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FOR a HEAVYWEIGHT As MBI Drops Its Top Executives and 30 Percent of Its Faculty, Critics Spotlight Fissures in an Evangelical Fortress Christian TV in Iran // YouTube wars FEBRUARY 3, 2018 HARD TIMES FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT As MBI drops its top executives and 30 percent of its faculty, critics spotlight fissures in an evangelical fortress China grabs influence in Australia Andy Savage confessed: Should he resign? Gladney Center tiptoes into the LGBT parade TENACIOUS like Noah INSIGHTFUL like Gideon L OYAL like Nathan Send your student to a Worldview Academy Leadership Camp. He’ll come back with life-long friends, an unstoppable faith, and the loyalty to live boldly for Christ. Camps where students become bold leaders in truth and grace. www.worldview.org • 800.241.1123 World mag ad series 4 11/15/17 2:08 PM CONTENTS | February 3, 2018 • Volume 33 • Number 2 30 17 36 46 50 FEATURES DISPATCHES 30 5 News / Human Race / Moody blues Quotables / Quick Takes Financial errors, insider dealings, and theological concerns force a change at an evangelical powerhouse CULTURE Movies & TV / Books / 36 Signals of change 17 Protests in Iran have met censorship and brutality, but Christian Children’s Books / Q&A / Music broadcasters use daily media to spark lasting reformation NOTEBOOK 42 Under the radar 55 Lifestyle / Technology / The Gladney Center for Adoption has—very quietly—accepted Medicine / Sports the application of a same-sex couple, betraying the trust of many Christian supporters VOICES 46 A tale of two feminists 3 Joel Belz Anita Sarkeesian and Laci Green may seem similar, but interaction 14 Janie B. Cheaney with cultural opponents has led them in very different directions 28 Mindy Belz 50 Outside influence 61 Mailbag In their capital, universities, and media, Australians increasingly 63 Andrée Seu Peterson feel the impact of political pressure from China 64 Marvin Olasky ON THE COVER: Photo by Alex Garcia/Genesis Give the gift of clarity: wng.org/giftofclarity Notes from the CEO “The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof; the world and those who dwell therein.” am now in my 15th year here, as of November. That makes me a —PSALM 24:1 relative newcomer among most of the staff here, but I’m grateful to Chief Content Officer Nick Eicher God for bringing and keeping me at this place all this time. Editor in Chief Marvin Olasky I I say 15th year, measuring my involvement in employment years, Senior Editor Mindy Belz but it’s my 20th year, because I’d been reading WORLD for five years before I started working here. It all began, as so many WORLD stories Editor Timothy Lamer National Editor Jamie Dean begin, with a gift subscription to this magazine I had never heard of. Managing Editor Daniel James Devine Art Director David K. Freeland No exaggeration, WORLD literally changed my life from my first reading of it. Associate Art Director Robert L. Patete I don’t think that will seem odd to a good many of you, because I’ve heard similar Reporters Emily Belz • Sophia Lee East Asia Bureau June Cheng • Angela Lu Fulton stories from you members about the magazine’s impact. But while it may not seem Story Coach Susan Olasky Senior Writers Janie B. Cheaney strange that WORLD can be life-changing, it’s not every day you encounter the Andrée Seu Peterson • John Piper claim that a news magazine changes a life. Edward E. Plowman • Lynn Vincent Correspondents Sandy Barwick • Megan Basham It’s difficult to put into words the ways God used WORLD to work on me. But for Julie Borg • Anthony Bradley • Bob Brown Michael Cochrane • John Dawson me it boils down to the way our writers wrestled through issues and arrived at con- Juliana Chan Erikson • Katie Gaultney Kim Henderson • Charles Horton • Mary Jackson clusions (or humbly refrained from arriving at conclusions) and looked at everything Jill Nelson • Henry Olsen • Arsenio Orteza Jenny Schmitt • Jae Wasson • Emily Whitten as if God was real and the Bible actually mattered. I was a Christian, and I believed Mailbag Editor Les Sillars all of that, but WORLD made it solid in a way that was meaningful to me. Executive Assistant June McGraw Editorial Assistants Kristin Chapman In those first few issues, I suppose I found a handful of things that I wasn’t sure I Amy Derrick • Mary Ruth Murdoch Graphic Designer Rachel Beatty agreed with. That didn’t bother me and, although I didn’t realize it, it didn’t really Illustrator Krieg Barrie bother the people at WORLD, either. They weren’t trying to get me to think about Digital Production Assistant Arla J. Eicher everything their way—they were just trying to get me to think about everything, period. And they were trying to stir me to look at everything through a Biblical lens, Website wng.org Executive Editor Mickey McLean whether it was what Congress was up to or what kind of movies everybody was Managing Editor Leigh Jones talking about, or the way I interacted with my colleagues at work. Assistant Editors Kiley Crossland Lynde Langdon • Dan Perkins That’s my story, but, as I say, it’s a common one. We know, based on your extraor- Reporters Onize Ohikere • Evan Wilt Correspondents La Shawn Barber • Gaye Clark dinary support of our work, that WORLD is much more than just a news source to Laura Finch • Samantha Gobba • Anna K. Poole Bonnie Pritchett • Julia A. Seymour many of you. Editorial Assistant Whitney Williams I’d like to know your story, and so I invite you to get in touch. I’d love to hear it. 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For several months prior to my electrical issue, I had heard the same six-word complaint from a longtime WORLD member who owns and manages a significant farming operation. “Americans just don’t like to work,” he asserted, and even invited me to come and see for myself what he was talking about. His invitation was Wanted—a few an expression of trust—based on my agreement not to identify him, the farm, or any of the laborers I might meet during such a visit. I’m hard workers still struggling to provide you readers with a HAS OLD-FASHIONED, SWEAT-OF-THE-BROW significant report on what I’m learning through that visit to the farm, but without breaking my LABOR BECOME AN OCCUPATION TO AVOID? promise. That column is probably still several issues away. A couple of electrical circuits in the base- And oh, yes. That visit R ment of my house were acting up, and the to the farm involved an nagging reality hit me: It’s time to call an elec- overnight stay. And my trician. No, Joel, I argued with myself, you can wife and I couldn’t help do this. It’s an obvious do-it-yourself assignment. noticing who at the hotel But that’s when my visiting brother-in-law was making our bed, clean- settled the matter. “Joel,” he said with finality, ing our room, and waiting “it’s time to call an electrician.” on the breakfast tables. Which is why, for the third or fourth time in Almost to a person, they the last couple of months, I ended up getting appeared to be relatively another mini-lecture on the whys and where- recent immigrants, per- fores of the immigration crisis that’s been forming jobs (admittedly, shaping and reshaping our nation and culture.
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