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Surviving Sharks and Socialists SURVIVING SHARKS AND SOCIALISTS SEPTEMBER 29, 2018 BLURRED IDENTITY Donor-conceived children wonder who their fathers are, and DNA testing is helping them find out OUTSOURCING LOVE LIVES CHINA’S CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS TO NORTH KOREA AND BACK A Biblical, non-insurance approach to health care Monthly costs: As believers in Christ, we are called to glorify God in all that we do. (Ranges based on age, household size, and membership level) Samaritan members bear each other’s burdens by sharing the cost of medical bills while praying for and encouraging one another. Members Individuals $100-$220 can choose between two membership options for sharing their medical 2 Person $200-$440 needs: Samaritan Classic and Samaritan Basic. 3+ People $250-$495 As of August 2018 Find more information at: samaritanministries.org/world CONTENTS | September 29, 2018 • Volume 33 • Number 18 30 17 38 42 50 FEATURES DISPATCHES 5 News Analysis • Human Race 30 Dear Anonymous Dad Quotables • Quick Takes Tens of thousands of children conceived by donors are grown up now and wondering who their fathers are. Advances in DNA CULTURE testing are helping them find out 17 Movies & TV • Books Children’s Books • Q&A • Music 38 Socialist seeds A socialist revolution may not be imminent in the United States, but NOTEBOOK the ideology is getting a surprising boost ahead of midterm elections 55 Lifestyle • Technology Science • Religion 42 Love life, outsourced As modern dating fails them, some singles are turning to VOICES professional matchmakers 3 Joel Belz 46 Hard tests for China’s 14 Janie B. Cheaney 28 Mindy Belz Christian schools The emerging Christian school movement in China is battling for 61 Mailbag its future amid government opposition and administrative troubles 63 Andrée Seu Peterson 64 Marvin Olasky 50 Surf’s still up Film explores the remarkable life of pro surfer Bethany Hamilton, ON THE COVER: Photo by Pamela Lewis/Pamela 15 years after her shark attack Lewis Photography; illustration by Krieg Barrie Give the gift of clarity: wng.org/giftofclarity Notes from the CEO “The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof; the world and those who dwell therein.” —PSALM 24:1 When I reported to you this summer the economic factors putting upward Chief Content Officer Nick Eicher Editor in Chief Marvin Olasky R pressure on the cost of publishing magazines, I received encouraging notes Senior Editor Mindy Belz from so many of you, saying, in various ways, “Just charge more. We’ll pay it!” I’m grateful for that, and we do need to start charging more. At the same Editor Timothy Lamer time, I know most of us are carefully looking to reduce our personal spending National Editor Jamie Dean Managing Editor Daniel James Devine wherever we can. If you are in that category, I want you to know that you can Art Director David K. Freeland Associate Art Director Robert L. Patete avoid this price increase by choosing a longer membership term (three years, to Reporters Emily Belz, Charissa Crotts, Sophia Lee, Jim Long, Harvest Prude be exact). East Asia Bureau June Cheng, Angela Lu Fulton Some explanation: The cost of paper and postage is going up. There’s nothing Story Coach Susan Olasky Senior Writers Janie B. Cheaney, Andrée Seu we can do about that. But by offering longer terms, we can pass along savings Peterson, John Piper, Edward E. 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If you would prefer R. Albert Mohler Jr., Russell B. Pulliam, David Skeel, not to receive these promotions, please call customer service and ask to be placed on our DO NOT RENT list. David Strassner, Ladeine Thompson, Raymon Thompson MISSION STATEMENT Biblically objective journalism that informs, WORLD (ISSN 0888-157X) (USPS 763-010) is Published biweekly (24 issues) for $59.95 per year by God’s World Publications, educates, and inspires (no mail) 12 All Souls Crescent, Asheville, NC 28803; 828.232.5260. Periodical postage paid at Asheville, NC, and additional mailing offices. Printed in the USA. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. © 2018 WORLD News Group. All rights reserved. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to WORLD, PO Box 20002, Asheville, NC 28802-9998. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VOICES Joel Belz tions and abuses against seminarians and young priests by powerful priests, bishops, and cardi- nals. We are talking about acts and actions which are not only in violation of the sacred promises made by some, in short, sacrilege, but also are in violation of the natural moral law for all.” Bishop Morlino explained: “There has been a great deal of effort to keep separate acts ‘Gay , but celibate’ which fall under the category of now-culturally- acceptable acts of homosexuality from the BUT TIME TO BE VERY WARY … [publicly]-deplorable acts of pedophilia. That is to say, until recently the problems of the Imagine this scenario. You’re an officer in church have been painted purely as R an evangelical church. The congregation problems of pedophilia—this despite clear has been thriving and the spirit is good. evidence to the contrary.” But now comes a thunderbolt. Your assistant The Roman Catholic Church in pastor has just made it known to your church’s America is now paying dearly for buying leaders that he struggles with a lifelong sexual into the theory that men who embrace a attraction to other men. Not only that, but he homosexual identity can be church lead- has begun, through social media and otherwise, ers—so long as they promise “chastity.” It to let the public know about this. Through his is a theory that has been tried and found dress, manner, and associations, he demon- wanting. strates his preference for a personal identity Protestants and evangelicals should be and lifestyle that is frequently associated with forewarned. Reaching out with helpful homosexuality. But he assures you that there’s compassion to those entrapped by homo- no cause for worry, since he is sexually celibate. sexual temptation is one thing. If some of How’s a church to respond? Well, probably us need to be taught how to be more wel- not by doing what the Roman Catholic Church coming on that front, such is altogether has been doing for the last few generations.
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