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T      and even reprehensible about the Obamacare health plan being discussed every day during >> the current presidential campaign. But nothing is more objectionable than the aspect of the plan that vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin referred to in  as its “death panels.” I know that big media have overwhelmingly tried to discredit the Palin charge. And you can argue if you want to be picky that Palin didn’t help her case by framing the charge the way she did, drawing a grisly picture of a panel of bureaucrats issuing a Solomonic thumbs-up or a thumbs-down on whether her Down syndrome son would be allowed to live. If you’re talking about a panel of cold-hearted men and women passing judgment on life. e evil is in relegating responsibility for those specifi c individuals, well then, yes—Palin’s picture choices to the federal government. is theoretically overdrawn. In real life, somebody indeed has to decide But, of course, that’s not what the debate is whether a -year-old should get a , heart about. e debate is about the Independent Payment transplant. Somebody indeed has to decide whether Advisory Board, a presidentially appointed group of and when to turn off a ventilator for someone who’s  experts charged with suppressing the cost of been in a coma for three months. e question is: Medicare. Specifi cally, IPAB’s task is to hold costs to Who makes those hard decisions? It should be that the rate of infl ation—plus  percent—in any given person, or that person’s family, or that person’s year. godly advisers, or God Himself—either through the To meet that goal, IPAB has to do what any man- working out of His actual providence or through agement team must do: decide what to include as trustworthy counsel. And maybe, just maybe, there allowable costs, and what to exclude. Appendicitis should also be room for a person to elect, on his gets included; a facelift doesn’t. Injuries from a car own volition, to allow the government to make the wreck or even a skiing accident are included; a later decisions for him. model pacemaker than the one you got last year But it should never be the government by unilat- may not be. It’s actually not that diff erent from any eral edict. typical insurance arrangement. You know full well To which some folks will say that the government that you can’t get everything you want. Someone makes all sorts of life-and-death decisions for its has to decide. people. Starting with the military, moving on to air e diff erence with IPAB is that it’s in eff ect the traffi c safety, to the oversight and control of drugs only insurance company in town. If you don’t like and medicine—aren’t life-and-death decisions the mix of coverage with IPAB, too bad. It sets the precisely what government does? standard. To come back to Sarah Palin, if a board To which we say: Too much so—already. But like IPAB says Down syndrome babies and the heart enough is enough. No government is smart and wise defects they frequently present aren’t covered, enough to do all that micromanaging well. We fully that’s the way it will be for the Palin family. No understand that no one’s proposing a panel that will panel of judges ever sees little Trig Palin, face-to- literally and personally evaluate Trig Palin—or any face. Trig never hears an individual death sentence. other American citizen. But when the president But a panel of “experts” may well say in advance appoints  men and women to a commission that that someone with his condition just isn’t eligible decides which medical issues will be supported for coverage. at becomes the policy of little Trig under Obamacare, and which ones won’t, don’t be Palin’s government. surprised if little Trig—and his family—worry a bit BARRIE e evil in such an arrangement, mind you, isn’t about something that to everyone in his right mind

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Obama’s invitation was an olive branch to begin bipartisan talks on defi cit reduction. Instead Ryan ended up as a prop for Obama’s Game changer campaign rhetoric. Fast-forward to this year and presumptive e  P B O’ campaign Republican presidential nominee Mitt against Paul Ryan began back in . Romney’s Aug.  announcement that Ryan presidential At a speech at Washington, D.C.’s would be his running mate: e Obama campaign may be >> George Washington University on April campaign, calling the pick “fl awed” and ending the  of that year, Obama said Ryan’s budget “radical,” echoed Obama’s -month-old plan would “end Medicare as we know it.” statement that Ryan’s plan “would end Medicare debate “I believe it paints a vision of our future Medicare as we know it.” as we know it that is deeply pessimistic,” Obama said of a Democrats thought the Ryan pick was a plan by Ryan that includes giving future dream come true for them. It thrusts BY EDWARD LEE PITTS Medicare recipients (Americans currently Medicare onto the campaign’s center stage. in Washington under ) the option of buying private Believing that it is a winning issue for them insurance with Medicare dollars. as long as they argue that Republicans want Attending the speech that day at the to abandon seniors, Democrats wasted no president’s own invitation: Ryan. From his time launching their assault: ree days after TIMES/REDUX front-row seat, the seven-term congressman the vice presidential announcement the

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Akin and abortion If both presidential campaigns had hoped to avoid a pointed discussion of abortion, Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., changed their plans a week before the Republican National Convention was set to begin in Tampa. e six-term congressman apologized for comments he made during a television interview on Aug.  when responding to a question about whether abortion should be legal in cases of rape. Akin said that scenario is rare, and that if it’s “a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” A fi restorm erupted, and top GOP leaders called for Akin to drop out of his Senate race against incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill. ey worried that if Akin lost in November, the Republican Party could lose a chance to regain the Senate. Akin apologized for his comments: “I used the wrong words in the wrong way and for that I apologize.” A handful of pro-life advocates supported Akin, and noted his impeccable pro-life voting record. Still, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called Akin’s original comments “insulting, inexcusable, and, frankly, wrong.” A campaign statement added that “a Romney-Ryan administration would not oppose abortion in instances of rape.” Many pro-lifers have opposed Romney’s support for abortion in the case of rape, and say what Akin could have stated succinctly in his interview: e violent tragedy of rape doesn’t justify the violent tragedy of abortion. Pro-lifers hope Republicans will continue to support compassionate care for victims of sexual violence, but also draw attention to the . million unborn children aborted in America every year—the vast majority outside of the context of rape.

Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI), a large consumer cooperative and national outdoor recreation CO-OP POLITICS chain, has thrown its weight behind eff orts to redefi ne marriage in a move that may prove divisive among its  million members. REI posted its new policy in an obscure corner of its website (rei.com/content/dam/documents/pdf/Marriage_Equality_ Policy.pdf), and CEO Sally Jewell announced the news to staff through a post on an employee-only blog on Aug. .  e cooperative hahass in the past limited its public policy statements to those that AKIN: JEFF ROBERSON/AP • JEWELL: MATT PEYTON/REI/AP deal with issues of interest to members, but Jewell said “it became clear to me that not taking any position would likely be construed as sending a signal that was inconsistent with our commitments to creating an inclusive environment at the co-op.”  e new policy, however, has had the opposite eff ect for some Christian employees who feel their previously good working environment has turned hostile. “It’s created a very uncomfortable situation,” one REI store manager told WORLD on the condition of anonymity. (At least some employees received an email warning them not to speak with the press about the new policy.) Jewell said in her blog post that employees should feel the frfreedomeedom to disagree, but the manager who spoke with WORLD said, “I don’t feel like I can comment on this or respectfully disagree because my future is at stake.” Although other large companies have endorsed same-sex “marriage,” REI’s status as a cooperative renders it diff erent, since its members have a stake in the company. Member Lance McCaskill, who lives outside Washington, D.C., said he’s uncomfortable with the position because it is irrelevant to the company’s mission and members had no say: “A position on either side is divisive.”

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DIED Award-winning prison breaks, said she began co­mposer Marvin Hamlisch to turn her life around after the died Aug. 6 at the age of 68. child’s mother wrote her a 1983 Hamlisch, famous for scores letter saying she forgave such as The Way We Were, The Smithey for the crime. “She Sting, and A Chorus Line, was 6 made me feel that I wasn’t a years old when he auditioned monster,” Smithey said. “I felt if for the Juilliard she could forgive me for taking School of Music her child’s life, I could forgive and became myself. It was my responsibility at the time to try to become a better person the youngest than I was.” student in the elite insti- RECOVERING Evangelist Hamlisc tution’s history. Billy Graham left a North He is one of only 11 Carolina hospital Aug. 14 after a h individuals considered an two-day stay due to bronchitis. : Ga ry Gers EGOT—a winner of Emmy, Graham, who was also hospi- Grammy, Oscar, and Tony talized in November, had a h awards. Hamlisch also served quick recovery and according off /Getty as the principal pops conductor to his doctor Daniel Fertel is

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  e opportunity is out of this world. A Dutch company says it wants to transport four private astronauts on a one-way trip to Mars. e com- pany, which calls itself Mars One, proposes to use a reality television show to cull potential astronauts down to four, and use the show’s proceeds to pay the cost of creating a permanent habitable base on the   Red Planet by —a cost the company estimates at around  billion A Washington -year-old learned for the fi rst seven-month fl ight. NASA scientists have said they could the hard way that no good deed land astronauts on Mars by . goes unpunished. While raising money for a veterans charity by selling hamburgers, Chewelah, Wash., student Justin Peterson got a visit from a city health inspector who fi ned the boy  for not having a proper food per- mit.  e boy, whose year-round hamburger sales in a city park have raised more than , for the Honor    Flight pro- A wealthy North Texas enclave has banned the use of artifi cial grass after a handful of gram for residents installed the faux turf to brighten up their front yards. Highland Park, Texas, city World War II council members passed an ordinance banning the fake lawns on Aug.

veterans, said  after offi cials noticed three of them in the city. A familiar sight HAMBURGER: ISTOCK • PETERSON: HANDOUT • TURF: HANDOUT • TEXTING: ISTOCK • BROOKS: MAURY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE he was disap- at football stadiums, artifi cial turf lawns have grown in pointed he had to shut down. But popularity due to the low maintenance and water requirements. “Plastic grass is not in keeping with he won’t have to worry about the the design and quality of design we want to have fi ne: Board members for the in our town,” Councilman Andrew Barr told the Northeast Tri County Health Dallas Morning News after voting for the ban. e District agreed to cover the  newspaper reported that Highland Park residents use penalty out of their own pockets. three times more water on average than their neighbors in nearby cities.

    Always texting? Doctors are now Police in Columbia, Tenn., would like to remind you: Law warning that excessive texting on enforcement does not exist to take you on a beer run. your mobile phone could eventually Police arrested -year-old Allen Brooks after he made lead to a condition called “texting repeated phone calls to  requesting that offi cers go buy thumb.” e repetitive stress of him beer. “[Go to] the store and get me a beer,” Brooks texting, according to doctors at told a  dispatcher on Aug. . “I’ll pay you.” Philadelphia’s Jeff erson University Brooks phoned the emergency num- Hospital, is causing an increasing ber nine times in a -hour period number of cases of thumb asking for dispatchers or police to tendonitis. And while some severe fetch him alcohol. Eventually, cases may require surgery to cure, police did stop by his residence. in most instances suff erers need But instead of dropping off a six- simply to take a break from their pack, offi cers arrested the man for

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18 QUICK TAKES.indd 18 8/20/12 5:03 PM   In the superiority debate between cat and dog owners, those who own felines just got a fresh argument. Sometimes derided by dog owners as aloof and use- less furballs, cats—according to new research from the University of Georgia—are actually slaughter-minded killing machines. Researchers at the Athens, Ga., uni- versity discovered that about  percent of roaming house cats kill prey, with an average kill count of two animals per week.  at may not sound like a lot, but considering the estimated  million house cats in the United States, the carnage adds up. “Cat predation is one of the reasons why one in three American birds species are in decline,” American Bird Conservancy President George Fenwick told USA Today. According to the research, house cats bring home less than a quarter of their prey, either eating their victims or leaving them to rot.

    How bad is bureaucratic paperwork at the Department of Veterans Aff airs? Bad enough to Cafeteria chefs at Paul Quinn make one of the agency’s buildings in North Carolina structurally unsound, according to the inspector general. An Aug.  report said stacks of paperwork and forms piled on top of College won’t be bringing home already-fi lled fi ling cabinets in a VA offi ce in Winston-Salem, N.C., were heavy enough to the bacon any time soon. Or the have “the potential to pork chops or the pork tenderloin. compromise the structural In a policy announced by college integrity” of the building. President Michael Sorrell, the According to the report, Dallas school is banning all pork the papers’ weight bowed from its campus cafeterias. Sorrell the fl oors, and the stacked fi les also represented a said the ban isn’t based on any serious fi re hazard: “We religious tradition, but rather on

HAMBURGER: ISTOCK • PETERSON: HANDOUT • TURF: HANDOUT • TEXTING: ISTOCK • BROOKS: MAURY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE estimated that approxi- health concerns. “When you come mately , claims to college, you come to be folders were stored on top educated,” Sorrell said on Aug. . of fi le cabinets.” “We thought we could do more in the area of promoting healthy lifestyle choices and healthy     eating habits.”  e pork ban is just When Florida wildlife offi cials found an enormous Burmese python in the Everglades National the latest in Sorrell’s push toward Park in April, they knew it might be a record-setter.  e snake, at  feet,  inches long, healthy eating on campus. When turned out to be the largest ever captured in Florida. “It was huge,” Paul Ramey of the Paul Quinn College ended its Florida Natural History Museum told the Reuters news service. Researchers, he said, “had to football program in , Sorrell put three tables together converted the school’s football and it took at least four people to pick it up and fi eld into an urban get it on the tables.” But farm. on Aug. , they discov- ered the -pound snake had produced  eggs, topping another state record. Burmese pythons are not native to Florida, but researchers say pet owners introduced the snakes to the Everglades by dumping them there when they became too

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W    that the fastest-selling paperback in history is a trilogy of soft-porn novels that wallow in sadomasochism? Culture- >> watchers have been asking that question since last spring, when Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels, all by a previously unknown and minimally talented author, started smashing records on every bestseller list and every bookseller’s inventory.  e series has a unique history. About three years ago, author Erika Leonard, calling herself “Snowqueens named for the two protagonists, Christian and Anastasia. Icedragon,” began contributing to a fanfi ction web page. In spite of the inevitable imitators, Fifty Shades is Fanfi ction is an internet phenomenon: websites devoted to probably not a trend. Still, it crosses a line, as several amateur authors writing themselves into their favorite local librarians discovered when patrons and free- novels or movies. Snowqueens was obsessed with the speech groups (including the American Library Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer; her web novel Masters Association) pressured them to buy the books for their of the Universe took protagonists Edward and Bella libraries in spite of the incongruity with community through scenarios that would have made Meyer blush. standards.  ough soft-core, the subject matter is hard,  at’s not unusual for fanfi ction, which is often an out- indicating that basic intercourse (dismissed by connois- let for women (almost always women) to indulge in sexual seurs as “vanilla sex”) isn’t pushing buttons anymore. It fantasies with fi ctional characters. But Snowqueens’ fan- also indicates something that shouldn’t be a surprise: tasies included bondage, whips, and other instruments of Women express their sexual nature diff erently than men. torture, which set the books apart, to put it delicately. Her A man’s inclination toward the visual is well-known, but novel was so explicit the website asked her to remove it, women live inside their own heads. A man objectifi es but not before it attracted thousands of fans. One of them, both himself and the object of his lust, but a woman an Australian publisher, persuaded the author that she’d recreates herself at the center of an erotic universe. missed her calling as a romance novelist. In May  the  at’s why fanfi ction is almost entirely a female pre- three books of the series under the author’s pseudonym serve:  ere women can deck their fantasies in words, E.L. James appeared simultaneously—a smart marketing cheered on by other women.  ere the hunky, domineer- move, because the growing buzz allowed readers to go ing man with the mocking eyebrow (who plays piano straight from one installment to the next. like a virtuoso) is ultimately undone by the virginal girl  e plot, such as it is, follows a -year-old coed who with unruly hair. And there we betray our brokenness. meets an impossibly handsome and rich entrepreneur We want to rule, but play at being ruled. We put our when he grants an interview for her college newspaper. heroines (and ourselves?) in slavish postures that are  eir mutual attraction explodes, after a few teasing supposed to be somehow liberating. We live in the freest chapters, into a steamy aff air—but before they do society in history but daydream about being tied up and anything physical he insists she sign papers giving him physically hurt. We resort to role-playing where we permission to dominate her, not only sexually, but in all should be most honestly ourselves. her choices and decisions. Women, even Christian women, report that these Our heroine is confl icted—and so is the feminist books have sparked up their marriages. Sparks are noto- SAUL world, with some women condemning this jaunt back to riously short-lived, and what they leave is ash. Reading LOEB/AFP/GETTYIMAGES the dark ages and others shrugging that everybody comparisons of Masters of the Universe and Fifty Shades needs to lighten up. Fifty Shades is so popular among is enough for me. I won’t be reading Fifty Shades young-to-middle marrieds that journalists have dubbed because that place I like to regard as my own—my imag- it “mommy porn.” BabyCenter.com reports that roughly ination—is already too cluttered with trash. More and nine months after it hit the best-seller lists, Fifty Shades more, I need to fi nd Jesus there, making Himself at babies are making their appearance. Some are being home. is is mine, too, He says. A

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is critical of much contem- porary religious practice. Heretics Other writers have empha- sized the attacks on here and Christianity. Michael Coren’s Heresy (Signal, ) con- centrates on  sets of lies, there including those promulgated Authors analyze in e Da Vinci Code and challenges for American broader statements like “Christians oppose progress Christianity from and change.” within and without Jeff rey Russell’s Exposing Myths About Christianity BY MARVIN OLASKY (IVP, ) is a useful guide to answering  viral lies R D’ Bad and legends ranging from Religion: How We Became “ e New Testament was a Nation of Heretics (Free composed long after the >> Press, ) notes rightly death of Jesus” to “Hitler that heresy often comes from was a Christian.” (Russell intensifying one Christian notes Hitler’s hostility teaching and ignoring those toward Christ but also that temper it. For example, we mentions that German need to keep in mind that we churches “were dupes of are both made in God’s image requirements of church salami tactics, acquiescing in the grad- and fatally corrupted by original membership seemed too ual slicing away of their liberties.”) sin. Douthat writes that “absent the burdensome or too point-point-  ose two writers defend truth and latter emphasis, religion becomes a less to assume.  e church ‘boom’ of the expose lies, but Jonathan Haidt, a license for egotism and selfi shness,” s was an ephemeral one.”) University of Virginia psychology pro- with adultery becoming “following  e tough question now is whether fessor and an atheist since his teens, has your heart” and vanity becoming American Christianity has hope for a diff erent goal: He wants to know what “self-improvement.” recovery. Douthat shows that some works, so he focuses on the unifying Douthat writes well about contem- comes from abroad, as Koreans improve power of faith in his new book, e porary heresies, including the “pray Presbyterian churches, Hispanics ani- Righteous Mind (Pantheon, ). and grow rich” and the “God within” mate Catholic churches (and also evan- Haidt cites research showing that a schools. While he seems overly fond of gelical ones), and American Anglicans fear of God may make a society more the s, the decade that ended two put themselves under the authority of ethical and harmonious. For example, decades before he was born, he does African churches. But much needs to one study found that people were less note that Americans planted then the come from within, with Christians likely to cheat if they were fi rst given a seeds of today’s misemphases: Norman understanding the biblical tapestry and puzzle that prompted thoughts of God. Vincent Peale was an early Oprah not just one strand. Haidt also notes that of  communes Winfrey, Oral Roberts led to Joel Osteen, Douthat writes well and analyzes founded in the th century, only  and W. Cleon Skousen was a proto– thoughtfully what needs to change. One percent of the secular communes Glenn Beck. example: “ e Christian case for fi delity survived two decades, compared with (Douthat includes a telling observa- and chastity will inevitably seem partial  percent of the religious ones. tion from Dean Hoge, Benton Johnson, and hypocritical if it trains most of its  ose that survived longest were

and Donald Luidens, authors of attention on the minority of cases—on those that demanded sacrifi ces of mem- CARRIE Vanishing Boundaries: e Religion of homosexual wedlock and the slippery bers, like fasting, daily prayer, abstaining

Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers slope to polygamy beyond. It is the het- from alcohol or tobacco, or adopting DEVORAH/WENN/NEWSCOM []: “ e mainline churches made erosexual divorce rate, the heterosexual new forms of clothing or hairstyle: “ e few demands on those who fl ocked into retreat from marriage, and the hetero- very ritual practices that the New its ranks during the s. In eff ect, sexual out-of-wedlock birthrates that Atheists dismiss as costly, ineffi cient, many members acquired only a thin should command the most attention and irrational turn out to be a solution gloss or ‘veneer’ of religiosity. … To from Christian moralists.” to one of the hardest problems humans

some of their children, even the weak Douthat cares about what’s true and face: cooperation without kinship.” A HANDOUT

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With Upended: How Following e Captive Heart Dale Cramer Jesus Remakes Your Words and Cramer pushes the envelope of Amish fi ction by setting his World (Passio, ), Jedd Medefi nd stories in Mexico, where an Amish community relocates in the and Erik Lokkesmoe have provided s. At the heart of this Amish romance/Western mash-up a study in discipleship that rejects that fans of both will enjoy:  e Bender family’s struggle to abstractions and polemics.  ey live according to strict Amish convictions when the surround- emphasize Jesus’ lessons in vivid, ing culture threatens everything they hold dear. Among the concrete, and provocative language, problems: Pancho Villa’s revolutionaries intimidate the settlers, showing how when we take to testing Caleb Bender’s pacifi st beliefs. Caleb’s daughter heart His teachings “our small, Miriam tries to forget her attraction to hired hand Domingo, dele gated kingdom becomes an knowing if she acts on it she will lose her family. A diphtheria outpost of the kingdom of God and epidemic sweeps through the colony. Bandits kidnap Caleb’s a foretaste of what is to be.” daughter Rachel. Upended brims with stories and anecdotes—from history, culture, Almost Amish Kathryn Cushman and the authors’ personal and A daytime TV host decides to goose ratings by introducing a pr ofessional lives—to drive home reality TV segment on her show. She sends a suburban its message. We learn, for example, fami ly—dad stays home—to experience simple living near an that British abolitionist  omas Amish community in Tennessee. As hidden microphones and Clarkson displayed the tools of tor- cameras capture family interactions, cooking disasters, and ture used in the slave trade, such housework without modern conveniences, the family— as leg shackles and branding irons, includi ng three teenage children—learns important lessons right alongside beautiful objects about busyness and our modern culture’s defi nition of suc- from Africa, such as fi ne cloth and cess. Among the characters: Perfectionist Susan hopes the jewelry. By underscoring the exposure will lead to her own TV show, but she struggles to humanity of African slaves, Clarkson maintain her high standards. Her easy-going sister-in-law, challenged prejudices and helped Julie, is eager to escape the stresses of her suburban life. turn public opinion against the slave trade. e Fiddler Beverly Lewis Upended’s guide to discipleship Violinist Amelia Devries and Michael Hostetler have some- softly draws us back to deep truths thing in common even though one is “English” and the other about attentive, authentic, and Amish. Both struggle to meet parental expectations, which courageous life with Christ. clash with their own ambitions. Amelia’s parents expect her to —Joseph Loconte is the author of sacrifi ce everything for her concert career, forcing her to hide The Searchers: A Quest for Faith in the Valley of Doubt her forays into country fi ddling. Michael’s parents want him to join the Amish church and settle down in the community, but he wants an education.  e two meet and feel an immediate friendship—but can the relationship develop into something more? Lewis fi lls the novel with one-dimensional characters— a wise woman, demanding fathers, sympathetic mothers, a heartless music agent, and a wayward teen.

e Keeper Suzanne Woods Fisher  e Lapp family struggles when Amos Lapp becomes too frailfrail from heart disease to keep up the family farm. His eldest daughter Julia tries to hold things together, but she suff ers

CARRIE disappointment when her beau postpones their wedding for a second time. She blames his pre-wedding jitters on the

DEVORAH/WENN/NEWSCOM mysterious “bee man” who wanders from farm to farm, using his bees to pollinate orchards. A no-nonsense housekeeper arrives to establish order, helping the Lapps learn more about themselves and each other.  is traditional romance focuses more on family and romantic misunderstandings than on clashes between Amish customs and those of the

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Making the grade Former education secretary William Bennett says involved parents and good teachers are the answers to America’s education problems By Marvin Olasky

18 Q&A.indd 28 8/17/12 3:32 PM The school year is struggling district here, huh?” He most ­important thing about the America would go from 25th to beginning with orations says. “No, we’re doing great. We ­education of the child needs to 10th in the world. That’s the by educrats, but William just lie about how many stu- be the parent, and the parent’s drag the bottom 10 percent puts >> Bennett, secretary of dents we have so we can get attitude toward education: Not on. Now the people in the 30th education in the Reagan more money.” Not the highest how much he or she knows, but and 40th percentile aren’t ­administration and now a ethical standards, but the incen- attitude. The parent can be rocket scientists and maybe national radio talk show host, tives are all in the wrong place. ­illiterate, not able to do any of aren’t even very bright, but they sees things differently. Bennett No Child Left Behind is a the homework with the kid, but can get it done through the drills earned a Ph.D. in philosophy at decade old. It was essentially still saying, “This is important. and the homework. We need to The University of Texas at a deal between George W. You turn off the TV. You do your get rid of the people who get Austin and has written or Bush and Ted Kennedy: Bush work. You listen to the teacher.” everything wrong in the class- edited 20 books, including The wanted testing, Kennedy And does that teacher room and demotivate the kids. Book of Virtues and The Book wanted money. They agreed need to be good? The research A decade ago we had two of Man: Readings on the Path that each could have what on this is fascinating: There’s a major conservative positions to Manhood (Thomas Nelson, he wanted, but now that the ton. It’s not class size. It’s on fixing education. One 2011). Here are edited excerpts tests have shown so many ­certainly not facilities. It’s not emphasized mandatory test- of his remarks on education schools ­failing, we’re throw- technology. It’s the quality of ing. The second emphasized before a noontime gathering at ing out the tests. Were the adult in front of the decentralizing mechanisms SLUG: Caption. Patrick Henry College. Republicans and President ­classroom. The research is clear: like tax credits and vouchers. Do we need a Department Bush sno­ okered? Yeah, they You are much better off in a bad The first didn’t work. Is it time of Education? We don’t need a were snookered. I gave it school with a good teacher to take another shot at the Department of Education. Our ­mediocre support because at than a supposedly really good second? Yes, decentralize as test scores are lower since the least it said there is no federal school with a bad teacher. If much as possible. Put the department has been entitlement. you take kids from the 50th money or the voucher in the ­established than before. I don’t Did you like the testing percentile in the third grade, backpack of the student. Let think it’s primarily because of component? No Child Left and you give them a teacher the student go wherever the the Department of Education— Behind said: If you are getting everyone regards as excellent, parent wants the child to go: watch out for post hoc ergo federal money we want to know in two years they’ll be at the 85 private school, public school, propter hoc—but it certainly how your students are doing. percentile. You give them a religious school, homeschool. hasn’t helped. That’s perfectly reasonable: We teacher everyone regards as Full scale choice all the way. What’s the department’s give you money so children can not very good, in two years Can we improve K-12 most popular program? succeed and we want to know they’ll be in the 35th percentile. ­education funding by When I was there we polled all if the children are succeeding. What more do you need to ­following the funding model the people who got our grants. The problem is that the know about evaluating teachers for higher education? There The most popular program we ­standard of measurement was and rewarding excellence? are a lot of things wrong with ran was the block grant to the all wrong: We let the states Much better to have an American higher education, but states. We take your money, pretty much pick their own excellent teacher with a choice isn’t one of them. You take 10 percent out, and send it devices. As a result you ended large class than mediocre can take a guaranteed student back to you. Why don’t we not up with this Lake Wobegon teachers with small classes? loan or Pell grant and study at a take it in the first place? business where every state has Absolutely. Class size makes no Baptist college your first year, a What about the 85 percent of its students difference. Parents like it. Kids Catholic one your second, and Department of Education’s ­testing above the median. sometimes don’t like it because Hindu and Jewish ones your grantmaking? The A mathematical miracle. they can’t get away with as third and fourth years. You’ll be ­department has messed things Everybody’s good looking, much. Class size is loved by the theologically confused, but up by requiring ridiculous everybody’s smart, everybody’s teachers unions and loved by you’ll be entirely within the amounts of paperwork from testing well until we go to the parents, but it makes no Constitution because, when it schools and colleges, and by NAEP, the National Assessment diff­ erence educationally. comes to federal student aid for creating disincentives through of Educational Progress. Then If we reduce class size by higher education, we don’t care complicated programmatic we find out we haven’t hiring bad teachers, we where you take it. decisions. Example: One school improved since 1963. We’re make things worse. Eric That’s not the case at the district has many students with 25th in the industrialized world. Hanushek at Stanford has elementary and secondary learning disabilities who are How can American ­estimated that if you could levels. Where it’s much more way behind in math and ed­ ucation improve? Education remove the bottom 10 percent, needed. As important as ­reading, so it gets a lot more gets better locally. The single in terms of quality, from the ­college is, kindergarten and money. I say to that district’s most important adult in a child’s American elementary and grades 1-3 are more important, superintendent, “You’ve got a life is the ­parent. The single ­secondary school teaching force, and much more formative. A

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Rodriguez doesn’t often take God’s name in vain. “Oh, jeez!,” which he says a lot, is about as edgy as his banter gets. Some of his lyrics, how- ever, still retain shock value, from anti-papal rhetoric (“Cause”) to the sort of frank epithet slinging that, were he a conservative talk-show host, would have advertisers bailing in droves (“A Most Disgusting Song”). But mostly his songs deal with socio-political topics long common to the protest palette. Did Rodriguez think, when he wrote about “taxa- tion,” unprotected “women,” Second act “politicians,” “pollution,” Documentary brings ’s folk singer “gun sales,” “adultery,” SIXTO RODRIGUEZ and his music back desperate “housewives,” into the spotlight BY ARSENIO ORTEZA “population,” and “divorce” in “ is Is Not a Song It’s an Outburst: or the Establishment Blues”  years ago, that such I   , respectively, a lack of easily accessible Rodriguez info, issues would still be in the news? long-haired, sunglasses-wearing a mysterious legend about whom rumors “Here’s how I frame it,” he says. “In Detroit folk-protest singer named (including his having killed himself the ’s and ’s, I thought there was >> Sixto Rodriguez released the only onstage) swirled. going to be a revolution. But today I don’t two studio albums he would ever Searching for Sugar Man (Sony think we’re going to have that revolution. record.  e fi rst was called Cold Fact, Pictures Classics) is a new documentary [ e system] is going to cave in on its the second Coming from Reality. about the attempts of two South African own. And what’s going to bring it down is Sung in a voice recalling Arlo Rodriguez fans to locate their hero (see nepotism—that cronyism, that favoritism, Guthrie and Donovan, anticipating Jim “Searching for Sugarman,” Aug. , that corruption, and just greed.” Croce, and augmented with everything ).  e fi lm and its -song sound- Rodriguez is not a conservative. from squalling guitars to fl utes and track have fi nally made Rodriguez, who When he observes of Sweden that “they strings, the bluntness and cleverness of recently turned , a prophet with take care of people cradle to grave,” for his verbally meandering songs proved a honor in his own country. instance, he’s envious. But he also tough sell to U.S. radio. By the time his “When they say I was ‘lost,’ I wasn’t acknowledges that “the government label, Sussex Records, folded in , lost,” the singer-songwriter told me. “I money, that’s ours.” he’d been doing for four years what knew where I was.” And most of all he’s grateful for he’d be doing for most of the next Where he was, was where he’d always his belated second chance. “ ere’s decade: supporting his family as a been and still lives: Detroit. As for where no blueprint for how it happens,” he HAL he’s going, he has international and says. “I’m a lucky man that this

construction worker and pursuing a WILSON/COURTESY B.A. in philosophy. Aside from a revival North American tour dates scheduled happened at all.” A of interest in his music in Australia and throughout November, with a perfor- New Zealand, where he toured from mance on the Late Show with  to , Rodriguez had resigned David Letterman a special concern. himself to being a footnote in the history “ ey want me to do one [song] OF SONY

of Motor City music. in particular,” he says, “but it’s too IMAGES Fast-forward to . Unbeknownst long and too brooding. I think PICTURES to him, his music had become popular when you watch light TV, you

in South Africa, serving as a de facto want to be up instead of saying, CLASSICS soundtrack to the anti-Apartheid move- ‘Oh, God!’ So I’m trying to think

ment. He had also become, due to the of something more uptempo.” BETTMANN/CORBIS/AP

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18 MUSIC.indd 30 8/17/12 3:39 PM NOTABLE CDs Five new or recent classical CDs > reviewed by  

Cool of the Day Choir of St. Ignatius of Loyola No matter how many accolades its members and conductor have, no a cappella choir distinguishes itself merely by excellent execution. Its repertoire has to have something going for it too—eclecticism if nothing else. ese  sacred songs manage that well enough: Protestant hymns, Catholic Latin, African-American spirituals. But even that mix feels pro forma. What doesn’t is Eric Whitacre’s setting of E.E. Cummings’ “I thank You God for most this SPOTLIGHT amazing day,” a sonnet of praise that even most English majors don’t know Cummings wrote. “He is considered not only the Ernst Krenek: Piano Works greatest French composer who Stanislav Khristenko ever lived,” wrote Harold e Krenek piano composition that became Schonberg of Claude Debussy’s famous because Glenn Gould performed it during evolving posthumous status. “He his last live performance is the fourth of this is considered the revolutionary album’s six works. And if its four movements who, with the Prélude à L’Après- totaling  minutes don’t suggest why Krenek midi d’un faune of , set continues to fascinate even now, two decades after th-century music on its way.” his death, nothing will. “Krenek’s works could not Whether that particular prelude be assigned to one particular stylistic direction,” read the liner notes. “He moved fl exibly between the did, in fact, launch a revolution, old and the new.” Khristenko seems particularly there are worse ways to begin attuned to this aesthetic multiplicity. One might considering the possibility than to even say he unifi es it. listen to the version transcribed for two pianos by Debussy himself Martyrs for the Faith: American on Alexei Lubimov’s latest album, Saxophone Concertos Kenneth Tse Claude Debussy: Préludes (ECM e concerto for alto saxophone and symphonic New Series). winds that lends this four-concerto recording its title was composed by David DeBoor Canfi eld to enshrine  at in sound the martyrdoms of Polycarp ((.. ), prelude and Gaspard de Coligny (), and Jim Elliot () respec- three noc- tively. at it succeeds becomes apparent when you turnes (tran- realize you’re enjoying it apart from any knowledge of scribed for Canfi eld’s source material; that Tse succeeds two pianos becomes apparent when you realize his saxophone is by Maurice chiefl y responsible for your enjoyment. If you thought Ravel) join jazz sax was something, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet. solo performances of Debussy’s e Complete Harpsichord Works two books of preludes ( in HAL Jory Vinikour all). Lubimov’s duet partner is his WILSON/COURTESY of Rameau Disc One is everything a fan of the harpsichord, the fellow Russian Alexei Zuev.  eir greatest French composer for the harpsichord instruments are a  Bechstein (Rameau), and one of the greatest living perform- and a  Steinway that Lubimov ers on the harpsichord (Vinikour) could want.

OF painstakingly chose for the occa- Precise and sensitive, it dazzles from the begin- SONY sion.  e resulting sounds, if not

IMAGES ning to the end of its  minutes. But it’s the Suite PICTURES in A Minor, the fi rst of Rameau’s two Nouvelles revolutionary, are certainly faithful suites de pièces de clavecin, at the start of Disc to the spirit if not always the laws

CLASSICS Two that will move listeners to awe. e of what continues to make “Sarabande” and “Fanfarinette” alone justify the Debussy unique.

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18 MUSIC.indd 31 8/17/12 3:44 PM Mindy Belz Metaphysically deceived A generation that grew up with Helen Gurley Brown has lost ‘the experience of plenitude’

 at statistic somehow implies that women are choosing to be childless, yet in my encounters with women of childbearing age, some see it as their calling to be childless but most long to be mothers. In line with that, the fi nal paragraphs of the Vogue article include other statistics: that  percent of women who have tubal ligations decide to have them undone, and that women who get their tubes tied before they’re  are twice as likely to regret it and eight times as likely to have a reversal or an evaluation for in vitro fertilization. So let’s recite the history of the sexual revolution: Having secured the right to all kinds of birth control, having won in the courts the right to abort an unwanted baby, having liberalized the divorce laws into meaninglessness in most states, having broken the cultural barriers to having sex and babies outside of marriage, the neo-feminists now want young women to be guaranteed the right to surgery to pre- H G B may be dead, but the vent them from ever having children and the right to spirit animating her sexual revolution (“Good reverse that procedure should they change their girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”) is minds. Never mind that under a national healthcare >> alive.  e author of Sex and the Single Girl law these decisions have public costs; the great irony popularized infi delity and demolished virtue in the is that the liberation of women from children sounds guise of frank discussions about sex. I, like many an awful lot like it’s turned women into children. entering teen years then, came of age soaking in the We older women fool ourselves to think that sexual revolution exploding from the covers of younger women, and women in our churches, and we Cosmopolitan and its spawn. I imbibed the new narcis- ourselves, aren’t infected still with false ideas about sism scarcely knowing it.  en spent years shedding “choice.” Over years of childbearing and parenting and it, honestly, after Christ in His spirit took hold of me. all that’s in between, I’ve fl ed repeatedly to the won- So it shouldn’t surprise me—despite the documented derful  essay by theologian and ethicist Gilbert wreckage from the Gurley Brown ethos—that its force- Meilaender, “ e Meaning of the Presence of Children”: ful brew of selfi shness and self-destruction courses on. at something rather than nothing exists is a  e latest campaign launched under the label of mystery that lies buried in the heart of God, whose women’s choice: the choice to be childless. “Brewing creative power and plenitude of being are the ground of under the radar,” claims a headline in the August issue our life. at life should have come into existence is in of Vogue, is “the right not to have children.” no way our doing. Within this life we can exercise a  e article describes the plight of a -year-old who modest degree of control, but we deceive ourselves if we at age  began asking doctors for a tubal ligation, forget the mystery of creation that grounds our being. unmarried and sexually active yet convinced she To form a family cannot, therefore, be only an act of never wanted to have children. Five diff erent doctors planning and control—unless we are metaphysically over fi ve years refused to do the procedure. deceived. It must also be an act of faith and hope … “ at women are denied access to tubal ligations is “a fundamental generosity.” another form of reproductive injustice,” Vanessa Meilaender dethrones the idea of “choice” that has Cullins, an OB-GYN and vice president at Planned defi ned a Gurley Brown generation and elevates the Parenthood, declares. “ is is a choice issue.” “fundamental generosity” of family life, of committed

According to Vogue, it may become “a growing issue” relationships—i.e., marriage—in which husband and KRIEG because of the number of women in America who are wife are pledged to see the callings of the other thrive, BARRIE childless today—one in fi ve compared to one in  in and of “the ‘experience of plenitude,’ from which the s. procreation, at its best, springs.” A

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KRIEG BARRIE Aleppo, one of the oldest cities in the world, is the latest casualty in Syria’s civil war. While world leaders look to a jihadist-driven rebel agenda, the city’s Christian minority is fi nding purpose in its peril    SURVIVING BY SERVING

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CRITICAL SITUATION: A Syrian boy cries in front of a damaged building in Aleppo.

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18 COVER STORY.indd 35 8/21/12 2:19 PM But Aleppo is shut- n another summer day the tered, a city of 2.5 million ice cream sellers in Aleppo reduced to a shell of its former bustling self after would be busy, handing out a siege that began just cones from their bicycles over a month ago. Like Damascus, Homs, stationed in a pedestrian and other urban centers before it, Syria’s largest square beside the ­central city has become the Citadel. Inside the Old City’s ­fortress for rebel groups fighting to overthrow covered walkways, juice sellers President Bashar al- Assad. In return, its would be working feverishly inhabitants are the target on street corners, pumping fresh pomegranate juice of government retalia- tion—with some of the sold in thin paper cups. As the pulp would fall in thick heaviest weapons yet crimson clumps on the stone walkways, the spicy used in the civil war that first began with street O protests 17 months ago. aroma of falafel and meat grilling on a spit would rise Nationwide the fight- from the tiny restaurants tucked inside the old souk. ing has killed an estimated 20,000, but numbers in Aleppo are hard to come by. One Syrian monitoring group, the Violations Documentation Center, reports that between July 19 and Aug. 9 over 400 civilians were killed in the Aleppo ­governorate— either by shelling or by gunfire. As street-by-street combat spreads from Aleppo’s outskirts and working-class neighbor- hoods into the city’s ancient center, the fighting is destroying what was once a cultural and ­commercial hub in the Middle East. Government forces have used tanks, helicopter gunships, and warplanes to fire on rebel strongholds, destroying homes, schools, and businesses in the process. On Aug. 11 eyewitnesses reported that bombing had damaged the city’s 13th-century Citadel, listed as the largest castle in the world and part of a World Heritage site located in the heart of the city.

“The situation here is getting very hard and vendor church: and mindy belz • citadel: P critical,” reports one local physician who runs a relief organization. “Bread is a dream. Gasoline is a supernatural finding. … Many families are in bad need.” On a typical day there would be more taxis than people on Aleppo’s streets. But gasoline has shot up from less than $1 to more than $5 per liter—and little is available. Electricity, once ­commonplace 24 hours a day, is now turned on

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18 COVER STORY.indd 36 8/21/12 2:19 PM came under the French Mandate before becoming It’s that melting-pot aspect of Aleppo that SEIZED: Rebel fighters an independent republic in 1930. makes more tragic the current street battles. in Aleppo march a captured policeman The destruction of Aleppo, noted Al-Jazeera Unlike Cairo, where millions poured into the who they allege is a reporter Anita McNaught, “would be like the street to protest the rule of Egyptian President Shabiha, or pro- destruction of Rome or Paris.” Hosni Mubarak, Aleppo—like many parts of regime militiaman. Syria—by comparison saw subdued street-level espite its serial conquests, demonstrations before armed conflict erupted. Aleppo historically has been a ref- When the Qatar Foundation this year con- vendor church: and mindy belz • citadel: P uge for victims of other conflicts. ducted an extensive poll of Syrians, it found 55 During the Armenian Genocide of percent still on Assad’s side and 68 percent dis- 1915, thousands of Armenians fled approving of Arab League and other sanctions. It Dthere, the closest city across the border from makes sense, notes Religious Liberty Prayer Turkey. During both Gulf wars, Iraqi refugees Bulletin editor Elizabeth Kendal: Most Syrians took shelter in Aleppo. In 2008, as insurgency would prefer an authoritarian but largely secular took its toll on those living in Mosul and the regime to an Islamist one, given the country’s Nineveh Plains of Iraq, especially Christians, makeup. At least 25 percent of the population are Aleppo took in about 25,000 Iraqi refugees a religious minorities (Christians make up about 10 month. City churches with outside aid were feed- percent of that segment) and at least a third of

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18 COVER STORY.indd 37 8/21/12 2:20 PM Bodansky says that the Syrian National Council, the lead political opposi- tion to Assad, “has always been a front of the more militant-jihadist wing of the Muslim Brothers.” Left to battle for control of the country, he and other ana- lysts argue, these rebel groups are likely to send Syria into political chaos and militant insurgency, and likely to take Lebanon with them. The humanitarian toll of that trajectory already is evident: Across Syria tens of thousands have been killed and almost 3 million, according to the UN, are displaced or in dire need of food and other essentials. Meanwhile, fighting this month has spread to Tripoli and other areas across the Syria-Lebanon border. Ultimately, the battle for HUNGRY: Syrians wait Aleppo, and all Syria, may represent an opportu- turkey for bread at a bakery nity for the United States—with Iran and Russia, in Aleppo. no less—to agree on a transitional regime that could lead to a move away from Assad’s brutality. cyprus Aleppo “Regional stability and moral considerations both Houla syria require a transitional phase in Syria, not cold- Tripoli Homs turkey democracy,” argues STRATFOR analyst Robert D. Kaplan. “Syria’s situation is dire. From Beirut both a moral and geopolitical point of view, fight- lebanon Damascus iraq ing a proxy war with Iran and Russia there is less Qarra desirable for the United States than reaching out israel to t h e m.” jordan Yet, as Kaplan and others point out, the Obama administration has shown little flair for back-channel, hard-boiled diplomacy. talists (including foreign Salafi jihadists) and the Increasingly it appears that the United States, rest, i.e., the majority of Syrians,” notes Kendal. along with Great Britain, is content to provide Yossef Bodansky, who as director of the tacit support for the rebels, to arm them without Congressional Task Force on Terrorism became direct aerial or naval support, on the premise that one of the first U.S. analysts to document al-­ civil war in Syria distracts Iran from its nuclear Qaeda’s structure and the role of Osama bin ambitions and Russia from its own military Laden, also believes that siding with the rebels is buildup. Republicans in Congress are content to the wrong stance for the United States and its go along because in principle they would like

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18 COVER STORY.indd 39 8/21/12 2:21 PM BATTLE WEARY: Civilians Church leaders are quick to acknowledge that churches. From across the street came persistent walk past a destroyed the situation is tense and subject to change. car honking—the sign of a wedding procession tank in Aleppo. “People are terrified,” reported Chaldean passing by headed to one of the churches, its cars Archbishop of all Syria Antoine Audo. He spoke to polished and bedecked in flowers. reporters by telephone after conducting “Even the Muslims need historical references, a service at Aleppo’s St. Joseph’s even if they are in opposition,” Audo said from Church earlier this month while our bench. “Christians represent something that explosions and gunfire sounded comes before them. In Syria we have a tradition in the distance. “They fear a of living together. There is respect for us here, ­situation that is becoming more even though we have this fanaticism growing.” and more violent and More and more Muslim women in Aleppo were uncertain.” wearing hijab, I had noticed, and the archbishop “When I’m asked about Syria, acknowledged, “It is a sign. But we must stay ... in the first thing I say, generally, is a step of confidence. Unfortunately the Muslim that we don’t want to become like feels himself very strong. They want to have Iraq,” said the archbishop, who was opposition, and they want to have war, even if GHARABLI/AFP/GettyI AHMAD CIVILIANS: born in Iraq’s Nineveh Plains. “That fear is very they say they want peace and reconciliation.” present with us. That would mean the destruction I felt his foreboding, plus the weight of caring of a Christian presence in Syria that has been then for thousands of newly arrived Iraqi refu- here since the beginning of Christianity.” gees. “How do you keep going, and committed to ministry in Aleppo when you could be some- n 2008 I sat with Audo outside a church where else?” I asked. in Aleppo’s city center as young boys and “Day by day,” he said. “It is a stress every day. girls from a church “Scouts” group played But this is a church of Mesopotamia now for basketball and other games under olive 2,000 years. The call is to continue with a pres- mag e s

trees. With the approach of darkness on a ence to give a taste of faith to Kurdish and Arabic • AUDO: HANDOU AUDO: IFriday evening, all around us began the Muslim peoples, and others. So we are doing our duty as call to prayer, and we watched as hundreds witnesses, praying, attending to the Eucharist, began filing into the expansive mosque built showing the presence of the Lord, and serving

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18 COVER STORY.indd 41 8/21/12 2:22 PM the 2012 Hope Award for Effective Compassion Onward Christian workers Our international division winner provides biblical worldview teaching as the link—often missing— between evangelism and economic development

by Marvin Olasky in Pokuase, Ghana

he names they carry: Anointed Hands Hair Salon, Jesus Saves Barbering Shop, Christ in You T Chemicals, Thy Will Be Done Electronics, New Jerusalem Engineering, God Rules Internet Café, No One Is Perfect Except the Lord Shop, Try Jesus Digital Photos, Showers of Blessings Metalworker … Journalists refer to Ghana as a highly Christianized country: 69 percent of the country’s 25 million people pro- fess Christ, surveys say, and the names of small businesses are one evidence of that. But to Chris Ampadu, coordinator of the Samaritan Strategy ministry in West Africa, that ­statistic raises questions. Why does Christian belief have so little impact in Ghana from Monday through Saturday? Why so much corruption? With all of Ghana’s natural resources—gold, fertile soil, newly discovered oil—why are the people so poor? Many Christians in Ghana, Ampadu says, have five-hour services on Sunday filled with singing, dancing, and drum- ming, but little teaching about discipleship. Some attend all-night prayer and fasting vigils but do not work hard or love their neighbors. Ampadu is working to change that. Driving a Toyota Land Cruiser that has logged more than 220,000 miles, he took my wife and me out into the bush, northwest of the capital city of Accra, to show us grinding poverty and potential alternatives. We drove over deep-­pitted dirt high- ways and turned onto lowways SHOWING LOVE sporting thigh-high brush. Praying TO NEIGHBORS: Beuty Amazu for axles not to break and spines not turned a fruit stand to creak, we stopped at small clear- into a corner ings in the bush—bare areas of dirt grocery store.

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Part of another option appears a few hundred potholes READERS’ CHOICE past Asamankese. (Countryside driving in Ghana is like whitewater rafting in a rock-filled stream.) There we visited This is the seventh year of WORLD’s Hope Awards for a farm with 18 acres of palm nut and orange trees owned by Effective Compassion, but the first in which we have an the Hour of Deliverance network of churches. (Victor int­ ernational finalist. Owiredu, a 64-year-old Ghanian trained at Dallas Theological This year’s final five are all different—and are all good. Seminary, founded the church network, and Ampadu has From the West comes Wyoming-based Fathers in the now influenced his thinking.) The farm employs villagers at Field, which pairs fatherless kids with men who take them hunting, fishing, and bonding. Down East is The Root a palm oil factory, a labor intensive set-up that presses palm Cellar, a Maine group that shows refugees how to make it oil out of palm nuts. Farm profits help to support schools in in America. In the Midwest sits Hope Academy, a classical small villages like Nsontra and Wawase. Christian school in inner-city Minneapolis. The Southern In Nsontra we visited 60 children, ages 3-15, and their winner is WorkFaith Connection, which helps some of parents who sweated to build the cement-block school. In Houston’s least-employable men and women to find jobs. the Wawase school two young men teach 85 young students: The international winner, Samaritan Strategy Africa, A scarred blackboard displayed sentences like “A fat cat sat also helps the poor in ways that are challenging, personal, on the bed” and one that pointed to crucial self-definition and spiritual. We look for Christian, nongovernmental in the image of God: “Am I a cat? No, I am a boy.” When ­poverty-fighting programs that are not just evangelical Wawase residents saw the need for a well and school, they and not just economic, but unite body and soul. We didn’t wait for the government to build them. Instead they started this year with 200 recommendations from readers raised money and contributed their labor, while the Hour and initial research by internet and phone, and followed of Deliverance partnered with them to drill the well and with journalistic visits that allowed us to eyeball 10 ­provide building materials. ­programs. Each of the five finalists will receive $4,000. Now it’s up to you. Please go to worldmag.com, The names Accra-area businesses carry: Lord of Life read the stories, and look at the videos and photographs. Bakery, God Is Able Food Joint, Living Bread Bus Stop, Between now and Sept. 30, please vote online for the pro- Blessed Assurance Computers, For Christ Boutique, The gram that moves you the most. The ministry that receives the most votes will receive an additional $21,000. You Lord Is My Shepherd Beauty Salon, If God Say Yes Barbering may get ideas about what you can start or help in your Shop, God Is Able Hardware … own communities. You’ll surely get a sense of how God is Ampadu, 50, didn’t see such names when he grew up in using His people. —M.O. a Ghanian village 400 miles north of Accra. His mother was a fetish priestess known as a prophetess who sometimes became possessed. His father was a poor farmer who wanted his eldest son to gain an education, so Chris woke swept clean and baked by the sun—surrounded by mud- up at 5 a.m., three times carried water from the river brick houses. Asukawkaw to his home, and washed in the river. Then he Those homes have neither electricity nor the blessing walked to school and sometimes 10 miles more to work at and curse frequent in poor areas of India or South America: the farm, and came home carrying food on his head. television antennas (and sometimes satellite dishes). Ampadu recalls two leaps in his understanding. First, at Outside, scrawny goats and dogs search for scraps, while age 17 with the help of Scripture Union, he professed faith women balance on their heads huge loads of clothes for in Christ. The second leap came when he attended in 1999 washing or water for drinking. Children have to walk three the first conference of Disciple Nations Alliance (see “Godly miles through dense brush to publicly funded schools, past endeavors,” WORLD, Dec. 5, 2009): DNA sees Christian

poisonous snakes and—occasionally—human antagonists. worldview teaching as the missing link between evangelism top: Emmanu Little had changed for decades, but two new options are and economic development. Without that understanding, now emerging. Africa’s Christianity takes a gnostic form, with extravagant One is evident along the dirt roads: Small villages now worship on Sunday but no connection between that and e have mosques, often paid for by Iran or Saudi Arabia. One of their lives the rest of the week, or between the spiritual and l Qua y

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but four mosques in Asamankese, a town of 39,000 nearly 50 Ampadu became part of the Samaritan Strategy Africa ottom: susan olasky miles northwest of Accra. Muslims in Ghana often are poor, team that DNA helped form. Now Samaritan Strategy Africa and so far the religion attracts few converts, but that could has six regional offices, and Ampadu from Accra coordinates change with funding from outside the country. Some trucks work in 13 West African countries. He and others teach on their back windshields display stenciled slogans like “Is Christian worldview classes that emphasize the importance Allah not sufficient for you?” and “Does God have a son?” of hard work, integrity, and caring for others. At first

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18 COMPASSION.indd 44 8/17/12 2:47 PM houses where women had built businesses with seed money given by the Wholistic Clubs: Mary Chiasi works as a seam- stress, Elizabeth Soglo as a hairdresser, and Beuty Amazu turned a fruit stand into a corner grocery store. Esther Bawa sells charcoal and takes care of six chil- dren not her own. The clubs teach about showing love to neighbors in concrete ways. For instance, young Esther Wood received business start-up money that allowed her to buy a small bowl and fill it with plastic containers to sell. When she reported back to the older women, she was discouraged: I’m selling, yet I have no money. They asked what she did with the money she earned, and she said: Whatever my eyes saw, I bought, items like ice cream and meat pies. So the club leaders talked with her INTEGRITY AND COMPASSION: about resisting the tempta- Chris Ampadu (above); Wholistic Club members (from tion to fritter away her left) Esther Gyemfi, Regina earnings. Teye, and Emma Dwarko. The next time Wood reported to them, she was so successful that she had traded in her small bowl of plastic wares for a big one filled with attractive cooking pots. She gave her small bowl and a few plastic items to another woman starting out. Now, when Dwarko, Teye, or Gyemfi walk through Pokuase, residents come to them with job problems and hear from them mes- sages like those Ampadu vigorously proclaims: “We have no

top: Emmanu excuse for our poverty. … We will not advance without integrity and compassion.” The Hour of Deliverance church network has set up a Ampadu focused on teaching pastors, but then he realized it vocational school that has success stories such as that of e l Qua would take too long for the teaching to trickle down to ordi- Paulina Suuri: She started her own business with a manual y e nary Africans. So he took the message to laypeople and sewing machine provided by the church, then used her prof- • b ottom: susan olasky encouraged the formation of “Wholistic Clubs” that deal its to buy an electric one as well as a serger to finish seams. with both spiritual and material needs. Now she finishes seams for other seamstresses, charging 50 To see what this looked like, we went with three older cents per item. She buys fabric for $4 and sells it for $5, and women—schoolteachers Emma Dwarko and Regina Teye, charges another $10 for a custom-made garment. and egg-seller Esther Gyemfi—to their homes in Pokuase, a Ampadu also teaches freshmen at two Accra colleges, suburb of Accra. We walked on rutted dirt paths near small where students discuss the ethics of bribes and expense

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padding. Some have set up Wholistic Clubs that encour- age students to show love to their communities. Ampadu has support from others like Peter Ohene Kyei, the head of Pentecost University College, who speaks about transformational leadership and sounds like Booker T. Washington: “Work in the corner where you are.” Kwei emphasizes practical projects such as improving personal hygiene and cleaning up neighborhoods. Ampadu emphasizes the need for Africans themselves to help their neighbors, and shows schools and wells and other projects produced by the savings and sweat of Ghanians themselves: “Western money will not solve our problem.”

T    on their back and side windows: King Jesus Van, By the Power of God Taxi, Blood of Jesus Bus, In God We Trust Motors, Nearer My God Construction, No Food for Lazy Man, By the Power SUCCESS STORY: men to persevere in a key making of God, In God We Trust Farm, Surely Justice and Mercy Paulina Suuri. shop. Ghana offi cially has  percent Will Follow Me … unemployment, according to e CIA We saw many of these during a -mile trip from Factbook, but that number doesn’t Accra to Elmina, a coastal town of , that began as a include the thousands of people walking between cars dur- Portuguese slave trading post in .  ere we met ing Accra traffi c jams trying to sell everything from batteries Pastor Joshua Lamptey, , who attended a Samaritan to clothes, and rarely fi nding a taker.  e real rate, in terms Strategy conference in  and caught the vision of of people productively employed, is as much as  percent. teaching people to “fi sh for the glory of God” and  at’s a huge problem for Ghana, but Ampadu points practice the “discipline of loving our neighbors.” to positives such as Ghanian interest in education: Before that Lamptey believed church work the only Learning centers have names like Brainbirds, Wisebirds, real work. (Some Americans make the same mistake by and  e Intellectuals School. Ghana’s divisions—more thinking that only pastors and missionaries are engaged than  diff erent linguistic and cultural groups group- in “full-time Christian service.”) He learned to appreciate able into seven tribal families—may be an advantage, in the eff orts of men like burly Kojo Sortoh Mensah, awarded that no particular faction is dominant. (Civil wars are a blue Ford Ranger when experts in  named him more likely to arise when a country has only two major Ghana’s best fi sherman. Mensah, now in a Wholistic Club, contenders: Look at Rwanda, with its Hutus and Tutsis, or helps others start small businesses, pay hospital bills, and Nigeria, evenly divided between Christians and Muslims.) leave prostitution: He speaks with an earthy vigor like  ree U.S. presidents in a row have come to Accra—in that of another fi sher of men, Peter the apostle, displayed. , , and —and made the country a poster Ampadu’s teaching has also activated Emilie Hasford, , child for African success: Barack Obama earlier this year who runs a small business that employs  women cooking called Ghana “a good news story.” Ampadu, though, sees for schools, and David Kweku Danso, who teaches young success dependent on whether Ghanians understand the Bible’s good news story as one in which Christ empowers His followers not   MONEY BOX merely to sing and dance, but to “make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in Samaritan Strategy Africa budget  the name of the Father and of the Son in : ,  and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to  observe all that I have commanded Western Africa region budget  Lake  yo u.” in : , Volta After all, the name Christians West Africa volunteer count: + claim, disciple, involves disciplined Asamankese Pokuase Wawase following of the commandcommand to love  budget for Ghana: , Accra A Elmina God and love our neighbors. Chris Ampadu salary in : —with appreciation for Tim O’Brien’s  , Atlantic Ocean book of short stories about soldiers in Vietnam, SUSAN

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18 TBN.indd 48 8/21/12 9:30 AM SEX, LIES & TELEVISION Lawsuits involving the world’s largest Christian broadcasting network may hang by a flash drive by Warren Cole Smith

Colby May says Koper is attempting to “It just didn’t make sense.” create a “media circus” to distract from That’s what Jonathan Rovetto thought when he heard his employer, Trinity the real issues, May has also taken an Broadcasting Network (TBN), fired Brittany Koper last fall, alleging embezzlement aggressive stand in the media. and fraud. After all, Koper is the granddaughter of TBN founders Paul and Jan That’s why Rovetto was confused: Crouch. Brittany and her husband Michael, also a TBN employee, made more than “My employer was telling me one $200,000 a year and did not live extravagantly. Brittany was a rising star on track, thing, and I wanted to believe them.” some people thought, to take over the network one day. Why would she embezzle? But he says he trusted Brittany and had Rovetto had done work for the Trinity Broadcasting Network for nine years, seven seen newspaper accounts of spending as a freelancer and two years full-time as an assistant engineer, so he knew Koper. by the Crouches on mansions, private She had helped orient him when he came on full-time. Soon she became director of jets, and luxury hotels. He knew that finance and saw for the first time, she says, “the unlawful distribution of the TBN lawsuits against TBN or its employees Companies’ charitable assets to Trinity Broadcasting’s directors,” including Paul and and affiliates seemed to crop up regu- Jan Crouch and other Crouch family members. larly. Then, on June 18, Brittany’s sister This language comes from a lawsuit Koper filed in February that describes—in Carra Crouch, now 19 years old, filed a sensational detail—claims of financial mismanagement, suit saying a 30-year-old TBN employee fraud, physical intimidation, and sexual harassment. had raped her when she was 13. Carra’s Koper’s lawsuit says the “unlawful financial transac- lawsuit says TBN “deliberately covered ONCE A RISING STAR: Brittany Koper; TBN tions” exceed $50 million. Trinity has since filed at least up the incident to protect Trinity headquarters (above). five lawsuits of its own. Even though TBN spokesman Broadcasting from negative publicity.”

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18 TBN.indd 49 8/21/12 9:32 AM For Rovetto, this was the last straw. So he began to support Koper on his Facebook profile: “All I wanted to do was to help my friend.” On June 28, TBN fired him. Rovetto told me that when he was a kid he stood up to a bully who was harassing a smaller girl on a playground. The bully backed off and the little girl gave him a kiss on the cheek. “It was my first kiss,” Rovetto said.

KOPER FACES A PHALANX of lawyers, including TBN’s in-house counsel and at least two outside law firms. In ­addition, TBN’s Colby May is affiliated with the American Center for Law and Justice, which has a major presence on TBN’s airwaves. In contrast, Koper has been without an attorney ever since the one who filed her lawsuits quit. Koper recently hired Tulsa-based attorney Gary Richardson, a former U.S. Attorney best known in religious circles receipts for these 57 items were included HAPPIER TIMES: Brittany and Michael for representing clients in lawsuits in the documentation.” Guinn’s letter with Jan and Paul Crouch. against televangelist Robert Tilton in noted a $15,328 credit card purchase at the 1990s. Harley Davidson Orlando for which Complicating the matter: Koper there was “no business purpose indi- organizations related to TBN and its does not deny she and her husband cated.” The Harley Davidson purchase is parent organization, Trinity Christian Michael took money from TBN, but they on a list Guinn called a “small sample Center of Santa Ana, Inc.) to purchase a say it was a loan, fully documented and representative of expenditures that home and for other personal purposes. approved by the board of TBN. They might be considered extravagant.” But if Brittany Koper is guilty of allege that other family members just Guinn concluded, “Obviously, TBN embezzlement and fraud, why is she took money from the ministry, often by accepts as true that these items not facing criminal charges? May said charging personal items to ministry had ... ministry purpose since the TBN turned over documents supporting credit cards or by having the ministry charges were not disputed, but the IRS its claims of criminal wrong-doing to pay for homes, cars, and other big- would treat them as inurring [sic] to the Tustin (Calif.) Police Department. A ticket items. the benefit of the purchaser.” In other spokesman for the department con- The technical term for using ministry words, without proper documentation, firmed that, but told WORLD it was up money for private purposes is “private tax law treats the inurement.” A copy of a 2011 letter that $60,000 as income on Koper gave to WORLD, if authentic, which taxes should be supports at least a part of Koper’s alle- paid. Koper says this Unequally yoked? gations. The letter, an “IRS compliance list is just the tip of the TBN took in more than $78 million in donations in 2010 review” by Dallas-based accounting iceberg. Her February and made $60 million more by selling airtime to other firm Guinn, Smith & Co. and signed by lawsuit says that over ministries. Ministries on TBN at least weekly include Donald Guinn, warned TBN that its many years the Crouch those of Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Kirk Cameron/ record-keeping and procedures were at family and close asso- Ray Comfort, Pat Robertson/The 700 Club, David best sloppy and at worst could be con- ciates siphoned as Jeremiah, Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyer, strued by the IRS as “noncompliance” much as $50 million Kenneth Copeland, Ron Luce/Acquire The Fire, Charles with tax law. out of the ministry for Stanley/In Touch Ministries, Adrian Rogers/Love Worth The letter identified “areas with the personal purposes. Finding, Jack Graham, and Michael Youssef. The Trinity Foundation’s Ole Anthony argues, “The greatest exposure” for TBN as “unrea- TBN spokesman majority of TBN’s programming is from ‘prosperity s

sonable compensation, personal use of May vigorously denies o ­theology’ preachers,” and advocates of that view “use the organization’s assets, use of the Koper’s allegations. hot P reputable ministries such as Billy Graham and Charles s i

church’s credit card for personal May says Koper and s Stanley to give the ‘seal of approval’ to their theology e brittany expenses, and excessive spending.” To her husband took and practices.” He says theologically sound ministries /Gen make the case, the letter identified one money from TBN and have no business on TBN: “They claim that TBN is just a s koper/ap help P

three-month period in 2009 when “one International Christian delivery mechanism for them, and that they don’t alter of the American Express cardholders Broadcasting (one of their message for them. But they’re being used.” —W.C.S.

charged items for over $60,000 and no more than a dozen Jeffrey

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18 TBN.indd 50 8/21/12 9:34 AM to the Orange County District Attorney Trinity’s litigation strategy only lends A history of growth— to bring charges. Farrah Emami, a credence to Michael and Brittany’s and controversy spokeswoman for the ­district attorney, ­contention that these lawsuits are said so far there have been no charges. retaliation for whistleblowing about 1973 TBN founded in Santa Ana, Calif. She would not say when the investiga- Plaintiff Trinity’s extensive fraud.” 1974 Purchases first television station: tion would be complete, and she would Judge Carter then gave TBN’s KLXA, now KTBN, in Santa Ana. not comment specifically on the Koper ­lawyers until July 30 to explain why 1991 TBN leaves the National Religious case except to add that “embezzlement “Plaintiff Trinity” should not be Broadcasters following a year-long investigations are complicated and ­“designated a vexatious litigant” and eth­ ics investigation. often take months.” be “enjoined from filing future lawsuits 1994-1996 TBN spends $13.7 million to The case could well hang on the against Michael and Brittany.” Lawyers acquire Nashville’s Twitty City, changing authenticity of documents its name to Trinity Music City USA, a Brittany Koper says she has Christian entertainment park with TV in her possession. Koper has studios, a church, a concert hall, and a stopped talking to the press movie theater. and has named as spokes- 1998 Former TBN employee Enoch man Ole Anthony, founder Lonnie Ford receives $425,000 to keep of the Trinity Foundation. quiet about his claims of a homosexual (Despite the confusing tryst with televangelist Paul Crouch. ­similarity of their names, 2000 Sylvia Fleener sues TBN for $40 the Trinity Foundation and million, claiming TBN plagiarized her Trinity Broadcasting book for its movie The Omega Code. The movie earned $13 million at the box Network are completely office and sold more than 1 million DVDs unrelated, and the Trinity and videos. TBN settles for an undis- Foundation has for years closed sum. been an outspoken critic of 2006 A multimillion-dollar hospital TBN and many of the televangelists on STOOD UP: Jonathan Rovetto. ­construction project in Haiti halts when the network.) Anthony said Brittany Archbishop Joel Jeune of Haiti’s Koper had scanned hundreds of pages Charismatic Church accuses a TBN of documents and put them on a flash for “Plaintiff Trinity” met this deadline, ­missionary of making homosexual drive. saying it is “not a vexatious litigant and advances toward Haitian boys hired at the construction site. Colby May rejected Anthony’s asser- has violated no laws in accessing the tions: “If they have documents, they’re Courts.” They further claim that the 2007 TBN buys Orlando-based Holy Land altered documents or fakes.” “Kopers have feigned their whistle Experience, a religion-based theme park. Anthony fired back: “If Brittany’s blowing claims … to divert attention 2009 Nashville-based TBN minister documents are fakes, let them prove from their substantial criminal and Stephen Eugene Galiher, on a business that in court.” civil wrongs.” At press time, Judge trip to TBN’s California headquarters, Carter has not made a final determina- strikes a vehicle carrying David Rhodes and his wife. Rhodes dies Nov. 3 of TRINITY CHRISTIAN CENTER of Santa tion in this matter. ­pneumonia as a result of his injuries. Ana, TBN’s parent, has not only filed Galiher pleads guilty to felony charges of five lawsuits against Brittany or Michael So will this case ever get to court? driving under the influence and causing Koper since October 2011, but has Will we ever know the truth? As to the injury. Sentenced in April 2010 to five ­specifically asked the court to ­prevent first question, both Ole Anthony, years probation, 120 days jail time, fines, Brittany Koper from using the docu- speaking for the Kopers, and Colby and restitution. Rhodes’ family files a civil lawsuit saying TBN “turned a blind ments on her flash drive that May May, speaking for TBN, say it will and eye” to Galiher’s drinking problem and claims are “fakes.” they both welcome that opportunity, continued to employ him and provide One judge didn’t buy TBN’s argu- though both agree that the case could him with a car. ments. David O. Carter, a judge in the go on for months if not years. It will 2011 TBN fires Director of Finance U.S. District Court in the Central likely consume hundreds of thousands Brittany Koper, the granddaughter of District of California, on July 25 issued of dollars in legal fees. Paul and Jan Crouch. TBN claims she several rulings—some related to the Jonathan Rovetto, who lost his job embezzled money from the organization. documents—that mostly favored the for sticking up for Brittany Koper on 2012 In February Brittany Koper files Kopers. Judge Carter ­concluded: Facebook, has made up his mind: He lawsuit claiming TBN has diverted at “Trinity’s several lawsuits, incessant said Koper “had nothing to gain and least $50 million in ministry funds to Photos demands for injunctive relief, and insis- everything to lose.” Others are waiting personal purposes. In June, Carra brittany Crouch, Koper’s sister, files lawsuit enesis tence on expedited rulings suggest that to see what the courts decide, mindful against TBN alleging she was raped by a s/G p Plaintiff Trinity’s strategy is to over- of what both the Bible and Charles TBN employee and TBN covered up the ko

Phel whelm the courts as well as Michael Dickens teach: Most parties tend to lose incident to avoid negative publicity. p er/a and Brittany so as to avoid a rational money, reputation, or both during Sources: Court records, Los Angeles Times, p

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18 TBN.indd 51 8/21/12 9:34 AM Teacher walkout As conservative reforms gain momentum, teachers unions fi nd themselves losing money and members  D J D    /

isconsin public member of the Wisconsin Education Association high-school teacher Council (WEAC), appeared in a -second tele- Kristi Lacroix has vision ad endorsing Walker.  e governor had done the right thing for Wisconsin, she told the endured yells, curses, camera.  e recall attempt felt “a little like sour g ra p e s.” laughs, derision, and After the commercial aired, Lacroix received a threats to her face. stream of hate mail calling her “idiot,” “Judas,” and worse. “You support Walker,” read one: It isn’t students who give her grief, though. It’s the other “Hope you share a jail cell with him.” adults. One woman spit on Lacroix while she shopped for Some of the vitriol came from Lacroix’s own Wgroceries at Pick’n Save. At Capt. Mike’s Beer & Burger Bar, a colleagues, which she says is “embarrassing and table of teachers moved when she sat nearby, while another makes me feel sad.” But dozens of others wrote to off er patron suggested someone should assassinate her. support or say they’d also like to leave their union: “I’m Her sin? Being a teachers union member who opposed certainly not alone. I’m just the only one willing to be the recall of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. vo c a l.”

As a political conservative, Lacroix had become frustrated Lacroix seems to be one of many teachers fed up with BUTTON: when she learned her union supported liberal candidates union dues and politics. Since Walker pushed through

and agendas. But the Kenosha, Wis., teacher was legally legislation last year making public-sector union member- HANDOUT obligated to pay over  a month in dues—until Walker ship voluntary, WEAC (it’s pronounced WHEE-ack) has lost brought reforms last year.  at November, Lacroix, a a fi fth of its members. Last year the union laid off  percent

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of its staff as it dealt with budget cuts and engaged in what membership. Income from dues at the Arizona Education executive director Dan Burkhalter called a “membership Association, for instance, dropped from $7.5 million to $5.4 ­continuation” campaign. million in one year. NEA had to bail out the group’s Indiana WEAC’s parent, the National Education Association, is in affiliate in 2009 after it reported a four-year, multimillion-dollar button: the throes of a crisis itself: It has lost over 100,000 members budget deficit. since 2010, and expects the bleeding to continue. The bailout followed a mass exodus from public worker

handout NEA, the nation’s largest union, represents one out of every unions in Indiana. Gov. Mitch Daniels triggered the exodus in 100 Americans through its state affiliates, such as WEAC. Since 2005 when he eliminated government-sector bargaining 2009, several affiliates have reported declining income and power by executive order. This February, four days before

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18 NEA-SIEU.indd 53 8/17/12 3:46 PM crowds descended on Indianapolis for Super Bowl XLVI, have turned brutal.” The union did manage to scrabble together Daniels braved crowds of protesters in the Statehouse to sign $5 million to create an “Affiliate Defense Fund,” apparently legislation, ­making Indiana the nation’s 23rd “right-to-work” intended to stop attacks on collective bargaining power in state by ­outlawing forced union membership in the private vario­us states. ­sector. It was the first state to do so in over a decade. To some conservatives, the widespread membership losses, NEA officials say collective bargaining attacks in Indiana and added to the events in Wisconsin, spell doom for public-sector elsewhere, like Idaho, Ohio, and Wisconsin, have squeezed state unions. “The abject failure of the unions to recall Wisconsin and national budgets. In Wisconsin, Walker’s reform last year Gov. Scott Walker … marks the Icarus moment of government- angered some public-sector union members by increasing their union power,” wrote columnist Charles Krauthammer. “Wax contributions to retirement and health plans, and restraining wings melted, there’s nowhere to go but down.” bargaining power. Demonstrators at the Wisconsin Capitol did Not all are convinced, though. “Wisconsin is not represen- not intimidate Republicans into scuttling the bill, which tative of what’s happening in the rest of the country,” said Walker signed in March that year. Union leaders then helped Terry Moe, a Hoover Institution senior fellow and the author of organize 50,000 volunteers in a battle to recall the governor. Special Interests: Teachers Unions and America’s Public Schools. Meanwhile, since the law also made union membership Although education reformers have gained a few Democratic ­voluntary for state workers, thousands of them, including allies, unions remain a “political juggernaut” positioned to teachers, stopped paying dues. In the time between Walker’s defend job-related interests, he said. One example is in Ohio, signing of the union reform bill and his recall election, WEAC where union forces used a referendum last November to over- lost 20,000 of its 90,000 members. The Wisconsin chapter of turn Republican curbs on public-sector collective bargaining. the American Federation of Teachers, a WEAC rival, lost 6,000 But Tim Farmer, a former NEA member, said “teachers are of 17,000. fed up and frustrated.” Though some member losses are due to On June 5, Walker won the recall election by 7 ­percentage layoffs, he said, more teachers are becoming exasperated at points. His victory suggested to some pundits that unions were paying high dues to bloated organizations that offer little in weakening in political clout. return. Farmer belonged to NEA from 2008 to 2010 while he taught a seventh-grade class in Florida. He paid around $56 a ome 7,403 union member delegates spent the Fourth of July at NEA’s four-day leadership S summit in Washington, D.C. Local unions appoint representatives to attend the annual summit, where they vote union policy changes up or down. This July, delegates used markers to scribble notes of support to President Barack Obama on a large ­banner titled “NEA Educators for Obama.” The NEA has already voted to endorse Obama’s reelection— and has never supported a Republican presidential candidate. NEA President Dennis Van Roekel tried to rally kindred spirits during a speech: “We must do everything we can to reelect President Obama. … The other side will outspend us, but we can’t let them outwork us.” The crowd responded with cheers and applause. When one Republican teacher spoke up at the conference, attendees booed. The obvious bias doesn’t make things easier for NEA secretary-treasurer Rebecca Pringle, who showed a month in dues to four local and national ORGANIZED daunting series of charts and budget figures. NEA expects to ­organizational levels. FIGHT: Recall efforts lose another 140,000 members over the next year, amounting “I just joined because I wanted liability were heavily to $27 million in lost dues. If projections prove ­correct, the insurance,” said Farmer. (Teachers need the supported union will have lost 308,000 active teachers and education protection in case parents of students sue.) But by unions. professionals between 2010 and 2014—a 14 percent chunk of after he saw the union opposing charters and its workforce. “We have to change,” Pringle told delegates. promoting policies he didn’t support, he left John

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Change already occurred in NEA offices this year, where teaching and became a recruiter for the Professional Educators art/Wi leadership reportedly dismissed several executives, downsized Network of Florida, a nonunion teachers association. During six s

401(k) benefits, and convinced 56 staffers to accept an early months on the job, the group’s membership jumped from 70 to con

retirement buyout. The cuts were serious enough that NEA’s 315. Half of the recruits were former union members. s in own staff, unhappy with negotiations for a new three-year Today, Farmer is the policy director of the Professional St ate

contract, picketed NEA’s Washington headquarters. The staff Association of Colorado Educators, another nonunion Journal/ap members are organized within the NEA—a union within a union. ­association that does not bargain collectively, but provides $2 At the summit, Pringle blamed the budget problems partly million in liability insurance (twice as much as NEA provides)

on “a recession that just won’t end” and “political attacks that for $15 a month. handout

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18 NEA-SIEU.indd 54 8/17/12 3:46 PM HOME INVASION Union gains millions of dollars by forcing some parents caring for children to “join” as healthcare workers  L E

K  B W of Warren, Council (MQC), a subsidiary of Mich., are good union folks. A telecommuni- the SEIU, classifi ed her as an cations fi ber splicer for the past  years, “employee.” She never applied Ken spends his time climbing poles, ducking for a job and doesn’t receive a in manholes, and faithfully providing for his paycheck, yet the union deducts family.  ey appreciate the benefi ts his “dues” every month from industry union provides. Surprisingly, Ashley’s state Medicaid check. though, they currently fi nd themselves at  e union also deducts dues odds with another union in their lives. from the paychecks of home  at union is the Service Employees healthcare workers, but Waldorf International Union (SEIU), of which Barbara questions how that applies to is a member for one simple reason: She is parents taking care of their the primary caregiver for Ashley, the Waldorfs’ children: “ e crazy thing is I’m classifi ed as Attorney General Bill A QUESTION OF -year-old special needs daughter. an employee.  ey take union dues out, but Schuette ordered the CAREGIVING: Ashley—a sweetheart whose days con- no taxes. How does that work?” payments to stop. Ashley Waldorf (center) sist of shuffl ing quietly about their modest It works like this: In  (under previous  en the SEIU surrounded by bungalow and seeking strokes of aff ection Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm) the state sued. On June , U.S. family. from her family—is unaware that she is part allowed the SEIU to classify home healthcare District Court Judge of an ongoing controversy. Birth trauma and workers as public employees.  e union Nancy G. Edmunds ensuing oxygen deprivation mean that began automatically deducting union dues ordered the state to continue deducting the Ashley requires a variety of therapies and from the paychecks of approximately dues because the SEIU and MQC are under special education programs. Even though , “home healthcare workers.”  eir contract until February .  e parties she technically qualifi es for one more year of employer was supposedly the MQC, signed a six-month contract extension the school under Michigan state law, the although many were not even aware they same day that Gov. Snyder signed the legis- Waldorfs have opted to keep her at home. worked for the organization. In addition, lation banning the questionable payments.  e quiet environment is soothing for her. many individuals counted as “employees” Now the SEIU has collected enough “I can’t work,” Waldorf states matter-of- are people like Ken and Barbara Waldorf— signatures to put an innocuous-sounding factly. “ is is my job.” parents taking care of their disabled children. proposal on the November ballot. Called Diaper changes, doctor visits, errands, Caregivers who learned about their “Keep Home Care Safe,” the ballot initiative and phone calls consume much of Waldorf’s classifi cation pushed the state legislature to does nothing to ensure safe home care. day—along with whatever else she can stop the automatic union deductions. In , Instead, it embeds into the state constitution squeeze in as she juggles the jobs of mother, the Michigan legislature voted to defund the the current union scheme. United Way volunteer, church ministry leader, MQC, but MQC cobbled together a shoe- As the state ponders its next move, the and primary caregiver for Ashley.  at last string budget (including a , donation SEIU continues to collect dues from family role is the crux of a legal question in Michigan. from the SEIU) to continue operations. In members who care for their disabled Because of her role as Ashley’s caregiver, April , Gov. Rick Snyder signed legisla- relatives. So far the SEIU has collected more the Michigan Quality Community Care tion to stop the practice. In May, Michigan than  million under this arrangement. JOHN HART/WISCONSIN e Colorado organization, with a little less than , heckling, snide comments, and hallway confrontations. members, is a chapter of the Association of American Although a contract prevents Lacroix, the Kenosha Educators (AAE) a larger national group. Heather Reams, the teacher, from leaving WEAC for another year, she has already STATE group’s associate director, said , teachers are in joined AAE. She’s excited at the prospect of being union-

JOURNAL/AP nonunion associations throughout the country. One of AAE’s free, and predicts that others will join her and force unions biggest obstacles is letting teachers know it exists: Unions to tone down political activity or become obsolete: “If you’re often try to block its recruiters from making presentations not creating a product that people want, they’re not going to

HANDOUT in schools, she said. And when they do get in, they face join you. ey’re not going to give you their money.” A

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18 NEA-SIEU.indd 55 8/17/12 3:47 PM Brian Brenberg Serving like Stephen Most Christians don’t understand the godly significance of their 9 to 5 jobs

How is Stephen’s story of any encouragement to the guy selling sprinkler systems? Feed, clothe, heal— that makes sense. But bond trading and landscaping? Most of us in the pews don’t understand the ­significance of our work because most of us in the pulpit don’t know how to explain what it means to serve tables in a modern economic context. The Bible says feed the hungry. The pastor says volunteer at a food pantry. The small business owner goes on believing that Monday through Friday has nothing to do with Sunday. Food pantries are important, but they’re not the reason far fewer of us go hungry today than ever before. Most of us have jobs in which we never hand food to anyone. And, strange as it may sound, that’s exactly why so many more people have plenty to eat. Fewer go hungry today because some of us lend On Labor Day, we should honor those who money to farmers so they can buy new tractors. serve the Lord 9 to 5. But if you think I’m Fewer go hungry today because some of us design talking only about pastors and preachers, even better tractors, or tinker in workshops to keep >> then you need to meet a man named Stephen. the old ones running. Fewer go hungry today Acts 6 opens with the Greeks complaining that because some of us look at spreadsheets to figure their widows aren’t getting enough to eat in the out how companies could spend less money on daily distribution. The apostles, meanwhile, are ­tractors and produce even more food. working so hard to feed the widows that they can’t Jesus told us to feed the hungry. That’s what find time to preach. And as the church grows, the bankers, engineers, mechanics, and consultants do problem gets worse. So, like good economists, the every day. They’re table servers. apostles propose a division of labor: They’ll stick to We live in a world where many people, often preaching and let the disciples find somebody else unknown to one another and devoted to all sorts of to serve tables. specialized tasks, work together in vast networks to When we talk about “full-time” ministry today, feed and clothe and heal in ways nobody ever it’s the apostles we usually have in mind—people thought possible. When we participate in one of these whose daily work is devoted to preaching and networks—however remote our job may be from the teaching. The problem is that most of us aren’t hand that administers the bread or medicine—we preachers, and probably shouldn’t be. Most of us are help to fulfill God’s creation mandate. Acts 6 offers much better at jobs that fall into the “non-preaching” an incredibly encouraging message about the signif- category. To put it in the language of Acts 6, most of icance of our daily work. But we won’t see it until us are table servers. And most of us have no idea if we learn to see beyond superficial understandings of this work matters to God. what it means to serve tables. So does it? On Labor Day, when I remember those who Consider the apostles’ job description for table serve the Lord 9 to 5, I’ll think of pastors, but also servers. They’re looking for “men of good repute, table servers. That means Stephen. That means store full of the spirit and of wisdom.” Men like Stephen, clerks, CEOs, stay-at-home moms, lawyers, accoun- “full of grace and power.” A man so full of the Holy tants, plumbers, graphic designers, authors, civil Spirit that he saw the heavens opened and Jesus servants, and computer programmers. That means standing at the right hand of God. This is the kind of thousands of other laborers whose contributions to

man the early church had in mind to serve tables. advancing God’s Kingdom are no less real for being krieg Now, the Bible is pretty clear about feeding the less visible. And, chances are, that means you. A barrie hungry and caring for widows. But what does serv- —Brian Brenberg is an economics and business professor ing tables have to do with investment banking? at The King’s College, New York City

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In her two-room clinic in Gundo Meskel, Ethiopia, with cement floors and walls of corr­ugated tin nailed to a >> tree, nurse Kathleen Byrd—or “Kitty” —never lost a mother in childbirth. “Should we send her home to die?” asked the family of the first mother Kitty saved, whose baby had turned sideways in the womb. “Or should she die here?” “She’s not going to die,” said Kitty, and began to turn the baby. As she worked, Kitty felt a commotion around her feet. “They are kissing your feet, Kitty,” her helper said. Eager to keep working, Kitty answered, “Please tell them to stop!” Before Kitty arrived in Gundo Meskel, the local people lost six to eight mothers in childbirth every month. You know when a baby’s already dead in the womb, she says. You can smell it. The trouble was that the Ethiopians didn’t know that if you squeezed the soft spot on the baby’s head you could cause the baby to emerge and save the mother’s life. Kathleen Byrd saved the lives of those mothers when she was in her 60s. Kitty began traveling following the death of her husband who worked in groceries and privately called her “Kitten.” She could have gotten remar- ried, she guesses, but she traveled instead. She’s always been adventurous: As a little girl Kitty tightrope-walked the family

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A blind couple in Since Georgie uses GPS, England is proving a blind user can plan out you don’t need eye- sidewalk routes. “An >> sight to enlist in the ­overhead branch to us is smartphone revolution. dangerous,” Roger says in a Roger and Margaret promo video. “As I walk Wilson-Hinds, both blind along, I get [swiped] on the since childhood and now head, or in the face or the gray-haired, founded in nose.” Roger has marked 2006 a nonprofit called branch locations on his reg- Screenreader.net to help the ular routes using Georgie, blind stay connected to and now his phone alerts family, friends, and news in him when he approaches a fast-paced world. Their one. The app can also tell latest project, which they Roger when to get off a bus, helped design and test, is an or where to find a nearby lists, emails, and websites— at Stanford University cre- Android phone app called restaurant. Should he take a sometimes clumsily. ated an experimental app “Georgie” (named after wrong turn, Georgie has an (Amazon’s Kindle Fire that would allow the blind Margaret’s first guide dog). “Assistance” button that e-reader doesn’t, and to write and take notes in To use Georgie, a person alerts a family member or earned a denunciation last Braille, using a tablet com- with poor or no eyesight caretaker to his location. year from the American puter. Lying flat, the tablet need only run a finger across In the United States, Council of the Blind.) touch screen mimics the the screen: The phone audi- ­federal telecommunications Georgie has the advantage eight keys of a traditional bly speaks button functions law requires mobile phone of pulling together several Braille typewriter, and the or contact list names. The manufacturers to make vision-free functions in one keys automatically arrange user can send a text or pub- devices accessible to the simple-to-use interface. At themselves beneath the lish a blog post simply by more than 11 million blind 149 British pounds (about user’s fingers as soon as she talking. The phone’s camera and visually impaired $230), it’s expensive—and touches the screen. Such an can tell the user what color Americans. Android phones, premium features cost app would almost certainly shirt he’s about to put on, or the iPhone, and iPad have extra. be a money saver: Other it can scan a sign, restau- built-in or downloadable Soon, tablet computers electronic Braille note-­ rant menu, or printed letter screen readers that allow could offer their own advan- taking devices cost $1,000 and read it aloud. the blind to navigate menu tages: Last year researchers to $7,000. k

c Stop order o st i Along with anti-lock brakes and airbags, automatic brakes could be the next standard auto safety feature. Beginning in 2014, the mm l/ o European Union will require new passenger vehicles to have s: t s: e

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GEORGIE: sla GEORGIE: can increase the car price by $2,000 or more. —D.J.D.

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GROWING CONCERNS: China boasts mammoth Refrigerant racket chemical plants including BASF-YPC Co. Factories in China and India fi nd ways Ltd. in Nanjing, Jiangsu to cheat a UN program on greenhouse province, China. gases BY DANIEL JAMES DEVINE money selling credits than they did selling coolant, and even increased coolant production in order to generate—and then eliminate—more HFC- waste gas.  at defeats the purpose of the UN program, because the coolant is also a greenhouse gas that destroys ozone. Parties to the UN are supposed to be phas- ing the coolant out. Instead, the UN’s emission-credit scheme encouraged T U N is tighten- a “super” greenhouse gas generated as a its production, with nearly half of the ing rules on a costly program to byproduct of the coolant manufacturing program’s total credits generated by the reduce greenhouse gases through process. It’s , times more potent same  coolant plants. >> the buying and selling of carbon than carbon dioxide.  e main buyers of the credits are credits. Since , the Clean Critics, including the Environmental plants and factories in developed Development Mechanism has encouraged Investigation Agency and e New York nations that are attempting to meet businesses in less developed countries Times, discovered that factories in greenhouse gas reduction goals set by to sell credits for each metric ton of China and India have earned tens of the Kyoto Protocol. ( e United States is greenhouse gas (such as carbon dioxide millions of dollars from the program. not a ratifi ed member of that treaty.) and methane) they prevent from escap- Worse, they have increased production Next year the EU will ban HFC- ing into the atmosphere.  e companies of greenhouse gas chemicals in order to from its own carbon trading market. that buy the credits can then emit more sell more credits to the West.  e UN is barring new factories from greenhouse gases. By cheaply destroying HFC- and selling waste gas credits, and will

Since more potent greenhouse gases selling credits for doing so, the coolant reduce the amount existing factories BASF-YPC: QILAI SHEN/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES • IUD: MIRENA are worth more credits,  factories factories have made a killing—probably can sell by two-thirds. Even so, the (mostly Chinese and Indian) that make  million to  million a year on Times reported the  coolant factories refrigerator and air-conditioning cool- average, according to one analyst. In could make another  billion in credit ants have focused on destroying HFC-, some cases the factories made more sales over the next eight years.

Abortion with a T According to a new study in Fertility and Sterility, more American women are choosing to use intra- IMAGES uterine devices for contraception. e study found that the proportion of women using IUDs doubled between  and , rising to . percent from about  percent. e small, T-shaped devices, which a doctor inserts into the uterus, use copper or hormones to interfere with sperm and prevent

implantation of a fertilized egg on the uterine wall—qualifying them as abortifacients. —D.J.D. ISMOYO/AFP/GETTY BAY

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for dropping the pounds is now shared throughout the league: “ e game is in to win getting faster.” In the pass-happy NFL, players  at speed stems from new philosophies are trading pounds for speed of off ense.  e old ground-and-pound style of moving the ball three yards at a time has BY MARK BERGIN given way to exotic passing attacks requir- ing speed at every position. Passing has I ,  one player in the NFL increased  yards per game over the past tipped the scales at  pounds or decade. Coaches now ask defensive players more. By ,  players had to drop into pass coverage rather than clog >> reached that threshold, and the race running lanes. Coaches also ask them to was on to fi ll rosters with behemoths. shed the extra pounds. Coaches drooled over -pounders like Many linemen are happy to oblige. fat men in a burger joint.  at demand Doctors have long warned NFL players that produced supply— such heavyweights carrying excessive fat increases the risk of reported for training camp in . diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. A  Just two years later, as teams prepare study from the National Institute for for their season-opening games, the NFL is Occupational Safety and Health found that on a diet. Many of the largest players have former NFL linemen had a  percent shed their former bellies. Arizona higher rate of death from cardiovascular Cardinals defensive end Vonnie Holliday, disease than the general population. Plus, who once maintained a playing weight of what professional athlete wants to look like HOLLIDAY: GENEVIEVE ROSS/AP • JONES: STREETER LECKA/GETTY IMAGES • UCENY: ALEXANDER HASSENSTEIN/GETTY IMAGES • HALL: DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP , now holds steady at . His reason a fat slob?

In the wake of defeat, many athletes fi nd consolation in that old refrain, “ ere’s FOUR-YEAR WAIT always next year.” Not so Olympians, whose four-year wait between golden opportunities can prove physically or emotionally insurmountable. Here’s a look at a few American athletes who fell short in London and may never get another chance.

    Four years ago in Beijing, the - In London in , run- meter hurdler tripped over the ning only the third mara- penultimate hurdle and did not thon of his life, Hall posted medal.  e long road back to the the fastest time ever by a games in London ended bitterly U.S.-born American citizen, when Jones fi nished fourth. A New ::. Five years later, in the York Ti mes article bashing her as   same city and with Olympic all hype made things worse. But She may be the best female middle- glory at stake, Hall pulled out of Jones, , is planning a possible distance runner in the world, but she has the marathon after  miles due third try at the  games in Rio no hardware to prove it. At last year’s to a right hamstring strain. It was de Janeiro: “I didn’t walk away World Championships, Uceny, , tripped a disappointing follow-up to his with the medal or run away over a fallen competitor and fi nished th. th-place fi nish four years ago with the medal, but I One year later in the Olympic fi nal, Uceny in Beijing. Hall’s Olympic short- think there’s lessons to tangled feet with another competitor comings have critics questioning be learned when you win and tripped again.  is time, she didn’t his training practices.  e -year-old left and there’s lessons to fi nish, smacking both palms on the the prestigious Mammoth Track Club and be learned track and sobbing. “It’s been a coach Terence Mahon two years ago, mov- when you lot more diffi cult dealing with ing to Redding, Calif., to join Bethel Church, lose.” the fall at the games a faith-healing ministry. Hall believes his than from worlds last Christian faith and self- awareness preclude year,” she said. his need for a coach. CNBC: CHARLES SYKES/CNBC • ROSENBERG: GLUSKIN SHEFF GLUSKIN ROSENBERG: • SYKES/CNBC CHARLES CNBC:

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O M , , Jim Cramer, host of the CNBC program Mad Money, said this about Wall Street giant Bear >> Stearns: “Bear Stearns is fi ne. Bear Stearns is not in trouble. Don’t be silly. Don’t move your money.” Less than a week later, the -year-old fi rm was essentially gone. JPMorgan Chase announced it would buy the fi rm for a stock swap of  per share, less than  percent of its value on the day Cramer declared it “fi ne” HOLLIDAY: GENEVIEVE ROSS/AP • JONES: STREETER LECKA/GETTY IMAGES • UCENY: ALEXANDER HASSENSTEIN/GETTY IMAGES • HALL: DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP and its nay-sayers “silly.”  e marketplace punished Bear Stearns for its mistakes. Did it do the same to Jim Cramer? A full year later, he went on Jon Stewart’s e Daily Show and admitted he THROWING THE BULL: stimulus will not produce sustained economic had made mistakes, but neither Cramer nor CNBC’s Jim Cramer, David growth. In May the Dow fell , points, giving his show left the air or issued a formal Faber, Melissa Lee, Carl up all of its  gains. Quintanilla (from left) on a p o l o g y. the fl oor of the NYSE. Rosenberg was not surprised. “Over the past Cramer’s fate is typical in the world of two years, the American public’s reliance on market prognosticating, which has become a public funds (housing goodies, expanded welfare, staple of business journalism. Books abound on the subject— food stamps, extended jobless benefi ts, and other subsidies) from ’s Dow , to ’s Super Boom: Why the Dow has surged . percent to  percent,” he told e Wall Street Jones Will Hit , and How You Can Profi t From It. Many Journal. “ is metric usually goes down after recessions of these books predicting economic boom (and, more rarely, end—but not this time. And to put it all in perspective, in bust) are bestsellers and appear as often as quarterly the severe - recession, there was only a  percent earnings reports—and they’re almost always wrong. Why? increase (and then it fell sharply). So you may want to call Brian Solis, president of Wealth Preservation Strategies of the economy ‘resilient,’ but keep in mind that it is still New Jersey, says there’s a bias for optimism in the markets. heavily medicated.” “Most people are hopeful and truly want to see our economy  e American people are resilient, too, and they make fl ourish,” he said, so they make predictions based on hope changes when necessary.  at may be why Cramer and rather than data. “Another major factor for Wall Street CNBC have experienced signifi cant ratings declines analysts and Washington politicians is that their livelihood since his Bear Stearns predictions. CNBC’s often depends on them being positive, hopeful, and relentless corporate cheerleading has also ultimately bullish.” He said expressions such as “now is a spawned competition. Fox Business News debuted great time to buy” and “you’ve got to be in it to win it” in  and is now in  million households. are drilled into stockbrokers and have found their way A revamped Bloomberg News is also into the culture of business journalism. providing competition and taking mar-  at’s why there are so many bulls and so few bears ket share. on Wall Street. One of the few consistent bears has CNBC, in more than  million been Gluskin Sheff ’s David Rosenberg. Even during the households, still leads the ratings race. markets’ October  to April  bull run, when But media analyst Bud Fox, writing for the Dow went up , points, Rosenberg has the website Benzinga.com, said CNBC

CNBC: CHARLES SYKES/CNBC • ROSENBERG: GLUSKIN SHEFF GLUSKIN ROSENBERG: • SYKES/CNBC CHARLES CNBC: remained stubbornly bearish, saying government needs a dose of marketplace reality. A

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Barton told me that he does ­“question with boldness even the not necessarily disagree with ­existence of a god.” Barton argues that Dreisbach. The Jefferson Lies Jefferson was merely instructing his states that by 1813, when Jefferson nephew in Christian “apologetics.” was 70, he had rejected the Barton says his critics are exaggerating ­doctrine of the Trinity. Barton said he The Jefferson Lies’ claims about mainly wants to emphasize that Jefferson’s faith. Barton insists he never Jefferson was no atheist or secularist. called Jefferson a “robust Christian,” That’s not sufficient for Barton critics and says Thomas Nelson editors cut out Warren Throckmorton and Michael sections of the book that might have The controversy over David Coulter, authors of Getting Jefferson answered some objections. Barton’s The Jefferson Lies (see Right, who state that Barton misinter- Barton also offers evidence that “The David Barton Controversy,” prets historical evidence in portraying Jefferson affirmed traditional beliefs prior >> Aug. 25) led Thomas Nelson to Jefferson as consistently orthodox before to age 70. In a 1776 document, Barton stop publishing the book—but Glenn 1813, and leaves out essential points writes, Jefferson “affirmed that Jesus was Beck’s Mercury Ink plans to publish a that would contradict that portrayal. the Savior, the Scriptures were inspired, new edition. For example, in a 1788 letter and that the Apostles’ Creed ‘contain[ed] Beck wrote the foreword to The Jefferson declined to become a child’s all things necessary to salvation.’” Jefferson Lies, and Mercury Ink’s godfather because he thought doing so (According to The Papers of Thomas announced goal is to “publish and would have required him to affirm Jefferson, this statement is in Jefferson’s ­promote books and authors that Glenn ­publicly a belief in the Trinity. Jefferson notes on John Locke’s religious writings.) is passionate about.” Mercury Ink part- wrote that the “difficulty of reconciling Who is right—Barton, or

ners with Simon & Schuster. Publishers the ideas of Unity and Trinity, have, Throckmorton and Coulter? Louisiana Jefferson: Weekly reported that Barton in the new from a very early part of my life,” kept State University professor James Stoner, edition “will rephrase some things to him making such an one of Glenn N

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‘Outside the camp’ July  ank you for this reminder about the Muslim world. e diffi culty with the “Common Word” documents and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s words, “a genuine democracy and stability,” super-villains. But healthy Christian is that for Muslims the rest of us are simply engagement with homosexuals must dhimmis, protected people. Our protection would begin with truth-telling, not caricature. —A N, Durham, N.C. be on their terms and would not last long. I do not believe that Western secular leadership will ever  is was the best synopsis I have read on the state we are in now. Mothers understand this. like me have been trying to hold up —J M, Carrollton, Texas the dike so our children would have a society that was morally “normal” and biblical, but the dike burst. I have very As a scholar of Islamic history, I reject Islam. If our government leaders would deep dread for current and future the Salafi st doctrine of the “uncreated study the foundational documents of generations, but the Lord knows what Quran,” which forbids the use of Islam (including the Quran and is happening and He is faithful. reason to understand its origins. I Hadith), note what they say about —J M, Shoreline, Wash. withdrew my signature from the Muslim attitudes and policies toward “Christian Response to the ‘Common us “infi dels,” and study the history of Sometimes I have Elijah moments Word’” because I am alarmed that the spread of Islam by the sword, we where I feel that so many, even in the infl uential evangelical leaders refuse all would be more secure. church, seem to be blind to how to have a realistic view of Islamism. —K. S, Avondale, Ariz. rebellion against God has infi ltrated  e Muslim Brotherhood seeks to re- every part of our society. But this establish the Caliphate, make the I’m not surprised. Islam demands its column reminded me that God has Quran its constitution, and jihad its adherents convert or conquer the preserved many who have not bowed domestic and foreign policy. But some whole world. Our lack of response to the knee to Baal. Muslims are fi ghting for the reforma- this threat is speeding its fulfi llment, —S H, Longview, Texas tion of Sunni Islam and political free- both from wars outside our borders dom in the Muslim world. We in the and from the spread of Islam within. ‘Heaven and earth’ West must continue to support them.  ank God He is in control. July  Janie B. Cheaney reminded —J R, La Mirada, Calif. —R T, Bettles, Alaska me to lift my eyes up past the hills of earth’s troubles to see the Lord, whence  e photo with the victim’s spilled ‘Path to destruction’ cometh our help. Her faithful words blood was a graphic reminder of the July  In her excellent column rekindled hope for me both about our inherent evil we see in this world.  e Andrée Seu Peterson says, “ ings are world situation and my own health as press in America seldom shows the moving at breakneck speed now,” and I recover from cancer surgery. tremendous evil of innocent slaughter. that pretty much sums it up. So often —R P, Yarmouth Port, Mass.  is is true evil and we must never we hear of some celebrity “coming forget it. out” as a homosexual or some politi- Cheaney quotes the saying that “we —N J, Grand Prairie, Texas cian endorsing homosexual “marriage.” don’t want to be too heavenly-minded —D D, Mechanicsville, Va. for any earthly good, do we?” But as ‘Democracy and dualism’ C.S. Lewis noted, it is only as we are July   ank you for laying out the Borrowing a page from the comic heavenly-minded that we are any plight of persecuted Christians in books, Peterson portrays homosexual earthly good: “If you read history, you Egypt and for warning about radical activists as crafty and malevolent will fi nd that the Christians who did

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18 MAILBAG.indd 72 8/20/12 4:35 PM have misconstrued the remarks of Pastor David Platt, who is also head of our parachurch ministry, Radical. He does not advocate throwing out the “Sinner’s Prayer” but has expressed con- cern over authentic conversion. He also voted in favor of the res- olution that declared the prayer a “biblical expression of faith.” —A S, Radical, Birmingham, Ala.

Books issue July  As a fourth-grade teacher, I encourage my students to read, read, and read during their sum- mers. I try to do the same. How wonderful to see your regular reading recommendations. From them I purchased We the People, Gospel Powered Humility, and  e Intolerance of Tolerance. Also I found your Randy Alcorn recom- mendations to be pure gold. All Henry & Marilynn in all, I have found a delightful Blackaby, Blackaby month of reading. Ministries International —P D, Sacramento, Calif. Mark Harris, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church, Being constantly bombarded Charlotte, NC with bad news, worrisome news, and prospects of a disastrous Don Wilton, Senior future, it’s refreshing to read in Pastor, First Baptist Church, WORLD of the many excellent Spartanburg,SC and good things that are going on in the world. Your articles Kenny Lamm, Music and give hope for the future that, Worship Leader after all, not all is lost. Congregational —R A. F, Westminster, Colo. Services, BSCNC

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18 SEU PETERSON.indd 74 8/17/12 4:24 PM Andrée Seu Peterson God out of the box Be open and ready for the Lord to be marvelous

I A H a Columbia University professor standing behind Woody Allen in a movie queue, >> pontifi cating to his date on the views of Marshall McLuhan, is brought up short when out of the shadows (and Allen’s fantasy) steps the real McLuhan to pronounce the professor full of hogwash. who is present in His Word—that unbridled, brim- When I read my Bible in the morning I have a ming, breathing, uncontainable Presence that is ever choice: I can come as an expert, or I can come as a waiting to be unleashed wherever hearing is mixed child. If I come as an expert, I had better watch out with faith (Hebrews :).  is is not to say we do not that the Author doesn’t step out of the shadows like read the Word with common sense and listen to those McLuhan and put me to shame for thinking I had who have done thorough exegesis—but it means we Him wrapped up and tied with a bow. are open and ready for the Lord to be marvelous. Some PowerPoint academics slice and dice, How should we read the Old Testament? God has quantify, reduce, and put God in His box. But God’s not made any of us His Dean of Homiletics to tell Presence is in His Word and He resists it. He reveals others not to mine it for good examples. Hebrews  Himself not to the Box people but to children tells us to emulate the faith of Noah, Abraham, and (Matthew :) and to those who not only hear but others. Romans : tells us, “Whatever was written keep what He says (Revelation :). in former days was written for our instruction.” First Many WORLD readers aren’t familiar with Corinthians : says the same. Does this under- “grammatical-historical” Bible interpretation, but I mine “preaching Christ from the Old Testament”? was weaned on it: It was new and scientifi c. We Nay, it enhances it. were proud to have found in our day the key to As professor Vern Poythress of Westminster Scripture—objective, rule-based, heresy-resistant—  eological Seminary writes, Christians before the that had eluded centuries of saints. We could stop rise of modern scientifi c skepticism “saw the Old asking of a passage, “What is God saying to me Testament as a book in which God continues to speak here?” and would ask instead the more empirical today,” and we should do the same. He goes on to say: and controllable “What would the word or event in “I wonder whether evangelical scholarship, for the this passage have meant to Adam and Eve in their sake of dialog with the mainstream of scholarship, time?” has absorbed the infl uence of the Enlightenment. In  e verse “Fear not ... for your Maker is your hus- practice do we have a model of objectivistic gram- band” (Isaiah :-) elated an unmarried woman I matical-historical interpretation of human meaning, know. In some circles she would be sat in a chair and a model that is at odds not only with the tradition of made to watch a mind-numbing blackboard demon- the church, not only with the fact of divine author- stration of hermeneutical hoops to jump through. ship, but at odds with God himself …?” She would fi nally come around to tepid permission Besides, we don’t know for sure what Adam and for her joy—but what an ordeal to get there. Eve could have been thinking when God addressed An inmate named Christopher Yuan read words the serpent. How do we know they were incapable, written under the mattress of the top bunk above in their imaginations, of peering down the corridors him: “If you’re bored, read Jeremiah :.” He of time to our redemption? went and read it: “‘For I know the plans I have for So take heart, Christian: “All things are yours” you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for wholeness and ( Corinthians :). Read the Word with confi dence not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.’” He and expectation, for you have “been anointed by BARRIE believed the words—and they became his, by faith. the Holy One” ( John :). Say to the Lord,

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18 SEU PETERSON.indd 75 8/17/12 4:25 PM Marvin Olasky Psychology today What should Christians make of neuroscience?

O B, , did not need a television Later in the century, Erich Fromm, Carl Rogers, to learn about gangsters, pimps, and prostitutes: Abraham Maslow, and Rollo May further developed He only had to look out his window. Growing up humanistic psychology. Fromm studied the Talmud but >> without a dad in poor areas of Milwaukee, moved away from Orthodox Judaism when he was . Memphis, and Houston, with gangs all around him, Rogers, once an altar boy with a Pentecostal mom, prisons or coffi ns were his likely resting places. emerged at  with a degree in doubt. May graduated But he had two things going for him: a belief in a big from Union eological Seminary. Paul Vitz’s Psychology God and a coach who believed in a big player. Bishop as Religion: e Cult of Self-Worship () critiqued grew up going to church and kept growing, hitting  those theorists and the way their beliefs functioned as feet  inches and  pounds by his senior year in high alternative religions. school. He became an off ensive tackle on e University But by the mid-s a new ideological sheriff had of Texas Longhorns and had brief stints with the come to town: neuroscience. e Society for Neuroscience Oakland Raiders and the Atlanta Falcons, until a broken jumped from , members in  to , in , leg cut short his career. the year Tom Wolfe published an essay that would Now he has an NFL alumni plaque at his offi ce in a become famous, “Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died.” e idea suite of the Austin-based NeuroSensory Centers of he reported was the essence of materialism: e thoughts America, where he is doing research that will be the that concerned Christians as well as Freudians were basis of his Ph.D. dissertation. Here he faces a diff erent merely the product of brainwaves that could be phar- kind of challenge: How to integrate his strong Christian maceutically adjusted. e brain is a piece of machinery, beliefs and his sharp scientifi c inclinations. and neurosensory experts have the reset button. Bishop introduced me to Kendal Stewart, chairman e battle of various theories may seem … well, theo- and chief medical offi cer of the company. Stewart has retical, but they become concrete when it comes to been looking at neuro-immune disorders that include helping depressed individuals. Depression over the migraines, anxiety, depression, ADD, and post-concussion centuries has often led to spiritual breakthrough, as God syndrome. He believes that methyl folate, dopamine, turns our wondering about what’s wrong into a search and other chemical defi ciencies are major culprits. for what’s right. One example: Martin Luther, depressed Other researchers have diff erent explanations, but about issues of salvation, broke through to an Stewart provides evidence that if we get the right understanding of how the just shall live by faith. pharmaceutical combination, we can go far. One question: What if a pharmaceutical adjust- Stewart’s theories are one indication of how ment provides the temporary fi x so that the psychology has changed over the years. In the individual doesn’t get the benefi ts of th century Jonathan Edwards preached depression? about anxious adults rightfully depressed And yet, what if some people are so sunk about their sin. In the th century Dwight into clinical depression—so closed in on Moody evangelized depressed adults who themselves—that they are unable to needed a spiritual boost. In the th think. is doesn’t mean God can’t century Sigmund Freud and his pupil break through—He always can— Carl Jung emphasized the need to but what if neuroscience can help confront the negative thoughts bring a prone person to a place embedded in us early on. where he can sit up? As Jung put it, “It is not by looking Octavious Bishop has to sort in the light that we become luminous, all this out. It’s a hard task, but by plunging into the darkness.” with pressures on the one Freud asked patients to look into the hand to be unnecessarily darkest reaches of their childhoods and separationist, and on the discern why they felt guilt or shame. other hand to accommodate

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