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42 To train up a Pharisee Michael and Debi Pearl’s method of discipline has many advocates, but critics say it lacks the gospel 46 Management mania Christian youth organization struggles to survive fi nancial turmoil 5 News 50 Life (and death) at 16 Quotables South By Southwest 18 Quick Takes Tragedy at fast-growing festival provokes public soul-searching and questions for other American mega- festivals. Are some becoming victims of their success? 23 Movies & TV 26 Books 54 Rebels from the right 28 Q&A A small group of tea party upstarts is taking on establishment—and 30 Music very well-funded—Senate Republicans in primaries this summer 23 : 59 Lifestyle 61 Technology 62 Science 63 Houses of God 50 64 Sports 65 Religion
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CREDIT Joel Belz Silent submission Why are so many Christians so scared of the doctrine of creation?
I as there are massive throwbacks to simplistic thinking. I can never forget mudslides in Washington, earthquakes in Chile, the encounter I had some time back with a woman and droughts in the Central Valley of California, next ahead of me in line at the bank. We were >> we’re all consigned to keep paying attention to watching a cat just outside the window, crouched yet another mini-disaster: e incessant chatter of beneath a bush and eyeing a bird above her as only a newscasters who used to blame all this on Mother feline can. “I have two cats,” the woman told me. “But Nature, and now are bold instead to hold climate I don’t let them play with birds. Mice, voles, shrews— change responsible. For serious Christians, though, OK. ey can gobble them up to their hearts’ content. such references should remind us of the unusual But no birds. Can you believe some people get a thrill opportunities such events give us for saying straight- out of watching a cat catch and eat a bird?” forwardly that the doctrine of creation matters. Well, no, I can’t—unless maybe it’s a lion in Kenya e problem is, as I’ve argued here before, that so on the prowl for a buzzard. But I was puzzled then, few Christians really believe that anymore. ey and have been ever since, at the woman’s double can’t any longer say the word “creation” with con- standard. “Do you suppose,” I asked her, “that God viction or gumption. For a generation or more now, built that into His creation—that He planned that we evangelicals have increasingly swallowed the line would put a higher value on canaries than we do on that what we believe about origins isn’t all that dif- mice? Or is that something we came up with on our ferent from what everyone else believes—except that own?” e woman responded with a disdainfully we’re careful faithfully but lamely to add that God blank stare, and turned ever so deliberately to end controls the process. Leading evangelical colleges the conversation. I had, of course, broken a profound social taboo. I had allowed religion to contaminate a conversation that had been focused on secular issues. at’s why so many folks get so annoyed when the ques- tion is raised about the possibility that the Creator of the universe also occasionally rattles parts of that universe a bit—as he did in northern Chile last month. “Leave God out of this,” they insist. e big problem now, though, isn’t that those “bad” people out there—the academ- ics, the scientists, the big media people, and the people who run national parks and museums—leave God out of the discussion. e big problem more and more is that those of us who profess to be believers have quietly but effi ciently persuade thousands of students to such a large extent joined them in their silence. So that theistic evolution is a more sophisticated and theoretically, we are still creationists. But practically less embarrassing explanation of origins than what speaking, we don’t let our allegiance to that great we learned as beginners in Sunday school. ose truth aff ect us much in everyday life. We’ve become who hold to any form of fi at creation are regularly scared to talk out loud, at least in public company. made to feel as if they should also be speaking With His magnifi cent creation, and with the Elizabethan English. exercise of His incredible providence in that cre- But these days it’s become even more diffi cult ation, God gives us countless opportunities to wit- than that. Now even those who speak in tones of ness to His greatness. Even when we’re reluctant to theistic evolution, or others who are so restrained bring up the subject, He does! Shame on us all for THOMPSON/AP that they publicly commit to nothing more specifi c not taking the hint and using it more often as a
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Friday, April Religious freedom Canada’s fi rst Christian law school gained accreditation despite intense criticism from gay rights groups and some members of the legal community. e L a w Society of British Columbia voted over- whelmingly to approve accredita- tion for the new law school at Trinity Western University (TWU) in Langley, British Columbia. Opponents argued TWU’s requirement that students abstain from Thursday, April sex outside of heterosexual marriage discriminates against homosexuals, and that the school couldn’t teach the Sebelius resigns law objectively. No one has ever lev- eled a discrimination claim against Six months after Kathleen Sebelius presided over one of the most disastrous rollouts the -year-old university. of a government program in modern history, the secretary of Health and Human Services resigned her post. President Obama tapped Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the OBAMACARE: SUSAN WALSH/AP • LERNER: J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP • TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY: HANDOUT • JAYCE M: HANDOUT current director of the Offi ce of Management and Budget, to replace Sebelius and Senate transplant take over management of Obamacare. Former Massachusetts Sen. Scott But Republicans said Sebelius’ resignation won’t solve the problems of the Brown announced he would run for massive healthcare program. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., warned that “even the U.S. Senate again— though Secretary Sebelius will be gone, every promise the president made about this time in New Obamacare—if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor; health care costs will Hampshire. Brown, a be lowered; and if you like your health plan you can keep it—will remain broken.” Republican, won a special election in Massachusetts in Lerner’s lessons , but lost his seat A House committee voted to hold in contempt former to Democrat Elizabeth IRS offi cial Lois Lerner for refusing to testify about the Warren two years later. Brown moved extra scrutiny the IRS gave conservative groups apply- to New Hampshire in December, and ing for tax-exempt status. In earlier congressional joins other politicians who have moved hearings, Lerner had invoked the Fifth Amendment to another state to run for Senate, to protect against self-incrimination, but not before including Hillary Clinton. At least one declaring her innocence in a written state- statistic could bode well for Brown: At ment. Some House members said when least two-thirds of New Hampshire Lerner claimed innocence, she waived adults were born in another state. her constitutional right not to testify.
Filed A transgendered student at a Christian university in Oregon has fi led a complaint against the institution over a housing dispute. e student, named Jayce M. in legal documents, entered George Fox University as a female but then began the process of changing her identity—both physically and legally. George Fox has single- sex housing and proposed Jayce live alone on campus next year, but she wants to live in male housing. Jayce’s attorney told WORLD his client is a Christian and does not see a gender change as incompatible with the Bible.
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What happens when an elementary school less than minutes from Billy Joel’s Long Island home decides to put on a music show featuring The Transportation Security Administration covers of the Piano Man? Of course, he showed may be relaxing some rules, but agents still look up. Joel made a surprise appearance at down upon bringing unexploded ordinance on Deasy Elementary School’s Billy board commercial jets. Baggage screeners at Joel–themed spring concert. Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Offi cials at the school had issued confi scated World War I–era artillery shells invitations to the recording star from a pair of teenagers who were returning but assumed he would skip the from a school trip to Europe on April . e teens event. But when he was spotted told authorities they scavenged the shells dur- in the crowd on April , Deasy ing a fi eld trip to a French artillery range. e dis- Principal Nomi Rosen off ered covery prompted a call to TSA bomb-disposal Joel a spot in the front. Not experts and stalled the students as they tried to wanting to disturb the students— connect on to Seattle. After investigating, the or the music teacher directing the bomb- disposal crew determined the inert performance—Joel opted to watch -inch shells posed no threat, and the students from the back of the room.
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Sometimes the name fi ts the crime. According to police, Cameo Adawn Crispi, , deliberately left a pound of bacon on the wood-fueled stove on March in an attempt to burn down her ex-boyfriend’s Naples, Utah, home. Offi cers responding to emergency calls managed to extinguish the fi re and arrested Crispi. Police say they suspect alcohol may have been involved, considering Crispi was found with a blood-alcohol level of . percent. STOCK i More than years after dining and dashing from Salt Lake City’s Lamb’s Grill, an anonymous man paid his bill. Server Jasmine Back was on duty to witness the In the world of competitive lawn mower racing, reconciliation on April : “ is woman walks in the front door, and she looks like Honda has proved itself a cut above. In March, she’s on a mission,” said Back. And indeed she was. e elderly man’s daughter a ,cc performance lawn mower dubbed by then explained that back in —at the age of — Honda as “ e Mean Mower” raced into the her father skipped his bill when he realized he record books with an all-time best speed of didn’t have enough to pay. e woman then gave . mph. Piers Ward of the BBC program the server to cover the -year-old check. TopGear set the Guinness World Record mark Grill owner Francis Liong said he plans to track at a specialty course in Tarragona, Spain. But down the family that owned the restaurant at the don’t expect Mean Mower clones to fi nd their time to pay back the debt to the correct people. way to home improvement retailers: In order fi t all the equipment on the speedy mower, builders cannibalized the mulching bin to fi t the rig’s enlarged gas tank and radiator. A Maine man must have thought he had just become a made man. On April , a South Portland ATM machine began spewing cash after the man, unidentifi ed by police, tried to make a withdrawal. A woman waiting in line reported the incident to police who arrived to fi nd the man stuffi ng wads of cash into a shopping bag. Unpersuaded by a “fi nders keepers” argument, police forced the man to return all the cash—about , in total—to the bank. Offi cials at the TD Bank branch say
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About halfway through the new >> documentary, The Unknown Known, culled from 30-plus hours of interview material with Donald Rumsfeld, director Errol Morris asks the former secretary of defense about his first impression of Saddam Hussein. Rumsfeld appears to ponder the question for a moment then comments, “He was living his image of most younger, millennial viewers that even with a deck as outsized as 33 himself, which was pretend.” previously would have imagined of a hours of interview material culled The camera then lingers for several man who’s been painted as one of down to 140 minutes working against long, awkward moments on Rumsfeld’s recent history’s greatest villains. For him, he’d be able to defend the ratio- face, apparently inviting the viewer to example, Rumsfeld’s staff had termed nale behind the Iraq War, even if some consider that the same may apply to the the voluminous memos for which he of that rationale eventually proved film’s subject. Yet, with the exception of was notorious “snowflakes.” In a sly incorrect. some seriously indicting film editing, wink to this, he titled his last “The In this, Rumsfeld’s bet largely pays nothing Rumsfeld has said invites the Blizzard Is Over.” Morris’ documentary off, particularly when he expresses his comparison. The irony is totally in even had uber-leftwing TV host Bill sincere regret and sense of failure for Morris’ mind, and a similar disconnect Maher defending the man, informing a the abuses that took place in Abu between content and intent character- crestfallen Morris that the documentary Ghraib. If anything, Morris’ lens linger- izes the entirety of his film. left Maher with a sense of Rumsfeld’s ing on the notorious photos of nude Morris achieved filmmaking fame humility and nuance, a sense of a man prisoners comes off a bit petty in light of (and an Academy Award) with the who “thinks about things.” the great questions and responsibilities 2003 documentary The Fog of War, in Perhaps that’s why Rumsfeld made Rumsfeld had to grapple with during which he managed to get Vietnam-era the seemingly inexplicable decision to his time in the Bush administration. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara participate in the unapologetically lib- The title of the film comes from to confess that some of his actions may eral Morris’ documentary. He believed Rumsfeld’s explanation of a 2004 have constituted war crimes. memo where he detailed the central Throughout The Unknown Known, challenges of intelligence gathering, Morris seems to think he has some- namely that, along with what we know thing similar on Rumsfeld—some Box Office Top 10 and what we do not know, there are damning admission or unintentionally For the weekend of March 28-30 also “unknown knowns”—things that according to Box Office Mojo revealing comment—that he doesn’t. we know that we don’t yet realize we cautions: Quantity of sexual (S), violent He asks questions that, to a conservative (V), and foul-language (L) content on a 0-10 know. When Morris informs him that in point of view at least, seem at best scale, with 10 high, from kids-in-mind.com the actual memo he defined the term as naive, at worst childlike (i.e., what if S V L things we think we know that later Saddam Hussein had been killed in a ` 1 Captain America: The turn out to be wrong, Rumsfeld looks missile strike? Could the Iraq War have Winter Soldier* PG-13...... 1 6 3 surprised, but not particularly flus- been avoided?). He then seems frus- ` 2 Rio 2 g...... 1 3 1 tered. “Is that what it says?” he asks. trated as Rumsfeld proceeds to dis- ` 3 Oculus r...... 3 7 5 “Well, I think that memo is reversed. I mantle the premise of his questions or ` 4 Draft Day* PG-13...... 3 2 5 think it’s closer to what I’ve said here.” Su `5 Noah* PG-13...... 3 6 1 mm treats them with the lack of seriousness Then he smiles the same relaxed, com- 6 it they deserve. ` Divergent PG-13...... 2 6 3 fortable-in-his-own-skin smile he’s
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9 MOVIES & TV.indd 25 4/16/14 10:09 AM Reviews > Books
Christianity was not hostile to science, and European nations did not profi t from Treadmill non-apology colonialism. Authors debunk myths and fi nd hope amid hard things Francis Spuff ord’s Unapologetic (HarperOne, ) shows a British writer’s BY MARVIN OLASKY recognition that belief in Christ makes the greatest emotional sense not for the B Rodney Stark’s “young, buff , and available” but for the e Triumph of Christianity was aging woman with a demented husband, or WORLD’s book of the year. His the boy in the wheelchair with “spasming >> latest, How the West Won: e corkscrew limbs,” or the drug-addicted Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity woman with “a rat’s nest of dreadlocks” (ISI, ), is equally worth reading for all who will soon be losing her child. the myths Stark busts. He consistently Spuff ord sees Christianity as the religion shows how decentralization and competi- that acknowledges the hard things and tion, rather than government domination, fi nds grounds for hope in spite of them. He form the base for progress. acknowledges that coming to Christ is not Stark was a journalist before entering primarily an intellectual assent to proposi- the academic world, and his clear writing tions but a matter of feelings: “I assent to shows it. He skewers classicists who mourn the ideas because I have the feelings; I don’t ancient Rome’s downfall, and calls the fall have the feelings because I’ve assented to of Rome “the most benefi cial event in the the ideas.” rise of Western civilization, precisely Spuff ord also stresses, as did Walker because it unleashed so many substantial Percy, the way we often distract ourselves and progressive changes. … Disunity enabled with stuff , until at a certain point “you’re extensive, small-scale social experimentation lying in the bath and you noticed that and unleashed creative competition among you’re and the way you’re living bears hundreds of independent political units.” scarcely any resemblance to what you think In a chapter entitled “ e blessings of you’ve always wanted; yet you got here by disunity,” Stark goes on to show that the choice, by a long series of choices for things Dark Ages weren’t dark, the Vikings and the which, at any one moment, temporarily Crusades have gotten a bad rap, the medi- outbid the things you say you wanted eval church fought slavery, the Middle Ages m o s t.” witnessed global warming and then global e churches he looks for are those that cooling, and the Black Death contributed to tell the truth, “the authentic bad news the end of serfdom. about myself, [but] in a perspective which And more debunking: Native Americans is so diff erent from the tight focus of my did not have a reverence for the earth, desperation that it is good news in itself; I the European settlement of the Americas have been shown that though I may see was not a brutal act of genocide, Spain myself in the grim optics of sorrow and following the Age of Exploration never self-dislike, I am being seen all the while, if declined because it never truly rose, Islam I can bring myself to believe it, with a never had a golden age and was not tolerant, generosity wider than oceans.” Amen.
Evangelism exploded Chip Anderson’s Wasted Evangelism (Wipf & Stock, ) is a sharp retort based on the Gospel of Mark to those who think faith with anti-poverty work is dead. Anderson’s exegesis of Mark :- opposes the standard understanding that sees the poor widow as providing a
model of sacrifi cial giving: He sees disapproval of the widow’s donation to temple leaders who are taking advantage of STOCKSNAPPER/ISTOCK her. Anderson also exegetes the words “fi sher of men” from the standpoint of those hooked. Are police offi cers one of the less-evangelized people groups in America? With life-or-death decisions to make, they certainly form one of the neediest. Jim McNeff ’s e Spirit Behind Badge ( omas Nelson, ) is a readable
memoir by a discerning man who served years with an Orange County, Calif., police department and worshipped at EDMONSON
Saddleback Church. —M.O. LUKE
WORLD • MAY 3, 2014 Email: [email protected]
9 BOOKS.indd 26 4/16/14 9:05 AM NOTABLE BOOKS Four recent nonfi ction books > reviewed by
e Measure of Success Carolyn McCulley with Nora Shank One basic message of this wise book for women: You don’t know what direction your life will take, so you should prepare yourself for work, both at home and in the marketplace. Another basic message: Since women’s lives have diff erent seasons, they require wisdom in making priorities. e authors apply Scripture to issues of work and productivity, especially as they relate to women. ey also provide a good basic history of work, family, and the feminist movement, showing how a woman’s work fun- damentally changed as the country shifted from an agricultural to industrial economy. is book will help women at all stages of life thithinknk through their roles and avoid common temptations. SPOTLIGHT
Adoniram Judson: Devoted for Life Vance Christie Vance Christie ably tells the story of th-century missionary to Parents of prodigals often isolate Burma Adoniram Judson. He begins with Judson’s father, a pastor themselves, believing they are the with great ambitions for his gifted son. That ambition almost only ones to have failed so misera- shipwrecked the son, who developed an intellectual pride that bly at raising their children. Elisa squelched his faith. When Judson committed himself to the Lord, Morgan, former CEO though, he gave everything he had. Christie’s account incorporates of MOPS letters and journals that help tell the story of Judson’s perseverance International, tells through trouble of every kind, including the death of his fi rst wife her story in e and the loss of many children both before and after birth. He preached, Beauty of Broken established churches, translated Scripture, and developed a (W Publishing Burmese dictionary still in use. Group, ), shar- ing how she learned e Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success to trust God during by Megan McArdle her family’s troubled In the United States, a failed startup can be a positive thing to have on times. In Prayers a resumé. In Europe, it would be the worst thing. e reason for the dif- and Promises for Worried Parents ference has to do with the way the two cultures look at failure. In this (Howard, ), Robert J. Morgan well-written book, economics journalist McArdle weaves illustrations (no relation) shares prayers drawn from her own life with social science research to argue that we learn from the Bible and hopeful stories. a great deal from failure and should value policies that make failure He encourages parents to be faith- painful, but not so painful that we avoid it at all costs. When we ful in praying for their children, and make the cost of failure too high—in education or bankruptcy, for off ers a wide variety of quotes, instance—we stifle creativity and risk-taking.risk-taking. Whether analyzing Bible passages, and prayers to medical failures, the housing bubble, or unemployment, McArdle brings guide them. clear writing and a contrarian attitude to the table. The brightest American college students often go into law, 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary finance, or consulting. Andrew Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany Steven Pressman Yang, founder of Venture for In an affl uent Philadelphia lawyer and his wife upended their lives America, a fellowship program to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis. Although established that places students in startups Jewish organizations were working to save Jews, their eff orts often for two years, thinks that’s a got bogged down in bureaucracy. An upstart group led by Gil Kraus problem. In Smart People Should overcame obstacles—infi ghting between organizations, cautious Build Things (HarperBusiness, diplomats, and anti-Semitism. Working from Eleanor Kraus’ journal, ), Yang explains why
STOCKSNAPPER/ISTOCK Pressman recounts how the Krauses found American sponsors for the students often choose the well- children and bulldogged their way through opposition. ey traveled trodden path to riches rather than to Germany and occupied Austria to persuade the Nazis to let the starting their own companies. He children go. Although some children were later reunited with parents includes his own story and many
EDMONSON who successfully escaped, they left loved ones with no certainty others to show the rewards of
LUKE they’d ever see them again. entrepreneurship. —S.O.
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9 BOOKS.indd 27 4/10/14 9:21 AM Reviews > Q&A Religious freedom fighter
TINA RAMIREZ and her group document of children, hatred of others— them in principles for religious all have their base in religious freedom. violence against religious minorities oppression. You still have a long way and teach victims about their rights Religious persecution to go. We’ve been working on By Marvin Olasky may seem to students theo- Sudan for so many decades. retical, high up on the ladder This is the one glimmer of hope of abstraction: Tell us about that I’ve seen there in so long. Tina Ramirez is the I want everybody to be free to some accomplishments of You work alongside president and founder come to know the truth about Hardwired at ground level. women’s and gay rights of Hardwired, Inc., a God. In the past year I’m most groups that often don’t work >> Virginia-based nonprofit Sex trafficking is a hot proud of what we’ve been able with Christians. Has that organization dedicated to topic among college to do in Sudan. We trained 17 been productive? In Sudan advancing religious freedom in students these days, but Christians who lead churches we’ve worked with Muslims law and policy. She shows religious persecution is not. and Bible colleges—many and activists from across the leaders and lawyers in other The Barna Group did a study people don’t even know that board who recognize that all of countries how to defend reli- that showed the youngest there are Christians left in their rights are tied into each gious freedom, and also works generation of adults is the Khartoum, but there are—in other’s. Muslims who came to Gre our conference hadn’t realized for the release of imprisoned least interested in religious how to draft a law to protect g victims. freedom issues of any genera- religious freedom, not just for how Christians suffered as a Schneider/Gene Why did you call your tion, yet religious oppression them, but for everybody in result of their faith in organization “Hardwired”? internationally and even in the Sudan. They drafted it and Khartoum. The Christian men I believe everybody is hard- United States is growing. Many brought a whole group of didn’t realize that Christian s i s
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9 Q&A.indd 28 4/10/14 9:25 AM choose, but they have the right one can take it away from you. role of God and the state in the to choose. I don’t believe in I tell them where the dignity lives of individuals. forcing Christ upon people. He comes from, that God imprinted Is there any understand- wants people to know Him, and it on them and created them. If ing that religious freedom if they reject Him, then they’ve they choose to believe some- is the first freedom and chosen their own future. thing else, that’s fine, but underlies other freedoms? What have you done in that’s what we tell them. I don’t think other countries India? We are training groups As Christians, we know see it that way at all. In Sudan where there has been signifi- that everyone is created we worked with some human cant persecution against after God’s image, but when rights advocates but their Christian, Muslim, and Sikh you talk to people from training was limited, so when communities, and bringing other worldviews, on what we broke down just what reli- them together in coalitions to basis do you make that gious freedom is, they recog- document the violence. A lot argument? I talk to them nized how religious freedom of the violence there hasn’t about the universal declara- intersects with freedom of been documented, so there tion of human rights, and expression, freedom of the hasn’t been a public aware- explain that their government press, freedom of assembly, ness of the pattern of violence has signed on to agreements freedom of political participa- and impunity for which the stipulating human rights, and tion, all of these other rights government then can hold we help them understand that they hadn’t really thought people accountable. what their national laws say. about. How horrific is the vio- Let’s talk Turkey. What’s If a college student read- lence there? One Hindu going on there? You ng pe o- ing this thinks, “When I’m leader called all of his students ple fear it’s becoming too in my 30s, I want to fight and followers to go out and to attack different villages. Thousands followed him in ‘ In Sudan … we broke down just mobs, village by village. Local supporters would point out what religious freedom is … how the church, and they’d attack government teaches in its the church first. Then they religious freedom intersects with textbooks how to kill Jews and would go home-to-home to freedom of expression, freedom Christians. It also teaches you each of the Christians and to throw homosexuals off the would attack and burn the of the press, freedom of assembly, cliff, but they’re human beings homes. One man that I inter- freedom of political participation, and shouldn’t be treated in viewed there … his paralyzed that way, so we would stand in brother was burnt alive in his all of these other rights that they their defense in saying they home, because he couldn’t get shouldn’t be oppressed in that out, and the man had to watch hadn’t really thought about.’ way. They have the right to it from the fields with his family come to know the truth just as as he was trying to escape. every human being does. Without documenting the Islamist. Another issue is religious oppression,” what You’re out-front with violence and giving Christian whether the Kurds will be rec- should that person be doing your Christian beliefs. Do and other minority communi- ognized as a domestic minority now? You need to qualify some Christians think you ties a way to defend their in Turkey. Hardwired is opening yourself to do that. So study— should only be defending rights and to get out of the up a dialogue, and training politics, international law, other Christians? I believe poverty, they will only con- lawyers and advocates and human rights, those arenas— Gre religious communities to and be able to offer a strong g God made all of us to come to tinue to be marginalized and Schneider/Gene know Him, and without the oppressed. engage in that dialogue. We defense of your faith, knowing freedom to come to know Him So you document the say you don’t have to become what you believe and why. On or to worship Him, how do violence, but how do you all secular or all Islamist. the professional side, do Muslims come to know Him help them to defend their Religion can flourish in a free internships and give yourself s i s
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to shipping Him in freedom? They have dignity that’s ingrained in it. It’s all a matter of how the to the world. That’s really s might not choose what we you as a human being, and no state and the people see the important. A
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feel the pressure to prove
that the education they offer
is worth the heavy costs
by Sophia Lee and Angela Lu in California, Texas, Louisiana, and Missouri
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right studio lights line the walls of a room in California as four professional cameramen zoom in for close-ups and “confession cam” interviews, a staple of reality TV. But this is not a Hollywood studio: It’s a class at Biola, the Christian university once called the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, and the scene is part of Biola’s attempt to improve its online courses by making them more than talking head videos. ¶ Biola is one of many Christian colleges trying to get ahead of the curve as many graduates this May joyfully toss their caps in the air and joylessly ask, “Was Bmy education worth the staggering debt I now face?”
Meanwhile, many schools— onsider a graduate just 12 $1,560 per enrolled student, according especially small ones—are simmering years ago: Jodey Hinze, an to a survey of 84 CCCU schools. in a cauldron of internal issues: heavy energetic, self-described Biola University President Barry dependence on tuition even as enroll- germophobic tax lawyer who Corey said Christian higher education ment shortfalls, puny endowments, C graduated from a Christian leaders are “naive” if they don’t con- money-sucking programs, and facul- private college in 2002 with a master’s sider the financial threats against their ties sometimes torn between biblical degree. He was a first-generation college “deeply held convictions.” Some belief and the lure of joining the student who paid his way by scrubbing schools with many Christian students, liberal mainstream. toilets at $4.35 per hour. Now, Hinze is such as Hillsdale College and Grove Matthew In 2001 Bob Andringa, then interim dean of Houston Baptist City College, have long opted out of president of the Council for Christian University’s school of liberal arts. government funding and thrived. But
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Colleges and Universities (CCCU), Hinze would have to scrub even for smaller schools already struggling rsity made a dire prediction for Christian more toilets today, as the four-year cost financially, cuts could be fatal. ison/Messiah unive higher education: “In 25 years, we’re of attending a CCCU school has jumped Burton Webb, vice president of iola
going to lose 25 percent of our to $100,000. One reason is that many academic affairs at Northwest Nazarene b of schools. Fifty percent will be just colleges compete for students by adver- University, noted that Christian schools College hanging, and 25 percent will be tising shinier amenities, as Messiah are narrowing their socioeconomic ourtesy
thriving.” Andringa, after visiting College provost Randall Basinger noted: diversity. Christian higher education c almost all of the then-105 members Many students expect air-conditioned of the CCCU, noted deferred mainte- dorms and a 24/7 state-of-the-art fit- nance, outdated facilities, large debts ness center, so schools provide that and feeding larger debts, programs then some, with Jacuzzis and suite- “dying on the vine,” and a general style apartments boasting big plasma lack of innovation. TVs. “Twenty, thirty years ago, it’s Thirteen years later, Andringa’s something we never even would have prophesy seems to be coming true. A thought of, but we need to think of it 2012 study by Bain & Co. consultants now,” Basinger said. “The sad thing is examining the financial sustainability that we’re cutting our own throats by of U.S. colleges and universities found being in competition with each other.” that 36 percent of CCCU schools are In addition, federal regulations are sustainable, 32 percent are at risk, tightening around Title IV federal fund- and 32 percent are unsustainable. So ing, which includes Stafford student we visited Christian schools in several loans, Pell grants, and family loans. As states and spoke with education lead- the government redefines what falls ers in others, asking: What’s the under “religious institutions,” aspects future of Christian higher education? that make these schools unique—such as Will the values it offers help prospec- hiring only Christian faculty or defend- tive students and parents to overcome ing a biblical view of marriage—could sticker price shock? cost the schools an average of about
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9 COVER STORY.indd 36 4/15/14 4:48 PM now faces a tough question: Does appealing to the wealthier go against the Christian mission of serving the underprivileged and needy?
ollege of the Ozarks addresses Webb’s concern with its mission to provide free Christian education to C students who couldn’t oth- erwise afford it. All students work 15 hours each week for their education, as well as two 40-hour weeks during breaks. The result: debt-free graduates leaving the school (near Branson, Mo.) with a diploma and a full resumé. The school’s no-nonsense approach has helped it survive tough times. College of the Ozarks boasts an endowment of $410 million, the larg- est of any CCCU school and a heavy purse for a school with only 1,400 students. Donors love giving to a school where students unclog toilets M a tthew and grind wheat, and they’re assured that their money won’t be spent
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9 COVER STORY.indd 37 4/15/14 4:48 PM building project until it has sufficient Still, Aaron Kleist, Biola’s assistant It’s a win-win situation: Academy money to fund it completely. provost for academic innovation, is students pay a discounted tuition rate As attractive as the “work college” working to improve Biola’s online of $800-$1,000 per year to earn up to model may seem, President Jerry Davis courses, and the effort to produce high 60 college credits, thus reducing future says it’s difficult for existing Christian quality videos is part of that effort. To college costs. The best students are schools to replicate it, short of starting build community within online granted automatic admission to HBU’s anew. For one, work colleges require a cohorts, students film video responses Honors College. Meanwhile, HBU gets lot of money to run because they get no rather than merely type comments in to train and cherry-pick the brightest revenue from tuition. But the other discussion threads, and video-chat high-school seniors without having to issue, Davis says, is “you’ve got some of their professors. Kleist said student spend additional money on student these colleges full of kids so lazy, they participation jumped fivefold. recruitment or facilities. Some schools aim to Director Cate MacDonald said The curtail tuition early on Academy prepares future freshmen for by providing discounted a rigorous college course both academ- ically and spiritually. One Academy student said he was once terrified after MATTER OF DEGREE: hearing so many tales about young Students at Houston Christians who lost their faith in col- Baptist University (left), and College of the lege. But after a year at The Academy, in Ozarks (below). which he got to ask and debate hard
can hardly get them up in the morning, let alone go out there and milk cows.” While College of the Ozarks gets students elbow-deep in old-school chores, schools like Indiana Wesleyan University and Biola are beefing up their enrollment through cheaper online courses. Indiana Wesleyan’s stu- dent population went from 2,000 in 1987 to almost 16,000 today—12,000 of them online students. Online education allows students to study at home, work day jobs, and save on housing. But will such cost-cutting also cut out the dis- cipleship that’s so central to Christian s HBU: Mic
higher education? dual-enrollment programs, so that questions his church couldn’t answer, age m
Yes, according to surveys showing high-school students can get a jump he felt “equipped” to face college. y i tt h that online students feel disconnected start on college credits. Houston Baptist MacDonald, who was homeschooled ael T y/ge
and drop out at higher rates. Biola University’s The Academy, a new dual- until college at Biola University, said i m rar s/ b i hbu
University theology professor Erik credit program for middle- and high- kids entering college with big questions L re re Thoennes argues that such disengage- school students, partners with local “should get much better answers than • C tu of ment is a “theological reality,” because private schools and homeschooling they get. I think philosophy and ic O : ini P h t
“when God wanted to relate to us, He communities to provide a Socratic- English professors have way too easy a and gos
didn’t set up a video chat but actually style classical curriculum taught by job knocking students off their o A ut e D came in flesh.” HBU faculty. pedestal.”
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officials Azusa that RNS told Ackley ment, theologically means that what of definition 120 members. its within widely varies Some problem theological “a have to seem didn’t with “concern parents, under- not problems have will university, standing minorities,” “sexual on this year talks where to a doctrine sign to professors require don’t statement—and who situations questions transgendered Bel when colleges in University Pacific Azusa at cases ous Southern publicly he after Department, Studies announced a year—no for atheism on” “try to planned praying, atheist Church Adventist Hollywood God.” no was pastor as senior his position of Bell stripped last APU. at fall term the taught he but riage, the after Clements, Heather 15 years, of sor former Adam H. call her others that requested a transition been has “This year Ackley. a being to ill woman a mentally being from told Ackley man,” transgendered sane, Religion demic
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HBU: Michael Tims/hbu • C of O: handout Wallace reiterated the school’s official challenges: Former stance that “humans were created as Azusa Pacific University professor Ackley (top); gendered beings” and “heterosexuality Louisiana College (bottom). is God’s design for sexually intimate relationships.” Ashley Duckgeischel, who was both Reynolds, William Lane an undergraduate and a graduate stu- Craig, Nancy Pearcey, dent at APU, said at first the different and Lee Strobel. views of her professors—including one The future of Christian who attacked her belief in Bible iner- higher education is hazy. rancy—surprised her. She considered The economic challenges transferring, but the longer she stayed, are immense, and main- the more she found students with taining or building a genuine faith and professors helpful in strong Christian identity her academic and spiritual growth: “If is difficult. But in HBU’s you want to find awesome Christians, case, building a strong you can find awesome Christians. If you Christian focus helped want to find a party school, you can with the economic chal- find a party school.” lenges, prompting higher enrollment and donations college president can to expand the campus. also set the tone of the Our investigation school’s culture, sometimes found that several key negatively, as is the case of factors may doom a ALouisiana College in Christian institution: Pineville, La. incompetent financial President Joe Aguillard attained his planning, poor leader- position in 2006 and did what the ship, indistinctive educa- Louisiana Baptist Convention asked tion, and unorthodox him to do: He got rid of secularly professors. CCCU schools minded professors. But that initial can err at either extreme: accomplishment was followed by a On one end, coddling
series of setbacks, as Aguillard borrowed according to The Town Talk. On April students within a “Christian bubble” A c k l
money to build a football stadium, even 15, the college announced that and quarantining them from “bad ey:
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as moldy campus facilities desperately Aguillard will step down as president ideas,” and on the other offering a o u needed $35 million in repairs. Planned on May 31 and become president nearly secular education, relegating the rte medical and law schools never materi- emeritus. “Christian” part of higher education to sy o f alized. Faculty salaries remained among Houston Baptist University shows chapel and campus ministries. the c
the lowest of CCCU schools, while the how strong leadership can revive a HBU’s Nancy Pearcey, who teaches lause president's salary was the 7th highest school. A decade ago HBU struggled cultural apologetics, believes both sides in the CCCU when compared against with dwindling enrollment, low reten- fail to equip the future generation: /Azus
the school's budget, according to the tion and graduation rates, and seeping “Young people are not going to survive a P a Chronicle of Higher Education. secularization among its faculty. Robert in this increasingly secular society if cif ic
Former students and professors also Sloan, the former Baylor University we don’t find a way to permeate every U niv
spoke of an atmosphere of fear and ret- president, became HBU president in field with apologetics”—not just in ersity • Louisi ribution. No current faculty would talk 2006 with a plan to re-establish “a overtly religious classes, but in every to us, but two professors who criticized distinctive Christian education,” and discipline from psychology to computer Aguillard told us they received non- freshman enrollment last year science: “You have to teach young people a n
renewal letters. Accrediting agency increased by a record-breaking 10 how to defend a Christian perspective a
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Southern Association of Colleges and percent, even as average enrollment in their fields. Young people’s questions ll Schools said in March that it plans to among CCCU schools fell 8 percent. are going to be different from the ques- ege:
a open an investigation into Louisiana Sloan also hired officers and faculty tions faced by earlier generations. … We nge
College after allegations that school prominent in the field of Christian need to love them enough to answer la
l officials submitted forged signatures, apologetics, such as provost John Mark their questions.” A u
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PHARISEE Today, the Pearls have sold more than , copies Twenty years ago Michael Pearl printed copies of a WO “traditional the R L D To • of discipline many has advocates, but copies M AY child on 3 Michael and Debi Pearl’s method were , 20 household training” 14 schooling children , three ents, being disciplined by their par- bars, Up aChild. versial parenting book, To reportedly Michael critics say it lacks the gospel gone, Parental eparents are now behind professed and train he rules and with in their borrowed families read advisory: devoted Debi and their living Christians or discipline. Pearl’s died followed fi enough home- B ve This De children Y children. while bi, were contro- article
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NO GREATER JOY MINISTRIES frustrated parent. He says his method will welcoming, close, in a row. Each child is different, you don’t greatly reduce the need for discipline as the and jovial: Michael and want them to be so overly controlled, overly Debi Pearl. child gets older. disciplined that you haven’t really built a But many outspoken parents and media relationship with your kids.” She fears too voices call the book abusive and say it is the immediate many rules and too much control can also give kids a cause in at least those three cases of fatal child abuse and skewed idea about God: “They see God as a harsh task- torture. A petition with over 100,000 signatures is prod- master. They don’t want anything to do with God or ding Amazon to remove the book from its website. church. That’s the tragedy.” Havlik says parents should spank with caution and oy Havlik heard about To Train Up a Child when carefulness: “Stay away from formulas. Parenting is way she was homeschooling six of her children, including more complicated than that.” She also approaches her a first-grader struggling with phonics, while also kids with humility: “I want to have more talks with my trying to keep an eye on her two mobile toddlers. kids and ask their forgiveness for times I was harsh.” JShe and her husband, Steve, were involved in a Great On their website the Pearls encourage parents to use a Commission Church and then a Bill Gothard homeschool- one-fourth inch plumbing supply line (a thin, flexible ing group, both of which emphasized the importance of piece of plastic) as an instrument to discipline their chil- spanking and strict discipline. Their eight children are dren: They say it will sting skin but not cause bruising. I now grown, and they are no longer involved in either spoke with Michael Pearl, who said, “I have never advo- group. She now says, “Some of the stuff we were taught cated—either in private, public speaking, or in writing— was definitely over the top.” withholding food from a child, forcing children to sleep A friend from Havlik’s homeschooling group told her on the floor or outside, constraining them in blankets (or about the Pearls’ book and she tried some of its teachings by any other means), spanking children on their feet, ministries with her two youngest, but now worries that she was too faces, or backs, locking them in small rooms or tight con- joy harsh. She says parents should look at their motives, and tainers, or forcing them to stay outside in cold weather.” remembers feeling that her family was supposed to look But three children died after parents who had read To greater
no perfect: “It’s not just about having your family like ducks Train Up a Child went beyond what the Pearls recommend.
9 PEARLS.indd 43 4/14/14 8:48 PM The parents all had in their homes the one- IMMEDIATE CAUSE? methods are adaptable to any child, fourth inch plumbing supply line, and one Members of the Seattle no matter their “unique disability Ethiopian community gather girl died after being beaten with it. The around the grave of Hana or psychological condition.” stories are brutal: Williams on Oct. 29, 2013, after i Sean Paddock, 4, died in 2006 of the sentencing of Larry and ichael and Debi Pearl suffocation when his mother wrapped him Carri Williams (right). live on 100 acres in so tightly in a blanket that he could not Pleasantville, Tenn. breathe. His mother was convicted of first- The town is a dot on degree murder and felony child abuse. The Paddocks had the map 80 milesM southwest of Nashville. The adopted six children, including Sean. rural community, a mess of skinny paved roads i Lydia Schatz, 7, died in 2010 from beatings by her and lush green trees, is home to farmers, homesteaders, parents over a seven-hour period. Her parents entered a and an Amish settlement. plea bargain and appeared remorseful. Her father was When their oldest child was an early teen, the Pearls convicted of second-degree murder and torture. Her left their home and Michael’s job north of Memphis to mother was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and start a new life. They paid cash for the land, logged their infliction of unlawful corporal punishment. The Schatzes, own trees with a self-made sawmill, and built a four-
who had six biological children, adopted Lydia and two bedroom home, a barn, and a shop. To make ends meet Frank other children from Liberia. they and their five children took odd jobs: laying stone, Varga/The i Hana Williams, 13, died in 2011 of malnutrition and building barns, canning vegetables, milking cows, grow- hypothermia. She was not breathing when her siblings ing and selling organic vegetables. Michael says they
found her face-down and naked in her family’s backyard. moved to their “hardworking paradise” because he came Skagi Her parents were convicted of first-degree assault and to the conclusion that his kids “were too pampered. t manslaughter. Her mother was additionally convicted of Furthermore, I was bored.” Vall
homicide by abuse. The Williamses, who had seven bio- Lindsay Gallegos spent some time with the Pearls in ey
H logical children, adopted Hana and one other child from Pleasantville. She is one of eight children raised by par- erald
Ethiopia. ents who used To Train Up a Child. “We were really / A Critics say older adopted children, especially from entrenched in the homeschool, conservative, Bill Gothard P violent places, have special needs, but Pearl says his world,” she says. Gallegos is very familiar with the Pearls’
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9 PEARLS.indd 44 4/14/14 9:17 PM book—her mom would make her read highlighted sections Gothard and the Patriarchy movement—and does not when she disobeyed—but she is also familiar with the seem bothered by the negative press: “Few people take Pearl family. what the media says as true, especially when they are Family tragedy sent her looking for an exit from the attacking Christians, conservatives, or traditional princi- “works-based conservative” world she grew up in, so she ples. … Our Amazon sales do shoot up every time we are left home when she was 21. She drove to Tennessee on in the news, though.” two separate occasions to spend a total of three weeks with some friends who lived two miles from the Pearls’ irstie and Ryan Benke married young and homestead. She went to Cane Creek Church, the Pearls’ were pregnant within a year. When their son nondenominational church. She ate a few meals at Creed was born, Kirstie looked everywhere for Michael and Debi’s home and remembers Debi dancing advice on parenting. Her pastor’s wife, a around the kitchen and getting on Michael for not taking Khomeschooling mom, gave her a copy of To Train Up a out the trash. She hung out with the Pearls’ grown kids, Child. They tried it consistently for a year. She saw turkey hunting and driving to Nashville to see a movie spanking as a loving response to sin, a “one time and and get dinner. done” reaction instead of a long, drawn-out, guilt-ridden Gallegos says the Pearl family was welcoming, close, process. and jovial, and that their kids had a lot of independence: But Kirstie says she felt like something was missing: “I “Whatever they did for their own kids worked.” She is didn’t see the gospel, I saw morality. Creed behaved bet- ter, but he was angry. I don’t think we were connecting the dots for him as to why he needed to behave this way.” Shepherding a Child’s Heart by Ted Tripp helped fill in some gaps: “Shepherding a Child’s Heart added the ‘Why are you spanking him?’ You don’t just want well-behaved kids. … You want to make the gospel attractive to them.” With two sons, 5 and 2, and another on the way, Kirstie says, “I have a lot of compassion for other parents. We tend to judge each other on ‘My kid is better behaved so I must be a better parent.’ … There is definitely the gos- pel. You expect them to sin. But other than that, every family is different.” Kirsten Black’s is different from some in that she has five boys and doesn’t seem to mind the football whizzing by her head as she calmly tosses a softball to her bat- swinging 6-year-old. She has short hair and funky red tennis shoes, and her husband Vince, his tattooed arm draped across their 2-year-old Uzziah, says he wants to be a Deuteronomy 6 parent, always speaking of God whether they are grocery shopping or playing in the backyard. The Blacks moved to Fort Collins, Colo., to plant the church that he now pastors. She says she “grew up a really strong Pharisee” and not until her late 20s, when she started having kids, did she began to understand the now a mother to three—ages 5, 3, and 1—in San Antonio, way the gospel transforms all of life. Now the Blacks try Texas, but she and her husband have decided not to use to talk about sin openly as they model repentance and the Pearls’ methods because “a lot of what they have in grace: “We tell them, ‘You are going to mess up. When their book is too extreme for me.” you do mess up, when you do sin, be quick to own it, That’s not true for others, and I tried to interview on confess it, repent, and it’s done.’” Vince Black says, “We the record parents who love To Train Up a Child, but they try to show them what it means to need a Savior, and that
Frank all declined, given concerns about potential state inter- Mom and Dad need a Savior too.” vention. They all praised the results they have seen in They try not to buy into any parenting book as the one Varga/The their children, saying their application of the principles answer. Kirsten says, “When we approach those books of To Train Up a Child provides clear boundaries and with the hope that there will be answers on ‘how to save
Skagi quick justice. They say their homes are more peaceful, my kids,’ we are looking for a formula and not for Jesus to their kids are more respectful, and they are not growing do His saving work. … I need to keep the mindset that t Vall up fearful or timid. only Jesus saves.” They discipline but say it is always done ey The Pearls run a ministry, No Greater Joy Ministries, in relationship—and that their goal in disciplining is
H erald out of their home in Tennessee, and write extensively on instructing their sons’ hearts. “There is always restoration A
/ parenting, homeschooling, and marriage. Michael Pearl at the end,” says Vince. A P doesn’t fit easy stereotypes—he has criticized Bill —Kiley Crossland is a writer in Colorado
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9 TEEN MANIA.indd 46 4/16/14 10:16 AM Christian youth organization struggles to survive fi nancial turmoil by J.C. DERRICK . /
RON AND KATIE LUCE founded Teen Mania Ministries in with a goal to “raise up young people who would change the world.” By the numbers, they’ve been successful: ree million attendees at its weekend Acquire the Fire events, more than , taking summer mis- sion trips called Global Expeditions, and thousands of teens who traveled to the organization’s -acre campus near Tyler, Texas, MANAGEMENT for year-long programs. On Feb. this year, Ron Luce called the management team into his newly renovated conference room with its four fl at screen tele- visions, leather chairs, and a glass-top conference table. Luce then dropped a bombshell: Teen Mania would abandon the acres and move to a still-undetermined site in Dallas. Luce framed the decision as one that would allow the ministry to have a global MANIA reach, and unveiled a press release that did not use the words “default” or “foreclosure”—appropriate terms for what was happening. POWERFUL VOICE: at was the fi rst time Teen Mania com- Ron Luce, founder munications director Cindy Mallette heard of Teen Mania, about the move. She later found out that speaks at a rally in Teen Mania had stopped paying its mortgage Times Square. in November so as to meet payroll, and had then gone into default. After Mallette, who was fi elding a fl ood of inquiries, prodded Luce to acknowledge a foreclosure was occurring, the ministry fi red her on Feb. . She now states that Luce was hiding “the full nature of the situation” in the hope that funders would “donate to this new vision.” Since February I’ve reviewed fi nancial documents and inter- viewed current and former Teen Mania employees, a former board
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HANDOUT PHOTOS maven who has been a regular at SXSW Interactive for years, chose to pass on South By this year: Not since , he said, when Twitter got a boost from South By, have any signifi cant new SIGNS OF LIFE products launched at the interactive Bands to watch from ’s South By Southwest festival. “Is [SXSW] dead? No,” he said. It’s hard to believe that more than , bands play SXSW, but do the math: e festival “Is it still good for launching products? has about offi cial venues. Some book as many as acts per day. I don’t think so.” At one venue one band set up while another band played at the other end of the at doesn’t mean that festivals like room. When the fi rst band ended its -minute set, the crowd SXSW are in danger. eir combination simply did a and the other band launched into its set. And so of music and art, or music and digital, it went for days. is a powerful draw. Silicon Valley Amidst the , bands I found a few favorites. Here’s an idio- recently ripped off SXSW with its own syncratic list of bands who performed at SXSW worth checking Creative Convergence Silicon Valley out. (CSV), a four-day festival that this I Andrew Belle’s new album Black Bear is reminiscent of Su an year will feature e Lemonheads and Stevens, though not as weird. Belle graduated from Taylor include opportunities for technology University but had a spiritual crisis after college that in the end startups to pitch their companies to caused both his faith and his commitment to his music to deepen. venture capitalists. Microsoft and others have licensed his music for commercials and television use, but that success hasn’t turned his head, and his , latest album, which he featured in three diff erent showcases at South By, explores don’t expect crime, drugs, and relationships and mystery in interesting and compelling ways. G even the deaths of four attendees COIN e founders of the band met as students at the Christian college Belmont in Austin this year to slow the festival University. is is their second trip to SXSW with their infectious synth-pop sound. juggernaut. Live events have become Nashville, Tennessee. www.thisiscoin.com. the bread and butter of the music Gungor is Dove Award–winning band led by Michael Gungor and his wife Lisa already industry. According to a statement has a signifi cant following among - and -something Christians. But their music released by Pollstar, which tracks the transcends genre, as this year’s appearance at SXSW demonstrates. live music industry, was “a record Matisyahu is the stage name for Matthew Paul Miller. e name means “Gift of God” in year” for the global concert industry. Hebrew. Matisyahu blends Orthodox Jewish themes with reggae and rock, with his most e top worldwide tours recent music trending toward dub. e band’s single “King took in . billion in Without A Crown” was a Top hit in the United States. primary ticket sales, a H Penny and Sparrow Rich songwriting and soaring harmonies. percent increase over the Penny and Sparrow are Texas singers and former roommates Andy . billion generated in Baxter and Kyle Jahnke. ey claim e Swell Season, Bon Iver, and Mumford & Sons as musical infl uences. You can hear all that in their
CAR ACCIDENT: COLIN KERRIGAN • CAPITAL CITIES: FRAZER HARRISON/GETTY IMAGES FOR COACHELLA . music, but there’s more. ey weave biblical imagery into their SXSW claims to inject music in ways that are surprising and unself-conscious, and the more than million duo’s backing band allows for sonic adventure as well. e band’s into the Austin economy. latest album is Tenboom, featuring a line drawing of Christian In October, the Coachella heroine Corrie ten Boom on the cover. Valley Economic Matrimony is a family aff air, with Jimmy and Ashlee Brown leading Partnership said the and Ashley’s two brothers and a cousin rounding out the band. Coachella Festival pumped more than million into that Michael Martin Murphey A long-time Austin favorite, he was one of the founders of the Austin Music Scene in the region’s local economy. s. Despite his (well- And local governments are learning deserved) reputation as one how to take their cut: Indio, Calif., site of the originators of “Outlaw of Coachella, now has a -year agree- Country,” Murphey has also ment with festival organizers to tax been singing about faith, each ticket sold .. e agreement family, and freedom for a will generate tens of millions of dollars half-century. in revenue for the town of , I Run River North e c o r e about miles east of Los Angeles. members of the band met So despite growing problems not through the Korean church only at South By Southwest but other community in Los Angeles.
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A pox on Mother’s Day? A revealing look J pro-abortion roughout history, yes, but “life- activists are at least acknowledging that sustaining”? e poster-maker,poster-maker, Heather Ault, into the thoughts killing the unborn is wrong, new writes online of abortion continuing to “the and attitudes of >>>> exhibitions and articles remind us that good of ourselves, our relationships, and our some on the the Bible’s account of our natural depravity is families.” Oh. One poster compliments the sadly true. ancient Egyptians for placing crocodile feces pro-abortion (not Example one: e pro-abortion showcase in in vaginas, and another, titled “Rejoice pro-choice) side the main lobby of Lane Hall, the University of Fumigation,” proclaims that “women have Michigan’s women’s studies building. As Vivian been fumigating their vaginas with contracep- BY MARVIN OLASKY Hughbanks of Hillsdale College reported on a tive vapors for thousands of years.” feisty webzine, e College Fix, you can relish Funding for the exhibit came in part from through May dozens of artistic and bright the U of M’s Department of Obstetrics and posters celebrating “ Years of Choice.” Gynecology, which sponsors e Program for Abortion, according to a U of M web page, is Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice. BARRIE “a deeply personal and life-sustaining act Michigan taxpayers who support the univer-
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Evolution has a problem with fairness and spite. At least at face value, there’s little gained by >> sharing your food in a world of survival of the fittest. At the other extreme, humans will sometimes expend energy to harm another person, even though the antagonist stands to gain nothing (except sour satisfaction). You’d think natural selection would have killed off creatures that waste resources in this fashion. nothing. This is spite in action. helped spiteful people survive. It’s an Lay aside doubts about evolution Evolutionarily speaking, they die. imaginative and clever solution for two and play along for a minute. In a In their computer simulation, Forber evolutionary riddles, fairness and spite. recent study, two philosophers from and Smead tweaked the scenario by Clever or not, evolutionary models Massachusetts, Patrick Forber and creating virtual players with varying ultimately diverge from the biblical Rory Smead, think they’ve found a tendencies toward fairness, selfishness, account. Christians say humans under- common origin for fairness and spite. or spitefulness. They found, perhaps stand fairness (and sometimes act on it) Their experiment involves a computer surprisingly, that the spiteful types because God created them in His simulation of a common lab game played most successfully with conge- image—studies show even 1-year-old researchers use to study human nial people who were willing to make toddlers grasp the concept of equally behavior, called the “ultimatum fair offers and accept bad deals to avoid shared toys. man: Pesky g a m e.” a stalemate. Spite and selfishness are built in, The game goes like this: Player A Writing in Proceedings of the Royal too, as slices of sin nature: Just because
gets a chance to share a resource (an Society B in February, the two philoso- a toddler understands sharing doesn’t M onk apple pie, let’s say) with player B. He phers argue their simulation shows that mean he will. For ancient man, as ey/istock • can offer any amount—half the pie (the spite and fairness coevolved: Our modern, “every intention of the “fair” portion), one slice, or a piece of ancestors were more likely to offer fair thoughts of his heart was only evil
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at understanding could allow women to be pastors and elders as long as their Going with the fl ow church duly appoints them. Bible Study Fellowship joins controversy by adopting the e Committee on Bible Translation (CBT), which is responsible for the NIV, NIV Bible BY DAVE SWAVELY took the criticisms into account when it produced the update, but the W K O heard that of truth in the ministry. Others are also changes it made were not suffi cient Bible Study Fellowship had leaving BSF over this issue. for most of the critics, since many of decided to switch to the For readers who may not be aware the plural pronouns and the >> redo of the New International of the controversy surrounding the Timothy : wording remained. e Version in its teaching materials, she NIV, it began in with publi- critics are complementarians—they say was concerned. She had heard of the cation of the NIV Inclusive Language men and women have some roles that controversy surrounding that transla- Edition (now discontinued) and con- are diff erent but complementary—but tion, so she did some research about tinued in the early s with release the CBT includes egalitarians who the issue on her own. of Today’s New International Version downplay diff erences. What she found out eventually led (TNIV). Critics such as Wayne Grudem Critics worry that the CBT is com- her to write a letter of resignation from decried many of the changes made to promising the integrity of Scripture. her position as a BSF small group the widely used NIV, particularly For example, Birmingham pastor Harry leader. In it she said, “BSF has been an the use of “gender neutral” language Reeder says the NIV is “more amazing tool in my life to grow in that led to plural pronouns such as committed to being affi rmed by the Christ and be blessed with godly rela- “they” replacing single masculine ones culture than communicating God’s tionships that are precious to me,” but like “he.” Word to the culture. It’s one thing to added “with sadness” that she thinks Critics also disputed the translation translate God’s Word in terms the cul- the decision to use the new NIV has of some important verses about gender ture will understand; it’s another to do “opened the door”door” for distortions issues. For example, Timothy : so in terms the culture will accept.” changed fromfrom saying women But CBT member Craig Blomberg, a should not “have authority” Denver Seminary professor who over men, to women should describes himself as a “mild comple- not “assume authority”: mentarian,” says the CBT sought to apply research fi ndings on English language usage and to produce what he calls an ‘It’s one thing “optimally equivalent” translation. Regarding the to translate specifi c example of Timothy :, Blomberg says “assume God’s Word in authority” is a neutral trans- lation that the CBT thought terms the did not tilt the exegesis one way or the other. culture will BSF Executive Director Susan Rowan told me BSF “believes and teaches the understand; full inerrancy of the original text of Scripture,” and “the it’s another to BSF leadership conducted thorough research and do so in terms consulted with several scholars to assure that the the culture NIV continued its tra- dition of accuracy to the original manuscripts.” A
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9 MAILBAG.indd 66 4/14/14 9:26 AM Mailbag ‘Fleeing hell’ March ank you for the cover story on North Korea. My heart has been burdened for over a year to pray
for the enslaved and oppressed victims protect our national interests and those of Kim Jung Un . I believe God wants us to of our allies. support these people with our prayers and by —MM SS,, Denver, Colo. Regarding the vetoing of Arizona’s our interest in the truth. religious liberty law: We need to think —B R, Lynchburg, Va. creatively about how to serve Him in the public square with what He’s given us. For example, wedding photogra- is story gripped my heart. e atroci- Christians who get tattoos are culturally phers might agree to work for same- ties North Koreans must endure are tone-deaf. sex couples but advise them that some incredible. May God work in their lives —M W, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. profi ts go to organizations that oppose and bring even more people to know gay marriage laws. ey might take Him. I am a believer who has tattoos. One of their business elsewhere, or the pho- —M B, Kisumu, Kenya them is the name of Jesus in the shape tographer might have an opportunity of the cross on my right arm. It has led to show the love of Christ to people ‘Permanent marker’ to conversations about Christ, and it opposed to Him. Politics is not our only March Sophia Lee pointed out that allows unbelievers to see that the weapon. Leviticus : prohibits tattoos, and Christian faith is not just about what —P B, Dallas, Texas Corinthians says that we should glo- “ ou shalt not.” rify God with our bodies because they —R F, Port Townsend, Wash. ‘Do you believe in magic?’ are temples of the Holy Spirit. erefore March Professor Volokh’s premise we must not defi le them with smoking, One historian observed that ascending that for a program to be counted as tattoos, or anything else harmful. civilizations pattern themselves after successful all participants should be Tattoos are like graffi ti on a church. those who are creative, intelligent, and surveyed, regardless of adherence to —A N, Marietta, Ga. promote advancement and accomplish- the protocol, is absurd. Should we ment. Civilizations in descent mimic apply the same standard to his univer- I appreciate Lee’s article about what was previously considered primi- sity? Should the college’s statistics Christians communicating their faith tive and pagan. Are the markers of our include all students who do not through tattoos. I have seven tattoos culture (music, art, dress, language) complete their programs? that were for aligning my radiation moving toward wisdom and beauty or —R B, Palos Park, Ill. oncology treatments years ago. I the base and barbaric? thank the Spirit, who healed and later —D P. G, Wellington, Colo. I can’t believe Volokh. If I quit lifting saved me, that the ink pinpricks form weights after one session, do I still get a connect-the-dots cross over my Dispatches the muscles? heart. March e president’s recommended —J W, Houston, Texas —K H, Edmond, Okla. defense budget indicates that he is refusing to carry out his principal con- ‘Above the laws’ Tattoos and cremation are common stitutional responsibility: to defend this March I am astounded that Janie B. practices in paganism and carry loads country. He is also abandoning the Cheaney understands that “if we don’t of theological freight. ese aren’t fads; responsibility, ours since World War II, recognize a higher authority, we end up they are worldview expressions. to employ military force abroad to with a government of legalities,” and
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yet does not see Judge Ruth Graham, Edith Schaeff er, and Roy Moore as the champion of the Elisabeth Elliot taught us “biblical rule of law. I would argue that the womanhood” in an era of feminist federal judge who ordered the Ten rage. I am very grateful for their Commandments monument removed faithfulness and sad to see them go. was wrong and that Judge Moore was —M MC, Forsyth, Mont. upholding the rule of law. —P B, Nashville, Tenn. ‘Waves of the future?’ March Building dikes to protect ‘Walking through fi re’ coastal areas from rising sea levels is March I have followed Elisabeth not only economical, it is the only Elliot Gren since Jim Elliot and the response, given that there is no proof other missionaries were killed in the that global warming is predictable or jungles of Ecuador. Her illness caused by humans. breaks my heart; I too am a care- —P S. R, Missoula, Mont. giver for a spouse with this diffi cult disease. ‘Can we aff ord it?’ —C S, Midland, Mich. March I am praying for Joel Belz with his diagnosis of Parkinson’s. It In the mid-s when I was a stay- must be an unfamiliar and scary at-home mother of young children, place; I am praying he will know Elliot’s radio program was the cor- God’s presence and peace. nerstone of my day. When my own —R L, Valley Center, Kan. beloved husband died suddenly in leaving me with young chil- ‘History makers’ dren, I remembered her example. March Stephen Mansfi eld says that Accepting my husband’s death and he thinks the president is “further knowing that God is sovereign was along internally on an evangelical the beginning of God healing my journey” in spite of his extreme liber- deep grief. alism. Where is the evidence for such —N T, Spartanburg, S.C. a generous assessment? I cannot see
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“I even to speak of the things that Remember the spelling lists your teacher gave you they do in secret” (Ephesians :). But what if for homework? Ella’s list includes: “gender” (defi ned as they do them in the open? What if they do them a “psychological construct”), “excitement phase,” >> in Room of the campus Physical Education “plateau phase,” “orgasm,” and “resolution.” Remember Center and are graded on them? And what if you’re multiple choice tests? Here is a sampler from Ella’s footing the bill, Mom and Dad? quizzes: “Which of the following is least likely to be a I borrowed -year-old Ella’s textbook and syllabus suggestion for maintaining sexual variety?”; “Which for her Human Sexuality class. Crooks and Baur, th of the following is the best example of homophobia?”; edition—the hefty paperback costs , of which Ella “Masturbation has been recommended in your text for will only recoup at semester’s end—boasts ponder- all except which of the following?”; “Which of the ous double authorship, but the contents bear no following best refl ects current views toward homosex- resemblance to rigor of scholarship, notwithstanding a uality within Christianity?” plethora of charts and graphs. Ella’s Oct. term paper is an “Experiential Paper” A sample of sex “science”: and the professor promises: “ is paper is completely “Physical attractiveness often plays a dominant role confi dential. No one reads it except me! [ at’s com- in drawing lovers together.” “Jealousy is an uncomfort- forting.] Minimum length is four pages, double spaced. able feeling that often harms a relationship and stifl es Pick a project that will challenge you.” Choices: the pleasure of being together.” “Facial expressions of 3 Interview someone whose sexuality is clearly emotion are often a powerful component of nonverbal different from yours. Find out about their sexual communication.” behavior and feelings. Now from the banal to the blatantly propagandist: 3 Spend at least two hours in a gay male bar, a “ e religious right in America has long labored to lesbian bar, a transgender bar, or a sexually oriented reinforce traditional gender roles through its eff orts to club. If you are having trouble finding one, you can shape American politics.” “Gender roles are a product search the internet. of socialization.” “ e teachings of Jesus emphasized 3 Attend a Sexual Pleasure Workshop. Write about love, compassion, and forgiveness … ‘Neither do I con- the experience. demn thee.’” “Homophobia can be best thought of as a 3 Visit a sex or novelty shop. What was it like inside? prejudice similar to racism, anti-Semitism, or sexism.” Ella’s Nov. paper is a “Sexual History”: “Students Here are Crooks and Baur as Bible experts: will complete a sex history. Below are listed the com- “Beginning in the th century BCE, … Jewish religious ponents you will need to include in your history. ink leaders wanted to develop a distinct closed community. about all of these components and write about EVERY Homosexual activities were a part of the religious SINGLE ONE, including your feelings about these practices of many peoples in that era, and rejecting events.” I scan down to the obligatory “components” such practices was one way of keeping the Jewish and read: religion unique.” 3 Early memories of sexual feelings and e painful Clarence omas–Anita Hill trial experimentation. is resurrected as an example of workplace sexual 3 First sexual experience(s) with another person. harassment to punish the Supreme Court justice all 3 Your favorite sexual fantasies and how you feel over again—never mind that omas was found not about them. guilty, a detail not included by Crooks and Baur. In Cal omas’ What Works, the political commen- e book has a chapter on “Guidelines for Coming tator writes: “ e question must be asked: why do so Out to Friends,” photos of myriad sexual positions, many parents who hold traditional views that worked and a table to educate you on the diff erence between for them and the country willingly and enthusiasti- fetishism, transvestic fetishism, sexual sadism, sexual cally send their children to academic institutions that masochism, autoerotic asphyxia, Klismophilia, frequently undermine everything they believe? And Coprophilia and Urophilia, exhibitionism, voyeurism, pay for it, too? Is it because of the ‘prestige’ of these frotteurism, zoophilia, and necophilia. Not a moral historic schools?” objection is raised to any of the above “sexual Isn’t it time to stop kidding ourselves about the expressions.” worth of faded sheepskin and “prestige”? A
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