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Taylor University Pillars at Taylor University The aT ylor Magazine Ringenberg Archives & Special Collections Summer 1991 Taylor Magazine (Summer 1991) Taylor University Follow this and additional works at: https://pillars.taylor.edu/tu_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Taylor University, "Taylor Magazine (Summer 1991)" (1991). The Taylor Magazine. 106. https://pillars.taylor.edu/tu_magazines/106 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Ringenberg Archives & Special Collections at Pillars at Taylor University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aT ylor Magazine by an authorized administrator of Pillars at Taylor University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A MAGAZINE FOR TAYLOR UNIVERSITY ALUMNI AND FRIENDS '-v«^ m A question of ludgment.. Evangelism & social concern SUMMER 1991 S)addu, u/Mdid YOU(to in tfwfreat War 9 PRECIS here was one little girl in kinder- my high school, they kept coming. Then on to garten class that one liked. no And university and in my subsequent much- we all knew why. It wasn't that her more-than-full-time work with troubled hair was wiry T and black and sort of youth. And yet today. banana-curly. Or that her name was A friend of mine says that God calls Marjorie. And that she was a girl. each of us differently—some to specific It was that she scratched her arms. occupations, or countries; or needs: some to Long, white cat-like scratches all the serve a particular type of people. I'm in the way from shoulder to wrist all the time. — latter category, my friend tells me—called It still gives me the shivers to think of it. to minister to people who are down on their Nobody wanted to play with her. I think luck. And maybe so. we were all afraid she'd scratch arms, our And maybe that's why I've wrestled so too. much with the theme of this magazine. I Now, even back then, I was shy, and have some understanding of the problems noticeably so. (In fact, that's the one facing at least a few members of our comment Miss Tate, my kindergarten society. And when the needs loom so large, teacher, writes on my report card: "Douglas and seem so overwhelming, and so never- could be such an asset to the class, but he's ending, I become discouraged and wonder so shy." She doesn't say, but maybe that's aloud what can be done in so seemingly why she gave me an "Unsatisfactory" in lopsided a battle. Citizenship.) "Get radical," answers sociology But shy or not, there's something down Professor Charles DeSanto within these inside of me that says somebody has to pages. And both President Jay Kesler '58 look out for the underdog. And more often and Dr. Gary Newton point out practical that not, that somebody is me. ways in which Taylor students are doing We lived in the city that year, and I just that. Too, alumna and pro-life legal walked home from kindergarten promptly counsel Paige Comstock Cunningham at noon every day. mother My remembers serves as an exemplar of how one might her surprise the first time I was late. She respond to the challenge issued by popular was out on the sidewalk, watching for me, Spiritual Emphasis Week speaker E. Da\ id when here comes her shy little "Dougie" Cook—a call to arms, really—in a battle walking home with and if that — doesn't blending evangelism with social concern. beat all! —a girl. "What can I do in that battle?" Marjorie, of course. "What am 1 doing in the great war?" Only I wasn't walking home with her. ?" "What difference am I making Sht w IS walking home with me. Perhaps these articles will shed some Day after day, when nobody else at light on those questions. school would play with Marjorie, I had. "And what happens if when 1 get And though I hadn't asked for it, this was involved the wounded follow me home at Ihc ih uiks I started getting, day after day. night?" Nov\ I look back and think that Marjorie Ay. there's the rub. But if it's an\ w 1^ |usi the first of many such people to encouragement. Marjorie ne\ er did scratcii w ilk uito my life. Throughout grade my amis. si.hool grammar school, junior hisih and —Douii Marlou- 'SI. editor rV 2 Taylor Volume 28. Number 4 Summer 1991 Taylor University Dr. Jay Kesler '58, president Dr. Dary! R. Yost, provost Taylor is published quarterly for alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents of current students and friends of Taylor University by tfie University Advancement Office, Dr. Cfiarles R. daggers '69, vice president '81 Douglas J. R. Marlow , editor and designer Betty Freese, alumni notes editor Jim Garringer, ptiotograptier Student assistant editors: Beth Lundquist '92, Lori Sue Red '92 Student news writer: Mananne Orme '91 Regular contributing authors: Dr. Jay Kesler '58, Wesley Robinson '50 11 A CALL TO ALMS Guest authors this issue: Dr. E. David Cook, Dr. Christ's call is both to evangelism and social concern— Charles DeSanto, Dr. Gary Newton, Tammy Swathwood '94 as Taylor students know from experience. Address letters and comments to: Editor, Taylor, Taylor University, Upland, IN 46989. THIS IS NO TIME TO BE A MODERATE The staff reserves the right to publish a 1 representative sample of letters and to edit Sohitions to the social problems facing our nation may letters for space. Unsolicited manuscripts are be found in our response to that radical. Christ. welcomed for possible inclusion in the magazine. Enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of material. Selection and publication are at the discretion of the editor 1 5 THE BATTLE IN OUR BACKYARDS and his advisory panel. Opinions expressed in their initiative, students are taking action, Taylor are those of the authors, not necessarily On own Taylor University. reaching out to the needy in the campus ' neighborhood. Persons wishing to reproduce any portion of Tay/or magazine's contents are requested to call or write in advance for permission. 1 7 PRO-LIFE ACTIVISM: LIBERATING STRIFE This alumna is on the front lines, fighting against Scripture quotations taken from the Holy Bible: abortion on dematid and enjoining others to do battle. New Interr^ational Version © 1978 by the New York International Bible Society, used with permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers. WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE WAR, Printing, Colony Printing and Labeling, Eaton, 20 Indiana: mailing. Fans Mailing, Indianapolis, MOMMY AND DADDY? Indiana; final out put. Dimensions, Muncie, Indiana. Typesetting, layout and paste-up was We will be held accountable for the level of our partici- done at Taylor University using the Apple pation in the battle for social concerns raging 'round us. Macintosh II computer, Apple LaserWriter II NT printer, and Aldus PageMaker software. Front and back cover photography by Jim 2 EXCHANGE 24 ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Garringer. ON CAMPUS 26 TAYLOR GATHERING Taylor University complies with all federal and 3 state nondiscrimination laws. Taylor University is an equal-opportunity institution. Direct 8 VOICES OF EXPERIENCE 27 ALUMNI NOTES inquiries to the Office of the President, Taylor University, Upland, IN 46989, (317) 998-5201, TRADITION VISTA or the Office of Civil Rights, Washington, DC. 22 32 Mailed in Indianapolis, non-profit permit #8 by Paris Mailing, Incorporated, 535 South Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46225. Please mail address corrections to Alumni Office, Taylor University, Upland, IN 46989. EXCHANGE Readers respond to the spring, 1990 issue o/Taylor, and its theme, "Market- place morality." True hero No T-shirts, please Winning Tradition Jim Coe's article ("A time for Just wanted to drop you a note 1 would like to say how very- heroes," Spring 1 99 1 ) is a timely to express my opinion about the much I enjoy the Taylor magazine. I piece of wori<;. I enjoyed reading cover of the last Taylor magazine. look forward to each issue and sit and agreeing with his thoughts. When my husband brought the mail down and read it immediately after it Thank you. Joseph is a true hero. in that day, he almost threw the arrives in my mailbox! The quality .fames Brewer x' 89 magazine away as he thought it was of the magazine is top-notch, but Misliawaka, Indiana some "Rock Video" magazine. more importantly, the content is Then I saw that it was our Taylor excellent. I especially appreciate the Peace talk magazine! "Tradition" section because I am I wanted to write to thanl^ you I have never been embarrassed very keenly aware of the rich and the staff of Taylor magazine for about anything from Taylor or to heritage Taylor has and that has the articles, especially "The ethics of say that I graduated from Taylor become a part of her graduates. war and peace," the piece written by University, but that cover provoked The magazine always makes me Ann Calkins "91 featuring Arnold me into writing to you. extremely proud to be a Taylor '77. Sprunger Believe me, my husband and I alumnus and I am always sharing it The spectrum of Christian views are not ultra-conservative nor do we with my friends here. You are on war and peace is as diverse as the see "demons behind every tree." certainly to be commended for the church itself, yet I appreciated your But your cover looked demonic. outstanding job you are doing of particular affirmation of pacifism as With all the evil influences today's publishing a consistenth outstand- a legitimate Christian option in what young people have in their lives, ing magazine.