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23 CONTENTS.indd 2 10/28/11 10:26 AM Contents , / , 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 (ISSN -X) (USPS -) is published biweekly ( issues) for . per year by God’s World Publications, (no mail) All Souls Crescent, Asheville, NC ; () -. Periodical postage paid at Asheville, , and additional mailing o ffi ces. Printed in the . Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. © God’s World Publications. All rights reserved. : Send address changes to , P.O. Box , Asheville, -. 23 CONTENTS.indd 1 11/3/11 4:28 PM Yours with our “ e earth is the L’s and the fullness thereof; the world and those who dwell therein.” — : thanks Editor in Chief Editor Managing Editor News Editor Senior Writers . / / . / / / Reporters / Correspondents / / / / / / / / / / / Mailbag Editor Executive Assistant c Editorial Assistants / Art Director . Associate Art Director . Illustrator Graphic Designer Brand Design Director Web Executive Editor c Web Assistant Editor Invest Founder Publisher . Wisely. 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If you would prefer not to receive these promotions, please call customer service and ask to be placed on our list. 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 LOISELEUX/iSTOCK that program and provide a one-hour edition for non- journalism. If you sense a call to become a commercial affi liates. e entire program, minus ads, Mover, I hope you’ll think and pray about being part of VALERIE is available via podcast at worldandeverything.com. this exciting future. Please use the envelope n e a r by. A Email: [email protected] N OVEMB ER 19, 20 1 1 WORLD 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.