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FEATURES 38 Food stamps surge COVER STORY e dramatic rise in recipients of U.S. supplemental nutrition assistance may be more about selling the program than feeding the needy 46 Touching lives in tough places Chicago community development corporation puts a new face on a battered neighborhood space 50 Holding fast As churches around the world prepare for Persecution Sunday this month, Afghan Christian Sayed Musa tells how he survived government-led imprisonment and abuse 56 Talk of the towns After a bus tour of important swing states, the president left people happy to see him but not necessarily convinced that he should get four more years in Washington 60 Signs of the times DISPATCHES A Texas pregnancy center ﬁ nds itself a target of a national campaign 7 News to use local politics to undermine pro-life counseling services 16 Human Race 64 Victor’s story 18 Quotables When their daughter was diagnosed with cancer, 20 Quick Takes Mike and Deb Watters didn’t foresee how it would REVIEWS lead to a life- and community-changing adoption 25 25 Movies & TV 66 Hostile takeovers 28 Books Violence, theft, and public friction come to the Occupy protests 31 Q&A 34 Music ON THE COVER: Illustration by Krieg Barrie NOTEBOOK 73 Sports 75 Technology 76 Science 66 77 Houses of God 78 Money 79 Religion VOICES 3 Nick Eicher 4 Joel Belz 22 Janie B. Cheaney 36 Mindy Belz 56 73 83 Mailbag 87 Andrée Seu . , , 88 Marvin Olasky

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23LIG_GOAA_WORLD_Two3rdV_FINAL.indd NICK EICHER.indd 2 1 10/5/11 3:51 PM 10/27/11 12:59 PM Nick Eicher Eyes to see, ears to hear A changing media industry is propelling  over the air

I’      these days in a  started on  stations in August and expanded padded room. Journalism industry turmoil has thanks to the Good News Network and others. is driven me to it. month, with the addition of the Bott Radio Network, >> Now that I have your attention: e room is a whose stations account for half our affi liates, our cramped broadcast studio and the padding is acoustic p r o g r a m is now heard on  stations. We’re in fi ve of treatment. It’s where a new member of the  the top  markets (Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, team—senior broadcast producer Joseph Slife—and I Washington, D.C., and Atlanta) and  of the top . record our new weekly radio news m a g a z i n e , “ e e program showcases reports from our “print” World and Everything in It.” team: Editor Mindy Belz and correspondents Lee Pitts, Over the past three years, I’ve described in this Jill Nelson, and Warren Smith have all written and space—my near-year-end fundraising appeal—the recorded in-depth news pieces. Listeners have bene- creative destruction that is reshaping journalism: fi ted from “ e Olasky Interview,” Marvin’s regular d r a m a t i c newsroom staff reductions (), media live-audience question-and-answer session with bankruptcies (), and urgent building of new political leaders such as Herman Cain and U.S. Sen. platforms to deliver content (). Multi-platform Jim DeMint, and authors such as Ann Voskamp.  journalism is the new normal. has also included commentary by founder Joel Belz As these trends reshape journalism, and thanks and senior writer Andrée Seu, along with culture to your generous fi nancial partnership,  reviews from correspondents Megan Basham, has responded by transforming from news Arsenio Orteza, and Susan O l a s ky. magazine to news group. Since last We are striving to build around this November we have rolled out our digital core a team that can produce  as a content platform, which enables distribution daily news magazine—’s answer to of our content through apps (such as our National Public Radio’s () “All ings iPad app) to mobile devices. We have intro- Considered.” We want to provide daily duced two new editions of our God’s World audio, video, and print journalism for News magazines for kids (gwnews.com). distribution over the air, on the web, and We have also launched  on inside digital apps, even as we continue to Campus (worldoncampus.com) for student strengthen the print magazine. writers and readers. We are venturing into We’re doing this because audio journalism training in Africa through the provides great opportunity. e Project for World Journalism Institute, which has added Excellence in Journalism notes that of  editor-in-chief Marvin Olasky’s traditional media, “ e audience for / leadership to its robust new training regime  radio has remained among the most for young journalists and mid-career stable … in the last decade.” Even in a professionals looking for a change. f r a c t u r e d media market, fully a third of all But padded rooms, microphones, and digital Americans get their news via radio. e audience for recorders represent our most visual—well, a u d i t o r y — , for instance, grew last year to more than  change. I’ve dreamed of something like this since I was million listeners a week, a nearly  percent rise in a a kid, and in God’s providence it took two decades of decade. Leftist fi nancier George Soros’ interest in and magazine experience to bring it about. at’s not as support of  is clearly strategic. strange as it may seem: e journalistic depth we have I speak for the  family in thanking God and here at  makes great radio possible, because you for the outpouring of fi nancial support for this without great reporting, it’s just talk. vision. It’s an ongoing work and we need your ongoing Partnering with the Salem Radio Network, “ e partnership. We are a (c)() nonprofi t educational World and Everything in It” () debuted the fi rst ministry, so contributions to  are tax-deductible. weekend of August and, with ads, fi lls a two-hour e changes reshaping journalism represent an commercial radio time slot. We edit  minutes out of opportunity for our brand of Christian worldview

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23 NICK EICHER.indd 3 11/3/11 4:12 PM Joel Belz A time for choosing Website oﬀ ers Americans a chance to weigh in on where to cut federal spending

I      , your choices § e research tool they devised strikes me as were limited to just two, and you had to simple, accurate, and economical for both sponsors decide which of the two was the better way and users. >> for the federal government to save a few bil- Simple, because it starts with a website you can lion dollars over the next several years—would you go to this very minute (Teapartydebtcommission. () eliminate all subsidies for the ethanol i n d u s t r y, com) and navigate without confusion. § ere you will or () end all subsidies for Amtrak? be shown a short series of pairs of potential spending I could have asked the same sort of question with cuts. For each pair, you’ll be asked to resist the hundreds of diff erent pairs. For example, if it were temptation to cut both—but instead to pick the more your task to rescue the Social Security program, desirable of the two cuts. would you prefer cutting all benefi ts by  percent, You’ll face a short list of fewer than a dozen pair- or delaying the launch of benefi ts from age  to age ings. Each is randomly chosen; for one respondent it ? Remember: it’s one or the ot her. may be A vs. B, C vs. D, etc., while for the next Human nature suggests a compromise—a little of respondent it’s A vs. C, B vs. D, etc. Each category one and a little of the ot her. But in this exercise, thereby develops its standing as an overall “winner” there’s no fudging. You’ve got to come down on one or a “loser” in the public mind. From the survey’s side or the ot her. accumulated results, its sponsors are developing a I watched this scenario at work a few days ago precise “crowd-sourced” budget. A l re a d y, some while a group called the Tea Party Debt Commission , respondents have made their choices, sought to form an increasingly clear snapshot of giving the survey enormous breadth. what the American public thinks A l re a d y, the sponsors are able to say—on the about reducing the size of its basis of signifi cant popular response—that the federal government. I repeal of Obamacare is the highest priority was impressed with defi cit-trimmer out there. Second place goes the process. to wasteful buying in the Pentagon. § ird place would close down Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. § e fourth place vote goes to the closing of the Department of Education. But there’s yet another dimension to the Tea Party survey that gives it a certain slam-dunk qual- What’s i t y. Respondents are invited (but not required) to altogether indicate their present party affi liation. § at gives the unimpressive these data processors the ability to calculate the defi cit- days are the reports coming from the so- trimming preferences of Republicans, Democrats, called Super Committee on Defi cit Reduction libertarians, independents, etc. But much more appointed by the U.S. Congress. A dozen Republicans s i g n i fi cant, it allows for the identifi cation of defi cit- and a dozen Democrats were charged last summer cutting measures that clearly appeal across party with recommending—no later than § anksgiving lines—identifying the often-elusive “common weekend—specifi c cuts in the federal defi cit that ground” that politicians say they are looking for. would amount to . trillion over the next  years. perhaps giving courage to otherwise timid § e deadline’s getting close, and word is that there’s legislators. little agreement on any meaningful specifi cs. So guess what? Even on such “common ground,” Not to wo r r y, said the folks over at Tea Party including voters from all political backgrounds, the headquarters. We’ll make some recommendations priorities are the same. It’s by no means just POTAPOVA for you—and we’ll have them in your hands before Republicans who think repeal of Obamacare is the

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the state health department and to keep AHMAD/AFP/GETTY AMR President e headhead ofof Egypt’sEgypt’s CopticCoptic copies of the reports in the patients’ fi les. Australia Barack Obama on Nov.  Christian church, Pope When Kline attempted to obtain from the will travel to Australia to Shenouda III, celebrates his health agency several dozen reports that address that nation’s joint th anniversary in offi ce Planned Parenthood had fi led, the health session of the House of on Nov. . Many are department resisted. In  it turned over Representatives and wondering whether the to Kline’s offi ce copies of dozens of reports. Senate to commemorate pope’s health, age——or IMAGES In , as the investigation dragged the th anniversary of the violence against Coptic Christians in Egypt will force him • OBAMA: on, a judge forced Planned Parenthood to the Australian-U.S. Alliance. Signed in , the alliance once to begin talks of succession. turn over redacted patient fi les. When included New Zealand, until thethe SUSAN they arrived, Kline’s investigators noticed nation pulled out when it that the “copies” of the reports Planned banned vessels bearing nuclear Spanish election WALSH/AP Parenthood provided didn’t match the weapons from its ports. Faced with a precipitous eco- copies of the reports the health department nomic downturn, voters in Spain DEFICIT • REDUCTION: had submitted. To the judge it appeared will go to the polls in parliamen- that Planned Parenthood had manufac- tary elections on Nov.Nov. . e tured the reports—in his words, “commit- incumbent Socialists havehave takentaken much of the blame for the ted felonies to cover up misdemeanors.” nation’s economic plight, but

Neither the judge nor prosecutors the center-right CHIP knew at this point that the original health Popular Party SOMODEVILLA/GETTY department reports had been shredded must convince the year before; the Kansas health depart- voters it has ment didn’t disclose it then nor during better the following two years of court battles, solutions as the state agency continued to oppose to the nation’s IMAGES Kline’s eff orts to obtain the originals. Defi cit reduction due e budget-cutting group dubbed the Joint debt “ is was no routine purging,” said POPULAR • Select Committee on Defi cit Reduction must problems. Culp of Kansans for Life. “It really does come up with at least . trillion in defi cit reduc-reduc- need to be investigated further.”

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e Chens    in  e Department of Health and Human Services’ () Offi ce of Refugee Resettlement has decided it’s done working with the Catholic Church, whose parish network and years of experience has made it a strong C h i n e s e torture resource to help victims of human traffi cking. In a Sept.  letter,  Following months of speculation about Chinese informed the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that it is cutting grants human-rights activist Chen Guangcheng, for those services—most often to aid under-age children subjected to ChinaAid has learned the details of a brutal s e x u a l exploitation—after six years of collaboration.  will give the . four-hour beating by local authorities of the million in grants for traffi cking victims to three nonreligious organizations: blind legal activist and his wife, of whom there’s Tapestri, the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, and Heartland been no reliable news for months. e July Human Care Services. beating, witnessed by the couple’s elementary- Earlier this year,  issued new grant guidelines that give “preference” school-age daughter, took place after Chen to groups that provide “the full range of reproductive services,” or contra- made phone calls intercepted by authorities. ceptives and abortion referrals; the Catholic agencies off er neither. e Chen has been under house arrest after nearly American Civil Liberties Union sued the government in  for not fi ve years in prison for exposing forced abortions requiring that the Catholics provide those services, but that suit hasn’t used to enforce China’s one-child policy. been resolved. e Justice Department, arguing on behalf of the Catholic According to eyewitnesses, local offi cials agency, said the agency’s aid to traffi cking victims had been “resoundingly emptied Chen’s village and ransacked his home successful.” e Catholic agency’s Offi ce of Migration and Refugee before his elderly mother, who lives with the Services, the agency that helps traffi cking victims, also resettles about family, returned and discovered the couple,  percent of the refugees that enter the United States every year. who’ve been denied medical treatment.

BOOK DIPLOMACY e State Department has spent more than , buying President Obama’s books, stocking his memoirs e Audacity of Hope and Dreams from My Father in embassies around the world, according to an investigation by e Washington Times. Most of the purchases occurred after Obama took offi ce, but the State Department said Washington had no infl uence over the purchases; individual embassies made those decisions. e State Department said such purchases were “standard practice” in fi lling out librar- ies and promoting diplomacy. “ e structure and the presidency of the United States is an integral component of representing the United States overseas,” said State Department spokesman Noel STRINGER/AFP/GETTY C l ay. “We often use books to engage key audiences in discussions of foreign policy.” Leslie Paige of Citizens Against Government Waste told the Times the purchases “sounded like propaganda.” e Times found no records of State Department purchases of books by either President George W. Bush or Bill Clinton. Obama earned a marginal amount IMAGES CREDIT from the total purchases—an estimated ,—compared to the Obama family’s income last year of . million, of which the family gave , to c h a r i t y.

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O      is that it allows us to grow up again through our children, with a little >> perspective gained. A privilege of grand- parenting is that it allows us to observe the growing-up from a longer perspective. You notice things that you didn’t notice in your own childhood self, or your children’s. Now that my granddaughter, barely , has a fi rm grasp on language (i.e., talks all the time), it’s interesting to track how she came by it. At the age of  she would often begin conversations with concep- strangers by introducing people she knew: “ is is tually but my grandma. Her name is … Grandma.” I thought it metaphorically. He’s making a clear logical connec- might be a way of establishing some control, of tion, a valid comparison. He’s not just talking; he’s venturing into alien territory with a fi rm grasp on understanding. And creating: Out of a cloud of the familiar. She would also make up names for words steps a relationship. people she met but would not likely see again, such e power that God gives us in naming still as an instant friend at the playground. When talking stands: Whatever we call a thing, that’s what it is. about the little boy or girl later, she would ask what Students of a foreign language know that they’re their name was, but then go on to call them some- making headway when they think of a word in that thing else, often a compound name invented on the language and the thing it represents springs to mind spot. Perhaps she understood that the person would rather than the English word they already k n ow. not be part of her everyday life, leaving her free to But not just any word will do; my granddaughter call them anything she liked. understands instinctively that her made-up names What about all those genealogies in the Bible? won’t stand but “real” names will. Her mother had (Bear with me; I’m not really changing the subject.) the privilege of giving her a real name, and that’s I’m sure there is more than one reason for including who she is. One day she may have the same oppor- them, but here’s one I hadn’t thought of before: e tunity to name her own children, as Adam named “begats” testify to the importance of names. Seth and Pedaiah named Zerubbabel and In the beginning, Adam’s fi rst creative task was Zerubbabel named Meshullam. naming the animals. From there he probably went We skip and stumble over those names, but God on to name plants, geographical features, and heav- does not. He knows them; He ordained them, in a enly bodies. It’s the same way we teach babies to way that does not detract from the parents’ prerog- talk; by pointing to things and naming them: D a d d y. ative. By our power of naming we recognize what it Doggie. Tree. Flower. From there we go on to names means to s ay, “You shall call Him J e s u s.” And later, as subject or object (acting, or acted upon), names when Jesus said “I am the l i g h t.” “I am the bread,” as described or part of a description. Names are the “I am the way,” there would be no room for misin- building blocks to ideas and concepts, whereby we terpretation. e ideas are eternal, but the names create entire worlds of logic or imagination. are within our power. Notice how quickly Adam progresses. From Like every good gift, words can go bad, and pointing and saying “ el e ph a n t,” he bursts into never more obviously than in an election season.

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people at random, bury a woman alive and tie a man to IN TIME a wheel atop a “tree of death,” where crows pick out his : eyes. On a crag above it all is “the great miller of heaven,” 20TH

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• Like Bruegel, Majewski hides Jesus, who doesn’t appear until at THE IN BOOTS e Mill and the Cross least halfway through the ﬁ lm, and we never see His face. MILL PUSS THE & BY EMILY BELZ “Our Savior is being ground like grain, mercilessly,” Bruegel says •

as he watches Christ’s suff ering unfold. e miller of heaven isn’t CROSS T M   C, a fi lm by Polish fi lmmaker Lech without compassion—when Jesus dies on the cross, the miller DISNEY : ANGELUS WA LT >> Majewski, is a -minute look at Pieter Bruegel’s th-century stands in the mill, tears in his eyes, a shadow passing over his face. : painting “ e Way to Calvary,” telling the story of Christ’s passion Slow and inscrutable at times, this fi lm is a piece of art itself, not a POOH

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of characters, and the ﬁ lm brings several of them to life: a couple bread out of the ground grain. WINNIE

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Left, right, and Kuyper Richard Mouw’s Abraham Kuyper (Eerdmans, ) is a useful introduction to the great Dutch theologian/ editor/politician and his theory of “sphere sovereignty,” the idea that neither church nor state should lord it over business, family, science, the Innes Harper arts, and so forth, but each has its own sphere of authority under God. Mouw tries to advance Kuyperianism Left, right, by suggesting a doctrine of “sphere compensation”—when one sphere loses strength, others can be “com- fi ght, fi ght, fi ght pensating for that—at least on a temporaryt e m p o r a r y basis—by building the lost Book tackles questions of political philosophy, or weakened function into some other side by side BY MARVIN OLASKY sphere, so that another sphere can compensate for the loss.” l o s s.” Mouw notes S   that Christians can oror shouldshould that the family sphere is shrinking, avoid questions of political philosophy, but Left, Right & Christ, a just- and we can certainly see how other published book from Russell Media, recognizes reality. Co-authors Lisa Sharon spheres abhor a vacuum: Schools now >> Harper and David Innes boldly state their dueling positions, issue by issue. provide breakfasts and sometimes eir divide is perhaps sharpest on abortion. Innes notes that “when people deny dinners, government has grabbed God, they deny life”—so a spiritual vacuum leads some women to have a doctor from parents control of education, v a c u u m their tiny babies. Harper focuses on the material: “Lives are saved when we and some hyper-active church youth address abortion for what it is, a poverty i s s u e.” But if Harper is right, we would groups have taken over evening, have had in the th and early th centuries, when Americans on average were weekend, and vacation space that was much poorer than we are n ow, many more abortions in proportion to the population family-bonding than we currently do. We did not. time. On medical needs, Innes (also a contributor at worldmag.com) argues for a ee problem is m a r k e t system in which healthcare providers compete for our patronage. Harper, that “the tempo- though, ends her essay with a “call for universal care that protects and cultivates rary basis” the image of God in all A m e ri c a n s.” A good sentiment, but why not also call for expands—once government to provide universal food and shelter? these other We haven’t done that because we know the market system works best for at least spheres move in,  percent of the people; we can then concentrate on providing food and shelter families weaken only for those unable to provide for themselves. e same approach would work in further. Over healthcare: Instead of messing with a system that, with occasional exceptions, time sphere serves reasonably well (given this fallen world) at least  percent of Americans, we sovereignty can become spear sover-sover- should expand and bulwark the network of free or low-cost community clinics that eignty, with government using force already exists. to extend its control. e Innes-Harper debate illuminates a decisive diff erence between the political Note: Some Christian thinkers left and the political right: e left emphasizes equality of result, the right emphasizes today view denominations as a prob- liberty and opportunity. Either position taken too far becomes an idol. e problem lem, but Kuyper said the true church with an equality emphasis that may look good abstractly is that in practice it requires “can reveal itself in many forms, in a big government. Centers of power attract power-seekers who then attract money- diff erent countries; n ay, even in the seekers, and the result is a new ruling class: In a fallen world, equality of result is an same c o u n t r y, in a multiplicity of ever-receding horizon. institutions.” Instead of criticizing I’ll say it forthrightly: I’m for liberty and opportunity. I do not want government the Reformation because it “ruptured G. T. WILKINSON to enforce equality of result. Most evangelicals also favor limited government and the unity of the church,” Kuyper CENTER political decentralization, because we know both from the Bible and from history praised “a rich variety of all manner

that concentrations of political power lead to oppression. of church formations.” —M.O. ASHBROOK

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G i v i n g thanks 1,000 times It’s not enough to pray through adversity, says author Ann VoskAMP, but be grateful in it By MArvin OlAsky

It’s beginning to look At age 4 you encountered at the wheel that day.” The handed and accepting the a lot like Thanksgiving, death. Can you talk about death of Aimee was my first sovereignty of God and that all so it’s time to publish that? My sister was 18 months memory. is grace because all is being >> edited excerpts of an old and crushed by a farm How did that event shape transfigured to bring glory to interview with writer Ann delivery truck in our family’s your family? It seriously, Christ. When we understand Voskamp conducted last month farmyard in front of my mother detrimentally impacted my that God sustained the before students at Patrick who was standing at the parents’ marriage. It shaped Israelites on manna—which lit- Henry College. Her best-selling kitchen sink. My father never who I was as a person. I was erally means, “What is it?”— college (and extraordinarily good) One shadowed a church door for raised in a non-Christian home. then can we be sustained in

henry Thousand Gifts (Zondervan, probably 18 years after that. My life was formed by fear. One situations where we don’t 2011) is about giving thanks His line was, “If there really was Thousand Gifts was working understand the why, but we

patrick even in—especially in—adversity. a God, He was definitely asleep my way back to living open- trust the Who.

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How did fear aff ect you? Exactly. I do it in the you don’t want to see By my second year of univer- house all the time. I what my inbox is like. sity, I was experiencing anxiety preach the gospel to What letters touch attacks and agoraphobia. I was the person who you so much that you on anti-anxiety medication and needs to hear it the have to respond? I’m antidepressants. most: me. I need the veryvery intentional about When did that start to truth of God’s word, responding to women change? My husband Darryl is and to encounter who have lost children, fi rmly, fi rmly rooted in afresh the grace of or to women who have Scripture. His mother ran a Jesus Christ. lost a sibling. I under-under- Bible club through Child Do you have a stand to some extent Evangelism Fellowship for  sense that your chil- what that does to a years, with an average of dren are growing up family. ... WomenWomen whowho - kids every Friday night. without fear? Yes, are in marriages where She was a beacon of the gospel defi nitely because, in there is infi delity, delity, I don’t of Jesus Christ in our commu- our home, my default know where to speak nity. When I was , Darryl’s is still toto gogo backback toto of that pain. Women family started picking me up fear. And I will out-out- who have come out of and taking me to church every loud preach the gospel g o s p e l horrifi c family stories, Sunday. Marrying him at age  to myself. My children and they’re struggling and entering into the family— hear me quoting with: How can all be the lens of the world was Scripture back to myself, grace? through Christ. at began to giving thanks in situations, ere are How do you respond change me. being very intentional about really hard days in to laments? God wants us to Where do you live now? focusing on the Lord. And mothering. A mother does lament. at’s veryvery diff erenterent My husband and I and our six they’re writing their own one eternal work in hidden, quiet than complaint. Complaint children live on  acres of thousand gifts. eir default. places. I’m stumbling through it. doesn’t see the goodness of land in southwestern Ontario. We’re constantly reorienting It’s not my default to get it the character of God. Lament is We farm corn, soybeans, and ourselves to truth that I didn’t right. My default is I am fallen, I honest and authentic about the wheat in a three-year crop grow up with, and had to re- am vulnerable, and how do I feelings but knows the good- rotation, and we have  sows learn sometimes. intentionally reorient to the ness and the benevolence of with a thousand little piglets, so Not an upbringing like cross and to Christ and to God? God. we feel very blessed. yours. I wish I’d had a diff erent How do you describe One How do you respond to Your house is at the end of upbringing, but God uses all ousand Gifts? It’s about questions about the sover- a gravel road? It is off of the things for His purposes and His looking for the grace and the eignty of God when there is great pain? I wrestle through this. Can I give thanks in the “I preach the gospel to the person who needs to dark, because if I can’t give hear it the most: me. I need the truth of God’s word, thanks in the dark, if I can only give thanks in the good, what and to encounter afresh the grace of Jesus Christ.” does that say about who God is? When I can give thanks for far side of one road. I face out glory. So I wouldn’t change any goodness of God and beginning the things that make no sense to bush one way and bush the bit of the story, but I’m grateful to see that He was using all to me, the things that hurt, that other way. I feel very secluded that their lives are growing into things to conform me into the is my public manifestation of and quiet. a diff erent story from my own. I image of Christ. I didn’t have to what I say I believe, which is Lots of books? My husband didn’t want them to grow up be afraid of the world anymore God is in control, that nothing is not a reader. We close every the way I grew up. Being very because everything was being happens randomly. meal with Scripture—morning, intentional about my mother- used to bring glory to Christ. He is at work in all things. noon, and night—so he reads hood and the baggage I was still Do people send you letters If I believe He is real, and He is his Bible and the farm newspa- carrying: How was I going to be asking for advice? Yes, and a using all of these events in my per. My side of the bedroom is a diff erent kind of mother than lot of those are emails I’d love life for His ultimate good, it may books fl oor to ceiling, literally. my own mother had been with to answer. My husband says— be painful for me in the One ousand Gifts some- her own baggage? and he’s right—every time I say moment, but it’s ultimately to times feels like you’re Being a mother of six, and yes to that person, I say no to shape me into being more like preaching to yourself. homeschooling them, is hard. my children and my home. So Christ. I can trust Him. A

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Because it begins in  and concludes in , Columbia/Legacy’s latest collection of Spiritual previously unreleased Johnny CashCash recordings,recordings, Bootleg : Live Around the World, ends on a spiritually notes edifying note too. Noteworthy new Granted, hearing Cash “live around the world” isn’t as Williams tribute exciting e x c i t i n g as hearing him livelive atat FolsomFolsom and Cash collection Prison or San Quentin, but that says more have edifying endings about the audiences than it does about him. “Here’s“Here’s a song called ‘I’ll Never Forget Ol’ Whatsername,’” he BY ARSENIO ORTEZA cracks on Disc One before launching into “ ee Rebel—Johnny Yuma.” Yu m a.” Later: “No, I don’t drink O     made head- anymore—I don’t drink anyany less, but ...”...” lines by inadvertently comparing By Disc Two he was re-born and being introduced President Obama to Hitler,Hitler, Hank by President Nixon at the White House as an American >> Williams himself was back in the treasure. en the Jesus Movement hit,hit, andand hehe waswas news— years after his alcohol-related singing “Jesus“Jesus WasWas a Carpenter” death at the age of . and “He Turned the WaterWater into e occasion was ee Lost Notebooks of Wine”—“religious songs,” s o n g s,” he Hank Williams (Columbia/Egyptian), a tells a crowd, “that [say][say] collection of  country, c o u n t r y, rock, and pop something for the people of performers singing compositions that totoday.” d ay.” Judging from the Williams didn’t live to ﬁ nish. response, Cash was right. Sony had originally asked Bob Dylan to But by ,  years after set the lyrics to music and toto recordrecord Bootleg  leaves oﬀ ,, the the entire album. Dylan, however, audience for Cash-sung settled for doing one song, “ ee Love songs, religious or otherwise, at Faded,” Fa d e d,” a lament especially well had dwindled. So he under- suited to his unique, splinters- took the spoken word and and-all delivery. He then sought accepted omas Nelson out other Publishers’ invitation to read kindred spirits to complete the rest. the entire New TestamentTestament in the One of those “spirits,” “ s p i ri t s,” Hank New King James Version.

Williams Jr.’s Jr.’s daughter Holly, Ho l l y, is Freshly reissued as Johnny Cash Reads the NewNew WILLIAMS: literally kindred. So perhaps it’sit’s Testament (Signature Series), the -disc,

inevitable that her slowslow waltz -plus-hour box set could not have re-arrived MICHAEL “Blue Is My Heart” sounds like at a better time. ToTo an age undergoing petrifac- a song to the grandfather she tion with the silica of / newspeak, Cash’sCash’s OCHS never knew rather than a song ssteady, te a d y, husky, h u s ky, Arkansas-accented read- to a lover who threw her over.over. ing of the most infl uential andand direct ARCHIVES/GETTY And perhaps the irresistibil- literature in the English language ity of setting Williams’ lyricslyrics toto / timetime isis inevitableinevitable cuts like a double-edged saw. s aw. too, as fi ve other Lost Notebooks acts—Dylan, NorahNorah ere are minor pleasures IMAGES Jones, Vince Gill and Rodney Crowell, LevonLevon Helm,Helm, too, such as fi nally hearing the

Sheryl Crow—follow in Holly Williams’ steps.steps. ee result New Testament’s polysyllabic • CASH: is an album that feels both old-timey andand sadsad eveneven whenwhen Semitic names pronounced

its lyrics,lyrics, as in the case ofof LucindaLucinda Williams’Williams’ achingaching correctly. But it’s the accu- HULTON “I’m So Happy I Found You,” Yo u,” celebrate bliss.bliss. mulating force of hearing the An exception is “ ee Sermon on the Mount,” Mo u n t,” which New Testament’s major themes that ARCHIVE/GETTY Williams probably intended to record under his makes the recording sound like gospel-music pseudonym “Luke“Luke thethe Drifter.” D ri f te r.” AsAs Cash’s greatest hit. A sung in two no-nonsense minutes byby MerleMerle IMAGES PIZZELLO/AP Haggard, it cuts to the quick and ends the album onon WHAT’S OLD IS NEW:

a spiritually edifying note. Williams (above) and Cash. CHRIS

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23 MUSIC.indd 34 11/2/11 9:43 AM N O T A B L E CDs Five pop and rock new releases > reviewed by   SPOTLIGHT

Alice Cooper’s Welcome  My Come to the WellWell Casting Crowns Nightmare (Universal) is a sequel e only thing wrong with this album is that to his  million seller, Welcome there’s nothing wrong with it. In other words,words, it’sit’s exactly what one would expect from album- to My Nightmare. So it’s easy to generating software when uploaded with the understand why a major label top- essential st-century  ingredients: would want a piece of its action. songs sung by a man, songs sung byby a woman,woman, row in Cooper’s old songs sung by both a man and a woman,woman, scrip-scrip- producer Bob Ezrin tural and vernacular exhortations, praise,praise, slow and four members and mid-tempo songs, loudness, quietude, and of his original band, rousing earnestness. It’s dueling with Adele atopatop and you’ve got as the album charts. MakeMake of that phenomenon sureﬁ re a recipe for what you will. a hit as any -year- old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is likely to concoct. Hysterical Clap Your Hands Say YeahYeah of Famer is likely to concoct. Alec Ounsworth’s most impressive accomplish- But the most important ment is that, from bits of early New Order and ingredient is the music. And even U, he’s fashioned a shimmeringly anthemic in his youthful prime Cooper was sound that keeps the keening thinness of his better at serving up singles than at voice from being annoying. He even delivers the delivering full-course meals. So it’s mellow change of pace “Misspent Youth” You th” without par for his course that three songs making the Hamlet pose he strikes in it seem stand out: “Ghouls Gone Wild” (a ridiculous. As for the poses he strikes elsewhere, Ramones-worthy hybrid of they’re tougher to assess because the music’s “Summertime Blues” and whooshing grandeur tends to overwhelm the “California Sun” with lyrics that words. It’s probably just as well, as the music seems to be the point. Weird Al Yankovic might envy), “Something to Remember Me By” Fastlife Joe Jonas (the latest of Cooper’s gorgeous Jonas Brothers fans tendtend toto be Hannah MontanaMontana romantic ballads), and “I Am fans. So people who buy and playplay thisthis album will Made of You”You” (a bold probably feel that they’ve been-there-done-that and heartfelt with Miley Cyrus’ Can’t Be Ta med. e conceptconcept is declaration of “former teen idol tries to proveprove he’s growngrown dependence WILLIAMS: up.” So electronic beats, cliché-heavy songs on Christ). breathlessly sung to elusiveelusive hotties, songwriting

MICHAEL and production by committee, Autotune, and faux machismo abound. And then there’sthere’s LilLil

OCHS Wayne—whose contributions to the second of three versions of “Just“Just in Love”Love” explain thethe ARCHIVES/GETTY parental-advisory sticker.

Vice Verses Switchfoot Blogging about this album last September on the IMAGES Huﬃ ngton Post, Switchfoot’s Jon Foreman

• CASH: wrote, “We wanted a record that would speak toto the polarity of our existence, the darkness and

HULTON the light, the despair and the hope.” ey also apparently wanted the hardest sound of their ARCHIVE/GETTY career, the better perhaps to pound home their theme, which is basically Romans : in existen- tial clothing. Bold stuﬀ —bracing even. Only on “Selling the News,” in which Foreman refrains IMAGES PIZZELLO/AP from saying “Fox,” do they lack the courage of

CHRIS their convictions.

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23 MUSIC.indd 35 11/2/11 9:44 AM Mindy Belz Find your family ﬁ rst ey aren’t just to have a round for the holidays; they can rebuild whole communities

W    T we As he departed, he sensed he might not see his anticipate time with our families. For some of family again. His father counseled, “Our prayers us that will include time with estranged family will follow you even when we don’t know where >> members, rebellious relatives, broken ones, your path has taken yo u,” and, “You will always be and the just plain diffi cult. Much as I love to sidle up with your family, because your family is the body of to a groaning board with loved ones, I don’t actually Christ. Wherever you go, fi nd your family fi r s t.” At a know any Norman Rockwell families, do you? church prayer service to bid William farewell, his e war that Western culture wages against our grandfather pronounced Aaron’s blessing over him: families is well rehearsed: mounting acceptance of “ e Lord bless you and keep you …” divorce, infi delity to one another, infi delity to God William left and war came. He did not see his in following His design for families, and treating family for fi ve years. By then, the Islamic armies had children as accessories (or last year’s accessories). murdered his father and burned to the ground his At our best, we can be our own families’ worst town. His mother, three brothers, fi ve sisters, enemies too. We let jobs and other callings carry us extended family, and villagers all had scattered—some far from parents, grandparents, and siblings. We let eventually to refugee camps in Uganda or Kenya, “priorities” crowd out just spending time together. some to new villages, likely never to be together again. Career and material pursuits sap our time and Multiply across the  million killed and  million energy, and once-traditional family tasks—caring displaced in Sudan’s two-decade civil war, and you for the sick, tending the family property, even fi xing begin to comprehend the total decimation of the dinner—we delegate to strangers. family as an institution—and the burden that On a w i n d y, rainy night recently I went to just g r a d u a l l y swelled inside William, by then an engineer. spend time with a family that knows the meaning of When he launched Operation Nehemiah in , it family breakup as few do, and the value of families was not only to rebuild walls in Sudan but also to made whole again. rebuild families and communities: “What war did William Levi is the fi rst Sudanese man I ever not destroy of families, the refugee camps and the met, more than a decade ago in Washington when as  system did. e family became a rel i c.” VALUED a young, single refugee he was about to testify You can read about the community built from the FAMILY: before a congressional committee. William is the ashes in news editor Jamie Dean’s wonderful  Levi with his descendant of Messianic Jews in South Sudan’s cover s to r y, “Home is where the start i s.” And more wife Hannah and their Eastern Equatorial state, and one of nine siblings. At about William’s life in his  book, e Bible or the children. age  he escaped—literally ran away—from captivity Axe. But beneath the waterworks, the health clinic, by Sudan’s Islamic army. a r my. In and the agriculture projects is the story of families mortal danger,danger, he had to made whole again, starting with William’s own. leave his village and his His brother Michael, who struggled with alcohol close-knit family, arriving and other trouble in his years as a war refugee, is four years later in the back, pastoring a young church where he recently United States. baptized  new believers. A nephew has been trained as the community’s own doctor. In fact, all eight of William’s siblings are back in South Sudan (his mother having died years ago), living and working together, as families uniquely can do but often don’t, to rebuild a community and restore war-torn people. William makes several trips a year from Operation Nehemiah headquarters in Massachusetts. As often as he can, he takes his own family—his American wife Hannah and their six children, ages  to nearly  months. MINDY Postwar Sudan and post-Christian America, says

William, have much in common when it comes to BELZ restoring biblical families. A

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mindy belz e dramatic rise in recipients of U.S. supplemental nutrition assistance may be more about selling the program than feeding the needy by Marvin Olasky

   , most children in the United States on battered women’s shelter. Eventually she entered a training anksgiving could look forward to a food-laden course at e WorkFaith Connection, a Christian program in table that would visually represent the bounty of Houston that prepares motivated people to get jobs and God brought to them by the hard work of persevere in them (see p. ). Four years ago the only job she parents. at is no longer the case. found right away was in a distant part of the city: With no car, U A thoughtful study by Washington University professor it took three hours by bus each way to get there and back. She Mark Rank projects that half of U.S. children are or will be in worked four hours per d ay. a household that uses food stamps at some point during their at was when Solis reluctantly joined the millions on childhood. e s t u d y, “Estimating the Risk of Food Stamp Use welfare. She had grown up believing that dependence on and Impoverishment During Childhood,” published in government was a sign of failure, but “I needed food stamps Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, also forecast that to feed my daughter.” She worried about her daughter’s more than  percent of children with single parents will perceptions: “What are you teaching your children when you spend time in a household receiving food stamps. don’t stand up for yourself?” When Solis ﬁ nally garnered a ose are projections, but the facts themselves are ominous. full-time position, she kissed food stamps goodbye: “I

Between  and  the number of Americans in the food stopped on April , . at was a good day for m e.” WILL

stamp program—recently re-named the Supplemental For Solis, welfare worked the way it is supposed to work: VRAGOVIC/ZUMA Nutrition Assistance Program, or —rose from  million temporary help that saves children from destitution and gives to  million, Given the rise in unemployment from  percent a work-seeking parent time to get on her feet. to  percent during those years, we could expect some change e experience of Scott Wesley was diﬀ erent. At age , in the number of people using food stamps—but more than while heavily using cocaine and alcohol, he impregnated his PRESS/CORBIS two-and-a-half times as many? girlfriend, and over the subsequent  years they had four Two Houston residents, Jean Solis and Scott We s l e y, children and lived oﬀ numerous welfare programs, including exemplify the uses and abuses of food stamps. Seven years ago food stamps. He felt no pressure to work: “I knew the rent Jean Solis, then  with a -year-old daughter, lived in a would be paid and the children wouldn’t go hungry.”

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of with of six month. a box per 11/2/11 10:21 AM family grab shopping e to stamps while Fla. stretches in food potatoes  A child stretches to grab a box of of a box grab to A child stretches inBrooksville, over mashed just child A A SNAP: instant instant mashed potatoes while shopping with with shopping while potatoes mashed instant IT’S A SNAP: IT’SIT’S her mother in Brooksville, Fla. six of e family Fla. in Brooksville, mother her her mother gets gets just over  in food stamps per month. per stamps in food  over just gets 23 COVER STORY.indd 39

WILL VRAGOVIC/ZUMA PRESS/CORBIS Wesley and his girlfriend never married, in part because that would have reduced their welfare income. He stole goods that they wanted and traded food stamps for drugs, a common tendency: “When the police raided drug dealers’ houses they’d ﬁ nd caches of food s t a m p s.” Later Wesley started manufacturing and selling meth. He eventually went to prison, falling upwards because God changed his thinking there. When Wesley came out three years later he found a job and has been employed for four years n ow. He criticizes use of food stamps by those capable of working: “ ey allow you to be irresponsible.” It’s hard to know how many of the  million Americans now enrolled in  are, like Solis, using food stamps for temporary help, and how many like Wesley are using them as an aid to irresponsibility. is is not an argument against ’s existence, since those working hard to ﬁ nd full-time jobs—and unable to do so since the  recession—need help, and often more help than they currently receive. But the drive to enroll more and more people in  is part of an ideological campaign that has gone unreported. e marketing of food stamps includes four elements:  Advocates arguing that food stamps should be seen as equivalent to Social Security, something that everyone in a particular demographic receives regardless of need.  Advocates arguing that those who turn down food stamps hurt their local economies. Because of perverse incentives, they are right.  States competing to increase the number of residents on food stamps, with journalists lauding the “winners.”   advocates working to break down resistance from the elderly and other resistant populations, including the Amish.

   add up to trouble in THE CARD WAY: A customer two ways. First, the easy availability of gov- holds a Link card, Illinois’ version ernmental funds sucks in some and creates of food stamps, before paying for T groceries at a store in Chicago. a dependent attitude with long-range detriment to them and their children. Second, given budget pressures, we are likely to end up with watery

soup, with some desperately needy families not getting enough to provide good nutrition to children. e message soon spread around the c o u n t r y. In Vermont, e Brookings Institution in  developed a new way to the Burlington Free Press opined, “ e food stamp beneﬁ t is look at food stamps. Its report, “Leaving Money (and Food) on not a welfare program; it’s an entitlement program. ose the Ta bl e,” spoke of “unclaimed beneﬁ ts” when eligible who qualify are entitled to receive these government bene- TIMES/NEWSCOM

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PAUL B EATY/A P dependent on government.” e s message—Don’t get  O  has tried to speed up new onto welfare. Don’t be dependent on government—has fl ipped to food stamp enrollment. On Nov. , , just before Wel fare is your right, and if you have qualms, don’t think of T anksgiving, the Department of Agriculture sent a food stamps as welfare. ink of them as an entitlement like letter to state administrators complaining that some of them Social Security. were running their food stamp programs in a way that was Despite such pressure and fi nancial logic, opposition to “problematic and resulted in a more complex and diffi cult increasing dependency has enrollment process.” at year popped up in places. In , in southern Ohio, Warren even before the latest surge County commissioners began, a former Maine state threatened to pull out of  employee, Shannon Leary, HELPING BY HURTING because new rules made a wrote in the Kennebec Journal, Can food stamps be regarded family with more than “ e state should not take , in assets and savings more people accepting benefi ts as economic stimulus? eligible. Contacted this fall, as a victory. … During a meeting e Department of Agriculture in recent years has Commissioner Dave Young of public assistance supervisors announced that every  billion spent on food stamps recalled, “ ey were literally and administrators, the person generates  billion in economic activity—which means driving up in Mercedes [to running the meeting told us that we purportedly help others by going on welfare. e collect  cards]. I think that  percent of those who Eureka Times-Standard reported that “the local economy” there’s something inherently met the eligibility criteria for could be saved, “one food stamp at a time.” wrong with t h a t.” food stamps were receiving the Newspapers uncritically accepted that fi gure, which at is unusual but possible, benefi t. We were told that was originated with a  study, “Eff ects of Changes in Food since Ohio applicants for food good but the goal was to have Stamp Expenditures Across the U.S. Economy.” But are stamps may own their own  percent receiving the food stamps truly an economic stimulus? A closer look at homes and surrounding land, benefi t. It struck me as odd that report shows that they are only if Washington borrows motor vehicles, furniture, then, and still does today. the money and increases our gargantuan federal defi cit. j e w e l r y, and pension funds, Should we not be striving for Otherwise, they hurt the economy and increase with no limits to their value. less usage of benefi ts?” unemployment. Young said his county did not Leary continued, “As a Department of Agriculture publicists have ignored pull out of   , yet “Nothing self-employed adult with a some crucial fi ndings in their own study. First, authors changed.” Administrators have young family several years ago, Kenneth Hanson and Elise Golan concluded that borrowing made growing the welfare rolls I found myself eligible for food by the U.S. government to expand food stamps would a priority: Young says he’s been stamps. But I had the same “allow recipients to shift cash income previously spent on told that if food stamp determination as my parents food to nonfood spending, recipient households increased applications were checked, “the not to use them. ... e state their spending on nonfood items by . billion.” program would slow to a stand- should not be in the business In other words, three-fourths of food stamps made no still.” Young says concerning his of pushing so hard to get peo- diff erence in the quantity or quality of food that families protest, “We were not trying to ple to take public assistance. ... had: Instead, parents would save money on food and use be inhumane. Everybody needs We need to promote a culture that money to buy other things. a helping hand occasionally. It that gives people the ability to Second, Hanson and Golan concluded, “If the same shouldn’t be a way of life. It be independent rather than recession-driven increase in [food stamp] benefi ts is fi nanced should be a last resort.” maintain a culture where through increased taxes or other budget-neutral means, the Food stamp proponents benefi ts are easily attainable.” stimulus eff ect of the increase in expenditures is dampened have tried to break the will of e Cleveland Plain Dealer or even reversed.” In their simulation, “Low-income house- those among the elderly who, reported in  that the Ohio holds increased spending on non-food goods, but mid- and following American traditions Department of Job & Family high-income households reduced spending by even more.” of independence, are reluctant Services was ordering offi cials More money for government, but less overall household to sign up (see next page). e in two counties that “feature income and spending, led to less economic activity. In this Boston Globe reported, the state’s largest Amish scenario household income fell by  billion and , “Advocates for the elderly are populations to lift dismal jobs were lost. So much for the food stamp stimulus. —M.O. pushing hard to get area senior food-stamp participation citizens in need of assistance ra te s.” County offi cial Tim to apply for the federal food Taylor said, “No matter how much we do, the Amish won’t stamp program, but pride and embarrassment stand in the

sign u p,” and Amish farmer Levi Miller said his poor neighbors way.” e Globe quoted offi cials in Newton, one of Boston’s ASSOCIATED would just say no: “We believe that we are our brother’s affl uent and liberal suburbs, emphasizing that  is “like ke e p e r.” After discussing putting up a billboard within an Social Security or Medicare—something that seniors have paid Amish enclave to promote food stamp use, state and county taxes into and have earned the benefi ts in return. … We PRESS offi cials agreed that the attempt would be fruitless. educate seniors that this is a program they are entitled to.”

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23 COVER STORY.indd 42 11/2/11 10:22 AM How food stamps morphed from temporary relief CHANGING ATTITUDES to permanent entitlement e readiness of many to think of govern- that it might be impossible to end it.” U.S. from  million to  million. A Rockefeller ment welfare as the fi rst line of defense Surgeon General omas Parran told a Senate Institute study of New Yorke rs showed that against poverty shows a huge cultural shift. committee that “self-reliance, the satisfaction two-thirds of the nearly , people who When E. W. Bakke interviewed , heads of of work, the joy of acquisition, the sense of left welfare during the late s found jobs, families in New Haven in the s, the com- equality, the opportunity of leading a normal and only one in fi ve went back on welfare. ment by one accountant turned ditch-digger family life” were vital to good health. By  the results were clear, as the exemplifi ed the frequent refusal to be depen- Roosevelt himself acknowledged the Cleveland Plain Dealer noted about changes dent: “I’d rather stay out in that ditch the rest danger of welfare programs becoming “a in Ohio: “Many of the , families leaving of my life than take one cent of direct relief.” habit with the country.” In November , welfare are doing so because family members e political impact of these beliefs was he said, “When any man or woman goes on a have found work. … A survey conducted for that whenever New Deal proponents empha- dole something happens to them mentally the state found that a year after leaving wel- sized welfare programs for those who could and the quicker they are taken off the dole fare,  percent of the people were employed, work, animosity toward Franklin Roosevelt’s the better it is for them the rest of their averaging  hours a week at . an hour.” New Deal grew. On the other hand, “tempo- lives.” Early in  Roosevelt argued, “We at year President Bill Clinton himself rary” programs could be acceptable, since must preserve not only the bodies of the bragged in a speech to the Independent the economic emergency was seen as a unemployed from destitution but also their Insurance Agents of America: “ If I had plague that eventually would run its course. self-respect, their self-reliance and courage said … we’ll cut the welfare rolls in half, you New York’s prototypical relief program of the and determination.” wouldn’t have believed that. … We know now, s, the Temporary Emergency Relief Later that year Roosevelt noted, “In this because of the success our country has had, Administration, suggested through its business of relief we are dealing with properly that if we work together and we set common double emphasis that subsidies would be self-respecting Americans to whom a mere goals we can achieve them.” at year also short-lived. Franklin Roosevelt called his dole outrages every instinct of individual a Los Angeles Daily News writer asked the nationalization of the idea the Federal independence. Most Americans want to give right question: “In terms of measuring Emergency Relief Administration (). something for what they get. at something, compassion, which is better: encouraging Some leaders within the Roosevelt in this case honest work, is the saving barrier the California woman to turn to welfare or administration also retained the older values between them and moral disintegration. We empowering her to fi nd the independence and saw programs only as “temporary.” propose to build that barrier high.” that she had forgotten she could achieve?” Bureau of the Budget Director Lewis Douglas, Welfare reform in the s was an Of course, an unemployment rate lingering for example, warned emphatically that attempt to recover these s attitudes. It at  percent makes job-fi nding harder than “thousands would settle into government- was successful for a while. e food stamp one at  percent. A loss of manufacturing made jobs” if programs were long-lasting, participation rate—the percentage of those jobs also hurts those without skills prized in and the result would be long-term economic eligible who enrolled—had jumped from  offi ces rather than factory fl oors. But a collapse. percent in  to  percent in , but it change in attitudes, and not only a change in Douglas argued that any program given fell to  percent by the end of the decade. material circumstances, drives increased time to sink roots “might become so great e number of food stamp recipients fell food stamp enrollment. —M.O. ASSOCIATED TEMPORARY FIX: Men of the Civilian Conservation Corps on

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23 CCDA.indd 46 10/28/11 11:27 AM Chicago community development corporation puts a new face on a battered neighborhood space J H C I

   Sunday Gordon felt called as a young man to the church offi ce is now a -computer morning members of work with the African-American com- technology lab, available for public use. the Lawndale m u n i t y, so he moved into Lawndale in Gordon doesn’t see himself as the Community Church  with his wife, Anne. ey stayed  of a big operation: He’s a relation- in Chicago were despite repeated apartment break-ins in ship builder, he says, and the one that lined up at a microphone to share the the early years. He coached high-school God brought here fi rst. Seated in his burdens and blessings of life: a child football. e teens on his team didn’t go offi ce, he talks easily while displaying Ostruggling with addiction, an anniversary, to church. When he asked them about it, some of the energy that played a part in a dangerous illness, a long-awaited they said they didn’t have anything to building the extensive work. He repeat- c o l l e g e graduation, and a loved one wear and didn’t think they’d be wel- edly jumps to his feet to grab a brochure, f a c i n g the streets after jail. “Lift up this come. So Gordon started a Bible study a book, or a news clipping, or to point to one in p raye r,” a pastor repeats: “Let’s for them right there by the weight racks. the North Lawndale map on his wall. lift him u p.” It grew into a service and kept growing. Among his enthusiasms is a new Twice each Sunday morning, spirited One reminder of those early days is aff ordable housing apartment building music begins and people stream into a the nametag Gordon wears at church. It that just opened a few blocks away gymnasium that doubles as an audito- reads “ C o a ch,” the name he’s kept all where Martin Luther King Jr. once lived. rium. Banners proclaim, “Loving God, these years from his initial work here as e  riots battered North Lawndale, Loving People.” Blue-cushioned metal a high-school football coach and teacher. and it never came back economically. chairs fan out in sections around a small irty-six years later the church has en drugs became a problem. “You saw square platform. It’s an oasis of tempo- grown to about , members and discouragement, a sense of hopelessness,” rary harmony within a tough place—and spawned ministries along Ogden Avenue. said Willette Grant, a lifelong Lawndale Pastor Wayne “Coach” Gordon has lived Across the street is the Lawndale resident who serves as hospitality there for more than three decades. Christian Health Clinic. A new clinic coordinator for thethe church.church. Touching lives in tough places

building will soon open down the street. With poverty rates around  percent Started by the church, the clinic is an according to the  census, the church independent charitable organization focuses on building young people into with a governing board made up largely future community leaders. Some projects— of church members. With satellite the Lawndale Christian Legal Center locations, it served , last year. that provides neighborhood youth with Over the years, the Lawndale competent legal representation, the Community Development Corporation Firehouse Community Arts Center in a has refurbished  residences, including reclaimed ﬁ re station, and the “House” the -plus unit Renaissance Building, Hip Hop Service—meet particular needs which the city signed over for a dollar. of the young. Young artists brighten rough spots that Gordon thinks the best way to help PHOTOS people walk by each d ay. Even the boards poor neighborhoods is to live in one, over a window can become a canvas for a interact with neighbors, and see needs painting. A back room a few doors from that might not be apparent to those who parachute in from outside. For example, residents  years ago knew that North

STRAZZANTE/GENESIS COURT ORDER: Gordon (blue shirt) visits with a church member and former Hope House resident; Sean Logan shoots baskets in the Lawndale Christian Health Center—the Lawndale didn’t have a single restaurant

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23 CCDA.indd 47 10/28/11 11:29 AM together. e church partnered with While Crissy Brooks was living in established Chicago pizza chain Lou Venezuela, working with a program Malnati’s to bring Chicago deep-dish that started and built pizza to the community. e brick new schools, she restaurant—“a full-service restaurant found herself with soul”—is several doors down thinking about from the church offi ces, in a church- pockets of pov- owned building. is Malnati’s eatery erty in her home turned its fi rst profi t last year. community, Costa Finding hope Gordon also has been a leading Mesa, Calif. Men’s recovery center force in building the Christian Inspired by , boasts new starts Community Development Association Brooks and others started the Mika () into an organization with a Community Development Corporation When the phone rings at Lawndale national conference that last month in . It emphasizes mentoring and Commu n i t y Church’s Hope House, brought to Indianapolis , people, after-school eff orts through a commu- -year-old Adonnis Johnson answers. A including students from  colleges. nity center and a youth action team. moment later he is off ering reassurance.  includes many others who are Mika also sponsors a healthy marriage He’s been to jail too, he tells the caller. He leading forces in their own communi- initiative, organizes home visits to listen came to Hope House with a bag and a ties. Here are just a few: to residents and pray—all building willingness to change. Frank Alexander is friendships and trust. Johnson is cheerful. He’s been out of pastor of Oasis of Noel Castellanos grew up on the jail for nearly a year and at Hope House Hope Baptist Church Texas border, became a youth Men’s Recovery Home for  days. He has in Indianapolis, worker in San Francisco and San a small wooden cross on a leather cord which helps the Jose, and started a around his neck, a Bible close by, and a poor through “com- church in Gospel hip hop music disc in his  player. prehensive community Chicago’s Little “Hope House teaches you to be a involvement.” For teens, a Village, a pre- b e t t e r man,” he says. Under the leader- youth work orientation program helps dominantly ship of “Pastor Joe” Atkins, the program’s them to learn “what it means to get up Hispanic neigh- director, most of the bunks are full. At any and go to work.” e teens learn to borhood. He one time he’s helping  or so men with d i s c e r n their interests and talents, and notes that subur- troubled pasts get a new start through then work for four weeks with local ban churches are real- the six- to nine-month program. businesses. For the elderly, a church- izing that “the poor are coming to u s,” Samuel adamS ScholarShip for JournaliSm e men wake up at  a.m. Five days a created nonprofi t development corpo- and are often helping blighted neigh- week they have Bible study and prayer. ration has constructed two senior borhoods by bringing volunteers, at patrick henry college Each week, they help convert the gym citizens buildings of  apartments fi nancial support, and services from across the street from the church offi ces each, and  units of mixed-income lawyers and doctors. Castellanos is into a worship space for a day. Some work housing. roughout, Alexander notes now  of  and a member of at the neighborhood pizzeria, Malnati’s. that when Jesus spoke about poverty President Barack Obama’s Advisory ATKINS: George Clopton, , fi nished at Hope He emphasized spiritual Council on Faith-Based and SCOTT House in . He now works full time p ove r t y. Neighborhood Partnerships.

doing maintenance on the restored LeRoy Barber Matthew Watts looks at prison pop- STRAZZANTE/GENESIS h o u s i n g in the neighborhood, but he also was a church ulation growth rates, like the high rate shares his story with Hope House new- leader in Atlanta in his state of West Virginia, and sees a comers. “I’m a living witness that change but felt that the mission ﬁ eld that can take place in one’s life,” he says. lives of mem- churches miss: not

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ATKINS: SCOTT STRAZZANTE/GENESIS PHOTOS • WATTS: CREATE WV • OTHER HEADSHOTS: HANDOUT HOLDING FAST AS CHURCHES AROUND THE WORLD PREPARE FOR PERSECUTION SUNDAY THIS MONTH, AFGHAN CHRISTIAN SAYED MUSA TELLS HOW HE SURVIVED GOVERNMENT-LED IMPRISONMENT AND ABUSE BY MINDY BELZ

’    up a hill beneath shade trees and across a busy intersection to the gate of the three-story building where Sayed Musa lives in a two-room apartment with his family of eight. I ring the bell and someone buzzes me in. In the hallway I’m greeted by smiling children and ushered into a bright kitchen where the white tiles shine and the counter is clean and cleared like you see only in glossy magazines. At a fl at- screen television two children are watching an episode of IAlias . en from the bedroom emerges Musa himself, wearing a pressed shirt over creased khakis, looking thin but nothing like the man many of us came to know a year ago. en Musa’s home was a prison in downtown Kabul. Our meeting marks the fi rst time the Christian convert, , has met with a reporter to tell his story since gaining FINALLY FREE: Musa speaks from freedom and fi nding himself in a n e w, undisclosed location his new home outside Afghanistan. outside Afghanistan.

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23 PERSECUTION-MUSA.indd 50 11/2/11 5:16 PM 23 PERSECUTION-MUSA.indd 51 11/2/11 5:15 PM Musa’s story made headlines and stirred offi cials worldwide last year after agents from Afghanistan’s National Security Directorate (akin to the ) jailed him for converting from Islam to Christianity. His is a penetrating study of the persecution of converts from Islam—often labeled apostates under Islamic law who can be put to death—as churches and faith-based organizations highlight the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church on Nov. . Musa was one of several Christians arrested in May , following the nationwide broadcast of a videotape showing an Afghan-American and others baptizing Afghans. e videotape turned out to be two years old, but a parliamentary election campaign was on, and Nasto Nadiri, host of a Noorin  show that fi rst aired the clips, was running for a seat. Taking a stand against Christians and the West was a way to stake a position against the Karzai government and its supporting parties. e television station announced it would take evidence of Christian evangelism to parliament, and Karzai’s allies took the bait: Abdul Sattar Khawasi, deputy secretary of the lower house, said all Afghan nationals who converted to Christianity should be publicly executed. Karzai spokesman Waheed Omar ordered authorities to draw up a list of foreign organizations working in Afghanistan to investigate possible Christian activity. roughout June and J u l y,  mostly faith-based organizations—many with longstanding humanitarian work in Afghanistan—had their offi ces and in some cases homes of workers visited and records searched by security offi cers. e government ultimately cleared them. Up to  Christians were jailed then released, locals said, but no one knew what had become of Musa. For two months authorities handed out no notice of his arrest or charges against him. His wife didn’t learn of his whereabouts until an inmate released from the same jail visited her with news of her husband. She saw him for the fi rst time following his arrest on July . e crackdown jolted religious freedom advocates. e Karzai government is a signatory to the  Declaration on Human Rights, which calls for freedom of religion and “TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO JESUS SPOKE, equal access to “a fair and public h e a ri n g.” It also forbids “cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.” Afghanistan’s constitution, drafted with U.S. oversight in , states in Article : “Followers of other religions are BUT FOR ME EVERYTHING BECAME NEW.” free to exercise their faith and perform their religious rites within the limits of the provisions of l aw.” e jailing of religious minorities after nearly a decade of fi ghting marked a bipartisan setback for the United  M   in a village in central States—as both Presidents Bush and Obama were on record Afghanistan, the son of hardworking Hazaras, an promoting broad-based, representative government in Soppressed ethnic minority: “I was Muslim and I went Afghanistan with equal rights for all as an essential way to to the mosques, I prayed and was strict.” e name “Sayed” tamp down al-Qaeda and affi liated insurgents. e means direct descendent of the prophet Muhammad. ( e imprisonment of Musa—an amputee with six children name “Musa” often has been transliterated Mosa or Mossa, (including one who is handicapped and cannot speak), a including by .) medical worker who had done nothing more violent than As a fi rst offi cer in the army under the Soviet-backed MORENATTI/AP

change his religion—spelled reversal of U.S. aims. government in , Musa stepped on a landmine on patrol EMILIO

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23 PERSECUTION-MUSA.indd 52 11/2/11 5:17 PM TRAUMA VICTIMS: members died. e destruction and Musa shows a boy how grief was overwhelming, said Musa. to put on a new pair of artifi cial legs outside While he worked with others to fi nd Kabul in . survivors amid the rubble, two Western women showed up to help also. Who are these women? Musa asked a neighbor. “ ey are Christians, followers of Jesus C h ri s t,” was the re p l y. “ at was the fi rst time I heard the name of Jesus C h ri s t,” said Musa. “I saw that they were really good people, and I thought I should fi nd who Jesus Christ i s.” Musa met other Christians while working for the . “I could not dare to ask but fi nally I did: ‘What is a Christian? Do you have a book?’” he said to one, eventually receiving a Bible and an off er to answer his questions. Reading it on his own, he said, “I realized this is the word of God. I did not fi nd any diffi culty in the Bible, but the Quran for me is diffi cult. It’s in Arabic and I don’t speak Arabic. Two thousand years ago Jesus spoke, but for me everything became n e w.” Several weeks later, Musa and his wife were baptized. Did you tell friends you had become a Christian? I asked. “As I studied the Bible, in my heart it was like a fl ame. I was never afraid. I spoke of the word of God, and some appreciated it, but some were against m e.” Musa discovered enough interest in his newfound faith that the convert opened his home Friday evenings for what became a Bible study and worship time. “Sometimes there were  or , sometimes  or ,” he said. Friends described him as “full of boldness” and one recalled Musa reciting from memory the gospel of Matthew. At an Easter celebration he gave his testimony before an Afghan audience of about . Not everyone in the audience was a Christian. Relatives opposed Musa’s conversion, as did some  colleagues. As the  crackdown against Christians erupted, one colleague reported him to authorities. Musa said another alerted him that he would be arrested, so he left his work at  “to go to  headquarters because I thought someone there could help m e.” But on the way a plainclothes policeman arrested him and jailed him in the security directorate prison only blocks from . He had a small pocket Bible, he said, which prison authorities confi scated and never returned to him. “After that they beat me. ey asked me many questions: “TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO JESUS SPOKE, ‘How many Christians are there? How many foreigners are working with you? If you say any foreigners’ name I will release yo u,’ ” recalls Musa. e beating by security offi cers continued off and on for two months. He admits, “I lied about some BUT FOR ME EVERYTHING BECAME NEW.” things—because I didn’t want others to be treated this way.” Musa was not the only Christian convert to be arrested. In Herat two Afghans along with two Western workers—one South African and another Korean-American—were jailed in in Kandahar. e explosion forced partial amputation of his left August. One of the Afghans, held for  days, described for me leg, and Musa spent the next month in a hospital and most of the his Aug.  arrest at gunpoint, and said he was beaten and next year in rehab. But the trauma led him to a career working imprisoned with “murderers, the worst people … they threatened with the disabled. He became an orthopedic therapist for the to kill m e.” e others arrested along with him also were International Committee of the Red Cross () in Kabul—a posi- released within a month. tion he would hold through the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, Authorities arrested Shoib Assadullah, , in Mazar-e-Sharif the U.S. invasion in , and until his arrest last year. in October for allegedly giving someone a New Testament. He MORENATTI/AP During pre-Taliban fi ghting, a bomb shattered a house in remained in jail until April  and, like Musa, reported

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23 PERSECUTION-MUSA.indd 53 11/2/11 5:17 PM , the  edition of Operation World, an Members of Congress and European diplomats also began encyclopedic global prayer guide, lists Afghanistan to press their respective embassies to pressure the Karzai Snumber  in a ranking of “Countries with the Fastest government for his release. Five members of the House inter- Growing Evangelical Population.” Number  is Iran at . national religious freedom caucus also wrote to Kabul  percent growth over the fi ve-year period -, with head Stocker Reto. Yet throughout Musa’s ordeal, and despite Afghanistan’s growth rate at . percent and all other over  years working for the Red Cross,  representatives countries at less than  percent (estimated growth rate in never visited him or intervened on his behalf. Reto and  the United States is . percent). offi cers in Geneva said the agency had to remain “neutral.” A major factor in that statistic, according to Operation Kabul prisons have come under new scrutiny since the  World editor Jason Mandryk, is that the fi ve-year Taliban released a report in October on prison conditions, document- regime eradicated indigenous churches and church groups, ing beatings and torture under the watch of the National and Mandryk estimates Afghan Christians to now number Security Directorate and other branches. Under the Leahy in the hundreds. “ e increase of Afghan believers is Amendment, the United States is blocked from funding impossible to document, yet undeniable,” he said. ( e facilities where such abuse takes place. But while the report State Department estimates the number of Christians in focused on Taliban detainees, transfers from Guantanamo, Afghanistan between  and ,.) and other “armed confl ict” prisoners, it said nothing about e growth rate includes the infl ux of Western aid work- those jailed over non-violent issues, like Musa—even ers who are Christians, although expatriate workers and though the  assisted in the surveysurvey forfor thethe report.report. Afghan believers rarely worship e staunchest advocates Musa had outside or congregate together for fear the prison were a European couple, former of endangering or drawing neighbors in Kabul. ey contacted offi cials, cials, attention to one another. organized prayer meetings, and set up prison “When you read Scripture visits—sometimes successful, often not. ey you see that persecution is the are not named in this story because they inevitable result of church continue toto workwork in Kabul.Kabul. growth and people resolutely But none of the mounting international and radically following J e s u s,” pressure then made a diff erence. Colder said Mandryk. “ ey might not weather set in and Musa began his sixth month represent large numbers, but the in captivity in an unheated, overcrowdedovercrowded growth rates tend to be higher detention room. He didn’t have a blanket or where persecution is most change of clothes until late September and prevalent and i n te n s e.” slept on a mat on the fl oor. oor. MealsMeals ofof ricerice andand soup came twice a day. d ay.   M Worse, taunts and beatings grew constant. was Ahmed Shah Reza, A man he describes as the “prison mullah” Awhom Musa had met at called him an infi del and encouraged inmatesinmates Christian gatherings but soon to abuse him. ey beat him with wooden discovered to be a spy working, he said, for Grand AyatollahAyatollah sticks, kicked him to the fl oor, oor, punched him,him, andand spitspit inin hishis Mohseni, a hardline Shiite cleric who runs an Islamic face. Someone produced a skullcap, forced it on him, and school in Tehran. In jail Reza renounced Christianity and mocked him as Jesus wearing a crown of thorns. en he was released by order of the attorney general. Musa was was raped. accused of apostasy, and the attorney general’s offi ce Seated in his bright kitchen n ow, Musa struggles to announced he could be hanged pending a trial. But sched- recall that time with words. He was “in d e s p a i r,” he said. uled court appearances came and went, postponed as the His family had been forced to fl ee to Pakistan, kicked out of government faced mounting embarrassment over the case. their home by the landlord and threatened by neighbors. Americans working in Afghanistan who knew Musa He had only visits from the European couple to look forward wrote to the U.S. embassy in Kabul to protest that he was to, and little news from outside. He began to write and illegally detained and denied due process. An Aug.  letter smuggle out letters— in all—sent with the couple from read: “If it is found that Mossa’s life is in jeopardy because the prison in a bag containing his dirty laundry. he exercised his right to choose his own faith, I entreat that One, a two-page letter addressed in Musa’s cursive to the US Embassy do what it can to ensure his safety. ... e “the international church of the world and to the president US government has been actively engaged in Afghanistan brother Barack O b a m a,” caught the attention of political since , spending billions of dollars, exerting millions and church leaders. He described the torture in prison, his

of hours of manpower, and losing precious American lives lack of legal representation (several government-appointed HANDOUT in order to ensure that the Afghan people enjoy these basic lawyers had refused the case of an “inﬁ del”), and said: “I human rights. If one cannot enjoy these rights, none can am alone between  holders of terrible values in the jail

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23 PERSECUTION-MUSA.indd 54 11/2/11 5:18 PM For weeks Musa said he believed he was only awaiting his in Kabul did not confi rm that the meeting took place, and execution. When offi cials told him he would be hanged in three s e v e r a l sources close to the case asked that further details not days unless he converted back to Islam, he asked them to be be divulged). sure to hang him p u b l i c l y. Musa says he told both diplomats, “I love much my c o u n t r y, U.S. offi cials grew increasingly aware that the case was a I do not want to go, I love my community, I love my people, I black eye on the already bruised record of U.S. engagement in love my work and my patients. But if you insist then you know Afghanistan. After the letter was publicized, the U.S. embassy better.” He said he would not volunteer for asylum, he would and others successfully pressured Afghan offi cials to move have to be forced to leave. e ambassadors departed, and Musa to the Kabul Detention Center, a facility inside the o ffi cials from the attorney general’s offi ce returned. ey made provincial governor’s compound reserved mostly for Taliban it clear to Musa that the only way he could remain in fi ghters, where Musa slept in a Afghanistan was to renounce corridor to avoid further Christianity and return to beatings. FELLOW PRISONER: Islam. He refused. Shoib Assadullah. According to  sources, Someone came to take his Gen. David Petraeus—then picture, and several days later commander of U.S. forces in diplomats came to collect him Afghanistan—raised the case from jail. At night they took in an early December meeting him to the airport, where he with Karzai (spokesmen for boarded a jet and was fl own both governments would not from Afghanistan in February. confi rm the discussion). Sima His family joined him three Samar, who chairs the weeks later. Afghanistan Independent In a new land, Musa and Rights Commission and was his family have some support one of two female cabinet from the government and a ministers under Karzai’s charity group, but he can’t interim administration in legally hold a job yet, and for -, confi rmed in eight months his children did December that Karzai was not attend school. Now fi ve of aware of Musa’s case. his six children, who range in But as snow blanketed age from  to  years old, are Kabul and the year ended, in school. e family has Musa’s despair deepened. One received important medical night he says, “I cried and care—including overdue treat- asked the Lord, ‘Why did you ment for Musa’s amputated do this? I did not do any bad stump and surgery to remove things. Why don’t you help shrapnel from his other leg. me?’ During the night I saw a And they have found a sup- dream and in it Jesus ... saying, portive church that is provid- ‘Musa, I am always with yo u.’ I ing fellowship along with am lying on the ground and clothing and other essentials. Jesus gave me His h a n d.” Challenges remain. Culture Musa said he woke up in a shock runs deep. e family sweat, but afterward, “When people in prison speak bad to me, must learn a new language to manage, and Musa says they have I laugh at them because I see that my Lord is a l ive.” been cautious about interacting with other Afghan refugees e ordeal wasn’t over, and when British Sunday Times because most are Muslims who may again put Musa’s life in reporter Miles Amoore visited Musa in early February, he danger. In Norway Afghans at a refugee processing center described the convert as weak and limping, “looking haggard attacked a Christian convert in September, scalding him with and speaking nervously in Dari, the local language.” Guards had boiling water and acid. And just this month, Afghan refugees in forbidden him to speak in English. “I don’t care if they crucify India came under new threats of attack (see “Well-founded f e a r,” me upside d own,” Musa told Amoore. “My spirit will still be alive. July , ). For n ow, he is careful not to discuss his where- I am only afraid of God. Only he can send my soul to hell.” abouts and is not sure what his family’s long-term plan will be. Not long after that interview, offi cers sent Musa to the Musa, who often calls himself “the sinnest person in the

HANDOUT attorney general’s oﬃ ce to meet two oﬃ cials, one an ambassa- world,” said he gradually came to see that “if I die or if I am dor from the undisclosed country where Musa now lives and released, it is the s a m e.” But now that he is released, he says, then U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry. Both apparently were “Life is really good. I have my family, they are , and it was

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23 PERSECUTION-MUSA.indd 55 11/2/11 5:18 PM 23 OBAMA CAMPAIGN.indd 56 11/3/11 10:35 AM rrr rrr CAMPAIGN 2012 Democratic in a presidential election for the fi rst time since . Neighboring Virginia also chose Obama, going Democratic for the fi rst time since . But one year away from the  elections, Obama can no longer count on support from these two states. His approval ratings in both Virginia and TALK North Carolina now are below  percent. On a mission to give these numbers a boost, Obama left behind the slog of legislating in Washington and spent three late October days in the two states. OF THE ¤ is gave voters here an up-close view of the president’s campaign charisma. At Reid’s, Obama asked one diner if he’d eaten all his vegetables before dessert and told a couple married for  years TOWNS that he had  years to catch up to them. After a bus tour of important Outside, Obama talked to a woman’s grandmother on a cell phone and asked a swing states, the president brewery worker if he had any samples. Obama seems more comfortable with left people happy to see him this brand of street-level retail politicking than he does with Capitol Hill–level but not necessarily convinced legislating. ¤ e next  months will that he should get four more aff ord Obama plenty of opportunities to play to his strength. Overcoming an years in Washington aggressive campaign fueled by Obama’s likely  billion campaign war chest will be the biggest hurdle for the eventual BY EDWARD LEE PITTS Republican nominee. in North Carolina and Virginia Reporters fi led news accounts of PHOTOS BY JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Obama’s North Carolina and Virginia bus swing with favorable crowd comments. One onlooker said Obama is a “hand-    in late some fella” while another said, “We love October after entering him d e a rl y.” One lady swore she’d never Reid’s House Restaurant , wash the hand Obama shook. located in North Carolina I wondered what the people in these just below the Virginia mostly small towns would say a week b o r d e r. I wanted to know later, after the excitement of the presiden- where President Barack tial entourage had worn off . Wou ld the Obama had sat. Just one realities of the persistently high unem- week earlier, the presi- ployment plaguing their communities CAMPAIGN dent’s . million black trump the president’s lingering charms? CHARISMA: President armored bus, Ground Force  would not foot the bill for a Obama greets One, had come to  million bus, so I drove myself in my diners during Reidsville and this roadside diner with  Jeep Liberty. a lunch stop the self-proclaimed “best food in town.” “¤ e country was headed in the wrong at Reid’s House Soon I found myself back outside dig- direction when (Obama) took offi c e,” said Restaurant in Iging through my car for enough change Carol Creed, my seatmate along the North Carolina to buy a late lunch. Reid’s House is a L-shaped counter inside Reid’s where I sat on Oct. , the cash-only establishment. However, on a stool and ate the same ., two second day of his American owner Clint Marsh said he told Obama beef patties Master Burger ordered by Jobs Act bus he’d make an exception and accept a Obama. “But he has done nothing to help tour to check from him with proper identifi ca- it. I’d give him an F. He’s f a i l e d.” discuss tion. No such luck for me. Creed, a retired insurance worker, employment and the In , by just three-tenths of a lists Democrats John Kennedy and Jimmy economy. percentage point, North Carolina went Carter as two of the best presidents in her

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23 OBAMA CAMPAIGN.indd 57 11/3/11 10:38 AM lifetime. But she faults Obama for not toward my next stop in the North nearly all of Washington’s partisan grid- having a plan other than throwing more Carolina mountains. lock. “When both parties cover their tails money at the nation’s problems in the we don’t solve anything.” form of bailouts, stimulus, and new ob Noyes got a 20-minute Local music store owner Woody entitlements. “We already have too much notice that the president Killough, who has written Obama a government in just about eve ryt h i n g,” was coming to lunch at his couple of times, said he is willing to give she said. Countryside Barbeque res- the president the benefit of the doubt for The unemployment rate in this town taurant in the city of having to manage the war and the econ- of 15,000 is nearly 12 percent. That’s Marion. R Located off the interstate near o my. “I can’t hardly work and eat ice higher than the national average. Young Asheville, N.C., Marion has a population cream at the same time. Now that the people, including two of Creed’s three of 8,000. According to its welcome war is over and soldiers are coming children, are abandoning Reidsville for signs, Marion is “where main street home he has to focus on jobs.” work in bigger cities like nearby meets the mountains.” When Obama’s Obama left the barbeque restaurant Greensboro. “I would have asked him if motorcade arrived on Oct. 17, police after 35 minutes but not before paying he would bring some jobs with him to blocked off entrance and exit ramps for the meals of one table of diners. Reidsville,” said Faye Cayton, a waitress along the interstate, forcing travelers Obama’s bus headed deeper into the at this Waffle House–style diner who stopped for gas to take extended breaks. Blue Ridge Mountains. But there was off the day Obama visited. Inside Countryside Barbeque, agents remained one place in Marion that Ray Chesley Overby, retired from the conducted a security sweep with bomb- Davis wished the president had visited. Nav y, said he is “super impressed that sniffing dogs, locals eating lunch sub- Davis pastors the Clinchfield United Obama went in there and got Bin L a d e n.” mitted to checks with metal detecting Methodist Church located less than four Such approval of Obama’s foreign policy wands, and two chefs traveling with the miles from Countryside Barbeque. Here is a common refrain on my trip. But president supervised the cooks as they at this one-story red brick church a team Betty Talbot, who works at a local hospi- prepared Obama’s pork platter. The of volunteers serves hot meals to about tal, said she has grown tired of Obama’s menu says this popular plate is “made 500 people each week. The program strategy of blaming George W. Bush for with lots of love” and includes sweet started two and a half years ago after the nation’s economic problems. “He potato fries seasoned with brown sugar. Davis visited a local elementary school controlled Congress for two ye a r s,” she Obama went to every booth in the for lunch. There he saw a girl shovel the said. “Why didn’t he get anything done restaurant before taking his meal to go. scraps of her lunch into an empty milk then?” When asked about the 2010 He heard concerns about tight budgets, carton. healthcare l aw, Talbot just shakes her layoffs, bailouts, and regulations. “What are you d o i n g,” he asked. head. A week after Obama’s visit, Noyes, the “Mr. Davis, I’m taking this home so I After finishing off my chocolate pie restaurant’s owner, said he is concerned can have something to eat tonight,” the (owner Marsh boasts that Obama that most of the president’s advisors have girl replied. ordered two desserts—the pie and the academic backgrounds rather than busi- Davis started a backpack program banana pudding. But I had enough ness experience. “They haven’t been out providing 285 children with a pack of change leftover for just one), I drove here in the trenches going through the food to take home every F r i d ay. Then the deeper into the state, past trees trials that we d o,” said Noyes, who is economy got worse. So Davis expanded sprinkled with fall colored leaves, quick to add that he is frustrated with the meal program. He now has 65

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23 OBAMA CAMPAIGN.indd 58 11/3/11 10:39 AM volunteers and relies on donations to Here Obama seemed to get the best “THE CHANGE ... HAS NOT BEEN GOOD”: cover the  weekly cost. reception of his trip. During a group photo Obama chats with people at the Countryside Barbecue restaurant in Marion, N.C. (left) and e unemployment rate in the someone yelled, “Yes we can!” Stopping greets local residents in Brodnax, Va. county is more than  percent. But next to a childcare center and a one-story counting those who have stopped brick post offi ce, Obama shook the hands l o o k i n g for work, Davis thinks the real of bystanders young and old including vote against taking steps that we know unemployment fi gure is somewhere Wesley Morris. I met Morris a week later will put Americans back to work right between  to  percent. Several of the outside the same post offi ce. e owner of n ow,” Obama said on this bus tour, “then area’s textile mills and furniture facto- a local rental company, Morris said it was they’re not going to have to answer to me. ries that formed the community’s hard not to be impressed with Obama’s ey’re going to have to answer to yo u.” economic backbone have shut down. “good personality.” But the biggest discovery I had follow- Residents who lost homes began sleep- But he accused the president of not ing in Obama’s footsteps was the near ing in their cars. en they lost their changing the Washington culture like he unanimous discontent over Obama’s  cars. A tent city sprouted up near promised. “ e change he has brought challengers. Creed in Reidsville said she Marion’s railroad tracks. has not been good,” Morris said. “We is tired of the  debates. “Everybody “I came up with this program so they can’t stand  more months of this much huff s and puff s and says whatever they can save what little fi nances they have to less four more ye a r s.” can to get into offi c e.” Hayspell of keep their homes and c a r s,” Davis said. Morris opposes Obama’s proposed tax Brodnax answered my question about “But that hasn’t worked out for m a ny.” increases: “Why are you going to penalize the Republican contenders with a Davis refuses government funding— somebody for getting off their front question of his own that should unsettle “too many conditions, too much paper- porch and making something of them- conservatives: “Who’s running?” work,” he says—but he still regrets that selves?” He also thinks that Obama’s Obama’s trips to court voters in states Obama, so close in his trek through insistence on bigger government shows that bucked their  traditions in  Marion, did not visit. “He could have that he doesn’t grasp that the country is will continue over the next year. Of the seen the people who are hurting and broke: “I’m an economics major, and I nine states that went Democrat in the suff ering and the people who are trying can’t wrap my mind around it. But I do  presidential election after voting for to take care of them without the govern- know that I can’t eat steak fi ve times a a Republican in , eight are listed as ment’s help. You can talk about it all day week when I’m broke.” toss-ups for . For Obama to win, he long. But I believe our politicians would However, two retirees also visiting likely needs to recapture them all again. have greater passion if they could see.” the post offi ce said Obama deserves a Obama will be in his element on the second term. “I don’t think Congress has campaign trail. But, as his armored    really supported h i m,” said Alvin Ground Force One racks up the miles in Virginia, I had one more stop Hayspell. “ ey are just kicking him any the coming months, Obama’s reelection to make on my backtracking way they c a n,” added Nathaniel hopes may not survive too many home- of Obama. Driving through Harrison. made roadside signs like the one a the center of Brodnax, Va., Obama’s campaign tactic to blame woman held aloft as the presidential my Codometer barely registered one mile Congress for the stagnant economy motorcade drove through the North from one welcome sign to the next along seems to be taking hold with several Carolina mountains last month: “We the town’s Piney Pond Road. people I talked to on my trip. “If they Believed, We Vot ed. Now Wh a t.” A

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23 OBAMA CAMPAIGN.indd 59 11/3/11 10:39 AM Signs of the times

STANDING UP FOR ITS RIGHTS: Cobern outside LifeCare Austin.

23 LIFECARE.indd 60 10/31/11 9:40 AM Signs of the times A Texas pregnancy center finds itself a target of a national campaign to use local politics to undermine pro-life counseling services

ustin LifeCare pregnancy center owns a light green building on a busy road about five miles north of the University of Texas. Painted floral topiaries flank the front door. The center is pretty. Its soft green and purple color scheme is a holdover from the 1990s. It’s feminine but not frilly. Pam Cobern, LifeCare’s executive director, wants to update the center’s decor and make it less feminine so as to welcome the increasing number of men who now come to the center. But that’s in the future. Right now she’s dealing with a new law the Austin City Council has imposed on LifeCare and three other pro-life centers. The law mandates that they post signs stating, “This center does not provide abortions or refer to abortion providers. This center does not provide or refer to providers of U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved birth control drugs and medical devices.” Failure to post the sign is a misdemeanor, punishable with a fine of $250 for the first offense, $350 for the second offense, and $450 for the third offense. But it’s hard to see how any clients coming to LifeCare could be confused about its services. The name “LifeCare” doesn’t sound like an abortion clinic, and framed copies of a “Commitment of Care”—a list of nine promises—hang both in the reception area and client waiting room. Promise No. 7 reads, “We do not offer, recommend or refer for abortions or abortifacients, but we are committed to offering accurate information about abortion procedures and ri s k s.” Since the law’s passage in April 2010, LifeCare has displayed in both English and Spanish the city-required sign printed in black ink in the city-mandated font. But LifeCare added to it these words printed in red ink: “This center provides accurate information and services to women who desire to have the facts related to abortion and other alternatives, in order to help them make fully informed decisions about their reproductive health and the health of their unborn children.” After the city-mandated words about birth control, LifeCare added in red: “except for married cl i e n t s.” Last month LifeCare and the other centers filed in federal court three separate suits against the City of Austin claiming that the law is an “unconstitutional abridgment of Austin LifeCare’s rights to freedom of speech, association and religious free exercise.” Samuel B. C a s e y, an attorney with the Jubilee Campaign’s Law of Life Project, said the ordinance is the “result of a private political organization using the power of government to attack another organization based on that organization’s ideas and speech.” The Alliance Defense Fund and Texas Center for Defense of

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23 LIFECARE.indd 61 11/2/11 10:45 AM  classes. Participation by men has increased so much that LifeCare plans to off er a curriculum developed by the National Fatherhood Initiative. Clients can take classes and shop in Hannah’s Closet until their children are  year old. Next on our tour was the counselors’ room. Only people who know the code can get into the locked room where the center keeps confi dential medical records, as well as counseling resources and curriculum materials. LifeCare is in the process of becoming certifi ed to meet the same standards for patient confi dentiality as any medical offi ce. Cobern showed me one of the forms that counselors use with clients. Developed by a team from the University of Ottawa, the Ottawa Personal Decision Guide helps clients to think through POSTED: LifeCare Austin “‘tough’ healthcare decisions that may volunteers work to organize Hannah’s Closet (above); the have multiple options; uncertain out- sign required by a new city law. comes; benefi ts and harms that people value diff erently.” With abortion- minded clients, LifeCare also uses Life are also helping Planned Parenthood’s surgical consent LifeCare with its suit. form to go through abortion risks. Cobern says LifeCare Cobern says teens make up about one- has to stand up for its fourth of LifeCare’s clients, and  per- rights. If it doesn’t, other cent of LifeCare’s clients are older than centers in other cities will . at makes sense, Cobern says. Teens face the same kind of often live at home and have a support harassment. She has evidence to back up that cover life skills, budgeting, and network. Young women are more likely that claim. A political arm of the parenting topics, LifeCare clients earn to be on their own. ey may already National Abortion Rights Action League ‘baby bucks’ that they spend in have children. ey are more likely to (NARAL ProChoice New York) posted on Hannah’s closet. need the support of a place like LifeCare. YouTube a video that lays out a nation- Cobern says Earn While You Learn LifeCare off ers sonograms to pregnant wide strategy to pass similar laws came about after she heard a client s ay, clients under the supervision of the wherever sympathetic local offi cials will “Everything I have for my baby came center’s medical director. He is an M.D. take up the cause. e video dubs pro- from LifeCare.” Cobern was dismayed: and his license covers services provided life centers “brainwashing outfi ts” and “Are we enabling this? at’s not what by the center’s two volunteer doctors, accuses them of “emotionally bullying” we’re here to d o.” She also heard volun- two volunteer R.N.s, and a volunteer vulnerable women. teers who were burned out and con- certifi ed ultrasound stenographer. e video also charges the centers cerned that some clients had developed Altogether the center has over  with pretending to be “full service health an entitlement mentality—but she says volunteers who serve in a variety of centers,” and says the laws are necessary Earn While You Learn has “shifted ways, including counseling, abstinence to promote truth in advertising. It shows everything around.” Clients like it teaching in the schools, and mentoring. an alliance of pro-abortion activists and because they are earning stuff rather Cobern says the pregnancy center elected offi cials working together to than taking handouts: ey can spend movement has always been apolitical. devise the strategy and carry it out. their baby bucks on small things or save “It’s hurt us in the long ru n,” she says: Pam Cobern gave me a tour of her them to buy a new crib. “We need to let policy makers know center so I could better understand its Volunteers like the program because about our services.” She points to a services. We started in Hannah’s Closet, it clearly helps their clients, because they statistic:  percent of center clients a room that used to look like a closet. can build relationships with clients over indicate on exit surveys that they Now it’s set up like a store with clothes a longer period of time, and because it “would recommend the center to a for baby girls hanging on one wall and helps to engage fathers. If the baby’s f ri e n d.” She points to the sign ordinance those for baby boys on another. It is the father also takes classes, clients receive as a perfect example of what happens heart of LifeCare’s “Earn While You double baby bucks. Some of the classes when centers keep those good statistics Learn” program. By taking classes— meet several times a week, and others to themselves: “ e city council doesn’t off ered in both English and Spanish— for an hour. In , clients have taken have any clue what we d o.” A

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ictor Manuel Watters lay in a hospital bed in never seemed to be with anyone. We started asking around.” his family’s home with his head shaved, his body The Watterses learned he was from an Indian reservation in 3 V weak, and his breath failing. northern Minnesota and that he also was being treated for With his breath, however, he sang, prayed, and spoke with Ewing Sarcoma. His name was Victor. his many visitors. He told his friends, siblings, step-siblings, Victor, age 9, had mostly lived in the hospital since he was adopted siblings, and adoptive parents that he loved them. diagnosed in 2006. His mother had several children by differ- “Today is the last day I’m going to live, unless God has a ent men and substance abuse problems. Victor’s latest foster different plan for m e,” said young Victor to his family. “And I family gave him up for a while because they were traveling, so pray that you would just follow God with all your heart, with Victor was often alone in the hospital, sometimes lying in bed all your soul, and with all your m i n d.” watching cartoons and clutching a stuffed animal. The Watterses made a point to befriend him. Mike and Deb Watters had an all-American life. Mike, a “Victor was a real likable kid. He was f r i e n d l y. He just kind college baseball player at the University of Michigan met Deb, of melded into any situation,” said Mike. “That was something a field hockey player, in the weight room. Both involved in God uniquely suited him for, given the dysfunction of his Christian groups on campus, they eventually married. family life.” Deb said she and Mike kept wondering, when After a stint with a minor league baseball team, Mike went they went home from the hospital, how Victor was doing. to law school at Indiana University Bloomington before working They couldn’t imagine how a young person could battle at a large Indianapolis law firm. Deb worked at pharmaceutical cancer all alone. One night in their kitchen, Mike looked at giant Eli Lilly & Co. They later moved to the Minneapolis suburb Deb and asked, “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” of Burnsville, where Deb homeschools most of their five She was. They wanted to be his foster parents or adoptive children and Mike works as a lawyer for a large hospital system. parents if that was best for Victor. They spent weeks inquiring Their church, Bethlehem Baptist, is known to promote about Victor’s situation with the White Earth Band of the adoption, and many families there have adopted children. At Ojibwe Indian tribe and with local and state authorities, who one point, Deb told a friend at church that “God would have to were grateful for their interest. His eight siblings were hit me over the head to get me to adopt.” She already had a parceled out to various family members or foster families. handful of children, and growing up she’d had bad experiences “He had no stability,” Deb said. “He was a ward of the state, with an adoptive relative in her extended family. Plus the starting from the time he was diagnosed.” Watterses’ youngest daughter, Corrine, had started limping in 2006 at age 6, and had pain in her right pelvis. Later, she was The adoption paperwork took a year to process. As that

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rom New York City to Reed for restricting their freedom, but Oakland, Calif., the Reed told The New York Times: “The atti- Occupy Wall Street pro- tude I have seen here is not consistent tests have increasingly with any civil rights protests I have seen come to represent more in Atlanta, and certainly not consistent than opposition to big with the most respected forms of civil banks and fiscal dishon- disobedience.” e s t y. In the past few The protests also are taking a physical weeks, the protests also have had the toll on participants. During the Oakland F unintended consequence of increasing clash between protesters and police, an conflict concerning civil freedoms and object fractured the skull of Scott Olsen, public safety. an Iraq War veteran, who remained hos- In Oakland, protesters faced off with pitalized at the end of October. Although police officers in a heated protest on Oct. it’s not clear whether the object came 25 in an attempt to reclaim as a campsite from police or protesters, Olsen became a plaza in front of City Hall. Bay area a symbol of resistance and of what some police officers launched beanbags and consider police brutality. But police have sprayed tear gas at protesters who tried casualties of their own: New York City’s to re-enter the Frank Ogawa Plaza, Downtown Express reported that at least which was closed on Oct. 25 for sanitary 20 police officers have been injured due cleaning. Police said they responded to the protests. defensively to protesters who threw In New York C i t y, police tried to man- rocks, bottles, and cans of paint at them. age the 24/7 occupation of Zuccotti Park, They arrested more than 100, with one some say at the expense of protecting serious injury reported. other boroughs. A high-ranking officer Mayor Jean Quan authorized the raid told the New York Post that the protests after thousands of protesters continued are to blame for the increase in shoot- camping and cooking overnight despite ings this year: “No r m a l l y, the task force the city’s warning a week before. is used in high-crime neighborhoods INCREASING CONFLICT: Tensions in Oakland escalated on the where you have a lot of shootings and Protesters and police clash in evening of Nov. 2 as 3,000 demonstra- robberies,” said one source. “They are oakland (top three photos) and tors succeeded in temporarily closing always used when there are spikes in Atlanta (bottom right); Scott olsen lies on the ground bleeding down the Port of Oakland, while others crime as a quick fix. But instead of being from a head wound after being broke into a downtown building and set sent to Jamaica, Brownsville, and the struck by a projectile in oakland. fires. When police came, demonstrators South Bronx, they are in Wall Street.” CLoCKWISe From ToP LeFT: KImIHIro threw rocks, bottles, and other items. The Post reported that the Occupy Wall HoSHINo/A F P/G eTTy ImAGeS • KArL moNDoN/ mCT/LANDov • rAy CHAveZ/mCT/LANDov • In Atlanta, police shut down Street marches can require up to 3,000 DAvID GoLDmAN/AP • JAy FINNeburGH/AP Woodruff Park and arrested 52 officers—10 percent of the force. Occupiers after they refused to leave. When they aren’t marching, the Occupy Atlanta criticized Mayor Kasim protesters hold meetings at “General

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23 OCCUPY.indd 66 11/3/11 10:59 AM 23 OCCUPY.indd 67 11/3/11 11:00 AM Assembly” where they try to solve through democratic discussion problems of food distribution, community relations, and internal crime. The campsite has become a magnet for the city’s homeless who come for free food. In protest, the irate camp’s kitchen crew served peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to send the General Assembly a message: No fancy meals until someone gets rid of the free riders. Contributions of food and money have made life easier for Occupiers but also raised questions about use and man- agement of the $500,000 in the Occupy Wall Street account and smaller amounts in other cities. Thefts of money and MacBooks alternate with on-going discussions of solidarity and America’s economic future: “We are daring to imagine a new socio-political and economic Occupation religion alternative that offers greater possibility of equality,” explains the website. What about religion at protest sites? Occupy Boston has a “Sacred Space” where Technology is crucial to this move- individuals from diverse religious backgrounds can come to pray or meditate. At ment. Self-promoted as an imitation of other Occupy sites “protest chaplains” are praying with protesters. Catholics Online the Arab Spring, the Occupy movement in an October editorial concluded, “If the movement focuses on authentic human and depends heavily on Twitter, Facebook, social ideals, while avoiding the seductive pitfalls of the very blogs, YouTube, and Tumblr. The General “SACRED SPACE”: secularism that has created so many of our problems in the Assembly website hosts various forums occupy boston first place, then an opportunity may be at hand.” residents read and for discussion ranging on topics from pray in the faith and Case McCarty and Charles Wang in Los Angeles, though, where to use the bathroom to how to worship tent. believe the protesters’ focus on social and economic restruc- survive the approaching winter. These turing is misdirected. The two members of Reality, a local resources and the General Assembly are nondenominational church, have spent hours at City Hall handing out homemade supposed to provide a sense of organiza- brochures with “Where is our hope?” in front and quotations from Martin Luther tion and progress that sympathetic King Jr., Mother Teresa, and others interspersed within, along with Bible verses such mainline media bulwark. as Deuteronomy 15:11, Romans 3:23, and Ephesians 2:8-10. “We wanted to … let New York magazine, though, reported them know that they are loved and that there is one hope that we are all looking for that an emphasis on equality is leading and that’s Jesus,” explained McCarty. to faction among protesters. For instance, They’ve received mixed reviews. Some Occupiers have laughed. Others shoved the a policy that all belongings in the camp fliers into their back pockets. Others stopped by their table to talk. One man even went are communal bothers some attendees with them to church. So far, they do not have a lot of company in presenting the gospel. who want to keep their things separate. “A lot of churches are backing away from the political movements,” said Wang. But Others have complied and never seen McCarty notes, “We couldn’t have orchestrated a better opportunity to minister to their belongings again. Situations like people on a personal level. ... It’s a group of people who are sick and tired of what the these fuel criticism about the movement’s government has promised them and of being lied to. … They’re at that place where we emphasis on equality and horizontal all were before we became Christians … where Jesus [met] us.” leadership: How exactly will anything be So far, most church support for the protests comes in social and economic terms, accomplished and what exactly will that but Wang and McCarty are striving to listen to protesters and offer deeper answers. be if no one is ultimately responsible? They take the position that human suffering is an issue of the heart, not social organ- How long will the movement be able to ization. They have the support of their church and are trying to get more people to sustain itself? What’s to keep protesters come out with them, but not as a publicity stunt: “We’re less concerned with what our from breaking off into separate factions particular church can do … but more with how we can encourage the church every- or sub-protests? where to know what’s going and how they can contribute in this way,” Wang said. Sub-protests and counter-protests of Some protesters are hostile to evangelism, but McCarty believes that others sorts are emerging: A Tea Party group in aren’t. He told a story of a man at L.A. City Hall who sat next to him and expressed el

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greatness A -   allows two runs to score, sparing a team from sure defeat and extending the >> World Series to Game . ee year? — and . A walk-off home run in extra frames ends an epic back-and-forth grudge match, pushing the FallFall Classic toto a fi nalnal decisivedecisive game.game. ee year? —and . A broadcaster named Buck commemorates one of only four game-winning home runs in World Series history, h i s to r y, inviting viewers back for an unlikely Game  with the understated refrain, “We’ll see you tomorrow night.” n i g h t.” ee Year? —and . Few would disagree that the St. Louis Cardinals’ - series victory over the TexasTexas Rangers to claim baseball’s highest crown ranks among the most compelling theater in the game’s storied history. h i s to r y. And the heightheight ofof that drama unfolded—as it has so oftenoften in years past—in Game . On Oct. , the Cardinals twice found themselves backed against a seemingly unscalable wall. And twice they scaled it, replaying some ofof baseball’s most memorable moments in the process. ee fi rst such moment played out in the bottom of the ninth inning, when Cardinals third baseman David Freese faced a two-out, two-strike pitchpitch with his team trailing by two runs. Freese ripped the off ering from TexasTexas closer Neftali Feliz into right fi eld. Outfi elder Nelson Cruz appeared fooled on the play, p l ay, hesitating in

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his pursuit of a catchable ball that even- posted an online story heralding a tually ricocheted off the wall for a two- Rangers World Series victory. e article run, game-tying triple. recounted the history of frustration that e play conjured memories of has characterized the Texas franchise another defensive miscue, that of Red and declared that now new images of Sox fi rst baseman Bill Buckner, whose ultimate success “will live in Texas misplay of a ground ball in Game  of sports lore.” ose images proved the  World Series resulted in two remarkably short-lived, as St. Louis runs for the Mets and a heartbreaking mustered yet another last-hope, two- loss. Like Buckner, Cruz will be ever run rally to tie the score. e comeback robbed Texas lore NBA Commissioner David Stern but forever cemented the game’s place HARD COURT among the heights of World Series e scheduled start of a hugely lore. anticipated  season has come and And then the gone with nary a fi nal score to show fi nal act. As if the for it. Owners and players remain drama to that point locked in a labor dispute that were not enough, threatens the recent uptick of Freese stepped to momentum born of gripping playoff the plate again in action and compelling superstars. the bottom half of the th, this time e primary disagreement centers as a lead-off man over the percentage of basketball- with the score tied related income that should go to

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It’s been nearly two years forced to call it off after France and since Greece admitted it was Germany warned that if the referendum broke, and while the European failed, Greece would have to leave the eU. >> Union’s band-aids have averted Nonetheless, a growing chorus says complete collapse, it was not until Oct. the best solution is some form of bank- 27 that member countries could agree r u p tc y, because pulling Greece out of on a permanent solution. the frying pan encourages bad behavior European banks have already by I t a l y, Spain, and other nations nearly written down Greek debt 20 percent or as troubled. Also, a default will force the more, but the new deal will require a eU to solve other structural problems IPO dROUght 50 percent write-down. The eU and with the euro and trade imbalances Initial public offerings, or IPOs, have International Monetary Fund will between member nations. been virtually non-existent this fall. provide $140 billion in rescue loa ns. All of which is to say that this Entrepreneurs considering IPOs Greeks have rioted over the eU’s “permanent” solution also may be say it’s just too risky, in part required austerity measures. But with- te m p o r a r y. Marc Touati, chief economist because regulations and govern- out them—and the bailout money such at Assya Compagnie Financiere in Paris, ment jobs programs proposed by contrition will earn—Greece will surely said eU leaders “stopped the hemor- the Obama administration have default on its debt. That’s why Prime rhaging,” but they “have only saved it unpredictably manipulated the Minister George Papandreou’s initial te m p o r a r i l y. Unfortunately, the funda- markets. decision to hold a referendum on the deal mental problem concerning the absence Therein lies an irony: IPOs are caused consternation—and why he was of growth has not been resolved.” among the private sector’s most powerful job creators. The 1990s saw an average of more than one IPO per day. By contrast, the 2000s have averaged barely one per week, and some months much less. Since Sept. 1, only two U.S. companies have gone public. When Pandora went public earlier this year, its staff increased by a third in a matter of months. In Petros greece: 1977, Apple had three employees. When Steve Jobs took Apple public

in 1980, the IPO produced more gi P than 300 millionaires, some of annakouris/a• P ez/a whom formed job-producing com-

The problems in Greece led ratings agency Moody’s to say it might panies of their own. Today, Apple saNCh issue a credit warning for France, while both Fitch and Standard & employs 46,000 worldwide. ose NUMBERS UP jobs: Poor’s cut Spain’s credit rating. At home, IBM and Apple posted lower than expected third- Currently 215 companies are quarter earnings. That news stoked fears of slower technology spending. Nonetheless, waiting to go public, the longest cHr more economists believe a double-dip recession is unlikely. They say the United States will waiting list since 2001. Of course, isto not all of these entrepreneurs will s F

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the “Emperor Has No Clothes” award. Now “Deep waters” I hope that other reporters on the (Oct. ) ank you for your extensive, sidewalk will compassionate, and accurate coverage take off their rose- of northeastern Japan. I was born and colored glasses grew up in the home of missionary par- and admit ents in Tohoku and Sendai, the largest city the truth that has been under their noses for a painfully long time. close to the earthquake’s epicenter. Christians      should pray for the restoration of this beautiful land Cut Bank, Mont. and her precious but lost people. I thought this column was too critical of the president. I am not defending bad judgment, Naperville, Ill.   , but suggesting the Obama administration may be “dumb by design” is close to calling the president dumb. “Holding translators accountable” teaching of the Bible. e cross is also very   (Oct. ) Wycliff e needs to be encouraged to off ensive to many people—will that be next? Norwich, N.Y. hold fi rm to the true rendering of “Son of   God” for our Muslim brethren, perhaps with Wixom, Mich. Belz really hit the nail on the head. His explanation, and leave the concerns about assertion that we elected a child as readers’ perceptions to the Holy Spirit. Because of their sacrifi ces, their love of president to do a man-sized job is a perfect   Jesus, and translating His word, I will con- portrayal of how I view this president and Greeneville, Tenn. tinue to support Wycliff e as I have for the his administration. last  years.   For Briarwood Presbyterian Church to  .  . Alto, Mich. withhold translators’ support seems high- St. Augustine, Fla. handed and self-righteous. ose translators “Road test” are highly trained. Let them do their work “Confidence game” (Oct. ) A friend and I have this disagree- as unto God, not Briarwood or the . (Oct. ) Joel Belz’s column on President ment over how angry one justifi ably can be   Obama was good enough to have earned toward “bad” drivers. In his mind, they’re Norcross, Ga.

PAPUA, INDONESIA / submitted by Jason Mellinger I have worked “in the ﬁ eld” in North Africa for around  years. Large numbers of workers from many nationalities and around the world organizations have never liked this attempt at changing Scripture. I have seen many Muslims understand about Jesus being the Son of God by simply having them read in Luke , where Mary asks the angel about the fact that she’s a virgin. We need to trust the Lord that His Word is “living and active and sharper than a two-edged sword.”   Algeciras, Spain

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being unsafe and endangering other Christians have forgotten that we are people. I’m much more on Andrée Seu’s called to “hate what is evil.” To forget side, but I don’t think she went far this is a perversion of the truth. This col- enough. Whether or not you assume umn does an excellent job of reminding there’s a reason people seem to be us that good and evil cannot coexist. acting badly, you should extend grace kathlEEn mcclEllan regardless. Sikeston, Mo. Sarah hartman Chattanooga, Tenn. “The Palestinian blunder” (Oct. 8) Mindy Belz’s take on “The Thank you for Seu’s reminder that we Palestinian blunder” reminded me of so often do not have all the information why we value this magazine so highly. when someone else’s behavior lights Nowhere else have we read such pro- our fuse. The last time I saw someone found, clear, and concise explanations “texting in church!” it was actually the of the real background of major events Bible app on his iPhone. in our wounded world. ElainE nEumEyEr Bill SwEnSon Big Canoe, Ga. St. Louis, Mo.

Having my son in the front seat when I “A DREAM deferred” drive him to school has become to me a (Oct. 8) I’m grateful for this thoughtful mirror, showing a self-absorbed, com- and balanced article on the challenges petitive, unforgiving, and never-wrong facing young people brought illegally to dad of whom I am completely ashamed. the United States by their parents. I It’s a good thing he knows something of used to believe that illegal immigrants God’s forgiveness. should go back, wait their turn, and DaviD DilEaS come back legally, but after becoming Amherst, N.Y. an immigration counselor I’ve learned that there usually is no legal way for “Online Mormons” immigrants to come and no line to wait (Oct. 8) This article on “Mormon in. We need comprehensive immigration mommy bloggers” presented reform, making it harder to enter unlaw- Mormons whose flair and style is fully but easier to enter lawfully, and coveted by others. The last two giving those like Carlos the chance to sentences tried to articulate some pri- earn the right to stay in the United ority, but unless the readers are aware States. that Latter Day Saints are a cult truly matthEw SoErEnS not committed to Christ as the only Wheaton, Ill. way of salvation, then it simply presents the Mormon way as a good Houses of God lifestyle. (Oct. 8) Thanks for choosing my father’s mikE FaSt church, the Annunciation Greek Burns, Ore. Orthodox Church, for your Oct. 8 feature. It might interest your readers to know “Rough justice” that the huge blue dome that spans the (Oct. 8) So many prominent commen- building is not attached to the building tators, Christian and otherwise, mis- but rests on ball bearings in a track that interpreted as blood-lust the audience extends around the perimeter. reaction to Rick Perry’s execution koula hazEll remark at the Oct. 22 Republican Durant, Okla. debate, but Janie Cheaney got it right. She correctly interpreted the audience “Loving their enemies” reaction as a yearning for justice within (Oct. 8) Thank you for this article on the a system of justice, so-called, run work of Shevet Achim. I found it very amok. uplifting. Living in Israel, I completely PEtEr kuShkowSki agree with Miles’ conclusion that the Portland, Conn. New Testament is the only possible

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I     prison connections in my life. At a cookout in the backyard I looked up and suddenly noticed that four people >> milling around the grill had done time. ere is a cliché about prison conversions, but I see it diff erently. It’s not that they’re conversions of convenience. ey’re mostly genuine, but when you get back out, “the world, the fl esh, and the devil” are still leaning on a lamppost, fi ling their fi ngernails waiting for you: Welcome back Jack. So when I got this letter from Jack (we shall call him that) I was cautiously optimistic. Which, it turns out, is a distinct biblical category of spiritual response: “And while they still disbelieved for joy and were marveling, he said to them, ‘Have you anything here to eat?’” (Luke :). When something is this good—like Jesus walking into the room after being dead, or Jack talking like a new creation after being dead and in jail—you tend to want to protect yourself against disappointment. An excerpt: Jesus, did they go back home fi rst to earn money?” I “So how have you been? I’ve been praying that told him I didn’t think so. e next d ay, he went in He would comfort you as much as He has me. I’m and quit his job. doing great! All I do all day is read the Bible if I can Normally I would call that irresponsible (and his get my hands on one, and I work out. Last time I siblings did just that), but I was thinking it over, was locked up I was craving cigarettes the whole and if you are a hit man for the Mafi a and get saved, way through up until the very last d ay, but this time you don’t s ay, “I’ll do just a few more jobs till I have I haven’t even craved it since the fi rst d ay, and I enough money for Bible school.” So I applauded the prayed on it. I’m kind of cautious to write to you move—and then started second-guessing because, about how my relationship with God has grown so after all, the work was not illegal and the jobless much in just this short time, because I feel like no rate is high. I asked David, my friend from prison one will believe m e.” (natch), if Jack had been hasty in leaving gainful Of course, there are precedents for that too (the employment. David said: “Andrée, there are two lack of a drawn-out evolution, that is), like on the kingdoms—the kingdom of light and the kingdom of Damascus Road. And Paul himself didn’t necessar- darkness. Anything that has to do with the darkness ily buy into a stereotypical conversion pattern. you should fl ee f ro m.” “Agrippa said to Paul, ‘In a short time would you e Lord provided a position within a week, lay- persuade me to be a Christian?’ And Paul said, ing fl oor tiles  hours a day at half the p ay, with a ‘Whether short or long, I would to God that not only boss who yells at him because Jack can’t understand you but all who hear me this day might become instructions given in Korean. such as I am—except for these chains” (Acts We were at the kitchen table and Jack talked :-). about working when it was hot as blazes and the After release Jack went back to his old job, but boss was screaming louder than usual and Jack was called me a week later at the end of a long day at on his knees leveling a fl oor, conscious of his own work and sounded bad: “I can’t do this anymore.” It m i s e r y. It was the oddest thing, Jack said: “All of a was a high-paying gig, and perfectly legal, but (Jack sudden, in the middle of all that, I realized God decided) not honoring to God. “Do you want me to really loves m e.” come pick you up?” I asked. He did and I went. In Which fl ipped a switch in me, somehow, and made BARRIE the car he didn’t say much, except this: “When me start believing for joy instead of disbelieving for

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I     in our cover story that will sell for ,) why shouldn’t a person with  million people on food stamps is too many? below-average income give in to the Obama adminis- at the prospect of half of America’s children tration’s attempt to get more and more people onto >> living off food stamps is unappealing? After all, welfare? e answer is simple but may not be satisfac- unemployment remains high and the politically well- tory: Two wrongs don’t make a right. connected get government grants and loa ns, so why Is emphasizing work unfair in a year featuring  shouldn’t the poor grab what they can get? percent unemployment? Folks can’t get jobs in today’s More examples of governmental favoritism have economy, can they? Counselors at e WorkFaith come to light since our latest critique of corporate Connection, an impressive Christian charity in Houston, w e l f a r e (, Oct. ). For example, a half-billion s ay, Yes, they can. e key concept: People are leaving taxpayer dollars are going to Tesla Motors, which work or getting fi red every day and have to be replaced, includes among its funders three big donors to President so “If you want to work, you’re going to get a j o b.” e Barack Obama—Steve We s t l y, Elon Musk, and Nick key evidence: Men and women who are statistically the Pritzker. e Occupy Wall Street folks are right to be least likely to get jobs— percent of WorkFaith clients upset about such deals, and here’s a humble suggestion are felons—are getting and keeping them. to them: Move your demonstration to Lafayette Park, One room at WorkFaith on North Post Oak Road has across from the White House. photos of the more than , men and women who have ey should also picket a rhyming couple, Al Gore graduated from job readiness workshops over the past and John Doerr, who are partners in a venture capital four years. Point to a photo and President Sandy Schultz fi rm that backs Fisker Automotive. Doerr is a California can s ay, most of the time, where the graduates are billionaire who hosted President Barack Obama at a working. e key element, she says, is attitude: “ ey February dinner, and Fisker left even liberal ABC News shift from an attitude of entitlement—‘What can you do fuming: “With the approval of the Obama administra- for me?’—to one of gratitude: ‘What can I do for you?’” tion, an electric car company that received a  mil- e felons are grateful to have a second chance, lion federal government loan guarantee is assembling because statistically they are the least likely to be hired. its fi rst line of cars in Finland, saying it could not fi nd a One man came to WorkFaith and said, “I’ve got seven facility in the United States capable of doing the work.” felonies, so no one will hire m e.” He’s now a foreman at Hmm—with U.S. taxpayer dollars used to create jobs a roofi ng company. at’s not an isolated example. in Finland (building a luxury electric sports car that WorkFaith has found that  percent of graduates get a job and  percent continue in that job for at least a year. If felons can do it, anyone can. What I saw at WorkFaith—we’ll have a full article about it next year— reminds me of what a formerly left-wing counselor at an anti-addiction program told me  years ago: He had believed that the poor are trapped behind brick walls, but after seven years he had learned that the walls are paper and they can punch right through. So what if a person has messed up? In the movie Black Hawk Down a sergeant tries to turn down an assignment by saying he’s been shot. His colonel replies, “Everybody’s shot. Get in and d rive.” Yes, some are physically or mentally unable to punch, or drive. Others need temporary, emergency help—but  million Americans, and more each year? e problem with that enormity is not primarily the cost in dollars but in lives. It’s wrong to tell millions of

poor people that their situation is hopeless and that KRIEG they should settle into a life of dependency. ey and BARRIE all of us are created in God’s image and capable of doing great things. A

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KRIEG BARRIE THANKSGIVING is a Jewish holiday . . . sort of

The Jewish Feast of Tabernacles serves as the foundation of the American celebration of Thanksgiving.

Luis de Torres, a Jewish interpreter who accompanied Columbus in 1492, gave the holiday bird its name, tukki—the Hebrew word for “big bird.”

So, in a way, we can thank the Jews for Thanksgiving. But there are other reasons to be thankful for the Jewish people:

• Great biblical role models: Moses; Joshua; Deborah; Esther; Peter, Paul & Mary (you know which ones we mean), to name a few.

• A Jewish team of authors to give us His Holy Word.

• Jesus was born a Jew.

God told Abraham, “I will bless those who bless you .. .” (Genesis 12:3). And the greatest way to bless the Jewish people is to share the gospel with them.

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