironically, Jack gets less interesting once the “real” action begins. Literally overnight, he transforms from a fi nance guy stuttering for backup to—well, a tired James Bond typecast. He suddenly develops mad-precise car chase skills, then DOCUMENTARY screeches on a gravity-defying motorcycle dash to save a city from annihilation. Little Hope Was Arson Don’t be surprised to see Pine cast again as Jack    Ryan in a sequel. Alec Baldwin, the most-loved Jack Ryan incarnation from the  fi lm e Hunt for Red A     of the smoldering ruins of her East October, is a tough act to follow, but Pine eff ortlessly >> Texas church speaking to a reporter: “ e building houses so LITTLE HOPE WAS ARSON: THE COLLABORATE & GOODNIGHT SMOKE • JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT: PARAMOUNT PICTURES & SKYDANCE PRODUCTIONS recaptures his character’s amiable blue-eyed charm. many memories, my great-grandmother went here, my grand- Director and co-star Branagh plays a brilliant, parents. I got married here, both of my daughters were baptized chilling, sympathetic Russian villain/ here.” patriot who, despite all his heinous It’s January  and  churches in East Texas have been set crimes, most realistically on fi re, leaving entire towns grappling with loss and confusion. embodies his humanity. We see Little Hope Was Arson, a documentary currently playing in the too little of Costner as the sea- Slamdance Film Festival, examines these events from the police soned CIA veteran William, investigation to the church members’ response to the arrest and and we see too much of imprisonment of the convicted arsonists. By the closing scene, not Knightley aass the suspicious only the buildings but the church communities would be tested by fi ancée-turned-accomplice. fi re. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is rough news clips and interviews, the fi lm portrays the initial an entertaining block- anger, sorrow, and fear of the small-town residents as their sanctu- buster and little more, aries burned. Pastors feared for their lives, and church members though it showed staked out in front of their churches with guns in tow. In the more promise in meantime, law enforcement combed through the ruins looking the beginning. It for clues. Finally a tip pointed them to two young men, one of matches the whom was the brother of Christy McAllister, the law enforcement template for a communications director. She helped turn him in. predictable, e fi lm then turns to look at the lives of Daniel McAllister, then classic spy , and Jason Bourque, then , who met in Sunday school. Daniel thriller: grew resentful toward God when his mother died and his father time-ticking tried committing suicide. Jason also left the church after a explosions, breakup, falling into depression and drug use. e two men pled thrilling car guilty to the fi res and were sentenced to life in prison. chases, Yet the strongest point of the fi lm was watching the church’s damsel in response in fi nding out the culprit was one of their own. At their distress, sentence hearing, one pastor asked the boys to forgive them for and grand any way the church had wronged them, as they forgive the boys. conspiracies. Many of the pastors said the boys were welcomed into the Perhaps the audience churches they have rebuilt. still needs a dose of It’s a wonder for a fi lm–especially one shown in indie fi lm

fantastical after all. A festivals–to portray such a genuine image of forgiveness. UNIVERSAL PICTURES

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3 MOVIES & TV.indd 24 1/22/14 9:42 AM MOVIE Lone Survivor by Megan Basham

Ever since its release on Jan. 12, Lone >> Survivor has been making headlines, though few relate to its phenomenal box office performance. Like so many entertainment offerings these days, the movie, based on the real life story of Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, has become a political touchstone, divid- ing media commentators into those who support its purported militaristic themes and those who decry them as jingoistic warmongering. After LA Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson called the movie a “snuff film” that trades on the notion “brown people bad, American people a political Is their ultimate choice a moral one? good,” right-wing pundit Glenn Beck condemned her as an touchstone: Certainly. Was it the right course? Berg (left) and “ignorant liar.” Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and Megyn Kelly Wahlberg on Director Peter Berg leaves that open for similarly devoted segments lambasting the reactions of New the set of Lone debate. But it is unquestionable that their York Magazine and Atlantic reviewers who criticized the Survivor. fear of being tried and convicted in the movie’s portrayal of the Taliban as overly villainous. media informs the team’s decision, which CNN’s chief Washington correspondent, Jake Tapper, may is fairly ironic given the treatment the ope was Litt have sparked the biggest firestorm surrounding the film movie has undergone since its release. l e H when he asked Luttrell whether the events depicted in the There’s a reason Lone Survivor is breaking box office film didn’t prove that U.S. presence in the Middle East is records. Yes, it offers a riveting portrayal of soldiers under senseless. However, the award for most graceless reaction the severest stress who bear up under it heroically. But it A r son: must go to left-leaning Time critic Richard Corliss for his also challenges the viewer to reconsider simpleminded

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LEWIS: HANS WILD/TIME & LIFE PICTURES/GETTY IMAGES NOTABLE BOOKS SPOTLIGHT Four books on literature and Christian authors > reviewed by   C.S. Lewis remains one of the pre-eminent Christian voices on A Prayer Journal Flannery O’Connor writing and literature. Last year, Fifty years after her death in , Flannery O’Connor is still cele-  years after his death, Focus on brated as one of the most infl uential writers in American literature. As the Family Radio eatre released a Southerner and Roman Catholic, O’Connor set her fi ction in a C.S. Lewis at War. “Christ-haunted” American South, using grotesque characters and violence to convey man’s fallenness and need for divine grace. In this When World War II began, recently discovered prayer journal, we meet O’Connor before she Lewis was an unknown literature assumed the cultural spotlight, and she pours her heart out to God professor. By the war’s end, his with a lucidity and passion that would later mark her fi ction. In radio addresses through the BBC particular, her understanding of the refi ning nature of suff ering—as on the subject of well as how God uses human weakness to show His strength—seem Christianity had made personally prophetic. Note: She occasionally prays to MMary.ary. him a household name. C.S. Lewis at War com- Adventure of Ascent: Field Notes from bines high-quality radio a Lifelong Journey Luci Shaw drama with crisp theo- If anyone could liven up a discussion of the aging process, one logical content to show would hope Christian poet Luci Shaw could. Her writing career, how Lewis brought spanning over  books, has seen her tackle topics as varied as spiritual light to England Christ’s incarnation and spring rain with intellectual, emotive word- during its “darkest hour.” e play. e Adventure of Ascent partly delivers. Using the metaphor of a mountain climber leaving behind the trappings of human life riveting soundscape includes and eventually her mortal coil, Shaw here fi nds profound beauty in excerpts from Winston Churchill’s her ascent toward a heavenly home. Unfortunately, even as Shaw speeches, the Inkling’s fi reside hits her middle s, she is haunted by spiritual doubt, preferring to chats, the sound of bombers fl ying embrace her experience and the “mystery” of Christian faith rather overhead, and the voices of young than the fi rmer ground of biblical witness. girls who came to stay at Lewis’ rural English home. e recording Letters and Life: On Being a Writer, also includes a dramatic reading of On Being a Christian Bret Lott Mere Christianity. —E.W. Whether laying bare secular literature, the Christian publishing scene, or his own performance as a son, Bret Lott’s Letters and Life is an unfl inching book. Yet it is also uniquely God-honoring. In the book’s fi ve essays and one extended memoir, this professor at the College of Charleston and best-selling novelist (including Jewel, an Oprah Book Club pick) pulls a wide range of topics into his fi eld of vision. Comfortable with thinkers as disparate as Raymond Carver, Francis Schaeff er, and Flannery O’Connor, he also recounts God’s work in his own life, including the death of his father. While the pieces vary in focus, all combine excellence in the craft of writing with a solidly evangelical worldview. WELLS:

KEYSTONEFRANCE/GAMMAKEYSTONE/GETTY Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in Lewis’s Chronicles Joe Rigney e Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis are not allegories, and Joe Rigney marshals Lewis himself to make this point. Yet, the books are repositories of “grace and comfort and encouragement and motivation,” which—once experienced as stories on their own terms—can disciple those who love them. Using selections of IMAGES PICTURES/GETTY LIFE Lewis’ writing beyond his stories, including e Abolition of Man and his autobiography, Rigney teases out the rich treasury of moral, political, and theological thought behind the Narnia books. He then shows how these truths have inﬂ uenced him as a follower IMAGES & WILD/TIME HANS of Christ, as well as how they can beneﬁ t his readers spiritually.

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Given the same-sex predispositions toward certain bought a one-way Amtrak your life, showing up when marriage juggernaut’s sins, whether gossiping, lying, ticket to Louisville: She was you had a huge amount of political and judicial cheating, sexual addiction, going to say goodbye to me, drugs on your counter? Yes. >> success last year, we whatever it might be. then end her life. But someone I had just received a large ship- can expect on Valentine’s Day What eff ect did your gave her a little pamphlet that mment.ent. ey confi scated all my this year to hear early and exposure to pornography she read on the train. It money and my drugs, and I often how great it is to be gay. at age  have on you? It’s explained how we’re all sin- faced  years to life in federal Christopher Yuan, who was a diffi cult to say whether that ners, and yet in spite of our prison for having the street homosexual and a drug dealer, was a causative agent, but it sins, the God of the universe value equivalent of . tons of has a diff erent story that led to was a catalyst. It awoke things still loves us. She realized God marijuana. I tried calling home two sentences: prison and in me that shouldn’t have been could still love her and she from jail, and was imagining HIV-positive status. God awoken. could still love her gay son. my mother in her own self, brought him and his parents to What other environmen- She visited you in before coming to Christ, say- Christ, and Yuan went to tal factors may have added Louisville. She said she loved ing, “You deserve what you Moody Bible Institute and to your predisposition? I was me. I thought she was a little got,” giving a harsh response. Wheaton College, gaining in born in the Chicago area, at a crazy. But she stayed in But as my mom picked up the  an M.A. in biblical exege- time in the suburbs when there Louisville for six weeks, and a phone and I told her where I sis. Now pursuing a doctorate were not many Asians. I was wife of a retired pastor gave was, the fi rst thing out of her of ministry, he came to Patrick bullied for being Asian and was her a Bible, led her in Bible mouth was, “Are you OK?” Henry College to answer ques- not good at sports, so I was studies, gave her Christian No condemning words? tions about an outstanding called gay, fag, sissy, and began books. She grew in her No words of rebuke; words of book he and his mother co- to ask myself, “Who am I?” Christian faith and went home. unconditional love and grace. authored, Out of a Far Country Who are you? As I came Within a few months my at’s what Paul writes in (WaterBrook Multnomah, ). to God, I realized who I am in father became a believer as Romans :, that it’s not God’s Why does the subtitle Christ and realized that any well. I saw how Christianity aanger,nger, not God’s wrath, but of your book describe it as identity, any label, should not changed their relationship— God’s kindness that leads us A Gay Son’s Journey to God be before my main identity in they were no longer getting a to repentance. Even on that rather than A Gay Son’s Christ. divorce—and thought, “ at’s horrible day for me, God was Journey Out of Your excellent book tells good for you, but not for me.” pouring out His grace and Homosexuality? We wanted the story of how you en what happened? drawing me to Himself through to write not simply a story learned that—but also how ey moved to Louisville. I was the words of my mother. about a gay son, but a story your mother learned that. I supplying drugs to dealers in And God in His kindness about God—and God not just came out of the closet in my over a dozen states at that made a Bible available to bringing me to Himself, but my early s, and it devastated time, and they had no idea the you? He did. Before I came to mother and father also coming my mom. She and my father depth to which I had gone, but Christ, my parents came to to Christ as well. weren’t Christians, and she they knew I needed to know visit me, and I kicked them out. Did you become a gay son thought an ultimatum could Christ. ey prayed for that My dad left me with his Bible. I because of nature, nurture, bring me to my senses. She miracle, that God would do threw it in the trash can. en, or both? People say, “ ere’s said, “You must either choose whatever it takes, which for a while in prison three days later, some evidence of a biological the family or choose this.” I Chinese mother is a scary bold I was walking around the cell component to the development left home. en I got involved prayer to make. She knew block, passed by a garbage of sexuality,” and then jump to in drugs and started selling there was nothing she could can, and there on top of the SCOTT

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3 Q&A.indd 28 1/22/14 8:55 AM news.” At that time, it wasn’t Scripture. at’s all I had. God and a gay relationship, but as I word for homosexuality it good news to me because I delivered me from my drug read through the Bible and meant Paul affi rmed the uni- felt more and more convicted addiction, but the one thing I read that book, it was clear to versal condemnation against that not only had I rebelled was holding to was my sexual- me that the book presented a homosexual sex in Leviticus against my parents and the ity. Passages in the Bible, three clear distortion of God, His : and :. government, but against God. I in the Old and three in the Word, and His unmistakable e Talmudic sages, read Psalm  the day before I New, seemed to condemn this condemnation of homosexual when they wrote about was to be sentenced, and was core part of my identity at that sex. homosexuality, refl ected called into the nurse’s offi ce to point: “I am gay.” So I went to a Prisons are notorious as that understanding as get the news that I was HIV prison chaplain, and to my sur- places where some people well. It was universal positive as well. I got sen- prise he told me the Bible go deeper into homosexu- condemnation. tenced to six years, doesn’t condemn homosexuality, with all the pressures So earlier, when you had which seemed ality, and gave me a book and opportunities there. to choose between family like a life explaining that view. I Yes. and sex, you chose sex. Yes. sentence. took that book. I So why do you think Now, you were clear that e n wanted to fi nd biblical your response was diff er- this was a question of God what? justifi cation for ent? I believe it was a miracle. or homosexuality. I went I began homosexuality. I had no reason to reject what through every page of reading Did you? I had that book was claiming. It Scripture, looking for positive more that book in one would have been the easier justifi cations for gay, monoga- hand and the Bible route—embrace my sexuality, mous, consensual, adult in the other, and as the world says, not to have homosexual relationships. I every reason in the to deny myself, pick up my didn’t fi nd anything. ere was world to accept what cross, and follow Christ. God nothing in Scripture that that book was claiming. I helped me not to just read this blessed a gay relationship. wanted to have God book on its own, because if at’s when I knew I was at a you read it as a stand-alone turning point: either reject God many people would be con- and pursue gay relationships vinced. I felt I could not read it by allowing my feelings, my apart from the Word of God, orientation, to dictate who I and the power of the Holy was and how I lived, or aban- Spirit was guiding me. don gay relationships by So these theories that liberating myself from my the Bible doesn’t condemn sexuality, and live as a follower homosexuality, just a par- of Christ. I chose God. ticular type of homosexual All this time your mom practice, didn’t make sense had been praying not that to you? ey didn’t. At that you stay out of prison, but time I hadn’t been to semi- that you are in prison for nary and learned Greek and the right amount of time. It Hebrew: I was just reading was so amazing. For her to the English text. Now I say, “It’s not important for my know that Paul in  son to become a doctor,” was Corinthians  and  Timothy  for her to see that Christ must links two Greek words that be pre-eminent over all things. are the exact Greek words And she pleaded with the we fi nd in the Septuagint, judge, “Don’t give my son too the GreekGreek translation of the long of a sentence, but don’t SCOTT Hebrew Bible. In Leviticus give him too short a sentence.

STRAZZANTE/GENESIS : those two words are Just give him just the right right next to each other, and amount of time for him to turn any ﬁ rst-century Jew who had his life over to God.” memorized the Torah, most And that’s what likely in the Greek, would have happened. at is what

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Little Susie” was their last hit as a duo). They’d sown the seeds of country-rock (with their 1968 Phil and Don album Roots). The 1975 Top 10 hits of Nazareth After six decades, the Everly Brothers’ (“Love Hurts”) and Linda Ronstadt (“When Will I Be Loved,” which Phil wrote) were Everly record- legacy continues By arsenio orteza ings first (in 1960). The same went for the 1978 James Taylor-Carly Simon hit “Devoted to You” (1958). In 1982, Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe included a four-song Everly-covers EP with their band Rockpile’s album Seconds of Pleasure. A year after the reunion, Phil and Don were back on the charts with their first album of new material in 21 years (the Edmunds-produced EB 84) and a single written for them by McCartney (“On the Wings of a Nightingale”). Neither that song nor its exquisite follow-up, “The First in Line,” achieved the commercial success of “Bye Bye Love,” “Crying in the Rain,” “Let It Be Me,” or “All I Have to Do Is Dream,” but the message was clear: The Everly Brothers were back. Two more studio albums followed. The title cut of 1986’s Born Yesterday even made the country Top 20 even though it was the less-successful follow-up singles “I Know Love” and “These Shoes” that best proved the brothers could still conjure their melancholy- tinged magic. Since the death of Phil Everly For the next 25 on Jan. 3 at the age of 74, praise for years, the Everlys the songs that he and his older were a touring act. >> brother Don recorded between 1957 According to his and 1989 and performed thereafter as the son Jason, Phil had Everly Brothers has flowed in from practi- quit smoking in cally every region of the pop-music 2004, but even so ly Broth Ev

world. he could no longer e r In some ways, it has been like 1983 all hit the high notes over again. That was the year that the for which he’d e

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high, flawlessly intertwined vocal harmonies seemed barely to Alison Krauss and Robert Plant won a Grammy in 2008 for t ty imag have aged at all. Supported by a band led and organized by the their cover of the Everlys’ “Gone Gone Gone.” And in 2013,

British guitarist Albert Lee, they reprised their many hits and Norah Jones and Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong re-recorded e s then some, singing songs that had originally been templates of the brothers’ 1958 album Songs Our Daddy Taught Us and • jon e

soured romance as if they were acts of contrition for their called it Foreverly (Reprise). s & A age

own fraternal falling out. Jones and Armstrong, setting aside every vestige of the r m I Critics honored the occasion by reminding the public of styles for which they’ve become famous, honor the angelic mstrong: handout how influential the Everly Brothers had been. They’d inspired innocence that was the Everlys’ sonic trademark. And because the harmonies of John Lennon and Paul McCartney (the latter they do, Foreverly serves not only as a tribute to the Everly of whom had name-checked them in his 1976 hit “Let ’Em Brothers but also as a portal to all that influenced them—and Walter/Wire

In”) and Simon and Garfunkel (whose cover of “Wake Up to the America within which they took such deep root. A Chris

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Swing is Debby Boone Slot this album somewhere between Robert Davi singing Frank Sinatra and Kevin Spacey singing Bobby Darin. Six of the  cuts were signature tunes of Boone’s late mother-in-law, the great Rosemary Clooney, yet it’s no mere reprise of Boone’s  Clooney tribute, Reﬂ ections of Rosemary, not with versions of “Cry Me a River,” “Everybody Loves Somebody,” and “ ese Boots Are Made for Walkin’.” Call it a tentative exercise in genre exploration. en wonder whether the tenta- SPOTLIGHT tiveness results from Boone’s disinclination to oﬀ end or her genes. In , the Canadian quartet e is and at Freddy Cole Darcys re-recorded Steely Dan’s Freddy Cole is now , yet he’s still known as Nat album Aja, jettisoning the original’s “King” Cole’s younger brother. at he doesn’t jazz-pop skeleton and reimagining seem to mind may explain his vocal insouciance, which in turn may explain his carefree ability to what remained as a fascinating take Helen Reddy’s proto-feminist, mother- template for st-century mid- daughter anthem “You and Me Against the World” tempo electronica and ethereal and broaden it to include tandems of all kinds. More voice. e experiment worked, a impressive yet is his performance of Harry Nilsson’s testament as much to Aja’s innate “Everybody’s Talkin’,” which is so easygoing and coherence as to e Darcy’s dapper that you’d never know it was once the theme song of Midnight Cowboy. creativity. Now, as if to balance the scales, the Mark Masters Impromptu The David Hazeltine Trio Ensemble has released Everything Since classical music is half of what has long gone You Did: e Music of Walter into jazz, it’s perfectly sensible that Hazeltine Becker andand Donald Fagen (Capri). (piano), Jason Brown (drums), and the famous-in- his-own-right George Mraz (bass) should transmute Masters these instantly recognizable classical melodies seems to have

EVERLY BROTHERS: PETE CRONIN/REDFERNS/GETTY IMAGES • JONES & ARMSTRONG: HANDOUT (Beethoven, Debussy, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Chopin). begun his At times, the process feels too easy or at least too arrangements obvious, the kind of thing Vince Guaraldi might’ve by listening had Schroeder doing in a Peanuts special. At other past anything times, though, the familiarity fades into the background, freeing the trio to display some seriously that was “pop” formidable chops. about Steely Dan and by concentrating instead Out Here Christian McBride Trio on the group’s jazz core. Or, as he e chief delights of People Music, which McBride himself puts it, “ e premise of released with Inside Straight last May, were Warren this recording is to free Becker and Wolf’s vibraphone and Steve Wilson’s alto sax. e chief delight of this album, released three months Fagen’s music from the earthly later, is McBride’s bass. Bowed or plucked, comping conﬁ nes, in some cases, of or taking the lead, it keeps the ballads crisp, makes harmonic structure and allow the the sacred-secular near bookends “Hallelujah band to create the magic that Time” and “Who’s Making Love” jump, and keeps great improvisers birth.” Dodgy “My Favorite ings” both crisp and jumping for over nine minutes. Meanwhile, Christian Sands syntax aside, the statement is an

WALTER/WIREIMAGE (piano) and Ulysses Owens Jr. (drums), aren’t accurate summary of everything

CHRIS exactly chopped liver. that Everything You Did does.

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3 MINDY.indd 33 1/21/14 2:27 PM 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.

by Marvin Olasky in Kampala, Lubowa, and Mukono, Uganda photo by Lindy Walker

t Uganda Christian University (UCU) in November, graduation day for 1,668 students— 43 percent of them business majors—was sunny and hot, as it is on most days in a country sitting on the equator. White tents decked with purple and pink bunting lined two sides of a large, manicured green. Students played African drums as female dancers shook hips covered in goat hair. Graduates in caps and gowns sat on one side and proud parents— men in suits, women in Victorian-style long dresses with puffed sleeves and wide sashes—on the other. After Scripture reading, speeches, and prayers, students stepped forward one by one to receive their degrees. Some mothers didn’t let elaborate clothing stifle their enthusiasm. When they heard their children’s names, they jumped up from molded white plastic chairs and ran to the edges of the lawn, joyfully ululating and dancing, like David 3,000 years ago before the ark. They see the academic degrees as economic guarantees in a country still facing massive poverty and unemployment. With half of the nation’s people younger than 15—the average Ugandan woman has six children—demographic pressures are intense.

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3 UGANDA.indd 35 1/20/14 1:16 PM e problem, though, is that college graduates want white- In the short run those problems—and many other collar jobs and there aren’t enough. ose with less education African countries have similar ones—are more severe have worse prospects. Uganda has seen economic improve- than the long-run threat of Islam, but Ugandan ment over the past two decades, but the hundreds of young Muslims appear increasingly aggressive. Newspapers men sitting around on every main street may soon be joined have run stories of Islamists throwing acid in the face by thousands more. Many women seem to work harder as of one convert to Christianity, and of a father almost they try to sweep dust from the front of tiny shops made of starving to death his teenage daughter after she metal and cardboard, but that’s a labor only a Sisyphus would professed faith in Christ. A Pew Foundation survey, love. Some young people sell their family’s land to move to “Tolerance and Tension: Islam and Christianity in Sub- Kampala, buy a boda-boda (a motorcycle), and then have Saharan Africa,” found at least  percent of professing nothing to fall back on. Christians in Uganda consider Muslims to be violent. Meanwhile, the mayor of Kampala is a Muslim, the number Historically, when Muslim populations exceed  of mosques is increasing, and at least  percent of Ugandans percent—call that a critical mass—Islamists start pledge allegiance to Islam. Many Muslims say that Sharia law pursuing opportunities to make others accede to and Islamic interest-free economics would create a stronger their demands. Uganda itself has experience of society. e key question for Uganda, and for Americans who Muslim minorities dictating to the whole nation. In love it: Will Christians there show their countrymen that the th century, for example, Kings Ssuuna II and Christianity has answers to the country’s problems? Uganda Mutesa I fell under Islamic infl uence, and Muslims has also been very much in the news recently because of its battled Christians in . From  to  Major legislation against homosexuality, which many U.S. and General Idi Amin, a Muslim, ruled Uganda: A corrupt European offi cials have lambasted: My column on page  dictator, he murdered between , and discusses that. , Ugandans, according to international observers and human-rights groups. And the question is: Will Africa go as Uganda goes? e map to the left (and on the cover) shows that Uganda is an African hinge. Countries in green Nations under siege are majority Muslim: ey typically have little liberty As thoughtful African Christians fi ght the fatalistic worldviews that underlie poverty, they also face aggressive Islam. of any kind, particularly religious. Countries in red are less than  percent Muslim and have little if any Islamic agitation. e front-line nations in yellow are Tunisia - percent Muslim and have maintained largely Morocco secular legal systems, although at least nine Nigerian Algeria states have imposed Sharia law. Libya Western Egypt Sahara A deep Christianity can readily deal with Islamic (occupied by Morocco) threats, but Christian leaders acknowledge that

Mauritania continent-wide belief is often only a centimeter deep. Mali Niger Many store signs in Uganda show a desire to proclaim Sudan Eritrea Senegal Chad belief: God Is Able Beauty Shop. God’s Mercy Gambia Burkina Faso Djibouti Computation Center. Billboards, though, reﬂ ect Guinea- Guinea Benin Computation Center. Billboards, though, reﬂ ect Bissau Nigeria Cote Ghana South Ethiopia massive health problems—“HIV testing is good and Sierra Central African Sudan Leone d’Ivoire Republic Togo Cameroon normal”—and materialist beliefs: “A man is called a Liberia Somalia Equatorial Guinea man only if he has a home.” Anglican leader Uganda Kenya Gabon Democratic Rwanda Onesimus Asiimwe notes that two out of three São Tomé Congo Republic Burundi & Principe Sunday worshippers are under  years of age, and of Congo Tanzania nominal Christians far outnumber mature ones. “Our 3 Majority Christianity lacks depth.” Angola Muslim Malawi Zambia 3 -    I (you can hear Susan’s coverage of the Mozambique Muslim Zimbabwe UCU graduation and other Uganda experiences on

Namibia Madagascar PHOTOGRAPHY 3 Less than Botswana MWORLD Radio) visited four projects in the Kampala ILLUSTRATION: area—Uganda Christian University, African Bible University,  Muslim Swaziland MUGABA Lesotho Transforming Nations AllianceAlliance training, and Anglican evange-

South lism training—each with diﬀ erent approaches: KRIEG

Africa VINCENT UCU, owned by the Anglican Church and with a main BARRIE campus  miles east of Kampala, is the ﬁ rst private university LIBRARY: SUSAN OLASKY • STUDENTS: HANDOUT STUDENTS: • OLASKY SUSAN LIBRARY: in Uganda to receive a government charter. It now has a GRADUATE:

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3 UGANDA.indd 36 1/21/14 4:40 PM assure the Christian identity of the University.” Some challenges concern job placement: As hiring opportunities emerge, will employers prefer graduates committed to honesty in the knowledge that God is watching them? UCU has impressive graduates who know that finding a job will be hard, so they emphasize their willingness to work hard. Daisy Nakiwala Nsangi: “I made sure I maximized every moment I got to read.” Rose Adede, daughter of a single mom: “I worked hard to excel.” Mollen Ainembabazi: “Many people won- dered why I spent so much time reading. … I woke up at weird hours to read.” Linnet Namanya: “I credit God for all my success.” eTh much-smaller African Bible University (ABU) is assuring its Christian identity by having its

UGANDA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: Belinda Evy Nabude celebrates with grandmother and aunt; library; swearing in Student Guild Government.

113 students major in biblical studies and minor in business, communication, or education. They go deep into principles of biblical interpretation, books of the Bible, Christian ethics, history, and other topics. Students also hear excellent preaching from Vice Chancellor Palmer Robertson (disclosure—I sat under his teaching for two years when he was a pastor in Maryland) in a beautiful chapel funded by a St. Louis PCA church. A bell that was once on a plantation in Texas, where it tolled for slaves, now summons students to freedom. ABU graduates are also aware beautiful campus with a mix of of the Islamic threat, since the university sits on Lobowa Hill old buildings that would be at seven miles south of Kampala, opposite a big mosque on an home in Britain, and new ones— adjacent hill. On a peaceful afternoon Robertson, while sitting including a library cleverly on a porch swing with one of his young sons, was asking what designed to keep students cool the Sixth Commandment teaches. He got the right answer— without resort to air conditioning. “Thou shalt not kill”—as a rant blared through a mosque loud-

It’s growing rapidly: 8,000 students now choose from among speaker. The ABU radio station responds by airing music and y h

p dozens of majors. Law, education, science and technology, theological programming to reach Muslim listeners who health, and other disciplines all have seats at the table. would risk their lives by entering a church but can and do UCU now faces challenges not unlike those hitting American communicate with one DJ by text messaging. Photogra illustration: Christian colleges. Some are financial, with leaders deeply The Transforming Nations Alliance works without class- involved in fundraising and building programs. Some are theo- rooms, dorms, or libraries. It looks for Christians beyond college Mugaba logical: To its credit, UCU is guarding against the drift that can age whose pastors say they have leadership ability, and Susan

krieg readily occur when professors with a personal faith but train- and I sat in on a training session that featured eight such ear- Vincent ing in secular universities worship on Sundays but on Mondays nest men and two women. They sat in the sort of inexpensive barrie approach their subjects with materialist presuppositions. UCU chairs that are ubiquitous throughout Africa and South library: susan olasky • students: handout students: • olasky susan library: graduate: has a new Institute of Faith, Learning and Service chartered “to America at tables that formed a U. No bells and whistles in

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3 UGANDA.indd 37 1/20/14 1:24 PM this ordinary room pocked with stained beige walls and barred Seed projects demonstrate to Ugandans that God can use windows. meager local resources to bless a community. The projects But what they planned was extraordinary: Instead of demonstrate that Ugandans don’t have to wait for outsiders to discussing the usual notion of waiting for Western aid, they come and fix problems, and that God cares about the physical debated past and future “seed projects.” Young members of well-being of His children, not just the spiritual. Nakalama Rapha Deliverance Church were starting a brick- The fourth approach is straightforward evangelism: We making project. Women of the church wanted land to grow watched 40 Anglican youth and student coordinators learn more vegetables. Church members in Kikubamutwe, a about street evangelism and then head out in a bus, in a van, Kampala slum area, planned a neighborhood cleanup. Others and by foot to go door-to-door. Evangelist John Nicholas spoke of cleaning litter from drainage ditches or building a Okwalinga and retired Covenant College professor Henry shelter for the elderly. Krabbendam stopped at one cement-walled, metal-roofed Training session participants were unimpressed by a house lingering amid hard-packed red clay and mango, government-organized literary project and a United Nations avocado, and banana trees. They knocked on the door and a child-feeding project: They’ve seen big talk and poor results young mother, Maria, opened it, as a runny-nosed toddler in many times. Participants stressed the need to accomplish a T-shirt and beaded bracelets on both wrists tugged on her tasks in one day, so onlookers can quickly see tangible results. dress. Maria set down two empty plastic jerry cans for water, They broke down tasks into basic steps: threshing the area and her little girl started climbing on them. around a well; erecting a fence to keep animals out; removing Okwalinga and Krabbendam didn’t mince words: Citing mud so the well can hold more water from the infrequent biblical references, they told Maria that she has a cobra heart rains; and creating and clearing trenches so rainwater flows (Psalm 58:3-4), a past filled with excrement (Isaiah 64:6), and into the well. a destructive life (Romans 3:12-16). They told her about a cruci- Trainer Judith Murungi emphasized the importance of avoid- fied Jesus who eradicates the cobra heart, purges the excrement ing dependency, developing local resources, and understanding past, and changes the toxic life. They said through His resur- that Christianity is more than praying and attending church. rection Jesus supplies a new heart, new righteousness, new Many Ugandans profess to be Christians but also believe that evil holiness. The woman listened, then welcomed the Bible they spirits and curses control their lives. Murungi spoke about how gave her and their pledge to return and see how she’s doing. God has given Ugandans creativity and energy that will allow them to change their communities and defeat poverty. They ll four of these Christian efforts fight a prevalent can dig latrines, wash hands before eating, and use mosquito fatalism—the idea that Ugandans are born poor and will ages m nets to keep out malarial mosquitoes: small, doable projects. die poor, throughout their lives controlled by curses and I tty tty

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3 UGANDA.indd 38 1/20/14 1:30 PM witchcraft. For eons hunger and Uganda has an external grinding poverty—consequences of debt of $5.5 billion, but this worldview dominated by the from 2002 to 2011 more need to avoid upsetting evil spirits— than $7 billion obtained by have plagued Uganda. British con- individuals through corrupt trol from the late 19th century to means flowed into bank 1962 brought missionaries but also accounts and tax havens European materialism. Now, the outside of Uganda. Chinese government is buying up The Transforming mineral rights throughout Africa, Nations Alliance contends while Muslims, who once enslaved that “[Ugandan] Christians many in East Africa, seek to enslave are still very shallow in their posterity in a works-based their understanding of religion that persecutes other Scripture and still have a faiths. mindset locked in the Islamists offer dollars and a animistic worldview that is promised land of dolls to young fatalistic … hence the men willing to give their lives to poverty, social instability, kill Christians and Jews. Other domestic violence, and Muslims purchase wives from other social problems that nominally Christian Ugandan bedevil the nation. fathers who are willing—if there’s The level of corrup- enough money in it—to have their tion is so high that daughters become Muslims. Some the stability of the Ugandans would rather be nation is seriously employed Muslims than unem- threatened.” ABU ployed Christians. A variety of student Garnet quasi-Christian ministries have fought back by offer- Kibombwe wrote ing their own rewards through a prosperity g ospel. thoughtfully about ages m I Faith healers have found a market: When Benny Hinn the problem and tty tty

e came to Kampala, some Ugandans arrived six hours asked, “What does G / P

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T undermining marriage. Alcohol consumption is mas- taking bribes,

sive. Old superstitions, such as gaining a feeling of cheating, abusing

AHMUD security by carrying the skin or hair of a lion, remain. people …?” M Muslims say they revere marriage so much that every South of the woman must be in one, along with up to three other Sahara, the number wives. Muslims say they throw out bottles and super- of Muslim adherents stition. Christians need to demonstrate the ability to demolish has gone from 11 million in 1900 to 234 million in 2010, and iversity • mosque: mosque: • iversity

n vicious cycles of apathy, corruption, poverty, disease, and the number of those professing Christ during that time period U e l

b degeneration. has soared from 7 million to 470 million. Yet, TNA reports that Some believe Uganda can escape eventual Muslim dictator- “while many Sub-Saharan African countries boast of large

rican Bi rican ship by developing secular, materialist institutions such as Christian populations, their impact or influence is hardly seen f A Makerere University, the Harvard of Uganda—but it is the type or noticed in the real world. The Church in these nations has of institution that generates liberal opposition to Islamic revo- largely lost credibility and is accused of being totally irrelevant lutions and then goes under when the tide rises. Soft s ecular in society.”

liance • cross: cross: • liance faiths have not competed well against Islam’s scimitar-edged If those 470 million Christians are educated and energized, l A ferocity, particularly when they provide occasional c ircuses they can avoid falling under Muslim enslavement—and that is

tions tions but insufficient amounts of bread. the latest “if” in a long struggle. Ishmael and Isaac were at a N That’s particularly true when politicians who claim the odds 4,000 years ago, Muslims and Christians fought often mantle of Christ offer honeyed words but corrupt practices. In during the millennium that began in Muhammad’s time 1,400 December an international NGO, Transparency International, years ago, and the war, sometimes cold and sometimes hot,

ansforming ansforming A r released its 2013 Corruption Perception Index: Uganda goes on today. —Listen via podcast or radio to “The World and T CREDIT dropped from a miserable 130th place to an even worse 140th. Everything In It” segments on Uganda by Susan Olasky during the

judith: judith: Also in December, the African Development Bank noted that weeks of Jan. 26 and Feb. 2

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by J.C. Derrick in Washington | photo by Victoria Ruan

the council for christian colleges and universities tions,” said Bob Andringa, the CCCU president from 1994 to (CCCU), with 119 members and 55 affiliates, provides off- 2006: “It’s an entirely different ballgame at the federal level campus programs for Christian students and development than the state level.” conferences for administrators. Operating from offices near Critics say Blews lacked sufficient education and experience, Capitol Hill, it tries to protect Christian schools from govern- but Board members such as Messiah College President Kim ment encroachment in areas ranging from faculty hiring to Phipps, then the Board’s chair, enthusiastically backed him. Obamacare-mandated provision of abortion pills. Blews in his CCCU inaugural address said, “I answered my Threats from within and without are hitting the CCCU as it phone to hear a commanding female voice that sounded prepares to host on Feb. 12-14 in Los Angeles its quadrennial suspiciously like Kim Phipps saying, ‘Ed. This is God. And she International Forum on Christian Higher Education—the larg- is calling you to the CCCU presidency.’” est Christian higher-education gathering in the world. Along Blews’ inaugural celebration was the first such bash in the with discussing demographic challenges and shrinking budgets, Council’s history, complete with giveaways for attendees: pens members will chart the future of the Council itself: Within the and golden bookmarks engraved with Blews’ name. He past year the CCCU lost its presi- brought in as entertainment dent and three of its four vice the acclaimed but typically off- presidents. color Capitol Steps, a political Over the past three months satire group that charges I’ve looked into the CCCU’s firing $9,500 per hour—an amount last October of its 57-year-old roughly equal to a college’s president, Edward O. Blews Jr., annual membership dues. The after only ten months in office. I Long CCCU website’s account of the interviewed two former CCCU event began, “In an inspiring presidents, seven college presi- and compelling ceremony dents (including three former marked by an extended stand- CCCU Board chairmen), other ing ovation. …” college administrators, and search, Three former CCCU three former staffers. I found employees—WORLD is giving two stories: one about an organi- them anonymity because they zation trying to find its way in a could lose their current jobs— shifting economic and political describe the work environment climate, and one about a man short Blews created in nightmarish who “took a hacksaw” to an terms: He would berate staff, important organization. sometimes in front of colleagues, in meetings that could last for after an 18-month search, hours. They say Blews tracked the CCCU Board in 2012 tapped tenure which employees complimented Ed Blews to replace the retiring Paul Corts, a former assistant him, and during his first staff meeting laid out on a table attorney general in the Bush administration. Fellow students at dozens of congratulatory letters to himself. The Spring 2013 Seattle Pacific University had elected Blews student body pres- issue of the CCCU’s Advance Magazine had 18 photos of Blews. ident, but SPU says he never earned a bachelor’s degree there. Staffers say he had to approve everything. “You felt like you Blews did graduate from Thomas Cooley Law School, which needed permission to go to the bathroom,” one former accepts certain students without a bache- employee said. “It became this paranoid, Soviet culture.” lor’s degree, but the State Bar of Michigan Inconsistency marked Blews’ tenure even in lobbying, his fired: Blews has no record of him ever passing the bar. area of strength. He officially protested Obamacare’s abortion speaks at his Blews spent 28 years in a lobbying role pill mandate to the Department of Health and Human Services inauguration last January. at the Association of Independent Colleges (HHS), but his communications strategy wasn’t robust. In and Universities of Michigan, a four-person July, days after HHS released its final rule, Inside Higher Ed operation without the size and scope of the ran a story quoting leaders of the Becket Fund for Religious CCCU, which has 72 full-time employees. “He was probably Liberty and the Association of Catholic Colleges and overwhelmed by the complexity and the diversity of institu- Universities, but noted that the CCCU declined to comment.

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3 CCCU.indd 41 1/21/14 9:41 PM Some CCCU member presidents saw Blews as unresponsive to student dollars on campus. Some schools are saying scholar- their concerns. ship money cannot be used for off -campus courses. Former Eleven of the  administrative staff members in Washington president Andringa, now a nonprofi t ministry consultant, said left the Council in , taking with them seven decades of many campuses suff er from dwindling denominational sup- institutional knowledge. Andringa said the departed employees port, have already deferred campus maintenance, and have played critical roles, and cited Kyle Royer as “a terrifi c CFO” mandated hiring and salary freezes. who had been with the Council  years. Blews’ solution: e CCCU Washington administrative staff is barely half bring in a temporary accountant two days a week. Offi ce the size it was a year ago. Blews’ contract may leave the CCCU disarray led to confusion about plans for February’s Forum: in a fi nancial bind: When he fi rst met the staff in July , he When the Board unanimously ousted Blews in October, regis- boasted that his “ironclad fi ve-year contract” could not be tration was still not online and the program was still unset. voided even if he was fi red with cause. No former employee Philanthropist Roberta Ahmanson, the opening-night would reveal to me the details of the contract, but according keynote speaker at next month’s Forum, says the CCCU Board to GuideStar, Blews’ predecessor had an annual salary of should have more carefully reviewed Blews’ educational almost ,. If Blews was making that amount and the background: “If they did know, then they really need to do contract is as ironclad as he thinks it is, the Council could pay some soul searching about why they went ahead and hired as much as . million over fi ve years—a lot of money for an him.” I contacted Kim Phipps and the current CCCU Board organization that cleared only , in fi scal . chair, Chip Pollard, president of John Brown University, but Blews may sue the CCCU over his dismissal, and this would they both declined to comment. I left voicemails for Blews create more uncertainty for an organization that, according to and visited his home in Washington, but he did not return Andringa, has “lost a lot of credibility, unfortunately, in the my messages. last year.” Although acting CCCU president Bill Robinson made Forum planning his top priority, and registration went online days after the fi ring of Blews, as of mid-Jan- uary the Council was still scrambling to secure enough registrants to cover the Los Angeles hotel contract. Former CCCU president Corts told me the CCCU is a crucial defender of Christian institutions’ right to hire only believers: Without that right, Christian institutions cease to be Christian and “all the rest is for naught.” e Obama administration has argued the religious exemption to laws against hiring discrimination should not exist, but the U.S. Supreme Court in  ruled unanimously in favor of keeping it. “It’s such a fragile thing,” Corts said. “In virtually every Congress there is legislation introduced to take that right away.” Colorado Christian University vice president Christopher Leland said it’s becoming increasingly diffi cult to con- vince accrediting bodies that educational excellence can go together with a uniquely THREATS FROM Christian vision: “We have a lot ’   as the WITHIN AND of Christian colleges and uni- council already faced signifi - WITHOUT: Phipps versities who are doing a lot of cant challenges. According to and Blews (above); good work and need help.” Some the Spring  the most recent data available issue of the CCCU members want an organi- on GuideStar, which collects CCCU’s Advance zation that will engage not only nonprofi t fi nancial reports, magazine. Congress and the Department of member dues accounted for Education, but scholars and writers only . million of the who critique higher education. CCCU’s . million budget in . ree- Andringa said Christians should fourths of it, . million, came from off - rally around the CCCU: “ e Council campus student programs, including a is critical to the body of Christ in the journalism program in Washington, a fi lm- next several decades.” Without

studies program in Los Angeles, and study-abroad programs accountability, says Ahmanson, scandals © in countries around the world. are inevitable: “It’s time for evangelical VICTORIA Former employees conﬁ rmed enrollment in those programs institutions, especially in higher education, to assess their is down dramatically in recent years, as more institutions boards. … ey need to also understand that being supportive RUAN create their own study-abroad programs and seek to keep means asking hard questions.” A

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y now the infamous mug harm them.” Bipolar disorder causes unusual and shot of Jared Loughner—head severe “shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and shaved, eyes crazed, smile the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.” A 2010 crooked and unreadable—is study by NIMH estimates that 40 percent of adults embedded in Americans’ with schizophrenia and 51 percent of individuals minds. He was once a good- with severe bipolar disorder receive no treatment looking, well-toned teenager within any one-year period. How should Christians with blue eyes. Today, he’s bet- respond? ter known as a mass murderer We can start by listening to the stories that who in Phoenix on Jan. 8, 2011, mothers of the mentally ill tell. In Phoenix, Deborah shot 19 people, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Geesling tries to be a good mother to her son Seth Six of them, one a 9-year-old girl, died. Geesling, 21, who stands a hulking 6-foot-1-inch. Loughner’s inappropriate smile, which so haunt- He speaks soft and low, and his eyes are brown and Bingly captured his manic thoughts at the time, chilled doe-like, curtained by lashes that many viewers who watched it flash on screens for could make a teenage girl jealous. He LISTEN: days and weeks. More mass shootings have erupted Deborah is the third of four brothers—all over across the nation over the following two years—at a Geesling 6 feet tall, dwarfing their blond, Colorado movie theater, a Connecticut elementary with a photo bespectacled mother. The three school, and the Washington Navy Yard. They all trace of Seth. others do not have mental illnesses. back to untreated mental illnesses, as do 63 percent Before I met Seth, Deborah told of mass shootings since 1982, according to a list me her son is a perceptive, kind sweetheart, her compiled by Mother Jones, a liberal investigative “pico de gallo.” Although she worried how he would magazine. respond to me, when we met he showed himself a Still, fewer than one out of 100,000 mentally ill gentleman: warm, polite, and considerate. But individuals become mass murderers. The everyday observe him for some time, and certain things seem tragedies are those within individual lives and fami- a little off. Seth is restless, unable to focus or sit still. lies: About 7.7 million American adults, or 3.3 per- At times his speech wanders and slurs. He can be cent of the U.S. population, suffer from a serious slow in responding to questions, and sometimes he mental illness, primarily schizophrenia and bipolar smiles or chuckles at odd times. His official diagnosis disorder with psychosis. Schizophrenia, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) may cause people to “hear voices other people don’t by Sophia Lee in Phoenix, Ariz. hear” and “believe other people are reading their photo by Charlie Leight/genesis minds, controlling their thoughts, or plotting to

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3 MENTAL ILLNESS.indd 45 1/21/14 12:33 PM is schizoaffective disorder, which means he shows symptoms considered “a danger to self,” “a danger to others,” “gravely for both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. disabled,” or “persistently or acutely disabled.” Most states Seth was 14 when he started showing bipolar symptoms. only allow involuntary treatment if the person is a danger to His reckless behaviors jumped far out of his usual sweet self and others—which bluntly translates to requiring violence character. He secretly overdosed on Benadryl and awoke before acting toward prevention, rather than proactively vomiting. He would run away from home, once disappearing taking all measures to prevent it. for three days. “At the time, it just seemed like he was being a The Geeslings were able to petition the courts to commit rebellious teenager,” said Deborah. She found his behaviors Seth involuntarily. Per Arizona’s law, the judge put him on extreme and perplexing, but “we didn’t know what we were court-ordered treatment for one year; but once the order really dealing with at all.” The behaviors turned increasingly expired, Seth stopped taking his irrational, violent, manic. He ran away from home so often medication. And so began the that the Geeslings had an on-call search team of church carousel: Hospital. Court. Home. perplexing issue: The closed Central State pastors. The Geeslings’ fingers were poised to dial 911 at any Hospital again. Transfer to another Hospital in Milledgeville, given moment. hospital, then another. Home. A Ga., which originally One night, Seth hit his father. By that point, the Geeslings shortage of public psychiatric beds opened in 1842 (below); knew Seth shouldn’t be at home. Deborah was hysterical from in the state meant hospital staff Seth with his parents and one of his brothers fear and exhaustion. Too frequently, they were sending his could only keep Seth long enough (top right); Jared younger brother to the safety of a friend’s house. They had to stabilize him. At home he would Loughner’s mug shot tried everything: a Christian ranch in Montana, juvenile stop taking his medication; (bottom right). deterrence programs, counseling, discipline—nothing was working. It was a bizarre situation that night: A parent begging a cop to arrest a son. But as Deborah watched her son being led away in hand- cuffs, she felt it might save him: “This goes against the norm of a parent’s heart, but we were very grateful he was in jail. At least we knew he was safe for that time.” After jail and staying in an interim house, Seth was put on probation—but he stopped taking his medication, started hanging out with the wrong crowd, and rapidly fell into a worse mental state. By then he was 18—a legal adult. Soon after, he had his first psychotic break: He went around his neighborhood ringing his neighbors’ doorbells and singing the same song over

and over. His brothers chased Jaime Henry-W

him while disturbed neighbors looked on. By the time he ran symptoms would return, and he would be back at the hospital P i ma County into a busy street, five police officers were after him. He to start the cycle all over again. Deborah calls it a “revolving pushed an officer down and ran out into the middle of the door system.” h i te/ap • Geeslin

road. Cars honked, tires screeched, people howled. Finally, an The bed shortage is a nationwide problem. The Treatment S h e

officer tasered him. Advocacy Center, a national advocacy organization, estimates riff’s that the nation is short 95,000 psychiatric beds. In 1955, 300 F o

public psychiatric beds were available for every 100,000 peo- rensi g s:

rizona’s mental health laws are considered ple. America has lost 95 percent of those beds since then: Half h c a

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Arizona is one of the few states that allow Deinstitutionalization back then appealed to both civil- u I g m h a n

residents to be involuntarily (by court order) rights liberals seeking to “free” the mentally ill from lockdown g er: e Aevaluated and treated for mental disorders if they are institutions, and to fiscal conservatives looking for ways to cut s

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3 MENTAL ILLNESS.indd 46 1/21/14 12:26 PM Before such federal programs, state governments paid 98 percent of mental health costs. But state cost-cutters realized that by closing down psychiatric beds and forcing out patients, they could shift the financial burden onto the federal government. Medicaid did not pay for state psychiatric hospital patients between the ages of 22 to 64, but it covered community-based services and also paid for inpatient psychiatric care in general medical hospitals. Those rules gave states incentives to push patients into outpatient programs and general medical hospitals (usually ill-equipped for long-term psychiatric care). By 1986, 42 percent of mental health expenditure was on inpatient care, and by 2005 that had dropped to 20 percent. Medicaid brought some benefits, including adoption of safer and more effective antidepres- sants and antipsychotic drugs. But some researchers believe it also tilted public mental healthcare toward Medicaid-covered people and services, as states aggressively pursued policies and programs that met Medicaid match requirements. State agency roles dwindled to financing and adopting reim- budgets. In an era devoted bursable Medicaid practices that often did not fit individual to liberation, activists and patient needs. novelists (such as Ken One problem quickly emerged: Once the patients were liber- Kesey, author of One Flew ated, who would make them take their medicine? Homelessness Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, spiked. Prison populations swelled. Public resources, spent on which became a much- law enforcement and emergency services, surged. D.J. Jaffe,

Jaime Henry-W lauded movie) argued that executive director of Mental Illness Policy Org., told me,

P the mentally ill might be “Under the guise of protecting civil liberties, we have more i ma County the sanest among us, and in people incarcerated for mental illness than ever before. Civil any case treatment should liberties? Freeing people from their psychosis, from their h i te/ap • Geeslin

S be voluntary. hallucinations, is the greatest liberty you can provide them.” h e riff’s This massive social experiment worked for F o rensi some higher-functioning hen Seth was first hospitalized in an g s:

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u phrenia to improve significantly. The introduction of Medicaid stood confused, helpless, and scared. “So ... I g m h a n g in 1965 and the expansion of other federal programs led state what do we do? What now?” they asked. “Go find him a er: e s governments to ask, “What can we get Washington to pay?” Wcounselor,” the psychiatrist and a caseworker advised. The

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3 MENTAL ILLNESS.indd 47 1/21/14 12:26 PM Geeslings drove back home feeling as though they were ence working as a detention officer for a jail, where his inter- “groping in the dark,” Deborah recalled. Meanwhile, Seth actions with the mentally ill were limited to insuring they steamed with bitter resentment in the backseat, certain his take their medication and maintaining a safe, structured parents were the enemies. They had lost his trust. environment. Now he works in a setting where the goal is to Jaffe says the top-recurring question from parents is, “My keep r esidents out of jail. He and Seth share a casual interac- son doesn’t realize he has a mental illness. What do I do?” Nor tion of easy banters and occasional admonishments, like a do adult children with psychotic parents know what to do. Yet big-brother mentorship. individuals without insight into their mental illness—a clini- “The concept of helping develop them into a member of cal condition called “anosognosia”—are the greatest danger to society where they can have a job, a wife, children, a family ... themselves and society. Many national organizations talk a lot I didn’t connect it,” Jacoba said. The biggest thing he’s learned about getting rid of stigma regarding the mentally ill, but the while working in this group home, he said, is that people with most seriously mentally ill are too sick to care about stigmas, mental illnesses are not that different from “normal” people. or even to realize they’re sick. They need immediate, direct “If you don’t pay attention, if you think they can’t talk about treatment—medications, hospital beds, and assisted transition anything beyond the weather, then you’re missing out. You’re to court-ordered outpatient care—but often don’t get it. really missing out on some truly interesting individuals.” It took Deborah years of experience to gain adequate treat- Seth has improved significantly with the acute care pro- ment for Seth. She attended a National Alliance on Mental vided at the group home. Still, Deborah has to keep fighting to Illness (NAMI) “Family to Family” class, a keep Seth there for as long as he needs to be. 12-week course taught by trained family Although Seth has fared much better and is members. Other mothers and advocates gradually slipping out of anosognosia, he still taught her options and strategies never intro- struggles physically and psychologically. 7.7 million sources: duced by doctors or caseworkers. “I always American adults have For one, Seth hasn’t had a proper holiday feel like it’s almost a game,” she said. “You severe mental illness. dinner with his family for years. He has Natio need to learn how to game the system, and counted the exact number of days that he’s n

I’m constantly fighting to get my son the sup- 3.6 million been away from home since he was age 17: 367 a l

I port he needs.” Deborah was eventually able American adults have spent in hospitals, institutions, and jail, not n s to get Seth into a 24/7-care group home in severe mental illness and counting the almost two years he’s spent in a titute

Mesa, Ariz., with four other men also with do not receive treatment group home. “Holidays are hard for Seth,” of

serious mental illnesses. in any given year. Deborah said. “I can’t remember the last good Me n t

In addition to the group home, Seth has an holiday dinner. Seth has a hard time, I think, al ACT (Assertive Community Treatment) team, 400,000 because it reminds him of what he’s lost.” Healt

an interdisciplinary program for severely incarcerated American Deborah’s voice started quivering: “He so h ; Na

mentally ill outpatients. The ACT program adults have untreated much wants to be with his family. But his tio n

emerged during the deinstitutionalization era mental illness. brothers are moving on with life, and it’s hard a l

and is available in six states and various local emotionally for him.” Sometimes, as Deborah l lia

regions. Theoretically, the teams help outpa- drives back home after visiting Seth, she n

216,000 c e

tients transition into community through a homeless American breaks down in the car. It breaks her heart as o n adults have untreated M long-term, proactive, highly individualized a parent to leave a son in another home. e n t

approach. But it still takes a mother or father severe mental illness. Mental illness is a lifelong issue. Although al

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to step in frequently and be an advocate, as much improved because of better medications, l n e Deborah did to put Seth under 24-hour care 1,400 Seth’s mental state destabilizes whenever sses;

in a group home. persons died in things fall out of routine. Right after Jacoba Natio The group home sits in a quiet, suburban homicides committed got promoted from group home manager, Seth n a

residential area with manicured lawns. It’s a by American adults with snuck out the window and ran away. His l

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patients board games, a TV, and a ping-pong 2012. Deborah wrote in an email to me. But she also c e table. The residents are assigned various tells me, “From the beginning, my son is the to

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cooking dinner or wiping the windows. They of individuals with we’re the ones watching him suffer … but as m e share a common love for hot sauce—they keep schizophrenia and much as God has allowed the suffering, every less n

a Costco-sized bottle of Tapatio on their din- bipolar disorder have step of the way, He’s provided.” e ss;

ing table, and squirt it on everything from anosognosia, or “lack of T r fries to popcorn. insight.” eat m e n Staff members monitor Seth and other thought about what Deborah meant sis e t

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visited was Ian Jacoba, a 6-foot-4-inch ex- hospital beds have been fice. His family has shed many tears, but C e n

football player with thick arms, a thick neck, eliminated since 1960. they also have witnessed God’s providence te ar r and a thick voice. He had two years of experi- Iin every trial. Seth has brought blessings of Ch lie

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3 MENTAL ILLNESS.indd 48 1/22/14 9:22 AM ‘From the beginning, my son is the hero here. He’s the one who’s suff ering, and we’re the ones watching him suff er … but as much as God has allowed the suff ering, every step of the way, He’s provided.’

ey seek ways to interact with him and take him out regularly. She said that members are learning that her son and others are “not unreachable—but they’ve been neglected for so long.” A SOURCES: doctor often only treats the brain as an organ with symptoms. e NATIONAL church, however, can treat the whole person by lifting the hope-

INSTITUTE lessness, unhappiness, and self- worthlessness that obstruct a

OF person’s ability to worship and

MENTAL glorify God. Once a week, Seth meets with HEALTH; his pastor, Trey Richardson, for biblical counseling. Seth’s love NATIONAL for his church hasn’t wavered, and even if sometimes he walks

ALLIANCE out in the middle of a sermon, Richardson uses that incident to

ON teach him about the fruit of the MENTAL Spirit. Recently he asked Seth, “What was your happiest ILLNESSES; moment this week?” Seth replied: “When I’m in church.”

NATIONAL One afternoon at church after his biblical counseling session, Seth prayed, “Dear Father, I pray ALLIANCE that you enlighten us today in our walk with you. … ank you TO for our church and family. May END grace and insight to those who wept and rejoiced with him. we come to love you more and more. … Amen.” HOMELESSNESS; Whatever Seth’s mental condition, Deborah said, “He “Well said, well said,” replied Richardson. responds to Christ. … We know the Holy Spirit is in him.” Later, Richardson told me that Seth and his family have In Deborah’s Sovereign Grace Church, her pastor Trey blessed both him and the church, as members have watched

TREATMENT Richardson and his wife lead a small group for caregivers God’s promises transform into real fruits through the Geeslings’ once a month. About four families meet at a local Applebee’s trial: “It’s amazing to see someone not just talking about it, but to share Scriptures and struggles, check up on each other’s living it out. You can read a book or an article about it, but it’s ADVOCACY progress, and pray for one another. “It’s very encouraging,” not the same as when you see a life actually living it.” A Deborah said. “We’re very open with each other, and we —This was part one of Sophia Lee’s investigation. In part two she LEIGHT/GENESIS

CENTER laugh about things we probably wouldn’t on a regular day.” writes about a young woman dealing with bipolar disorder, a young It took some time and guidance, but Deborah said members man whose condition tortures his mother and himself, and what

CHARLIE of her church have learned more about her son Seth’s illness. government and churches are doing—and not doing.

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3 MENTAL ILLNESS.indd 49 1/21/14 12:29 PM BROTHER vs. BROTHER As political and tribal conflict splits South Sudan, ch urch leaders hope to be peacemakers by Jamie Dean

hen John Chol Daau heard gunfire erupt in Juba, South Sudan, on the night of Dec. 15, the sound was disturbing but familiar. Daau, now an Episcopal priest, fled his home in South Sudan in the 1980s, as Sudanese troops from the north waged a brutal 20-year war against southerners in an attempt to impose Islamic law on the Christian and animist region. The war killed some two million South Sudanese and displaced an estimated four million. The young Daau joined the now-famous “Lost Boys” of Sudan—a cadre of about 20,000 South Sudanese boys and teenagers who trekked more than a

thousand miles across treacherous terrain to sparse CURTIS/AP

refugee camps in neighboring countries. BEN

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3 SOUTH SUDAN.indd 50 1/22/14 11:15 AM BROTHER VS. BROTHER As political and tribal conﬂ ict splits South Sudan, ch urch leaders hope to be peacemakers /// by JAMIE DEAN

More than  years later, the north at’s a vexing reality for hundreds DISPLACED: People rest after getting off a and south signed a peace treaty, and of thousands of South Sudanese citi- river barge in Awerial, South Sudan—some of the thousands who fl ed recent fi ghting South Sudan declared its independence zens who now have fl ed their homes between government and rebel forces in Bor. from the north in . Daau pursued again. e United Nations estimates Christian ministry and returned to nearly half a million displaced citizens. South Sudan to establish a Christian And it’s an urgent challenge for church Abraham Nhial, an Episcopal bishop college and seminary in the land he leaders like Daau who have worked in South Sudan and author of the auto- once fl ed. hard to promote peace for years. biography Lost Boy No More, says But the gunfi re Daau heard in South Indeed, churches have played a vital churches are facing the complex prob- Sudan’s capital of Juba this past role in South Sudanese life for decades, lems of the new confl ict with simple December signaled the beginning of a providing aid during wars and counsel means: visiting refugees, talking with confl ict that threatens to unravel the during confl icts. In the past, govern- government offi cials, praying with those -year-old nation. is time, southern- ment offi cials have appointed church suff ering, and preaching the Bible.

CURTIS/AP ers are ﬁ ghting southerners, and in some leaders to head peace commissions “Politics can’t bring people together,

BEN regions tribes have turned against tribes. between warring tribes. but the gospel can,” he said in a phone

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3 SOUTH SUDAN.indd 51 1/22/14 11:15 AM interview. “As Christians, we want to It’s a complicated conflict with deep EMBATTLED: Government soldiers ride be peacemakers.” roots. In the 1990s, southern forces through the still-smoldering town of Bentiu after capturing it from rebel forces Jan. 12. Nhial says the prospect of southern- known as the Sudan People’s ers fighting southerners is bewildering. Liberation Movement (SPLM) split in “We were born in war. We grew up in their fight against the north. Machar By mid-January, the two sides had war. We had our own children in the defected for a time, and he led an infa- sent representatives to peace talks in war. We don’t want it to continue.” mous massacre of some 2,000 Dinka Ethiopia, but fighting continued. A key tribesmen in 1991. question remained unanswered: What

eacemaking seemed elusive John Garang, the first president of did Machar hope to achieve? Few SOLDIERS: Mack after fighting erupted in Juba South Sudan, eventually reconciled believed Machar could gain control of on Dec. 15 between soldiers with Machar in an attempt to unify the the country, and Kiir seemed deter- loyal to President Salva Kiir south. Garang died in a helicopter mined to end the rebellion. e n

and those loyal to former Vice President crash shortly after the war ended in But other questions loomed: Even if z i e

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Riek Machar. 2005, and Kiir became president. the two sides reached a ceasefire, how n o w

After a gunfight between soldiers in Machar became vice president. would the country address the deeper l es -

an army barracks, the president But the old wounds festered, problems that led to the conflict? And C o u

accused Machar of attempting even as the country declared how could outside nations help the r si n

a coup. Machar denied it, its independence in 2011, country move past crisis and toward / A P •

but called for Kiir to step and Kiir absorbed mem- development? K I down. Machar became bers of militia from various For the United States, that’s a critical SayyIR: the leader for rebel troops tribes into the country’s question. The U.S. government helped i d

that initially seized control army. Meanwhile, Kiir steer South Sudan toward independence z i m /

of key cities. faced increasing criticism and has given the nation $300 million A P

In some regions, the as the new country contin- in aid over the last two years. But some • M

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political fight stoked ethnic ued to suffer from weak American experts on South Sudan say H A R:

conflict: Kiir is a member of development and accusations U.S. officials should have done more to A S the Dinka tribe; Machar of government corruption. help defuse the building tension over HR A belongs to the Nuer ethnic Machar was a chief critic recent months. F S H A Z

group. Reports emerged of Kiir, who fired Machar Eric Reeves—a Sudan expert and L Y / A

that Dinkas had killed from his vice presidential professor at Smith College—wrote that F P/G P

members of the Nuer post last July. Tensions South Sudan received too little help in e A t / ty I s i

tribe in Juba, and that swelled over the next few “establishing democratic institutions t r m u a C

Nuer tribesmen had killed months until fighting that would allow the SPLM to outgrow g n es e

Dinkas in other regions. Riek Machar broke out in December. its guerilla warfare past.” He continued: B

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3 SOUTH SUDAN.indd 52 1/21/14 4:43 PM “The U.S. couldn’t dictate governance, mediate tribal conflicts and press for common identity: “We are one commu- but could have done more to assist.” peace agreements. John Chol Daau, the nity. We are believers in Jesus Christ.” During the months leading up to the Episcopal priest and former Lost Boy, Bishop Nhial says that’s a message current crisis, two key U.S. posts were has served on a government peace he’s emphasizing among self-identified vacant: the special envoy to Sudan and commission led by Episcopal Christians who sometimes divide along the chief of Africa policy for the State Archbishop Daniel Deng. tribal lines—especially those fighting in Department. Andrew Natsios, special Church officials say they want to use the current conflict. “They need to envoy for Sudan under President biblical principles to address spiritual know what the Bible tells them,” he George W. Bush, told Reuters news problems that lead to conflict, and to says. “Do they know they cannot be service: “When all of this was deterio- point out problems when needed. divided? Do they know they are one rating, there was no one in charge.” In a joint statement last year by family of God?” Jok Madut Jok—a former South Deng and the Catholic archbishop Meanwhile, though resources in Sudanese official who now works for the Paulino Lukudu Loro, the pair wrote: South Sudanese churches often are Sudd Institute in Juba—said longtime “We are not politicians. The prophetic limited, both Nhial and Daau say they are working with church leaders to deliver aid to refugee communities when possible. Other church leaders are already visiting refugee camps to preach, comfort, and pray with those in need. Those numbers continue to swell, as thousands have fled the country and aid groups struggle to deliver aid to tens of thousands in overcrowded camps in the country. Satellite images have shown dead bodies and burned homes in key embattled towns. The UN reported attacks on aid convoys had kept vital supplies from reaching vulnerable populations. Many aid groups evacuated their foreign staff to surrounding countries. The Christian relief group Samaritan’s

SOLDIERS: Mack Purse continues its operations at the Yida refugee camp near the north-south border in South Sudan. The camp hosts nearly 70,000 people who have fled to e n z South Sudan after enduring bombing i e

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/ Journal that outside countries helped South Sudan’s current crisis to advance A refugee camp in Awerial. P •

K South Sudan with foreign aid. The paper their own interests in nearby oil fields. I IR: SayyIR: added: “What they missed is that people’s Ken Issacs of Samaritan’s Purse said souls have to be fat in the same way.” voice of the church reads the signs of the group had enough food on hand to i d

z the times in the light of gospel values feed Yida refugees through mid-February, i m /

A or South Sudan church lead- and, like the prophets of the Old but that precarious security conditions P

• M ers, attending to the needs of Testament, calls for a change of heart could hamper delivery of more aid. A C

H bodies and souls has been a leading to a change of behavior.” Nhial says some citizens have fled to A R:

A decades-long process. During After the recent fighting, Dinka and other parts of the country that have S HR the war in the 1980s and 1990s, Nuer church leaders from Catholic, remained peaceful during the conflict, A F F S churches were often the only institu- Episcopal, Presbyterian, and other but that some families have separated H A Z

L tions left in parts of South Sudan. denominations issued a statement as they fled. For the former Lost Boy, Y / A

F Church leaders offered spiritual and pleading with South Sudanese citizens it’s a sad reality. P/G P

e material help that fostered substantial not to allow a political conflict to turn “Now there are more lost boys from A t / ty I s i

t credibility with local populations. into an ethnic war. this fighting,” says Nhial. “But I still r m u a C g Over the years, government officials Daau says it’s critical to remind have hope that one day there will be no n es e

B tapped pastors and priests to help Christians from different tribes of their more lost boys in South Sudan.” A

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3 SOUTH SUDAN.indd 53 1/21/14 9:35 AM SINGLE BUT NOT SOLITARY These unmarried Christians face disappointments but find with Christ they are not alone by Angela Lu

ike Sense glanced around the room at his Covenant Seminary classmates. Most had gold rings gracing their left hands. He thought bitterly, “Everyone in this room is getting what they want and I’m not.” At 32 and one of the few single men in his St. Louis seminary, Sense Mhonestly voices his frustration: “Wait, God, I’ve moved to the other side of the world for you, I’ve served you and forgone money and fortune—and

this one thing I ask for, I don’t get?” genesis / r While Sense has been in relationships, none of them have worked out. e ivi As he watches friend after friend get married and have kids, he knows d a V theologically that God is not unjust, and he understands that singleness

has upsides: more time to care for his friends and help them through their Kevin n

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3 SINGLENESS.indd 54 1/21/14 3:35 PM problems. But there’s always the lonely drive home to an empty ful thing the Lord has graciously given so FABS HARFORD: house. that man and woman can flourish and Articulating the Christian faith. Despite the rise of cohabitation and changing attitudes have places of safety and trust.” Lately about marriage, many Christians continue to hold a high view he’s been feeling a deep desire for chil- of the institution and yet find themselves single. As Valentine’s dren, which coming from a man seems to Day approached, I spoke with a dozen of them to uncover the surprise his friends: “When women share that … people struggles they face and the consolation they find as they brave receive it in stride.” an uncertain future not of their own choosing. In Los Angeles, Gina Fenwick, 42, approaches the end of

er/genesis her childbearing years and still has not found a husband: “The ivi d young women complain about biological clock is ticking. At 30 I didn’t focus so much on a Some Christian V their male counterparts’ unwillingness to commit, but Sense marriage, I just assumed it would happen. … I still believe that

Kevin n has never struggled that way. He views marriage as a “beauti- I will get married, but maybe years down the line. I kind of

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3 SINGLENESS.indd 55 1/21/14 3:33 PM realize I need to give up my dream of didn’t mind being single—most of the hard that you’re alone, that no one having children.” other women on staff were single as picked you, but someone understands Fenwick, who has been celibate well. But over the years, as she’s you,’” Harford said. since professing Christ  years ago, attended weddings and baby showers, admits that she has days when it’s a her thoughts began to change: “ e Jenilyn Swett, , works in fi ght to stay pure in a city that bombards harder struggle with singleness is not the women’s ministry at Crossroads her with erotic messages. Sometimes Presbyterian Church in St. Louis. She she’s tempted to take things into her talks about the benefi ts of mixed-aged own hands and fi nd someone–anyone– activities at church: “Getting to see to fi ll that void. But as her relationship married folks actively work through with God grows, she’s been seeing some of the struggles of marriage has what’s really at stake. “If I entertain just kind of kept reality in view.” She these thoughts, I’m going to lose so adds, “Being single is hard, so is being much more than giving my body away: married. … In no way has that deterred It’s going to impact my relationship me or discouraged me [from getting with God, the married], but it’s helped me to remem- church, and my ber to keep marriage in its appropriate community.” place and to not elevate it too much.” Sense As a single By watching so many of her friends woman, she has had get married, Swett realizes there’s no the time to serve in even wanting someone, formula to fi nding a husband, and the her church’s prayer but being confused as to fact that her past relationships haven’t ministry, lead a post- why someone doesn’t worked out and she’s currently single is abortion group at a want me. … Why did no only because this is where God wants local pregnancy cen- one pick me? Am I too her right now. “I think a lot of trusting ter, and help others fat? Too annoying? Is Him in this is learning to lament … and in her community my personality bad?” being able to honestly say to Him, ‘ is group. Most of her Fenwick Harford turned to is hard’ or ‘ is is really lonely’ or ‘ is friends in L.A. are blogging to work through really sucks’ or ‘Really? Another friend single, so she spends these issues. In , is getting engaged?’” Swett said. “Just time meeting up with them for dinner, she started a series that being able to talk to going to concerts, and hosting game looks at how many of the Him as a Father, that nights. struggles of singleness— He cares, that He sees loneliness, rejection, lost me, and everything Fabs Harford, a -year- dreams—are actually He promises is true old serving in the women’s ministry at blessings pointing her even if it doesn’t Austin Stone Community Church in toward Christ. Her most always feel that way.” Texas, describes her feelings about popular post was Even though singleness as a pendulum that swings “Blessings of Singleness Swett would like to between a pity party and being OK : Lack of Physical get married, she with where she is. Intimacy.” Who deter- doesn’t always Harford has felt pressured to get mines what she needs appreciate it when married ever since professing Christ a most? she asked: Her Swett married women off er decade ago. But as she’s grown in her body? Or God? Her con- to set her up with faith, her reasons for wanting to tie the clusion: God “doesn’t the one other single ILLUSTRATIONS:LAVANDAART/SHUTTERSTOCK PHOTOS: • HANDOUT knot have also matured: Now she promise to give me everything I need person they know, but she’s willing to desires marriage as a covenant binding to never be hungry. He promises to give be set up by someone who knows her together husband and wife and requir- me everything I need to not starve to well and knows a man who would ing grace and forgiveness. Even death on the road home to Him.” complement her. as she hears from her married More than  women friends about diffi culties, she and men commented At , Linda Kennedy of Atlanta wants to experience on the post, many is still looking for her man. After she the sanctifying bene- saying that her professed Christ in , she’s found that fi ts of marriage and writing touched on only non-Christian men pursued her. have the opportunity thoughts and feelings She found singleness most diffi cult while to act out the gospel in that they’d never been she was raising her son, and then raising someone else’s life. able to express. “For a lot of a niece and nephew. But despite lonely When she joined the people it helped them feel holidays, Kennedy says she’s learned to church staff seven years ago, she heard to have someone say, ‘Hey, it’s be content. She doesn’t want to com-

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3 SINGLENESS.indd 56 1/21/14 4:47 PM promise, and is currently seeing a not from well-meaning church peo- “gentleman” she hopes to marry. ple assuring him that he’ll fi nd “the But if it doesn’t work out, she’s still one” someday. He points to Isaiah  e fi ve worst things willing to submit to God’s will. and , where the Lord promised to say to singles She tells “the eunuchs who younger singles keep my Sabbaths, that “God is faith- Kennedy who choose the ‘You won’t fi nd your ful and able to keep things that please husband until you’re fully you living single me and hold fast and not fornicate. It my covenant, I satisfi ed with God.’ doesn’t mean you will give in my stop having feel- house and within ‘But you’re so pretty, how ings, but that you my walls a monu- can you still be single?’ are God’s property ment and a name and He will help better than sons ‘Don’t worry, I’m sure you’ll you through the and daughters; I Holy Spirit.” will give them an fi nd him/her someday.’ On Fabs everlasting place Harford’s hard days, that shall never be ‘Don’t be so picky, you she holds on to the c u t o ff . ” know you’re getting older.’ promise that marriage is temporal, Despite hard days, unmet while the fruit of her ministry is desires, and feeling misunderstood, ‘So, are you still single eternal. She said her greatest comfort Sense fi nds encouragement in the is knowing that Jesus lived His life unchanging Word: “It makes because you have a fear single, yet still lived the perfect life. me feel important to know of commitment?’ e best advice Mike Sense ever that singles have a place in heard came from the Bible and the Bible.” A

Single in the city of sex At Gina Fenwick’s church, Reality LA, singles make up about  percent of the congregants. Meeting blocks from the Hollywood sign, Reality LA reaches out to the people in the entertainment industry, where married couples are rare. Reality LA’s Pastor, Tim Chaddick, said he has parishioners coming up to him weekly with their struggles with singleness. In one sense it’s diffi cult to fi x the “singleness” problem they believe they have, he said, because relationships can’t just be manufactured. “It takes a lot of work, you have to discover … people you connect with, discover people you have an interest in,” Chaddick said. “I think when I talk about the theological side of it, most people receive that—that’s what Scripture says—but I think a lot of people want a very detailed how-to manual.” ILLUSTRATIONS:LAVANDAART/SHUTTERSTOCK PHOTOS: • HANDOUT He encourages singles to meet in local community groups where they can interact with other singles in a group setting while also learning from the wisdom of married people. And while he sympathizes with his single congregants and their struggles, he encourages them to focus less on their marital status and more on pursuing holiness in their current stage of life. Especially in a sex-crazed city like L.A., singles can make an impact on culture by caring about and striving for purity. “When our city sees men and women who are abstaining from sexual activity and yet who are single, that is mind-blowing,” Chaddick said. “Why would you ever not be going out and getting laid and hooking up? Why would you ever not do that? at’s absurd. So it becomes this amazing opportunity to say, ‘Because there is something greater.’ … I think there’s an incredible potential for Christian witness.” For instance, one congregant wrote an opinion column in L.A. Magazine explaining why she was saving herself for marriage in their annual sex issue. Between articles about hot spots to pick up romantic fl ings and a roundup on condoms, Marielle Wakim writes that at , she’s a virgin by choice, and that God does affi rm sex–as long as it’s in marriage. In the hipster enclave of Silver Lake where -year-old Chaddick lives with his wife and three daughters, he is an anomaly. People are shocked and confused at why a young man like Chaddick would throw his life away to be “tied down” to family. So at the pulpit he preaches the countercultural messages of both the theology of marriage as well as the important role of singles in the kingdom of heaven. —A.L.

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Drowsy drug Duped Scientists explain why a swine flu vaccine caused narcolepsy database in Europe By daniel james devine A long-term health database A strange thing happened to dozens of European kids who received a vaccine of adolescents that has against the 2009 pandemic swine flu. They began falling asleep abruptly and unex- formed the basis for over pectedly in the middle of the day. Research into the problem revealed that in rare 1,900 scholarly articles may >> cases the Pandemrix swine flu shot had triggered the onset of narcolepsy, an incurable be skewed by young sleep disorder. “jokesters” who lied to sci- In December, scientists from the Stanford entists about their sexual Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine orientation. Over 70 percent in Palo Alto, Calif., announced they had of teenagers who originally discovered the likely explanation: “molecular claimed to have same-sex mimicry.” A protein found in the H1N1 swine attractions in surveys for flu virus partially resembles hypocretin, a the National Longitudinal human hormone responsible for maintaining Study of Adolescent Health wakefulness. The hormone is produced by identified as exclusively certain brain neurons. After genetically heterosexual by the time susceptible people either contracted swine flu or they were young adults. received the vaccine (which contains the virus), Writing in Archives of their immune cells became primed to attack not Sexual Behavior in only swine flu but hypocretin-producing December, researchers sug- neurons. The end result was n arcolepsy—among gest many of these teens both vaccinated Europeans and unvaccinated either falsely reported same- Chinese who had contracted the flu. sex attraction as a joke, or The vaccine, made by GlaxoSmithKline, has didn’t understand what been discontinued and was never used in the “romantic attraction” meant. United States. Out of 30 million people vacci- AFTERSHOCKS: Emelie Olsson developed The erroneous survey results narcolepsy after being immunized in 2009 nated in Europe, the drugmaker has counted with the Pandemrix H1N1 swine flu vaccine. have implications for subse- about 900 associated cases of narcolepsy. The quent studies that used the problem seems more common among children. data to measure the physical (In Finland, about 1 out of every 16,000 vaccinated children developed the disorder.) The and mental health of gay, Stanford researchers and their collaborators, publishing in Science Translational Medicine, lesbian, and bisexual youth.

say their study confirms for the first time that narcolepsy is an autoimmune disease. Based on the same data- drug: INTS KALNIN/ The government of the United Kingdom recently acknowledged the link between the base, researchers recently GSK vaccine and the sleep disorder. Lawyers there have filed a class-action suit to demand found that 36 young women compensation for 50 vaccinated people, mostly children, who developed narcolepsy—up to who consistently claimed to $1.6 million apiece. be virgins also admitted R e

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A championship ring is often Before this year’s playoffs began, this season P life’s highest goal for NFL players, Seattle pastor Mark Driscoll inter- Manning (18) shakes threw for 55 A hands with Wilson after but as Super Bowl XLVIII viewed Wilson and four other the Seahawks beat the touchdowns, >> approaches on Feb. 2 at New Seahawks (for Driscoll’s Resurgence Broncos 40-10 in a breaking a Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, the quarter- interview series). preseason game Aug. 17. record held backs for the Seattle Seahawks and Defensive assistant coach Rocky by New Denver Broncos cherish something Seto told Driscoll that Jesus is “even England Patriots QB Tom Brady. (Then even more. better than a Super Bowl.” All five have Manning beat Brady’s Patriots 26-16 on Says future Hall of Famer and now reached the pinnacle of a football Jan. 19 to reach the upcoming Super top: John record-shattering Broncos QB Peyton career, but free safety Chris Maragos Bowl.) Unlike Sherman, Manning qui- lschneider/picture-alliance/dpa/ o Manning in the 2001 book Manning: said he knows “how empty that is” etly handles criticism about his age and H land land L

“For me generally it had always been without Christ. arm strength. He neither trashes others o e R the big four: faith, family, friends, and By contrast, Seahawks defensive nor praises God on camera.“I just want yba/ T football. … [A]s important as football is back Richard Sherman ranted after his my actions to speak louder,” he wrote h e rmany: rmany: e D g to me, it can never be higher than game-saving play during the Jan. 19 in Manning. e nver fourth. My faith has been number one Seahawks’ 23-17 win over San Francisco Despite the endless football story- P o

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Bruno Mars only by his boyish voice and his clean love song “Just the Way You Are.” But much of t lantic his other work features explicit language and sex. The rock group Red Hot Chili Peppers will join chael chael i M Mars, and bassist Flea bawdily asked fans on Twitter if they wanted to see him nude at the Super R e cords Bowl. He’s been known to perform with little more covering than his guitar. —A.B. baptism: baptism:

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3 SPORTS and RELIGION.indd 64 1/22/14 12:07 PM Notebook > Religion Devil in the details - e Church of England waters down baptism BY THOMAS KIDD  T A C they “repent of the A recent exchange hosted by has introduced a sins that separate the Religion News Service revised version of its us from God,” as raised questions about >> baptismal service that well as renounce whether evangelicals’ oppo- replaces language deemed the devil and sition to Obamacare’s contra- “inaccessible” to unchurched “rebellion against ception mandate might signal people. In particular, the new God.” e new text growing evangelical resis- ceremony removes promises simply asks them, tance to contraception itself. that parents and godparents on behalf of the Georgetown University doc- had previously made to repent baby, if they “reject toral student Jacob Lupfer, a of sin and to “reject the devil.” evil, and all its liberal critic, suggested that e archbishop of Canterbury, many forms, and religious liberty was not the Justin Welby, supports the all its empty prom- real reason behind many change. ises.” e bishop of evangelicals’ stance against Even though attendance at Wakefi eld, Stephen the HHS mandate, which British Anglican congrega- Platten, the Liturgy requires employers’ health tions is generally quite low, Commission chair, plans to cover contraceptives many unchurched parents still wish to calls the older reference to the devil and abortifacients. Instead, have newborns baptized. “In some “theologically problematic.” he charged, many evangeli- instances,” the Anglican Liturgy Conservative Anglican critics, such as cals wish to increase their Commission notes, “there are few people Michael Nazir-Ali, the former bishop of infl uence by having more present [at a baptism] who have any real Rochester, have decried the change. children than irreligious understanding of the Church’s language “Rather than the constant ‘dumbing families, and that less birth and symbolism.” down’ of Christian teaching,” Nazir-Ali control would mean fewer e current liturgy, which dates to says, “we should be spending time prepar- women in the workplace and , has Anglican ministers ask parents if ing people for these great rites of passage.” fewer female clergy. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist eological Seminary, responded to Lupfer by ask- Schoolhouse Islam ing, “Are evangelical protests German public schools have begun off ering classes on Islam, rooted in concern about reli- in an attempt to help assimilate the country’s Muslim popu- gious liberty or about birth lation. Islamic organizations had provided similar classes control? e answer,” he before, but the new courses feature state-developed curric- said, “is yes.” In addition to ulum taught by teachers who work for the schools. e creating legitimate concerns classes stand alongside ethics-focused curricula on about religious freedom, ASSIMILATING? Timur Kumlu Protestantism and Catholicism, eff ectively putting Islam teaches Islamic religious education Mohler argued, the mandate on the same level as Christianity. Schools are piloting the in Frankfurt Main, Germany. controversy was also push- program in the state of Hesse. ing evangelicals toward more Germany’s population of Muslims has grown quickly in recent decades, even as the native mature refl ection on contra- German population has stagnated under low birth rates. Estimates place German Muslims at about ception and Christian sexual- four million people, or  percent of the population. Offi cials have worried about the radicalization ity. Mohler has previously of Muslims after repeated exposures of German terrorist cells since the / attacks. e Hesse contended that while evan- courses advocate a peaceful and tolerant version of Islam for Muslim schoolchildren, hoping to gelicals may ethically use counteract jihadist voices the youths might hear elsewhere. contraceptives, they should German school leaders have regularly debated how best to integrate conservative Muslims. A be wary of adopting a court ruled in a  case in Hesse that traditionalist Muslims must allow their daughters to par- worldly “contraceptive CREDIT ticipate in coed swimming lessons, but conceded that the girls can wear “burkinis,” the full-body mentality.” —T.K.

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‘Tidings of discomfort and joy’ Dec.  My compliments to Jamie Dean for her article about churches losing buildings but gaining far more in return. My wife and I began worshipping with Holy Trinity Anglican Church less than a year ago. We had never daddies. Using such science to support before felt so warmly welcomed, and Fr. Don a biblical point promotes the unbiblical Hellmandollar is remarkable. It will be fun to watch idea that animals and human beings are alike in “social and behavioral where God leads us from here! consequences.” —F W H, Bristol, Conn. —C K. T, Long Grove, Ill. ‘Around the corner, part II’ Dec.  ank you for summarizing ‘Waiting and singing’ in the Air Force as a fi ghter pilot and reader expectations about the future Dec.  is column makes me cry commander. from a “seemingly downcast group.” I again for these dear brothers and sisters —J K J., Macon, Ga. myself am on the bridge from pessi- in Pakistan. I pray for them, and for mism to optimism. I had an “Aha!” myself to remember their example of Human Race moment while reading Ephesians that singing through their tears. And thank Dec.  I appreciate WORLD but am shifted my emphasis from God’s plan to you for pointing us to Jesus, our disappointed in your report on the save me to God’s plan to defeat evil Immanuel, for in Him we have hope. death of Paul F. Crouch, which focused through His church. —V T, Lebanon, Ore. on his lavish lifestyle and the prosper- —D A. E, Greenwood, Ill. ity preachers on TBN. I respect your As an Anglican who saw the church of right to question his lifestyle, but you ‘Man knows not his time’ my youth hijacked by humanists, the didn’t mention that TBN also enables Dec.  e obituary on Nelson cover story reminded me of a quote Billy and Franklin Graham and many Mandela was good, but it only told half from an -year-old widow who left the others who guard the gospel of Jesus to the story, failing to mention the many -year-old Episcopal church in North preach it around the world. people Mandela’s communist ANC Carolina where her husband is buried. —P C, San Antonio, Texas murdered in its eff orts to overthrow the “I do not worship my husband’s bones,” apartheid South African government. she said, “I worship my husband’s God.” ‘Going with the fl ow’ —P M, St. Charles, Ill. May we Anglicans give half as good a Dec.  As a conservative Mennonite I testimony as our Christian brothers am not surprised that some main- Daniel of the Year and sisters in Pakistan have given stream Mennonites have come to this Dec.  ank you for the article on through their perseverance and faith. point. Our forefathers were willing to Bishop Antoine Audo. is was a well- —S K, Odessa, Texas surrender their lives to uphold the written and informative story connect- authority of Scripture, but now some of ing Middle East history with the current ‘Disparate impact’ their descendants are “going with the state of Syria. Please keep hammering Dec.  I wholeheartedly agree with fl ow” just when a degenerating society away at our insulation from what a Christina Hoff Sommers on education, needs the reminder to be loyal to large number of Christians live with especially her comments on the Scripture. d a i l y. Aviation High School in Queens. I am a —C W, Lagrange, Ind. —G A. D, Farmers Branch, Texas  alumnus of that school, back when it was in Manhattan. It taught me Dispatches Truly, Bishop Audo is fi ghting a good mechanical skills and prepared me for Dec.  We need not look to “monoga- fi ght, especially when contrasted with life’s challenges and my future career mous mice” to know children need pastor Steven Furtick’s “battle” over

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his ,-square-foot ‘Adoption under fi re’ house (“ e house that Steven built,” Nov.  ank you for the compelling Dec. ). article about the challenges facing —K H, Columbus, Ohio international adoption. My heart aches for the orphan children and ‘ e other side of failure’ their prospective adoptive families Dec.  e story of the orphans who who have been caught in the middle. were deported from Laos back to North May this raise awareness of the great Korea was very sad, especially the fact need of God’s precious children and that so many children who make it to encourage others to take action. South Korea wobble or lose their faith. —M S, Alexandria, Va. e missionaries helping these children escape see that the children’s ‘ e high cost of negligence’ faith is more important than a com- Nov.  Abusers of all kinds, and fortable life in South Korea. We often sometimes their friends and families, pray that fellow believers would be have similar characteristics, includ- delivered from persecution, but we ing denial and protecting the abuser should also pray that they endure from dealing with his problems. God faithfully what God has planned, bless all who commit themselves to even terror, torture, and execution. breaking through this and helping —E K, Ontario, Calif. those who are trapped. —K L, Indianapolis, Ind. ‘ Men on the street’ Nov.  Your article on street evan- ‘Dead seriousness’ gelism was interesting and balanced. Oct.  ank you for this carefully I believe there is room for everyone researched article on the death when it comes to proclaiming Jesus. penalty and the commentary, If we are too combative some people “Better off dead?” My concern is the will take off ense, but if we serve need to meet the biblical standard of without words some people will not two or three witnesses. Could not recognize we are proclaiming Christ. the automatic appeal process and the —M A, Holland, Mich. need to meet other legal safeguards

3 MAILBAG.indd 68 1/21/14 2:29 PM before execution occurs meet the Health care for requirement? —S T, Oak Harbor, Wash. people of Biblical faith I strongly disagree that “[t]he Bible sets a very high bar for capital pun- ishment, and the American legal system today rarely reaches it.” e American standard of “beyond a reasonable doubt” is the toughest the world has ever seen. Can we please keep sympathy focused where it belongs, on the victim and their loved ones? —J G, Fullerton, Calif.

‘Fleeting images’ Oct.  We appreciated the article addressing pornography. It is extremely diﬃ cult to escape its inﬁ l- tration into every aspect of culture. We stopped watching TV  years ago, but now suggestive material is even creeping into mainstream news websites. We’re very disappointed. —F  W S, Colorado Springs, Colo.

Corrections If you are a committed Christian, you can live consistently with your Tom Clancy’s book e Hunt for Red beliefs by sharing medical needs directly with fellow believers through October became a Hollywood block- buster (“ departures,” Jan. , p. Samaritan Ministries’ non-insurance approach. You do not have to vio- ); Howard Phillips was the founder late your faith by purchasing health insurance that pays for abortions, of the Conservative Caucus (p. ). abortifacient drugs, and other unbiblical practices. Health care sharing Russell Moore and his wife Maria satisfies the individual mandate in the recent Federal health care law had three biological children after (United States Code 26, Section 5000A, (d), (2), (B)). they adopted two boys from Russia (“To protect and project,” Dec. , p. ). Every month the more than 27,000* households of Samaritan Minis- Copepods react within  or  tries share over $7 million* in medical needs directly—one household milliseconds to escape from preda- to another. They also pray for one another and send notes of encour- tor seahorses (“By the numbers,” agement. The monthly share for a family membership of any size has Dec. , p. ). Global Aid Network is the over- never exceeded $370*. seas humanitarian arm of the ministry Cru (“Suﬀ ering servants,” For more information call us toll-free at 1-888-268-4377, Dec. , p. ). or visit us online at: www.samaritanministries.org. Follow us on Twitter (@samaritanmin) and Facebook (SamaritanMinistries). * As of November 2013 LETTERS & PHOTOS

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