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Find more information at: samaritanministries.org CONTENTS | March 17, 2018 • Volume 33 • Number 5

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COVER STORY DISPATCHES 5 News / Human Race / 38 Billy Graham’s legacy Quotables / Quick Takes Remembering the evangelist who died at age 99 CULTURE FEATURES 17 Movies & TV / Books / Children’s Books / Q&A / Music

30 A time to speak NOTEBOOK In a Biblical pursuit of both justice and forgiveness, Rachael 55 Lifestyle / Technology / Denhollander helped stop a criminal sexual predator Sports / Religion 46 A terminal wait VOICES Religious minorities targeted in Iran find the welcome mat 3 Joel Belz yanked also by the United States 14 Janie B. Cheaney 28 Mindy Belz 50 Repayment ministry 61 Mailbag Aspiring missionaries find they owe a debt to the gospel— Andrée Seu Peterson and also to banks. What can free them up to serve? 63 64 Marvin Olasky ON THE COVER: Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images; Denhollander: David Harrison/Genesis Photos

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Guardian opinion page bluntly found Graham on the “Wrong Side of History.” Such a mishmash of perspective was predict- able. What seemed a good bit beyond the pale, though, was the ugly, vicious nature of so many of the critics. Graham had come to the end of his 99 years with no significant scandal on his personal or organizational record—a fact that The media and seemed to disappoint and frustrate some jour- nalists and newscasters. They simply couldn’t be satisfied until they had dragged their man Billy Graham through the gutter. For example: Graham’s 1953 CAN WE LET GRAHAM BE GRAHAM? commitment, remarkably early in his career, to insure racial integration at all his crusades, was actually turned upside down by more It was, I must confess, becoming a bad than one critic as “insensitivity to civil R habit. Every time in the last couple of years rights issues.” when I heard the secular media note the death Much more devious was the pattern of of some celebrity, I found myself wondering: snarky columnists and commentators try- How will they do this when Billy Graham dies? ing to tell Graham where his evangelistic My expectations were not high. Muhammad message had gotten off track—and what Ali, Mary Tyler Moore, John Glenn, Joe he should have been saying instead. “He Garagiola Sr., Shimon Peres, Jerry Lewis, Fidel too often stood aloof from or actively Castro. All of them, when they died during the ­discouraged efforts to revise traditional last couple of years, got special attention and Protestantism to make it more respectful what seemed like extended coverage. But in this of the world’s racial and cultural diversity secular age, I asked myself skeptically, will the and of the findings of modern science and media know how big a place on the world stage For smart scholarship,” wrote David A. Hollinger in The Billy Graham deserves? Will they be respectful New York Times. “Mr. Graham led his followers and measured, or condescending and snide? journalists to seek comfort in versions of Christianity Surprise No. 1 for me, following Graham’s and commen- familiar to his core constituency, the white death on Feb. 21, was that the coverage was tators to population of the Southern, formerly slave- indeed extensive. PBS NewsHour devoted a rare holding region of the United States. He offered 12 minutes that evening to its segment about ­misrepresent only weak challenges to the prejudices and Graham. what Graham injustices largely tolerated by that population.” Surprise No. 2 was that most of the coverage offered as Even those of us inclined to be known as I saw struck me not only as fair but in some Billy Graham’s allies and defenders will admit cases admiring. The PBS piece ended with a the core of we wouldn’t always have built “religious not-very-guarded but good-spirited prediction his gospel bridges” exactly where he and his team built that there will never be another Billy Graham. ­message is them. But for smart journalists and commenta- Wherever I turned, up and down the dial, I tors who claim to be experts with words and couldn’t help thinking, “They’re getting a lot inexcusable. ideas to misrepresent what Graham offered as right.” the core of his gospel message is inexcusable. Our friends at the Media Research Center in Let Graham be Graham! Washington, who have the staff and technical Want to see some media people who handled equipment to measure more precisely what’s Billy Graham fairly and appropriately? The cre- going on, say they basically agree with that ators and producers of the remarkable television early assessment. Katie Yoder, associate culture series The Crown deserve high marks for recre- editor at MRC, says the mainstream media ating a delicate mid-1950s crisis touching on started off on the right foot. England’s government, its royal family, Queen But by Day Two, both the MRC and I sensed Elizabeth II in particular, and Billy Graham a different tone. CNN wanted to make sure personally. But that was filmed a year or so ago. viewers knew exactly “Where Billy Graham Truth, here, may be stranger than fiction. Missed the Mark.” The Washington Post rehashed Too bad the folks who did The Crown well-worn material about the traveling evange- weren’t also in charge of telling the world about

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American Olympians who weren’t honeymooning came home at February’s end to a country divided on gun control. Thrills and agonies Many journalists and legislators who VICTORIES AND DEFEATS SPANNED THE GLOBE IN favor tighter rules politicized the 17 AN EVENTFUL FEBRUARY by Marvin Olasky deaths at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. A few pointed out massive mishandling of warnings and tips by the Many of our older readers remem- Nevada youth pastor and freestyle skier FBI and local law enforcement and R ber this introduction to a sports David Wise won a gold medal in the offered profiles in self-preservation: At anthology television show that ran from halfpipe, a curved structure used in least one armed Broward County deputy, 1961 to 1998 on Saturday afternoons: extreme sports. Some athletes in those and maybe three others, waited outside “Spanning the globe to bring you the competitions have a curvy reputation for the school instead of trying to save lives. constant variety of sport … the thrill of extreme partying as well—but married, Reporters did best when they told victory … and the agony of defeat. … Christian, clean-living Wise leads “an personal stories. The Los Angeles Times This is ABC’s Wide World of Sports.” alternative lifestyle,” according to NBC. told how football coach Aaron Feis had Feb. 14-27 brought a wide world of Meanwhile, skeleton sledder Katie commented on Facebook about his young victory and agony. The death of Uhlaender didn’t earn a medal, but daughter, “I’m blessed.” On Valentine’s 99-year-old Billy Graham after a long, noticed in the stands her estranged Day he died after jumping Christ-like in God-glorifying life. The murder at a mother Karen, whom she had neither front of students to shield them from Florida high school of teens just start- seen nor spoken with in four years. bullets. The New York Times told how ing out in life. At one end of Asia, the They had a reunion: Katie said “that 14-year-old Alyssa Alhadeff was at the top Syrian government’s bombing of young she’s here, showing me all of the love of her soccer game in a 1-0 victory on Feb. and old. At the other end, the Winter she has, that is huge. … I’m looking for- 13. “I was so proud of her,” her mother Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. ward to building from there.” Two years said. “I told her it was the best game of Let’s start with the thrill of victory ago figure skaters Chris Knierim and her life.” The next day Alyssa was dead. and those who kept it in perspective. Alexa Scimeca-Knierim wed, but Alexa The Miami Herald reported that The U.S. women’s hockey team won an faced a potentially deadly gastrointesti- 15-year-old Peter Wang, a member of Olympic gold medal. Star Gigi Marvin nal condition. This year the pair helped the high school’s ROTC program, was said God is more important than gold: Team USA earn bronze in team figure last seen alive wearing his gray uniform “In today’s news cycle, who wins the skating, and after the Olympics the with black stripes as he held open the gold medal is old news after 24 hours.” Knierims had a belated honeymoon. door so others could escape. Peter

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(1) Eastern Ghouta, Syria. (2) U.S. women’s ice hockey team (Gigi Marvin in back with flag).(3) David Wise with his wife and kids. (4) A memorial for Peter Wang.

won’t fulfill his dream of going to the U.S. Military Academy, but West Point on Feb. 20 posthumously accepted him for its class of 2025. Might any victory for life emerge from this agony? Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan offered a ­proposal worth contemplating: “On gun law, Republicans oppose banning The number of nonmilitary, nonelected citizens who have ever assault weapons such as the AR-15, the “lain in honor” in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol before the late evangelist one the Parkland shooter used. … Billy Graham did so on Feb. 28. The others were a police officer, a detective, and civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. Democrats oppose banning late-term abortion. … The idea: Trade banning 3 assault weapons for banning late-term abortion. Make illegal a killing machine and a killing procedure.” If this misery leaves you depressed and doubting, watch on YouTube a 1969 16.7 million The number of Americans affected by identity fraud in 2017, a record high. discussion between Woody Allen and Total losses were $16.8 billion, according to Javelin Strategy & Research. Billy Graham. Without self-righteousness Graham emphasized God’s righteousness and His standards for us. He laughed at Allen, laughed at himself, and jumped in when an audience member asked Allen, “Do you think you could ever make a good minister?” Graham said Allen could, because “some of the The number21,315 of measles cases recorded in Europe last year, up from greatest ministers of history have been 5,273 in 2016. Thirty-five children died of the disease. some of the greatest sinners in history.” Our obituary starting on p. 38 has much more about Graham. Maybe dozens of great ministers will emerge in sin-filled Syria, where the Assad government went on a killing spree in Eastern Ghouta, an area adja- cent to Damascus that has held out. Think of federal forces in Chicago dropping big bombs on Wheaton, or Los Angeles pouring it on Pasadena. The prophet Elisha in Chapter 8 of 2 The percentage spike in sales of bulletproof backpacks from Massachusetts Kings wept more than 2,800 years ago company Bullet Blocker during the week following a mass shooting at when he saw that Syrian king-to-be 30%Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Hazael would rip open pregnant women and bash out the brains of babies. As it was in those b.c. years it still is today, sin without end—for now. But the name Elisha means, “My God is salvation.” That means the thrill of 55,494 victory will come. The number of Boy Scouts who attained the Eagle Scout rank in 2017, Lord, have mercy. A the fourth-largest class of Eagles ever.

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Jailed ment. The penalty included A court in Bahrain sen- stripping the team of 123 tenced Nabeel Rajab, a wins between 2011 and rights activist who helped 2015 and forcing the uni-

lead the 2011 pro-democracy versity to return about AP VIA NEWS MORNING DALLAS LEE/THE S. JAE • BEGGS: SOTUNDE/REUTERS/NEWSCOM AFOLABI • NIGERIA: HANDOUT • MCCONNELL: EASLEY/AP D. TIMOTHY LOUISVILLE: OF • UNIVERSITY JAMALI/AP HASAN RAJAB: protests in the country, to $600,000 in tournament five years in prison. payouts. This follows A classroom at the school in Dapchi where Rajab was con- a 2015 investiga- girls went missing victed over tion after a tweets he had woman said released alleg- Andre McGee, a tuberculosis, helped in the ­fueling fears that even ing the torture member of the early stages of developing more girls had disappeared. of prisoners in Louisville staff, the polio vaccine, and President Muhammadu the country. He had hired her as directed the first U.S. com- Buhari has promised to has been in and out a prostitute and mercial MRI system. But mobilize the military and of jail since the 2011 pro- brought her and other he made what he called his police to find the missing tests. Rajab also faces women to campus to enter- most important contribu- girls. charges involving an open tain recruits. tion when he met a hitch- letter in The New York hiker without health Returned Times and an Instagram Died insurance who Mack Beggs, the transgen- post with a picture of the Jack McConnell, needed a doctor der high-school wrestler king. Rajab has been in the a medical for his pregnant who won the girls Texas hospital frequently, but researcher who wife. championship last year in authorities have denied in retirement McConnell the Class 6A 110-pound him bail on the basis of his started a system decided to start division, returned this year health. of free clinics for a free clinic and and defended her title. the uninsured, died asked retired doc- Beggs has been taking tes- Forfeited on Feb. 6 at age 93. tors and nurses to volun- tosterone as part of transi- The NCAA stripped the McConnell co-invented a teer. He had to get state law tioning from female to University of Louisville test for the detection of changed, but the clinic male. Last season, Beggs’ men’s basketball team of its opened, and the model he title and undefeated season 2013 national champion- built in 1993 has spread to prompted a debate over ship after a series of scan- University of Louisville almost 100 communities unfairness to other girls dals rocked the school. It is interim President Greg Postel nationwide, serving thou- who weren’t taking testos- (left) and interim Athletic the first time the NCAA Director Vince Tyra at a sands per year. terone. Beggs reportedly has issued such a punish- press conference wanted to wrestle males, Kidnapped but the law requires ath- The Islamist militant group letes to compete as their Boko Haram attacked biological sex. However, another girl’s school in Beggs and her family never northern Nigeria, driving asked for an exception to into the village of Dapchi the law, according to Texas with trucks and machine high-school sports official guns and opening fire. The Jamie Harrison. Beggs students and teachers at again went undefeated and the Government Girls won the state title this year. Science and Technical School fled, many climbing fences to escape. A few local residents told report- ers they saw militants dragging away girls during the Feb. 19 attack. Some 50 students are still missing. The government took two days to issue a report,

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‘Conditions in Yemen are catastrophic.’ JOHN GING, UN director of aid operations, on the mounting humanitarian crisis in war-torn ‘We’re going to be Yemen. More than 22 million people in Yemen are reportedly in need of food aid, the fastest- fighting from growing cholera epidemic has infected space in a matter 1.1 million people, and 3 million of years.’ people are displaced. Gen. DAVID GOLDFEIN, chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, on the need for the Air Force to develop capabilities to fight wars from space and “embrace space superiority with the same passion and sense of ownership as we

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something that can’t be corrected and for which no one now living bears direct responsibility. One author observes that since the institution of National Sorry Day, Australian culture has become “palpably darker, not to mention mawkish about its past.” That’s Douglas Murray, whose recent book The Strange Death of Europe ponders the All guilt, no swamping of European culture by unrestrained immigration, mostly from Muslim countries. A chapter called “The Tyranny of Guilt” asks why atonement Europe and its heirs, like Australia, Canada, and NATIONS THAT ABANDON THEIR CHRISTIAN the United States, have packed into the Last Chance Saloon to drink bitter tears of remorse. HERITAGE WALLOW IN SELF-LOATHING It’s not that these nations haven’t committed crimes. But they seem to be trapped in a cycle Beginning in the spring of 1915, the of unremitting guilt that saps national vitality. R Ottoman Empire carried out a systematic A fascinating pattern emerges: The nations extermination of Armenian Christians who most racked by guilt all share a Christian occupied territory west of present-day Turkey. ­heritage, but have by and large abandoned the Over 1.5 million men, women, and children faith. Enough Christian conscience remains to were slaughtered during a two-year period, an convict them, but without Christ they have no event credited with coining the word genocide. means of restoration. Guilt becomes its own To this day, the Turkish government rejects atonement, meaning it never ends until some- that label and has made it a crime (Article 301 one dies. The sacrificial victim is Europe itself, of the penal code) to insult the nation by committing slow suicide by bleeding out its ­mentioning it. ­culture and confidence. “A country that believes In 1937 the Japanese Imperial Army cap- Since the it has never done any wrong is a country that tured Nanking, then the capital of the Republic could do wrong at any time,” writes Murray. of China. Over a period of six weeks, soldiers institution “But a country that believes it has only done summarily killed anywhere from 40,000 to of National wrong … is likely to doubt its ability to ever do 300,000 civilians. Four years later Imperial any good in the future.” Japan staged a successful raid on the U.S. naval Sorry Day, Europe gave the world the political princi- base at Pearl Harbor, plunging the Pacific into Australian ples of equality and individual worth, now war. The total number of deaths attributed to culture has acknowledged everywhere if only by lip service. Japan between 1938 and 1945 is estimated from Those political principles were faith principles 3 million to 14 million, the vast majority of them become first. Christianity planted them deep within the civilians. Since then Japanese officials have ­‘palpably Western conscience, as even secularists are issued statements of regret. But when school- darker’ and beginning to admit. But when God abandons children learn about World War II, the focus is the temple, equality and worth cease to be on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ‘mawkish ­reasonable goals. Instead they linger on as Australia was established as a penal colony about its reproaches, setting the bar impossibly high. in 1788. However, in a remarkably short time it past.’ In Flannery O’Connor’s novella Wise Blood, overcame its seedy origins and established a a bitter and disillusioned army veteran declares forward-looking, industrious, ever-more-­ himself free of guilt. He establishes a “Church prosperous nation—albeit with a few stains on of Christ without Christ,” preaching a gospel its national character, having to do with mis- of liberation. But declarations are not reality, treatment of the Aborigines. In May 1998, the and he eventually blinds himself with acid in Australian government instituted National recompense. Without Christ to atone for us, Sorry Day to commemorate that mistreatment, we must atone for ourselves. IAN WALDIE/GETTY IMAGES especially the policy begun in the mid-1800s of Europe, and the West in general, is becom- taking native children from their parents in ing a Church of Christ without Christ, bur- order to teach them white culture in boarding dened with sins for which there is no remedy. schools. The demons once cast out have returned, and All three nations have had crimes to apolo- “the last state of that man is worse than the gize for. But only one continually apologizes for first.”A

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Television wouldn’t be compelling enough for a TV series, and turned to his own history Living by the Book? to give his main character a more relatable motivation. NEW COMEDY SHOW LIVING BIBLICALLY EXPLORES ONE “I grew up in a devoutly MAN’S MISGUIDED ATTEMPT AT PIETY by Megan Basham Catholic home and attended church regularly. My dad teaches Catholic What happens when average guy Chip Curry (Jay ­follow, as he sees it, the theology,” explains Walsh. R you try to follow the R. Ferguson), whose unex- “rules” for better living. “I knew there would be Bible without a real rela- amined life is disrupted This setup is a bit of a enough challenges in pull- tionship with Jesus Christ? first by the death of his best departure from the best- ing this off, so I based the That’s the premise behind friend and then by the dis- selling nonfiction book the show off the religion I was the new CBS sitcom Living covery that his wife is preg- show is based on. Jewish most familiar with and Biblically, though its writ- nant. These events inspire author A.J. Jacobs is an incorporated a rabbi.” ers and producers may not him to want to be a better agnostic who took on In these deeply divided realize it. man, and so, hearkening “Biblical” living as an times, CBS is taking some The show, which pre- back to the Catholic faith of experiment in stunt jour- big (and welcome) risks miered on Feb. 26, follows his childhood, he decides nalism. Patrick Walsh, the by even opening the door

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humorous way. If the show have felt fresher and isn’t critical enough of worked better as a modern- some Biblical standards, it style, single-camera show will risk making strident without a live audience. But secularists angry. If it goes that’s not how old-school too far in dismissing them CBS does things. Still, there Movie or characterizing them as are some laugh-out-loud bigotry, it will risk offend- moments in the first few ing not only believers, but episodes, as when Chip The Florida also Americans who con- decides to carry out an Old sider themselves at least Testament penalty against a Project culturally Christian even if cheating co-worker. As I The end credits of and get under the feet of they don’t personally follow always remind people, the R The Florida Project hotel manager and Christ. first few episodes ofSeinfeld make the following dis- handyman Bobby (Oscar- In the first three epi- weren’t very funny either. claimer: “This film was nominated Willem sodes screened for critics, The main question is not authorized, spon- Dafoe). the show walks that fine whether Chip will eventu- sored, endorsed, pro- That Baker sticks with line fairly well. There is ally progress into a deeper duced, distributed, or in Moonee’s carefree per- some foul language, but understanding of the any way officially associ- spective has led some that’s to be expected if you Scripture he is studying. ated with the Walt Disney movie critics to call the approach the show as I’d Specifically, will he eventu- Company.” Say what? No film a celebration of one who watches this film childhood. But why buffer suggest you do—as a sort of ally come to realize the fatal about an impoverished viewers? We should, even anthropological explora- error in his efforts to live mother and daughter will if the children don’t, dread tion of the Christian faith Biblically—that it’s impossi- likely feel an ounce of the highway and each by a post-Christian society. ble for anyone to keep the concern for the Magic doorway. Sure, there’s It’ll be clear to genuine Bible’s perfect standard, Kingdom’s welfare. Bobby, who acts as the Christ-followers that Chip which is why we all need a The story takes place children’s guardian angel. is Christianity-curious, not perfect sacrifice to keep the in and around a budget He evicts a prostitute, Christian, but his miscon- standard for us? Orlando hotel a couple of gently persuades a nude ceptions are common and Given the open-minded, stoplights down the high- poolside sunbather to far from malicious. At the constructive start the show way from Disney World’s cover up, and runs off a very least, his Bible- has already made, it’s not gates. In documentary likely pedophile. (The film, inspired attempts to be unreasonable to hope it style, writer-director recently released on DVD, more honest and loving could continue onto some Sean Baker peers into the is rated R for drug use, show the common grace firmer (and hopefully a unglamorous lives of the disturbing behavior, and of good results. ­little funnier) ground. A (fictional) long-term expletives—often from ­residents of the (real) the children.) Still, Bobby As Walsh says, Magic Castle Inn, can’t fix everything. “Currently [it’s] more about but neither lion- Halley and Moonee’s a man who is transformed izes nor shames precarious existence by the Bible in a way that is BOX OFFICE TOP 10 his characters. For begins to collapse: Their leading him to better, FOR THE WEEKEND OF FEB. 23-25 the most part, the sources of free food dry according to Box Office Mojo healthier, more fulfilling film centers on up, and Halley’s quasi- life.” So, yes, it’s a soft ver- CAUTIONS: Quantity of sexual (S), violent­ (V), Moonee (a tal- legit moneymaking sion of the Joel Osteen/ and foul-language (L) ­content on a 0-10 scale, ented 7-year-old schemes falter. There is Oprah prosperity gospel. with 10 high, from kids-in-mind.com Brooklynn Prince) one other “profession” But given that these are the S V L and her loving but Halley could turn to. same erroneous assump- `1 Black Panther* PG-13...... 2 6 3 immature mother, What would this mean tions much of the rest of `2 Game Night R...... 3 6 6 Halley (Bria for Moonee? And what the country makes, it would `3 Peter Rabbit PG...... 2 3 2 Vinaite). Moonee does this film mean for seem churlish to feel overly `4 Annihilation R...... 5 6 6 and her friends the countless other chil- `5 ...... affronted. Fifty Shades Freed R 10 4 5 spend the summer dren like Moonee trapped `6 roaming the hotel in physical and spiritual The show still needs Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle PG-13...... 4 5 4 and environs. They poverty throughout some time to settle into a `7 The 15:17 to Paris* PG-13...... 2 5 5 play under stair- America? They’re all rhythm and mine its con- `8 The Greatest wells, hit up tour- around us, if we have eyes ...... PG 3 3 2 A24 cept for more original Showman* ists for handouts, to see. —by BOB BROWN humor. No doubt it would `9 Every Day PG-13...... 3 2 4 `10 Early Man* PG...... 2 3 1

*Reviewed by WORLD 18 WORLD Magazine • March 17, 2018 Television 9-1-1 A firefighter mus- and her daughter R cles through smoke attempts suicide. The Movie and confusion, then dives new kid on the squad has into rising water to save sex with every woman he passengers stuck in an can, using a fire engine as Red Sparrow airliner downed in the his personal cruiser. A Because of its ideologies, her survival Pacific. A police sergeant firefighter, enraged at R shocking content, I mentality is disrupted. bursts out of the duct being turned down in a could never recommend She further discovers the tape around her wrists, marriage proposal, Red Sparrow. Yet the moral consequences of tackling a crazed killer. A crashes his Subaru fact that it was made at her form of government group of wedding cele- ­spectacularly, ending up all—with Hollywood’s when she uncovers a brants falls through two with a piece of rebar third-highest-paid Russian double agent. stories of a negligently impaled through his skull. actress, no less—seems Notwithstanding Red built structure, and emer- (Spoiler alert: He sur- worthy of attention. Sparrow’s explicit vio- gency personnel race in vives, but his girlfriend Like the popular cable lence and sexual content, to rescue. Fox’s popular doesn’t bother to visit.) drama The Americans, it’s a rare film that casts new TV drama 9-1-1 It is almost a relief for Red Sparrow takes the American ideal in a ­revels in mayhem, but the the viewer when the socialism seriously. positive light and con- first responders’ own emergency calls come in Dominika Egorova trasts it darkly with real lives are equally chaotic. and the sirens start. At (Jennifer Lawrence) is a rather than theoretical Long ago, shows like least then the audience modern-day prima balle- socialism. It’s a shame it Emergency! (1972-1979) can cheer for the heroes rina with the Bolshoi. But, does so with such raw, or CHiPs (1977-1983) to save the day. Once they for all her talent, her R-rated material when a could present first return to their homes and ­livelihood is entirely more restrained hand responders as uncompli- families, the real chaos dependent on the Russian could have still gotten cated heroes: They res- comes back. The writers government. Once she the point across. Of cued people, put out try to present family as suffers a career-ending course, the less interest- fires, and caught the bad an institution worth fight- injury, she learns her ing content about guys. That simplicity is ing for, but the message country will provide only “female sexual not enough for today’s is lost in the mayhem. a bare subsistence for agency in a TV writers. And the family for which her and her sick mother. male power In 9-1-1, the characters they battle is hardly Her uncle, a highly placed structure” is have messy personal ­recognizable as the God- official, offers Dominika what most of ­stories, full of turmoil ordained structure of a the option to serve as a the media and drama (including man and a woman united “sparrow”—a secret are hom- some foul language and in marriage. agent trained to kill, lie, ing in on. sexual situations). Chief Chief Bobby does turn and, most importantly, And isn’t Bobby Nash (Peter to a priest for confession seduce. that what Krause) turns to alcohol and counsel. But the In a typical spy flick, the spy and drugs to forget his cleric never advises him Dominika’s “training” game is guilty past. Patrol Sgt. that God’s forgiveness, would probably look sexy. all Athena Grant (Angela love, and mercy are the But Red Sparrow isn’t about? Bassett) tries to keep her only answers to the typical. In a series of The family together after her messiness of a fallen pathetic and gross sleight husband reveals he is gay, world. —by MARTY VANDRIEL encounters, she’s taught of hand that because the govern- that ment nourishes her body, makes it also owns it. If the state you look wants to use her flesh to at the manipulate other flesh, shiny, it’s her duty as a patriot tempo- to choke down her dis- rary gust and submit to deg- thing radation. She does, not to rather than serve her country, but to the deeper stay alive. However, when message being she seduces an American transmitted agent who cares more behind it. about individuals than —by MEGAN BASHAM 9-1-1: © 2018 BROADCASTING FOX 9-1-1: • RED SPARROW: TM & © 2018 TWENTIETH CENTURY FILM FOX CORPORATION

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I’ve read and reviewed about 10 these lines, Kandiah points out the ­second, smaller reshaping through the R books by evangelicals on homo- Bible’s preference for fighting poverty violence of the flood. sexuality: The Grace of Shame, subti- by providing character-forming Goldstein decries “the irresistible tled 7 Ways the Church Has Failed to ­opportunity to glean: It “underlines the lure among so many Christians to Love Homosexuals (Warhorn, 2017), is intrinsic value of work and the intrinsic ‘baptize the devil’ by seeking to har- unique in having two meaty chapters dignity of those made in God’s image.” monize evolution with Scripture.” He on “Removing the Sin of Effeminacy.” Kandiah promotes challenging tasks explains that “scientists can’t even Tim Bayly, Joseph Bayly, and Jurgen like caring for refugees and adopting/ know what data to look at without von Hagen examine the foster-parenting children and points first having a theory that guides them word malakoi (literally out apparent ironies such as those in what data to look for and then, of “soft men,” effeminate) involving Lot’s daughters: “God was course, in how to interpret that data and show Paul’s warn- more able to take care of those girls once they find it.” (Journalists are the ing that such will not than their own father, who was pre- same, and that’s why all reporting inherit the kingdom pared to toss them out to be violated.” comes out of a worldview of some of God. His book cuts against uniformitarian- kind.) As Goldstein notes, “Fossils Rachael ism in our own lives or in the world’s: don’t say, created sixty million years Denhollander’s Kandiah notes, “Instead of obeying ago in the early Cenozoic era. … Nor ­courage in exposing God by ruling over creation as he’d do they come inscribed with the sexual abuse (see p. 30) asked them to, Adam and Eve obeyed words, evolved from a Haikouichthys should make all of us the creation itself, overruling God’s 550 million years ago. These are review the protections boundaries and putting his wishes at interpretations based on a web of in place in our churches. Tim Hein’s the bottom of their priorities. This assumptions and speculations.” Understanding Sexual Abuse (IVP, turned the order of the universe upside Jerry Bergman’s Evolution’s 2018) is a useful guide to the psychol- down.” Blunders, Frauds and Forgeries ogy of the abused and to ways churches Clifford Goldstein’sBaptizing the (Creation, 2017) points out howlers and can help. Devil: Evolution and the Seduction covers the attempts of Russia’s Ilya Krish Kandiah’s God Is Stranger: of Christianity (Pacific Press, 2017) Ivanov to show the evolutionary close- Finding God in Unexpected Places shows the Bible itself opposes the uni- ness of man and ape by artificially (IVP, 2017) describes “a God who calls formitarian assumption that we can inseminating chimpanzees with human us to things yet then seems to make it understand the distant past by looking sperm and African women with ape harder to achieve them.” That’s because at the present. Genesis 2 describes an sperm, without their consent. No preg- “God is more interested in forming ecosystem without rain, but with a mist nancies resulted, and Ivanov died of a character than in forcing control … that went up from the earth. God tells stroke in 1932. Bergman suggests that more intent on molding us than manip- us that everything changed radically evolution-in-reverse is true: Mutations ulating or micromanaging us.” Along with the Fall, and then suggests a and sin are pushing us backward.

BOOKMARKS Ken Stern’s Republican Like Me (HarperCollins, 2017) tells how a liberal troubled by polarization spent a year talking with conservatives and found out they often make sense. He points out that many say conservatives lack compassion: Even though that’s not true, those seen as mean-spirited rarely win elections. Todd Sorrell’s The College Choice (Focus, 2017) offers clear advice on what to look for when choosing colleges, particularly Christian ones: Do professors affirm the sinful nature of man, the sovereignty of God, and the inerrancy of Scripture? —M.O.

20 WORLD Magazine • March 17, 2018 FOUR BOOKS ON PRAYER reviewed by Caleb Nelson

HOW SHOULD WE PRAY AT PRAYER MEETINGS? Ryan M. McGraw Seek first the kingdom and righteousness of God, even at prayer AFTERWORD meetings—or rather, especially at prayer meetings. This principle grounds all the advice McGraw dispenses in this diagnostic manual In Grace for the for corporate prayer. How can congregations avoid “organ recitals,” Unexpected Journey: A gossip, and too much information? By praying for everything in light 60-Day Devotional for of God’s name, kingdom, and will. Pray “we” prayers, because “cor- Alzheimer’s and Other porate prayer assumes agreement among those who pray.” Shun Dementia Caregivers, Biblical exposition and over-repetition of the same requests. Include Deborah Barr (Moody, children and the disabled. And above all, seek the glory of the 2018) offers practical and Father through the Spirit’s work spreading the good news of Jesus. wise counsel that combines Scripture snippets and short readings. She DIRTY GLORY: GO WHERE YOUR BEST addresses practi- PRAYERS TAKE YOU Pete Greig cal problems and Our God is amazing. That’s Greig’s message as he recounts story temptations— after story of stupefying, miraculous answers to prayer across con- worry, fear, grief, tinents. Virtually every amazing answer happened directly to him or exhaustion, sad- to one of his close friends. All of them were verified by multiple ness—facing eyewitnesses, many of whom the author names. From the Isle of those who care Lewis revival in the 1950s to the ongoing spread of the gospel in a for loved ones Mexican red-light district, you will constantly say “no way” as you with dementia. read this book. Is Greig exaggerating? I don’t think so, because this In Oswald is how our amazing God answers kingdom prayers. Chambers: A Life in Pictures (Discovery House, TALKING WITH GOD: WHAT TO SAY WHEN YOU 2017), Paul Kent offers an DON’T KNOW HOW TO PRAY Adam Weber admiring biography of Oswald Chambers accom- Talking with God is a breezy, chatty, sometimes embarrassingly per- panied by portraits, sonal conversation about prayer. If you like your prayers stodgy, sketches, and photos that South Dakota pastor Adam Weber may not be the guide for you. He complement the text. reminds readers to whom prayer talks (God Almighty), how to pray Chambers considered pur- (keep it short, simple, and honest), and when prayer is needed (in suing art, but an encounter suffering, when trying to extend grace, when you’ve sinned, and with the Holy Spirit when you need God to take over). If you secretly want to know changed the course of his what prayer is and how to pray even when you “live in Crazytown,” life. His teaching and this book is a very unassuming guide. preaching career took him back and forth between EVERY SEASON PRAYERS: GOSPEL-CENTERED Scotland, the United States, PRAYERS FOR THE WHOLE OF LIFE Scotty Smith and Japan. On one of those It’s not the Book of Common Prayer, but for those looking for voyages he met Biddy, who words to express what they’re trying to say to God, Tennessee later became his wife. pastor Scotty Smith’s 330-plus pages of prayers show how to Trained as a stenographer, pray Scripture—and suggest prayers for specific occasions. Some she used her skills to tran- readers may find lines like “when I do the mercy math” slightly scribe the talks he gave to cheesy, but Smith tackles tough topics too. The “prayers of a British soldiers in Egypt spouse betrayed by sexual sin” are devastating—and comforting. during WWI. After his Throughout, Smith reorients readers toward the kindness, love, death in 1917, she compiled and sufficiency of God in Christ, teaching those who pray these those talks into My Utmost

HANDOUT prayers to seek God’s kingdom first. for His Highest. —C.N.

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I’M A DUCK Eve Bunting A duck egg rolls into a pond by accident. Mother duck rescues the egg, but when it hatches, the baby duckling is afraid of the water. As all the sibling ducklings swim, the little one asks neighbors how to overcome fear. hosted by Bunting tells this simple story in rhyming verses. Artist AFTERWORD WORLD Will Hillenbrand provides expressive illustrations that Children’s books often con- should charm young readers. The book ends with this vey worldview, especially Journalism line: “Wasn’t it fantastic luck that I grew up to be a books that deal with death. duck?” A generation ago that would have sounded The website Brain Pickings Institute innocuous. But when identity is under attack, it’s just called Cry, Heart, But squishy enough to raise eyebrows. (Ages 3-5) Never Break by Glenn Ringtved CURIOSITY: THE STORY OF (Enchanted Lion Learn how to report on the front lines without hiding your beliefs A MARS ROVER Markus Motum Books, 2016) “the Told in the first person, from the perspective of a Mars crowning jewel” of rover, this picture book will appeal to children fasci- all the children’s THE 20TH ANNUAL nated by outer space and numbers. It’s filled with illus- books trying to trations that focus on technical details: batteries, make sense of SUMMER COURSE FOR COLLEGE REPORTERS AND RECENT GRADUATES distances, treads, dimensions. One two-page spread death. In it four details the booster rockets that propelled Curiosity children live with Dordt College, in Sioux Center, Iowa, will host the through the Earth’s atmosphere. Another shows what their ill grandmother. WORLD Journalism Institute for college students and was required to slow Curiosity’s descent onto Mars. Death arrives, leaves his recent graduates. Accepted students will receive Readers come away with a sense of wonder and admi- scythe outside, and takes free tuition, housing, lunches, dinners, and (for ration for the scientists who designed the amazing machine and sent it successfully to Telling the truth in the time to tell them a story, those who fl y in) transportation from and to the Mars, where it continues to send back information. (Ages 6-12) which ends with this bit of Christian and secular Sioux City or Sioux Falls airports. nonsense: “What would life publications WHEN PAUL MET ARTIE: THE STORY OF be worth if there were no For two weeks WJI students hone writing and SIMON & GARFUNKEL G. Neri death? Who would enjoy photography skills and learn the basics of video It’s not clear who the intended audience is for this melancholy the sun if it never rained?” and sound. Professional journalists with Christian picture book about Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel as boys In My Father’s Arms perspective and years of experience provide one-on- and young men. It’s a text-heavy story about how they met, Are a Boat by Stein Erik one mentoring. Students create news and feature why they became friends, and their many failures on the way Lunde (Enchanted Lion APPLICATION DEADLINE IS MARCH 29 stories, slide shows, videos, and radio podcasts. to success. The story ends on New Year’s Day 1966: “The Books, 2013), a Almost all get clips, and the best get internships. Sounds of Silence” is the No. 1 song on the charts. “For one boy struggles to To learn more and apply, go to: last moment, sitting in the car together, Paul and Artie are sleep. Outside is Situated amid the beauty of the Great Plains, Dordt still just two boys from Queens, dreaming about the future.” winter white. worldji.com College is dedicated to preparing students for service Nostalgic baby boomers may read it to grandchildren while Inside, dad sits by in Christ’s kingdom. The Wall Street Journal recently they listen to old records. (Ages 8-12) the fire. With named Dordt the nation’s top college for student spare dialogue the engagement for the second year in a row. STAY: A GIRL, A DOG, A BUCKET LIST Kate Klise boy asks anxious questions and the When Astrid comes home from the hospital as a baby, she meets father gives calm replies. Eli, the family’s shaggy dog. From that moment, they become best friends. But as Astrid ages, she realizes Eli is getting old. She Cutout illustrations match writes a list of all the things she wants Eli to experience: eating in the poignant mood in this CHARLOTTE PARDI a restaurant, going down a slide, being read to, going for a bike book about the sorrow and ride. Eli enjoys those activities, but his real joy comes from being loneliness that follow a with Astrid. A sweet book about aging and spending time with mother’s death. Missing those we love. Lively illustrations portray the friendship between ingredient in both books: a child and a dog. (Ages 3-6) Biblical hope. —S.O.

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DANIEL GERACI Compassion on call NETWORKING CHURCHES FOR DISASTER RELIEF by Marvin Olasky

Daniel Geraci is the founder and we would become an in-your-face Jesus that says, I’m background R executive director of the Austin freak group, the second disaster in a checked, I’m not a sex Disaster Relief Network of 175-plus time of disaster. offender, here’s my training. churches. ADRN, which celebrates its You had ground rules for volun- That’s huge with the city, and ninth birthday in March, deploys teers? We say: You might want to share our training cuts off these ­volunteers after floods, hurricanes, a testimony, but you should not do that problems. and other disasters. Here are edited in a time of stress. Listen to their testi- What if a volunteer goes excerpts of an interview that took place mony, because if they don’t share it rogue? It’s only happened in the Olasky living room and includes they won’t be able to pull themselves once, I think. One shepherd questions posed by the 10 members of out of their trauma. Then we can meet was a bit too pushy with the World Journalism Institute’s ninth not only physical needs but also emo- ­survivors, trying to get them mid-career course. tional needs and, most importantly, to attend a church. We had to What is ADRN’s purpose? To get spiritual needs. talk to him. the church to be like the Good Do people tend to question God’s You have two different Samaritan, to walk with families until goodness? In disaster we see so many kinds of volunteers. To be a they are back on their feet. God so loves people saying, “Why did God do this to counselor you have to sign a the world and His church that He’s me?” Some are Christians and they’re Christian statement of faith, preparing the church to be the best falling apart. Their house is collapsing, but to work in the ware- asset when disaster strikes—not the one so we hope to help Christians have legs house or other places you where the city says, “Stay away,” but the like pillars of marble, as the Song of don’t have to? Right: one that provokes a “We need these Solomon says. You cannot push over a Community volunteers and guys” response. pillar of marble. ADRN volunteers are two So you emphasize training. In times What’s the most important thing separate types. The ADRN of disaster churches respond no matter for people to say? What’s the most volunteers sign a statement of what, but are they organized? Do they important thing for people not to say? faith. The community volunteers have mobilize and connect? Are they trained On the emotional side of it—don’t say phenomenal opportunities to help in in advance? And the answer is usually things like “time will heal all” and “let the warehouse and thrift store. no. We are trying to turn that around. me tell you what happened to me.” You have a thoroughly Biblical More than 7,000 trained volunteers are They want you to listen. So we just say: statement of faith. In Austin, how do in our network now. “duct tape.” Put a piece of duct tape some opponents of Christianity toler- Austin is a blue dot in a red state, a over your mouth and just listen. ate that? I asked that same question. blueberry in a bowl of tomato soup. But you don’t have to back off It’s the goodness of God, and thousands How did city officials initially respond because of governmental pressure? of volunteers helping. One city of to a Christian effort? The first thing No government loans? There are too Austin leader has had people say, “Why we did was to go to city leaders and say, many strings attached. We are not are you using those guys?” He answered, “How can we serve you?” Their going to cut the name of Jesus out. “Until I see you or somebody else do response was, “Wow, no one has asked We’re also not going to batter a person. what they do, we’re going to use them.” that. We would love for you to help run One woman called me and said some- What about within the often-­ the shelters with the Red Cross and one in a yellow shirt told her she would fractious Christian community: How provide volunteers for them.” go to hell if she didn’t give her life right do all these churches and pastors How did Red Cross leaders now to the Lord—a complete trying-to- cooperate? We don’t ask each other respond? Some major fear. They convert-her-when-she’s-traumatized. what church we attend. Our focus is thought we would raise up maybe 50 It wasn’t our yellow shirt. We weren’t Jesus and the work He’s asked us to do. volunteers and suddenly we had 800 in even deployed in that area. We have Are there times when things did three months. They were nervous that identity with badging and a credential not fall into place, and then what did

24 WORLD Magazine • March 17, 2018 you do? I loved doing Port Arthur, that we encourage shepherds to read. that functions as we do with more than Texas, which Harvey devastated. We New people doing ministry for the first 175 churches, and training people in bused out 1,000 volunteers in 20 buses. time have a definite pull toward a mes- advance so when disaster strikes they We needed food and trucks, and not siah complex: You’re the messiah, you’ll are ready to mobilize. until the last minute did those come in. help out on every single thing a person Do you accumulate survivors’ Lots of prayer. has. Those who try to do it all burn tales? Here’s one: Vandals tear down a What kinds of training should themselves out. stop sign in a 72-year-old woman’s every Christian have? Two kinds, both Are all churches, including Catholic neighborhood. She makes calls and gets nationally and internationally recog- ones, welcome? Everyone has been it up again. They tear it down again. nized. First, Community Emergency welcome from the Christian church She says to the city, “This time I want Response Team training. That’s physi- perspective. Many volunteers are you make it the strongest stop sign cal first aid, how to do triage, all those Catholic, and we’ve had lots of meet- you’ve ever put in.” The city did. things that are important if something ings. It still feels very Protestant and And then … When the Memorial happens across your street or in a makes them nervous, but they are Day flood comes she goes out the door ­terrorist attack. The second kind is welcome. to see what’s going on. A 5-foot wall of Critical Incident Stress Management Our readers probably know about water carries her down the street. She’s training, which gives the emotional organizations like Samaritan’s Purse 72 years old. Guess what she hangs on tenets: how to pull people out of a level and the denomination-wide Southern to? The stop sign. 10 trauma so that in 30-40 minutes they Baptist Disaster Relief, but what She said, “I knew from that moment could be at level 1. cross-denomination disaster relief even though the water was up to my What do you want people to read? networks of churches exist in big neck God was involved and I was going

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Honeck conducts the another interesting case. Pittsburgh Symphony. The performers bring to harrowing life Berg’s tragic won the Best Orchestral tale of a common man Old and new Performance Grammy last driven to madness and mur- OFT-RECORDED CLASSICAL WORKS year, provoking one sarcastic der by the mounting social, WIN AWARDS, AGAIN by Arsenio Orteza commenter on a classical- financial, and emotional music website to quip, “I consequences of his having didn’t realize so much could fathered a child out of wed- be said in Shostakovich 5.” lock with a woman of easy To be fair, Under Stalin’s virtue. But can Graf’s Shadow also contained Wozzeck really be said to Shostakovich 8 and 9, supersede, to cite whereas Honeck’s just one example, album pairs the 1988 Wozzeck Shostakovich 5 conducted by with Barber’s Claudio Abbado Adagio for Strings. and featuring as So the contexts in Marie the magnifi- which one encoun- cent Hildegard ters the two Behrens? How Shostakovich 5s many masterly are somewhat ­versions of a mas- different. terpiece, in other But other than words, does one Generally speaking, instance, voted? What were the fact that need? R for classical musicians their credentials? Is it Honeck takes the Perhaps the even to be signed to a remotely possible that they first of the sym- Classical Grammys recording deal, they have to listened to more than a phony’s four movements a function most use- have demonstrated such a sliver of the eligible little more slowly than fully when they draw atten- high level of talent that the selections? Nelsons did, there’s no solid tion to works too new to be odds of their making a bad Shostakovich: Symphony reason to prefer one perfor- over-recorded. A case in or even a boring album No. 5; Barber: mance over the other. Each point is this year’s Best are extremely long. Adagio (Reference), does justice to the work’s Choral Performance winner, Their odds of a live recording by invisibly quiet stretches, its Gavin Bryars: The Fifth making an undis- the Pittsburgh emotionally shattering Century (ECM) by the tinguished album, Symphony ­crescendos, and the anti- 31-member vocal ensemble on the other hand, Orchestra as con- socialist realism of its the Crossing and the saxo- are high. Of the ducted by Manfred ­defiantly playful second phone quartet PRISM. more than 2,000 Honeck, won movement. Again, any A fascinatingly other- classical albums that twice, for Best orchestra that’s talented worldly setting of seven were released in 2017, many Engineered Album, Classical, and well-conducted enough devoutly mystical medita- comprise oft-recorded and Best Orchestral to have its recording of such tions by the 17th-century works from the standard Performance. A powerful a complex piece released at Anglican Thomas Traherne Baroque, Classical, recording of a striking and all is unlikely to make a and two sonnets by PETER STEFFEN/PICTURE-ALLIANCE/DPA/AP PETER Romantic, and 20th-century historically significant botch of things. Petrarch, The Fifth Century repertoires, exponentially work, its engineering and The album that won the contains few if any traces of diminishing their chances performance might really Grammy for Best Opera the minimalistic techniques of standing out. have been the best of the Recording—Hans Graf and that characterized Bryars’ All this talk of odds and year. the Houston Symphony’s best-known work, Jesus’ chances makes one wonder But a recording that recording of Alban Berg’s Blood Never Failed Me Yet. how the classical albums included Shostakovich’s Wozzeck (Naxos) featuring Instead, it weds text to that won Grammys in Fifth, Under Stalin’s Shadow Roman Trekel (Wozzeck), sound with an intimacy so January came to be selected. by the Andris Nelsons–­ Anne Schwanewilms intense that the resulting How many members of the conducted Boston (Marie), and Gordon Gietz whole transcends them Recording Academy, for Symphony Orchestra, also (the Drum Major)—is both. A

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THELONIOUS SPHERE MONK Mast Two key words in the subtitle, A Cosmic Journey Reinterpreting the Great Thelonious Monk Songbook, are “cosmic” and “reinterpreting.” But whereas those terms often camouflage silliness, the multi-instrumentalist Mast (née Tim Conley) takes them seriously. He also takes Monk’s compositions seriously. Neither the prevalence of electronic sounds nor their deployment beneath and around such benchmarks of bebop as “Bemsha Swing,” “Well You Needn’t,” and “Pannonica” (two-fifths of Monk’s brilliant Brilliant Corners) distracts from their melodies—melodies ENCORE that draw attention to the subtitle’s third key word: “great.” Bruno Mars’ third album, 24k Magic (Atlantic), was RELAX YOUR MIND: HONORING THE MUSIC released in November 2016, Peter Tork and Shoe Suede Blues OF LEAD BELLY but it fell within the eligibil- The main difference between Peter Tork’s Lead Belly trib- ity parameters established ute and Dan Zanes’ (see below) is that Tork isn’t targeting by the Recording Academy kiddies. Not that his cracker-barrel tenor or his rhythmically and dominated January’s acute folk-rock band (or his Monkees pedigree) is child awards ceremony (the 60th unfriendly. But he takes greater risks in choosing which of its kind if you’re count- Lead Belly songs to record. Children will understand “Come ing). Not only did it earn and Sit Down Beside Me” just fine. They might, however, Mars the coveted Album of need the songs about Black Betty, Jean Harlow, and Jesus the Year trophy, but its title cut and “That’s What I (specifically, why He died without saying a mumblin’ word) Like” won Record of the explained. Year and Song of the Year honors SPIRITUAL IMPRESSIONS James Weidman respectively. Assisted by a bluesy, modestly swinging small combo, the So how good pianist James Weidman provides interior illumination to is it? Call it an “iconic Negro spirituals” (his term). Eight feature the singu- effervescently heady mix of larly creamy mezzo-soprano of the Christian jazz vocalist Michael Jackson, Ruth Naomi Floyd. Three she sits out. One of those, “Walk Prince, James Brown, and Together Children,” is a low-key solo-Weidman affair. Ray Parker Jr., and assume Another, the full-combo original “African Spirals,” unfolds for the catchiness therefore to 6½ breathtaking minutes. Verdict: Floyd provides the icing, be a given. What isn’t is the but the cake is pretty tasty as well. album’s humility-bespeaking brevity. At 33 minutes and LEAD BELLY, BABY! Dan Zanes and Friends 28 seconds, it’s the fourth- shortest Album of the Year Zanes has long credited his childhood discovery of Lead in Grammy history. It’s also, Belly with having launched him on his own musical odyssey. alas, one of the shallowest: And with these 15 songs he and his friends do their best to The Mars that emerges introduce the technology-besotted children of the 21st seems little more than a century to the irrepressibly human spirit of the man born hedonistic “player.” At their Huddie Ledbetter. To that end, they clean up the language most effervescently heady, of “Whoa, Back, Buck” and prove with a “Skip to My Lou” Jackson, Prince, Brown, and featuring the (clean) rapping of Memphis Jelks and Chuck Parker came off as more

TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES D that cute is not beneath them. three-dimensional. —A.O.

To see more music news and reviews, go to wng.org/music March 17, 2018 • WORLD Magazine 27 VOICES Mindy Belz WURMBRAND: roots in churches and Jewish organizations because after World War II they raised funds on their own to care for Europe’s orphaned and TORTURED FOR CHRIST homeless war victims. Such compassion is one reason similar orga- nizations have been at the forefront urging Congress to take action to resolve the status of THE COMPLETE STORY dreamers, immigrants who entered the United Those Hebrew States illegally as children. “The Bible does not give us a specific list of bills that should be passed in the Senate or the House. But the Bible midwives does tell us who to care about,” said Russell THEY GAVE LIFE, NOT THEIR OPINIONS Moore, president of the Southern Baptist He spent 14 years in prison—because he wouldn’t deny Christ. Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty She spent three years in a labor camp—because she wouldn’t Commission. stop telling others about Jesus. Their son was left an orphan, Midwifery is making another comeback, When dozens of evangelical leaders, living on the streets. R as small-town hospitals are gobbled up by including Moore, signed a six-principle corporate medical centers and they discontinue statement calling for “a timely solution” But God didn’t forget this amazing family, and He never stopped labor and delivery services. Nearly half the for dreamers, they began, “Biblically walking with them, even through prison and torture and the counties in America are without obstetricians. understood, a just system of law always depths of hardship and pain. In their place the number of certified nurse has in view human flourishing.” midwives is growing. Human flourishing has been at the Now, for the first time, read both sides of their amazing story. Childbirth is hard work—there’s a reason it’s heart of the pro-life movement, of called labor—yet the midwife’s philosophy is to recent demands for accountability for recognize it as a normal part of life, requiring workplace sex abuse, and further back Own the story that has changed assistance but not always medical intervention. in civil rights and abolitionist move- millions of lives. To midwife is to be “with woman,” to serve by ments. Human flourishing gets lost in coming alongside, using knowledge and skill as ‘Biblically current protest movements like the Women’s Available in print and digital editions everywhere a helper in what the body is meant to do. In this March, and in a binary world of Fox versus books are sold or call David C Cook 800.323.7543 midwives have so much to teach us. Their understood, CNN or Trump versus the Resistance. ­practice may give life, preserve lineages, even a just system When compromise is unthinkable, we are whole nations. of law always led to believe there are only two sides to any We have the Hebrew midwives to thank for issue. A sound-bite culture turns a deaf ear to the life of Moses, and Moses to thank for the has in view complexity. Yet most issues that are important preservation of God’s people, who survived human are also complex, like immigration, not subject slavery in Egypt to become a nation and bring flourishing.’ to zero-sum gamesmanship. forth a Savior of the world. In what commen- The Hebrew midwives give a pattern we see taries sometimes call the Bible’s first act of civil — Russell Moore throughout Scripture, a pattern of perseverance disobedience, we see in the midwives’ actions and other in the face of an oppositional culture, of watch- how defiance may be put to service, how evangelical­ ing out for the vulnerable no matter the cost. ­coming alongside may prosper a nation. leaders They succeeded not by loudly defending their In the first chapter of Exodus, the king of cause but by quietly getting to work (though Egypt tells Shiphrah and Puah, two Hebrew mid- they also did defend their cause). They were wives, to kill all the male sons born to Hebrew less about guarding their positions and more women while letting their daughters live. (It’s about defending the future. perhaps significant that the midwives are named I like what commentator David French while the king is not.) Shiphrah and Puah form wrote recently: “It’s not hard to be a Christian a vanguard to protect the nation of Israel by the in the age of Trump. It’s really not. You applaud simple act of letting the Hebrew baby boys live. him when he does good things, critique him In doing their jobs, they launch a revolution. when he does bad things, and never, ever

Christians throughout history have made it ­forsake your larger religious and cultural voice MARK HUMPHREY/AP their business to carry on the work of rescue, for the sake of secular political tribalism.” nation-building, and transformation in the face And you get busy with the labors of life, the of obstacles and opposition. Take just one Hebrew midwives might add. It may be risky example, refugees. The largest and most promi- work, but if it’s life-giving and future-oriented, The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) is a nonprofit, interdenominational missions organization that offers practical nent U.S. refugee resettlement agencies have it’s what a body is meant to do. A and spiritual help to persecuted Christians around the world. Founded in 1967, VOM is dedicated to inspiring all believers to deepen their commitment to Christ and to fulfill his Great Commission—no matter the cost.

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Wurmbrand - World Magazine ad.indd 1 2/22/18 10:45 AM FEATURES A TIME TO SPEAK In a Biblical pursuit of both justice and forgiveness, Rachael Denhollander helped stop a criminal sexual predator

by JAMIE DEAN in Louisville, Ky.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This article contains descriptions of sexual abuse.

March 17, 2018 • WORLD Magazine 31 CREDIT her public ordeal began 18 months before began 18 her public ordeal Denhollander says she hopes Nassar will find she hopes Nassar says Denhollander him. “And that is what makes the gospel of the gospel makes that is what him. “And and grace extends Because it sweet. so Christ none should be found. where hope and mercy for you.” be there And it will that and faith in Christ, and saving repentance It’s a desire rooted in her own experience of wrestling with of wrestling experience own in her rooted a desire It’s family homeschooling a Christian, up in Denhollander grew back pain, and her lower she developed gymnasts, many Like she’s also grateful the courts have meted out justice for justice his meted out have the courts also grateful she’s evangelical hopes other institutions—including And she crimes. of reporting with the importance afresh grapple churches—will and helping victims face trauma. abuse to civil authorities storm. help in a dark God and finding His Denhollander, For But at his sentencing hearing in January. Nassar she confronted years earlier. 18 suffering began her private at a young her Savior as Christ Mich., and trusted in Kalamazoo, 12. was until she gymnastics start She didn’t age. State at Michigan about a popular sports physician family heard had taught and practiced Larry Nassar (MSU): University Denhollander shows shows Denhollander gymnastics her scrapbook. - - in northern Kentucky, Jacob Jacob Kentucky, in northern March 2018 17, •

“Should you ever reach the point reach ever you “Should At the hearing, Denhollander’s Denhollander’s the hearing, At In the end, scores of women fol of women In the end, scores Denhollander’s decision to be the Denhollander’s Meanwhile, USA Gymnastics and Gymnastics USA Meanwhile, The current number of public The current In December, a judge sentenced Nassar to 60 years in federal in federal to 60 years a judge sentenced Nassar In December, Denhollander, 33, was the first woman to go public withwoman to the first was 33, Denhollander, This is their first Sunday home after spending nearly home after spending Sunday a This is their first They look like an ordinary family, with their two little girls with their two family, an ordinary They look like

WORLD Magazine the guilt will be crushing,” she told the guilt will be crushing,” 32 repentance before God. before ­repentance done, have of truly facing what you bravery included remarkable words words included remarkable bravery about the evil She spoke for Nassar. of his sin. And she and wickedness about his need for true spoke and “the bravest person I have ever ever person I have and “the bravest courtroom.” had in my lowed Denhollander’s lead. Judge lead. Judge Denhollander’s lowed called the women Aquilina Rosemarie She dubbed of survivors.” army “an general” Denhollander their “five-star a haunting question: Would anyone anyone Would a haunting question: her? believe in the country carried huge risk: She to divulge the excruciat have would on take abuse, ing details of Nassar’s down and stare institutions, powerful first to speak publicly against one of to speak publicly against first sports doctors well-known the most Nassar practiced medicine, stand medicine, practiced Nassar when accused of failing to intervene abuse of Nassar’s multiple reports 20 years. the last surfaced over accusers: at least 256. accusers: at least where University, Michigan State assaulting girls under the guise of medical care. prison on child pornography charges. In January and February, and February, In January charges. prison on child pornography Michigan judges each sentenced two for sexually to 40 to 175 years Nassar sexual assault allegations against Nassar, and she set in motion Nassar, allegations against assault ­sexual in predators sexual known of one of the worst the downfall sports history. month in Michigan, where Denhollander delivered the last of the last Denhollander delivered month in Michigan, where sentencing hearings for in one of two 156 victim statements Nassar. Larry physician gymnastics ­disgraced in frilly dresses and a young son in a shirt and tie, but the in a shirt and tie, son and a young in frilly dresses journey. an extraordinary from returned just Denhollanders have and Rachael Denhollander sit with their three small children a small children their three Denhollander sit with and Rachael of Church Baptist of Reformed front the from few rows Louisville. n a stormy Sunday morning Sunday n a stormy O DAVID HARRISON/GENESIS Denhollander entered law school atage19.a Shehadfinished understand therest ofit.” was true. And soIheldtowhatknewwas truewhenIcouldn’t ever Ididn’t understand couldn’t contradict what Ididknow true aboutGod:“And itwas avisualreminder tomethatwhat work.” Shefilledthelogicgraph with everything sheknewtobe it. “Idrew Venn diagrams,” shesays. “Becausethat’s how I when Ididn’t have theanswers.” and sovereignty andHisknowledge ofwhathappened,even experience: “Thatwas partoflearning totrust inGod’s justice She says itwas difficult to reconcile herChristian faithwithher was somehopeofbeingbelieved.” to escalate. SoIdidn’t want togodown thatroad untilthere complaint, “he’s goingtoknow hecan’t becaught,andit’s going that ifNassar hadabusedher, hehaddoneittoothergirlsaswell. Denhollander hadabiggerconcern:Shebecomeconvinced anonymous, andthere was noappeal.It seemeddaunting, and complaint withthemedicalboard. Theprocess: It couldn’t be actions were abusive. They beganresearching pelvictherapies tofind outif Nassar’s and shelaterdescribedtheother“treatments” shehadendured. assault,” shesays. her breast andwas visiblyaroused. “Iknewitwas sexual last visit,Nassar leftnodoubtabouthisactionswhenhefondled when shewasn’t inthetreatment room. Duringthesecondto 10 times, andshe feltvulnerable, exposed, andanxious, even Would a­ cealing hisabusewithatowel orhisown body. Theywondered: Sometimes theirmotherswere intheroom, withNassar con understand? talk aboutit.Was thisakindoftreatment theyjust didn’t embarrassing, Denhollanderandothergirlsdidn’t know how to “Nothing was offlimits,” says Denhollander. didn’t askthegirlsforpermission,andhedidn’t wear gloves. and Nassar’s actionsraised two otherglaringred flags: He some formsofmusclepain,it’s almost never usedonminors, pelvic physical therapy thatcanincludepenetration toease from musclemassagetopenetrating thegirlswithhisfingers. describe later, Nassar’s physical therapy quicklyprogressed seemed wrong. Asmany othergirlsandyoung women would appointment withNassar whenshewas 15in2000, something was always ontheirside. recounted thedoctorgrooming themtomake themthinkhe coaches andathletes, andsomeofthegymnasts heabused coordinator forUSA Gymnastics since1996. ­medicine atMSU since1997, andhehadbeenthechiefmedical After coachingyoung gymnasts forashorttime, She cracks asmilewhensheremembers how sheprocessed In themeantime, Denhollanderjournaledabouthertrauma. Another decadewould passbefore that hopeappeared. She says sheworried thatifamedicalboard rejected her A nursepractitionera in2004saidDenhollandershouldfile Eventually, Denhollander toldhermotheraboutthatvisit, Over thecourse ofayear, Denhollandersaw Nassar atleast Even more confusingforDenhollanderand many others: But sincethefamousdoctorwas revered andhisactionsfelt Though somespecializedtherapists doperformatypeof But Denhollanderencountered evil earlyon.From herfirst Accusing suchamanofevil wouldn’t beeasy. It seemedeveryone loved Larry. He was popularwith doctor abusemewithmy momnearby? - - reports ever arose ever against him, shewas determinedshewould reports abuse qualifiedasfirst-degree sexual assault. Butifother had expired forreporting Nassar, andshedidn’t realize his legislation inMichigan,andworked onpublicpolicy. school.) Rachaelconsultedforlaw firms, testified for pro-life Theological Seminary. (He’s now working onaPh.D. atthe where Jacob completedanM.Div. from theSouthernBaptist he still wanted her. tolearnoftheabuseandhearRachaelwonder if breaking” give himthefreedom towalk away. Jacob says itwas “heart her secret aboutNassar. If hecouldn’t handleit,shewanted to probably meet.” Rachael: “And 900pagesofemailslater … we decidedwe should distance correspondence aboutworldview andtheology, says Canadian namedJacob Denhollander. Thepairbeganalong- worldview, andamutualfriendforwarded herwork toayoung College ofLaw, aChristian schoolbasedinCalifornia. her legaltraining through distance learningattheOakBrook paralegal degree duringhighschool atage17, andshecompleted to feelsafe, and inorder toputthe kind ofpublicpressure done toher, butshe believed there was nootherway. She loathedtheideaofpublicly describingwhatNassar had abuse. Neither wanted tobenamed. article. TheyindependentlyaccusedNassar ofsexual more women hadcomeforward afterreading the Two weeks passeduntilanotheremailappeared: Two in thestory: Dr. Larry Nassar. told thenewspaperaboutanofficialithadn’t mentioned would believe heraboutNassar. Sheemailedthe accusations against coaches.) reported ithaduncovered 360casesover 20years of Indianapolis headquarters. (Thepapereventually on more than50coachesandfiledtheminadrawer intheir had abusedatleast 14 more girlsafterthewarnings. after abuseallegationssurfacedandreported thatthecoaches years. It highlightedfourcoachesthatUSAG failed toreport to multipleallegationsofsexual abuseby coachesover many national governing body. an investigation intoUSA Gymnastics (USAG), thesport’s saw anarticletrending on tough day ofteethingwhensheglancedathercomputerand 6, 3, and2). Shewas soothingherinfantdaughterthrough a day asastay-at-home momtoherthree children (now ages On Aug. 12,2016, make thisend.” to enough never,be ever that would a quiet, anonymous voice that shewould doitpublicly:and “Iwas convinced out, speak Until 2016, Denhollanderthoughtthestatute oflimitations The couplemarriedin2009andlatermoved toLouisville, During oneofJacob’s visitstoMichigan,Rachaeltoldhim During law school,shemaintained ablogaboutChristian “Somebody hadtobethepublicfaceinorder forthevictims Denhollander’s resolution togopublichadmetitsmoment. A reporter sentaquickemailtothankherforthetip. If USAG coacheshadbeenexposed, maybe someone Denhollander tookabreath: “Ithought—this isit.” Records showed USAG officialscompiledcomplaintdossiers The story reported thatUSAG hadfailedtoalertauthorities

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- 33 DAVID HARRISON/GENESIS - Rachael and Jacob were in Michigan with were Rachael and Jacob Nassar signed off on it, Denhollander says, “But I don’t think I don’t “But signed off on it, Denhollander says, Nassar Over 2017, dozens more women came forward and some came forward women dozens more 2017, Over and Jacob but she Denhollander faced anxiety and nightmares, the small says Savastio Jim Pastor church, their current At can talk you can help with the children, you can pray, “You of pleaded guilty on charges Nassar the end of the year, By When Smith pressed Denhollander on how much research research much on how Denhollander Smith pressed When Nassar pursued testified women and young Six other girls child pornography and in two separate cases with multiple cases separate and in two child pornography victims of the plea deals: Any assault. Part ­victims of sexual abuse could speak at his about Nassar’s to testify who wanted included in weren’t if their charges even sentencing hearing, his guilty pleas. about to unleash.” idea what he was he had any 2018 By January with (a fourth is due this summer) to stay children their three spoke out publicly. It was a grueling year. was It out publicly. spoke of Church Baptist home at Reformed leaned into a new church before, the year church They had left their previous Louisville. on a sepa leaders’ perspective with the church after disagreeing abuse (see sidebar). rate, the issue of sexual outside case involving to of about 150 members had a simple approach congregation caring for the Denhollanders. can sympathize you home, them in your can have to them, you need a don’t “You he says. them,” can encourage with them, you thousand members to do that.” she had done about the statute of limitations, and criminal law law and criminal of limitations, the statute done about she had think when it “I Denhollander replied: procedures, and medical put effort should be every a child predator, comes to stopping a lot of time.” I did spend yes, in. So, them. of abuse with the same pattern - - Denhollander with Denhollander husband, Jacob her - , and she also learned, and she also Star about Denhollander and March 2018 17, has identified at least 40 girls and women 40 girls and has identified at least • The Indianapolis Star Indianapolis The Denhollander didn’t flinch. Denhollander didn’t Two months later, Denhollander testified for two hours for two Denhollander testified months later, Two Since Denhollander was the public face of the story, she also the public face of the story, Since Denhollander was In September 2016 MSU finally fired Nassar—after the story the Nassar—after finally fired MSU In September 2016 In 2015, USAG officials responded to allegations Nassar had responded to allegations officials USAG In 2015, In 2014, an MSU graduate filed complaints graduate an MSU In 2014, None of the officials reported Nassar to police. reported of the officials None Brianne Randall told 17-year-old In 2004, More than a dozen athletes, including gymnasts, including gymnasts, than a dozen athletes, More After Denhollander’s story appeared, more more appeared, story After Denhollander’s “That was almost the worst part,” says part,” the worst almost “That was Shortly after her report to the Michigan State to the Michigan her report Shortly after Denhollander told her story to the to the told her story Denhollander WORLD Magazine 34 her testimony live-streamed on news sites, defense attorney on news sites, live-streamed her testimony in publicity and Shannon Smith accused her of being interested money. chasers looking for a payday. case would in a hearing to determine whether Nassar’s straight with Nassar, from the courtroom go to trial. As she sat across zines—but public accusations stung. In March 2017 MSU trustee 2017 MSU In March zines—but public accusations stung. and other women Denhollander told a reporter Ferguson Joel ambulance were Nassar accusing the school of failing to stop another gymnast who remained anonymous. who remained another gymnast social media—and tried to She avoided became a public target. in newspapers or maga seeing her picture her kids from keep the FBI investigated. in appeared weeks before reporting Nassar to the FBI. Nassar quietly FBI. Nassar to the Nassar reporting before weeks at MSU. but continued practicing with USAG his post resigned Times York New The while the course of a year, them over molested Nassar who say preted medical treatment. preted for five They investigated gymnast. USA abused a former Team against Nassar with university police and the with university Nassar against The school conducted an Title IX office. school’s had misinter and said the woman investigation assaulted her. Police believed Nassar. (The police Nassar. believed Police assaulted her. in January conference department held a press 2018 to apologize publicly to Randall.) Meridian Township police that Nassar had police that Nassar Township Meridian a volleyball player, a softball player, and a cross- a softball player, player, a volleyball coaches and they told MSU say country runner, abuse. about Nassar’s trainers case against Nassar, who remained in jail. Over the Over in jail. who remained Nassar, case against surfaced: of revelations a litany year, following 20 years. back went Nassar against Accusations and how many of them were likely trafficked or trafficked likely of them were many and how a family member. abused by built their and prosecutors came forward, women Denhollander. It sickened her to think of how many her to think of how sickened It Denhollander. of images that number to make little girls it takes University police, officers obtained a warrant to warrant officers obtained a police, University 37,000 Their discovery: computers. Nassar’s search images of child pornography. records and information from three pelvic floor specialists who pelvic floor specialists three from and information records medical legitimate resemble actions didn’t told her Nassar’s listen. hoped the police would She treatment. necessary,” she said. “Larry was an incredibly charismatic indi charismatic an incredibly was “Larry she said. ­necessary,” voice.” anonymous an overshadow far too easily would He vidual. her medical brought report. She file a police she could still HANDOUT from Iextend me—though thattoyou aswell.” which you needfarmore thanforgiveness repentance andtrueforgiveness from God, of guilt“soyou may someday experience true prayed weight hewould feelthesoul-crushing poured outonmenlike you.” Shesaidshe final judgmentwhere allofGod’s wrath andeternalterror is turned herwords toNassar. ShetoldhimtheBiblespeaksof“a girl worth?” reports ofabuse. Sherepeatedly asked, “How muchisalittle and officialsat MSU and USAon Gymnastics forfailingtoact believing herwhenshetoldparents aboutNassar’s abuse. father’s suicidein2016 stemmed partlyfrom hisguiltover not Nassar atNassar’s homewhenshewas achild—believes her nightmares afterNassar’s abuse. Kyle Stephens—abused by assaults intheJanuary hearing. Girlsdescribeddepression and the courtroom to facetheirabuserpublicly. began, somethingextraordinary happened:Women poured into testify, sinceatleast 80hadcomeforward. But asthetestimony and “clung toChrist.” Toward testimony, theendofher36-minute Denhollander Denhollander testified last and excoriated coaches, trainers, In theend,156women testified about Nassar’s sexual The testimony tookseven days. Early on,Denhollanderthoughtafewdozenwomen might called anintentional ­ Churches church. Denhollanderhascriticized leadership at licly spoke aboutaseparate controversy related to sexual abuse andthe After Rachael Denhollandertestified inthe Larry Nassar case, shepub Sexual abuse and the church from hisjobinstalling cabinetsforhomecontractors— Mommy hadbusinessmeetings. each nightandsingsimplehymns. Theytoldthekids Rachael andJacob returned intime totuckthemin her ordeal, watched thechildren duringthe day, and Rachael’s parents duringNassar’s sentencinghearing. they unfold. likely to continue. We’ll continue to follow developments withSGC as assessment, andhassaidsheplansafurther response. Thecontroversy is innocent pastors andchurches.” Denhollanderdisagrees withtheir ­“irresponsible” anddamaging to “thereputations andgospel ministriesof work ofchurches. couple prayed, reminded themselves ofwhatwas true, drove Rachael45minutestocourt. says the  [email protected] Each morning, Jacob—who hadtaken timeaway Her parents, whohave beensupportive throughout In astatement, SGC leadership calledDenhollander’s allegations (formerly known asSovereign Grace Ministries)for what she’s —J.D.  failure to report cases ofsexual assault initsnet @deanworldmag Sovereign Grace going todothatinthenameof Christ forothers.” may cost memy reputation, itmay cost memy name, butI’m to dogoodlittlegirlsinurgent need:“Someone who saidit had awonderful example ofsomeonewhohadcountedthecost maintaining goodworks andmeetingurgent casesofneed. Jim Savastio preached asermonfrom thebookofTituson ­sexual assaulttogether inanurgent nationalmoment. cantalkaboutthesubjectof Christians andnon-Christians lobby forstronger state laws regarding cases ofsexual abuse. receive itsannualaward. She’s alsoreturned toMichigan Steinem’s Ms. Foundation, whichhasinvited Denhollanderto institutions: from LibertyUniversity’s law schooltoGloria put avery bad man inprison.” for theirchildren intheirsmallhomeneartheseminary. ing toreturn to aroutine ofhomeschooling, work, andcaring Back at theirhome longs tosee“an army ofwomen healedby thegospel.” mission fieldripeforthetakingif we canspeaktothese.” He and helptocopewiththesorrows endured: “Thisisa they’ve longed toseechurches reaching outtowomen craving justice abuse brings—notjust encourage themtomove onfrom it. Without mentioningRachael’s namehenotedthechurch At herchurch ontheSunday morningshereturned, Pastor Denhollander hopesthewiderange ofoffersmeans Denhollander isfieldingofferstospeak from quiteaof range nowSince thehearing, toldthechildren they’ve “Mommy Jacob says whenhelooked outover thecourtroom, he - - inKentucky, Rachaeland Jacob are try March 17, 2018 March criminal acts. And shehopes ties ordained by Godtohandle abuse allegationstocivilauthori the importanceofreporting simultaneously.” pursuits andbothcanbepursued ­justice. Theyare “bothBiblical God isalsoconcernedwith and forgiveness ispossible, but message: Thegospelisglorious others hearbothsidesofher sonal vengeance against him. letting goofthedesire forper Nassar toGod’s judgmentand Denhollander says she’s releasing she’d gettospeakithim. thought itwas theonlychance to hearthegospel,andshe Denhollander says Nassar needed help victimsconfront thetrauma learnmore abouthow to they’ll She hopeschurches willface But shehopesChristians and When itcomestoforgiveness, It was ariveting moment. • WORLD Magazine WORLD A - 35 - - KEYNOTE & FEATURE SPEAKERS And many more!!

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BILLY GRAHAM’S LEGACY REMEMBERING THE EVANGELIST WHO DIED AT AGE 99 by Edward E. Plowman

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38 WORLD Magazine • March 17, 2018 Graham visits a soccer stadium in Liverpool, England, before one of his crusades in 1984. GRADUATION: BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES • AMERICAN LEGION: USC LIBRARIES/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES • YOUTH FOR CHRIST: COURTESY OF BGEA • SOCCER STADIUM: HULTON-DEUTSCH COLLECTION/CORBIS/GETTY IMAGES - - - magazine Sometimes he was more he was Sometimes quietly: Graham Replied Charisma “I want to be remembered to be remembered “I want faithful as a person who was family, to God, faithful to my faithful to the Scriptures, calling … a and faithful to my man who dedicated his life expansive, as in June 2005, 2005, in June as expansive, after 60 86, when, at age the on of preaching years and in diminishing road health (primarily from Parkinson’s advanced ­disease), he reluctantly public “cru from “retired” In an sade” evangelism. interview at a final three- campaign that attracted day total of some a cumulative people to Flushing 230,000 City, York in New Meadows a popped the same reporter question. remembrance He was catapulted to national fame in 1949 by catapulted to national fame in 1949 was He With Graham’s death on Feb. 21 at age 99, 21 at age 99, death on Feb. Graham’s With Christian prominent most The world’s the news media, overflow crowds, and public crowds, the news media, overflow in to trust thousands of people by “decisions” tent crusade during a seven-week as Savior Christ in other to preach Invitations in Los Angeles. Billy ­cities came pouring in. The board-governed was Association (BGEA) Evangelistic Graham demands. formed in 1950 to service the outreach half the next over on to preach went Graham than 200 million audiences of more ­century to live to the Lord and never looked back.” looked and never to the Lord who the world—those ­millions of people around those whose lives and best, knew him longest even his ministry, by impacted in some way were a him only from who knew and admired many and him for those graces, distance—remembered the interven others over Countless much more. him in death would ing decades who preceded God for him, judging to thank special reason have ones. of surviving loved accounts by 20th century also is of the ­evangelist-preacher He history. for his legacy in church recognized neither a scholarly theologian nor a denomi was voice and a significant his was Yet national leader. and behind the scenes without front both face, and shaping, defining, leaders, influential church as it emerged movement coalescing the evangelical modernism warfare the fundamentalism vs. from and took hold worldwide. of the 1930s and 1940s to his office staff staff office to his and to his “Bill” ­dignitaries; died in (who wife Ruth members, 2007), team and close relatives, to his friends; “Daddy” and two daughters three e was “Mr. Graham” Graham” “Mr. e was gospel throughout my life.” my life.” gospel throughout March 2018 17, • a rally at at a rally

Asked in his sunset years what he hoped to be his sunset years in Asked Graham at a at a Graham High School. High Graham’s 1935 1935 Graham’s WORLD Magazine

from Charlotte Charlotte from Stadium in 1951. Stadium Youth for Christ Christ for Youth American Legion Legion American graduation photo photo graduation rally in the 1950s. rally 40 Graham addresses addresses Graham

often would tell interviewers, “That I was faithful I was “That tell interviewers, often would the ­ in preaching remembered for most, evangelist Billy Graham evangelist for most, remembered but just “Billy” to the rest of the world. to the rest “Billy” but just sons to this day; “Daddy Bill” to the grandchildren; Bill” to the grandchildren; “Daddy day; sons to this H people at 400-plus crusades and outreach missions 1940 (getting baptized by immersion twice along Graham addresses in 185 countries and territories, according to the way and being ordained a Southern Baptist a huge crowd at BGEA data—a live-speaking-appearances record minister) and from Wheaton College near halftime in a still unequaled. Millions of others heard him on Chicago in June 1943. Then came marriage that match between Chelsea and radio and television over the years. August to college sweetheart Ruth Bell (daughter Newcastle at Multitudes of individuals spanning the conti- of China missionary surgeon L. Nelson Bell, a Stamford Bridge nents could credit him and his ministry with Presbyterian) and a nearly two-year stint as pastor soccer stadium introducing the gospel to them. Thousands of of a Baptist church in Chicago suburb Western in London. clergy and missionaries trace their spiritual Springs (where he also teamed up with soloist ­lineage to him and the gospel he preached. George Beverly Shea to produce a popular weekly Americans in Gallup’s annual polls of the most Christian radio broadcast). In 1945 he signed on admired man in the world placed him in the top as the first paid full-time traveling evangelist and 10 more often than any other man—60 times from organizer with the fledgling Chicago-based Youth 1955 to 2015 (including fourth place in 2011, and for Christ organization. second on eight occasions). Details of his life and ministry have been pub- lished widely in books (Rice University sociologist illiam “Billy Frank” Graham was William Martin’s excellent authorized biography, born on Nov. 7, 1918, on a farm A Prophet with Honor [Morrow], is the most thor- near Charlotte, N.C. He grew up ough one), magazine articles, and newspapers. in a Christian home. His parents Two events in the run-up to that 1949 Los attendedW an Associate Reformed Presbyterian Angeles crusade set the course for Graham’s church, where he was baptized by sprinkling as a ­ministry—and legacy—for the rest of his life. The child. As a teen in 1934, he and best friend Grady first came during an October 1948 crusade in Wilson made a public profession of faith in Christ Modesto, Calif. He called together his team under the preaching of independent Baptist evan- members—­songleader Cliff Barrows, associate gelist Mordecai Ham at a tent revival in Charlotte. evangelist Grady Wilson, and soloist George He went on to graduate from Florida Bible Beverly Shea—to help him formulate guidelines Institute (now Trinity College) near Tampa in aimed at keeping their ministry above reproach.

March 17, 2018 • WORLD Magazine 41 FAMILY: ED CLARK/THE LIFE PREMIUM COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES • KNEELING: BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES • PREACHING: BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES • WITH BIBLE: RICK HAVNER/AP - - Encourage Christian unity: cooperate with cooperate unity: Christian Encourage in publicity and reliability for honesty Strive Templeton finished studies at Princeton, finished Templeton Graham and Templeton were close friends. close were and Templeton Graham one Home Things came to a head at Forest 0 0 and serve to they promised Additionally, forThe second critical course-setting event recalled for biographer John Pollock how he prayed: how Pollock John for biographer recalled some of the questionsI cannot answer God, “Oh, but raising, Chuck and some of the other people are Word.” inspired faith as your I accept this book by Council for the National as an evangelist served for the and head of evangelism of Churches but in 1957 publicly U.S.A., Church, Presbyterian off to a went announced his loss of faith. He and publishing. in broadcasting ­secular career Home Christian Conference Center in the San Center in the San Conference Christian Home Calif. Redlands, above Mountains Bernardino of Hollywood Mears educator Henrietta Christian leader; Graham was Church Presbyterian First Youth fellow prominent a Charles Templeton, and among were Toronto, from evangelist for Christ the speakers. North together across They had barnstormed at huge preaching for YFC, America and Europe in YFC branches and helping to establish rallies polished the more was Templeton cities. more demand; the then 4-year-old and in great speaker had in 1946 Association of Evangelicals National He used of God.” “best called him the evangelist and con at Princeton Seminary in 1948 enrolled spiritu struggling he was But tinued to preach. on of Scripture the validity and he questioned ally, Soon, with Graham. points in conversations many theology and contemporary reading was Graham himself. running into questions and other leaders. night in discussions with Mears no longer could fully adamant: He was Templeton pummeling his own questions With the Bible. trust under the trees slipped out through mind, Graham later He stump. a moonlit sky and knelt at a tree any local churches willing to participate in a to participate in willing local churches any local criticizing avoid effort; united evangelistic the from ministries and other churches, pastors, who criticizing pastors from pulpit; and refrain and its ministry. openly criticize the team and other results; of attendance and reporting such parties, third let appropriate possible, where provide arena managers, or officials, fire as police, news media.the information to the The pact became ­support each other faithfully. a code of was It Manifesto. as the Modesto known that Biblical values, conduct, based on applied to the end. life and work Graham’s marked 1949, in August later, a year came almost Graham at Forest for college students retreat at a training - - Avoid any appearance of sexual impropriety; impropriety; of sexual appearance any Avoid Eschew any appearance of financial impro appearance Eschew any 0 0 team members would not travel, meet, or eat alone not travel, team members would wives. other than their own woman with any Wanting to avoid questionable situations and questionable to avoid Wanting evangelists traveling that ruined some ­missteps they pledged they would: and divided churches, priety and emphasis on offerings; local commit and team members finances, oversee tees would of be placed on a salary basis instead would offerings.” on “love ­relying March 2018 17, •

The Graham Graham The on left) before on left) before family in 1960. family team members members team WORLD Magazine Youth for Christ Christ for Youth flying to Europe. to flying at the 1973 Upper Upper at the 1973 Graham preaches preaches Graham Midwest Crusade. Midwest 42 Graham prays with with prays Graham (Charles Templeton Templeton (Charles Graham kept his friend on his prayer list and paid Graham also was a visionary and strategist, but Graham reads occasional visits to him over the years. Templeton he balanced enthusiasm for ambitious goals with from the Bible died in 2001, broken in body and mind. caution about financial and other risks. He during a 1996 crusade in Since that night at Forest Home, Graham often brought together church leaders from around the Charlotte, N.C. reflected on its importance when addressing pas- world to inspire them, set Biblical imperatives, tors and ministry students: “When I preach the and get them focused on global outreach (Berlin Bible straight—no questions, no doubts, no hesita- 1966, Lausanne 1974). His staff screened and tions—then God gives me a power that’s beyond invited 15,000 evangelists, pastor-evangelists, and me. When I declare, ‘The Bible says …’ God gives other Christian workers from more than 200 me this incredible power. It’s something I don’t countries to come to Amsterdam (1983, 1986), completely understand. But people respond.” most at the Graham ministry’s expense, for Prayer and reading the Bible daily were part of ­fellowship, training, and a supply of resources to Graham’s life (he said he could not remember a take home. For many, it was their first exposure to day in his ministry when it wasn’t). But there was an industrialized country and modern conve- more. He sought to be winsome—in order to “win niences and technology. some” to Christ, to not offend others and risk Commented crusade director Norman Mydske, turning them away from the gospel. He was a veteran missionary in Latin America for TEAM: ­humble and self-effacing; he took note of others “Billy Graham comes and goes, but the impact of and went out of his way to encourage them. what he represents will go on for a long time.”

‘WE WERE A TEAM, WE … WOULD HAVE DIED FOR HIM BECAUSE OF HIS LOVE, APPRECIATION, AND TRUST IN US.’ —Cliff Barrows

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Christianity Today Christianity “But looking back,” he said, “I know I some he said, “I know looking back,” “But conversa to private referring he was Partly, George W. Bush in his autobiography said that in his autobiography Bush W. George told In 2011, Graham have spiritual and personal needs like everyone everyone spiritual and personal needs like have to talk to. no one they have and often else, do that and I wouldn’t the line, times crossed now.” of both parties, tions with certain presidents when he had informally discussed political issues though, he had with them. Mainly, and strategy tapes in mind. and the Watergate Nixon Richard in 1985 in Kennebunkport, Maine, Graham in Graham Maine, in 1985 in Kennebunkport, was It that grew. … seed planted “a conversation I would where the beginning of a new walk Earlier, Christ.” heart to Jesus my recommit Billy through was had written: “It Reagan Ronald more even praying that I found myself Graham Ithan on a daily basis—and that in the position to give were and more more prayers held, that my decisions that would me the wisdom to make God and be pleasing to Him.” serve Bell, Nelson he and his father-in-law, (which “I was D.C.): founded in 1956 in Washington, me to for the opportunities God gave grateful places; people in power to people in high minister - - - broadcast. “He relied “He broadcast. Hour of Decision Hour sked in later years if there was any was if there in later years sked done differently, have thing he would “steered have said he would Graham clear of politics.” Said Barrows: “We were a team, we had a part a team, we were “We Barrows: Said from president U.S. had visited with every He Part of Graham’s success was the caliber of success was of Graham’s Part A funerals; he was a close friend with more than a close friend with more he was funerals; and his family Johnson half of them, with Lyndon the closest. recommendations.” would including myself, and the guys, nership, apprecia died for him because of his love, have in us.” tion, and trust Obama, 12 in all. He to Barack Truman S. Harry and part in some of their inaugurations had taken people he chose to assist him. “Billy realized that him. “Billy realized people he chose to assist not an being an evangelist, gift was his great an early Beaven, the late Jerry said administrator,” for and news reporter crusade organizer Graham the BGEA’s to ways on others to do the planning and propose wise enough and he was meet the opportunities, their trust to be willing to accept their proposals, judgment, and base his decisions on their March 2018 17, • Graham in in Graham Rose Bowl. Rose crusade at the crusade at the WORLD Magazine following a 2004 a 2004 following Pasadena, Calif., Calif., Pasadena, 44 “The Dick Nixon I knew was not the Nixon I heard on those tapes,” Graham declared to this reporter as Watergate unraveled. Worse, Graham and the nation were shocked to hear what he himself had said on the tapes in a 1972 conversation at the White House with Nixon and his top aide, H.R. Haldeman. Background: Earlier, New York Times veteran reporter McCandlish Phillips, an evangelical, had published The Bible, the Supernatural, and the Jews (Bethany House, 1970). The book said Jews were God’s “chosen people” but lamented how many modern-day Jews had left God out of their lives. Phillips wrote that book out of his love and burden for young Jews, and cited many examples of positive Jewish influence in America, but also noted that American moral universe. He has maintained for Former some Jewish publishers put out pornography. six decades the same message, the same seem- Presidents Graham was familiar with the book. He, too, ingly untroubled convictions, the same unblem- George H.W. Bush, Bill was pro-Israel and counted some Jewish religious ished ethical record. In an age of anxiety, he calms Clinton, and and business leaders as friends. the national soul.” Jimmy Carter At the 1972 White House meeting, the conver- In the same book, Harvey Cox, well-known join Franklin sation turned to the topic of Jewish influence in Harvard liberal religion professor, wrote that Graham as they America. Graham spoke of a Jewish connection to “Billy Graham’s ample vision of Christian pose with Billy pornographic publishing. “This stranglehold has got ­witness” represented “the kind of vision we Graham in 2007 to be broken or the country’s going down the drain,” ­desperately need in a Christian world still agoniz- in front of the Billy Graham the evangelist warned Nixon. The talk descended ing—after half a century of official ecumenism— Library in downhill from there. Graham was unaware that with the painful laceration of distrust and disdain.” Charlotte, N.C. presidential conversations were being taped. Many evangelicals likely would find common When Haldeman revealed the contents of the cause with the late Charles Colson, former Nixon conversation in the publication of his diaries 22 legal counsel and convicted Watergate figure who years later, in 1994, Graham exclaimed, “Those are spent time in a federal prison and later founded not my words!” He said he only ever spoke posi- Prison Fellowship. In Billy Graham: A Tribute tively about the Jewish people. But in 2002, after from Friends (Warner Faith, 2002) by Vernon K. the tapes became public, he was shocked at hear- McLellan, Colson (who died in 2012) wrote: ing his own words. Devastated, and fearful he had “It turns out the man who witnessed to me, turned off Jewish friends and had harmed the Tom Phillips, then the president of the Raytheon church, he apologized in public and said he had no company, had been converted at a Billy Graham memory of saying such things 30 years earlier. Crusade at Madison Square in New York City in After an ensuing storm of criticism subsided, 1968. How unlikely are God’s ways. Here was the most people seemed inclined to accept his apol- head of one of the largest corporations in America ogy and move on. It was the closest he had ever going forward with a stream of repentant sinners come to scandal that could have tarnished all he and then returning to his business where four had stood for. years after I left the White House, I returned to Even some of the harshest liberal critics of his be his Washington counsel. Phillips shared his theological views in the past are taking a more faith with me at the darkest moment in my life. measured second look at him, or at least the effects And from that encounter has come my experience of his preaching. In The Legacy of Billy Graham: in prison and then the launching of a ministry Critical Reflections on America’s Greatest Evangelist that is now active in 88 countries, reaching into (Westminster John Knox, 2008), editor Michael literally thousands of prisons, touching countless Long of Elizabethtown (Pa.) College wrote: hundreds of thousands of lives. This is how the “In a windstorm of changing values and shifting gospel spreads: Graham to Phillips to Colson.” circumstances, Graham is the still point in the And so the legacy lives on. A

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ranians denied asylum by the United States thought Explained one refugee: “We have been here 1½ years, and things couldn’t get worse for them, but that was besides being in transit, we are waiting so long. We were told before the police showed up. we would be in the U.S. months ago. Seeing officers show up is In February authorities began notifying the another stress, so now we jump at every noise. At any time they ­refugees—all persecuted religious minorities deemed can come and take us away.” eligible under a special U.S. law for asylum—that they The special cases throw into new light stepped-up security would have two weeks to leave Austria, where they protocols under the Trump administration. Further, they have been residing in temporary housing for more than a year. ­suggest the administration may be taking a hard line on Priority The United States invited the asylum-seekers to apply to 2 humanitarian cases, a preferred class of refugee admissions enter the United States as refugees under the Lautenberg not affected—many believed—by the new restrictions on IAmendment—a 1990 law primarily to assist Jews from the ­refugee admissions and security enhancements announced by ­former Soviet Union that was expanded in 2004 to include President Donald Trump last year. A precipitous drop in U.S. Christians, Jews, and other non-Muslims living under Iran’s admissions of Christian refugees in 2017 suggests the policies Islamic regime. The cases involve about 100 mostly Assyrian or may not be helping victims of persecution at a time when they Armenian Christians, a group the Trump administration have faced violent persecution at the hands of Islamic regimes ­repeatedly has said it aims to help gain U.S. admission despite like Iran’s and militant groups like ISIS. new and more restrictive refugee protocols. The Iranian group includes other non-Muslims: Zoroastrians, Mandeans, Jews, and others. They arrived in Vienna more than en. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., proposed in 1990 an a year ago, where Lautenberg Amendment cases are typically amendment to the foreign operations appropriations bill. processed within a few months. Most have had no word on SIts purpose: to aid those facing religious persecution, at that their status for the past year, and their Austrian visas have time mostly devout believers from the crumbling Soviet Union. expired. On Feb. 19 about 80 asylum-seekers were shocked to Adopted as law, it established a legal presumption of eligibility learn they had been denied. Others learned their cases remain for refugees, mostly Christians and Jews, based on the principle “under investigation,” but none apparently has yet to gain that under such regimes they as a class face well-founded fears ­clearance for U.S. entry. of persecution. More recently the law has allowed thousands of Two days later, police banged on the door of one of the Iranian Ukrainians to enter the United States, and in 2004 lawmakers families’ apartments. The officers searched at least two apartment expanded it to include Iranian Christians and others. buildings in Vienna, where these Iranians live alongside other The amendment is subject to renewal each year by Congress refugees, demanding of them identity cards and passports. They as part of the appropriations process and is in effect following seized most of the Iranians’ passports and kept them, telling the renewal last May. Yet in spite of congressional approval and refugees they were in Austria illegally and faced deportation. legal standing, according to sources close to the process, for the

46 WORLD Magazine • March 17, 2018 A terminal wait

A refugee from Tehran, Iran, and his son wait for lunch at a housing center in Vienna, Austria.

ASHLEY GILBERTSON/VII/REDUX HANDOUT Another relative living in the Another relative matter of discretion.” Authorities Authorities ­matter of discretion.” also informed him he had two Austria. to leave weeks his family assisted States United members in applying under the family Amendment. The Lautenberg in Iran, in churches has been active The confusion surrounding the latest Lautenberg Amendment Lautenberg the latest The confusion surrounding Family in the United States paid an estimated $6,000 in fees $6,000 estimated paid an States in the United Family of the Assyrian American president Carlo Ganjeh, past immigrated from Iran decades ago, said he and others put decades ago, Iran from ­immigrated being 32 cases after learning they were of at least together a list Anna to Rep. the list presented The group DHS. held up by Assyrian D-Calif., America’s Eshoo, from many who represents not Eshoo said she “does a spokesman, population. Through concerns.” due to privacy discuss casework members of Congress from scrutiny increasing cases has drawn been arrested as thousands have unrest, growing amid Iran’s 30 the House On Jan. protests. street since December over A section of a March a March of A section informing letter 2017 his of an applicant approval conditional a of a section (top); letter 2018 February an applicant informing is denied. that his case in Vienna faced job discrimination. Those currently and all have and they sold all their Iran, to leave family members last the are the trip in late 2016. belongings and left jobs to make Aid Society Immigrant the Hebrew through to begin the process with agency under contract resettlement refugee (HIAS), a U.S. cases in Vienna. Department to manage Lautenberg the State after securing some of the money back they received say Relatives and the applicants began taking in Vienna, approval preliminary one of the relatives months, for 14 Now English language classes. a month, 700 euros said, he has been paying States in the United apartment in studio on a rent the couple’s toward or $870, been couple has not learned whether they have The Vienna. States. or denied entry to the United approved who and a California resident Jose Association of San March 2018 17, • One U.S. relative, an Assyrian Christian from Iran who has Iran from an Assyrian Christian relative, One U.S. The United States has the largest Assyrian and Armenian has the largest States The United The Iranians appear to have completed these steps a year completed these steps appear to have The Iranians Under procedures in place before the Trump administration, administration, the Trump in place before procedures Under Under the law’s provisions, those who reach Vienna Vienna those who reach provisions, the law’s Under “I think it’s tragic for the Lautenberg Amendment to for the Lautenberg tragic “I think it’s In 2017, according to the State Department, 1,275 Department, to the State according In 2017, WORLD Magazine officials had reversed themselves and denied his case “as a and denied his case themselves reversed ­officials had and his final background check, and would be issued a U.S. U.S. would be issued a check, and and his final background and he did not receive visa. came through, the visa never But 19 that U.S. information on his case until he learned on Feb. least two families have children with disabilities. children have families two least told me his nephew in States, in the United for 18 years lived early in 2017 he had passed his medical exam learned Vienna fear reprisals because they already have faced government faced government fear have because they already reprisals and job discrimination. The including arrests, harassment, and at old to the elderly, 18 years in age from applicants range populations outside the Middle East and Armenia, and many if and Armenia, and many populations outside the Middle East is not WORLD living here. relatives applicants have not most also have because many naming the applicants or their relatives they As their cases linger in limbo, living in Iran. family still regarding airline tickets. In each case, these were the last these were In each case, tickets. airline regarding now. until inquiries, despite many on their cases, words ­official 2017, from the DHS Citizenship and Immigration Services the DHS Citizenship and Immigration from 2017, Another his application “has been conditionally approved.” ­saying they saying a call about the same time, said her family received information soon receive for entry and would cleared were basis, and denials en masse are rare. and denials en masse are basis, 28, on March a letter he received provided One applicant ago. for some reason may be denied. Sometimes DHS officers be denied. may for some reason religious to verify and other papers baptism records request documentation. match all must And personal stories identity. on an individual each case is supposed to be reviewed Overall, applicants typically undergo four or five separate screenings, screenings, separate four or five applicants typically undergo if military service (even Those with past to Buwalda. according “hot” considered areas or from as it is in Iran) compulsory, it’s the cases took only several weeks to two or three months or three the to two cases weeks took only several nearly 100 percent. acceptance was of and the rate process, to homeland on a reasonable assurance of receiving U.S. U.S. of receiving assurance homeland on a reasonable additional they undergo admission. Once in Vienna, Security (DHS) Department of Homeland ­interviews by Vienna, once in exam. In the past, officers and a medical the State Department, in what amounts to an invitation Department, in what the State point, that At to apply for asylum. States the United from cutting ties to their sell their belongings, Iranians most already have passed initial U.S. security screening security screening passed initial U.S. have already The their cases. and successfully documented ­procedures of them visas at the request issues government Austrian “It is U.S. law, including all its remedies and appeals. its remedies including all law, is U.S. “It appeal their denials and try to save These cases should all process.” the Lautenberg Lautenberg program, compared with 2,323 in 2016. with 2,323 compared program, Lautenberg of director executive said Ann Buwalda, be thwarted,” attorney. immigration Campaign and a practicing Jubilee down a program currently authorized by Congress. by authorized currently a program down the under States in the United arrived ­individuals past year the State Department has accepted no new has accepted Department State the year past coupled development, That in Vienna. cases Lautenberg may applicants, these 100 denials to U.S. with apparent quietly shutting is administration the Trump suggest 48 ‘The law is clear: these applicants should be presumed eligible for refugee status.’ —CONGRESSMEN RANDY HULTGREN & JIM McGOVERN

­co-chairs of the bipartisan Tom Lantos Human Rights Officers at HIAS, the U.S. resettlement agency for cases in Commission sent a letter to Vice President Mike Pence, asking Vienna, said they had no comment at this time. for his help in resolving the cases. Decisions to deny refugee admission to Iranian Christians Pence voted to expand the Lautenberg Amendment to and other religious minorities come as persecution in Iran include religious minorities in Iran in 2003 while he was a ­persists. In an unusual move, four top UN officials issued a member of Congress. He said last year, “The suffering of statement in February expressing concern over prison sentences Christians in the Middle East has stirred America to act.” for Christians. They said Tehran is acting “completely contrary Lawmakers and commission co-chairs Randy Hultgren, an to Iran’s international obligations” after a court sentenced three Illinois Republican, and Jim McGovern, a Massachusetts pastors to between 10 and 15 years in prison last year. Appeals in Democrat, urged Pence to take action, writing, “The law is those cases—for pastors Victor Bet Tamraz, Amin Afshar clear: these applicants should be presumed eligible for refugee Naderi, and Hadi Asgari—were set for Feb. 4 but appear to be status.” postponed. Pence has not responded to the inquiry, but Hultgren and In the United States, refugee admissions for Christians have McGovern issued a statement Feb. 20 saying they were decreased overall by 63 percent under Trump—from 42,707 ­“disappointed” by reports of Vienna cases being turned down admitted the last year of the Obama administration to 15,684 in and said, “DHS must provide Congress with details about these Trump’s first year in office. A steep decline in all refugee visa denials.” They also called for the program to resume. ­admissions left the total number admitted in 2017 at just 29,725 people—well below the 47,000 ceiling set by Trump, which was half the ceiling set in 2016 under former President Barack Obama. nhanced security requirements seem to be the central The drop seems to be falling hard on those Trump vowed to issue for the applicants, but neither State nor DHS help. Only days after assuming office, President Donald Trump E­officers are forthcoming about what’s changed. In a Feb. 18 said concerning Christians in the Middle East, “They’ve been statement provided to WORLD in response to inquiries, the horribly treated. It’s been very, very tough for them and very, State Department said: “These individuals were subject to the very unfair, so we are going to help them.” same rigorous process for resettlement as all refugees and, Not helping the Lautenberg cases may prove devastating. ­following input from all relevant departments and agencies, the Facing deportation during a human-rights crackdown in Iran, applications for resettlement were denied.” The statement said warned Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for applicants could request a review of the decision and could Religious Freedom, “could be a death sentence for these receive U.S.-funded counseling on options for resettlement in ­persecuted Christians and other minorities.” other countries. Ganjeh underscored that for many Assyrians—who live Applicants I spoke to say authorities have given them no ­primarily in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran—leaving home is a options except to return to Iran. But U.S. and Austrian officials last, desperate option. With war and the rise of ISIS in the have privately said Armenia may be willing to resettle region, he said, “This may be the darkest moment of our those not allowed into the United States. Alexander ­history. When we move to Western countries, we are going Marakovits, Austria’s Interior Ministry ,  to lose our ethnic identity, our religion, and our culture. It is ­spokesman, initially told me Austria was not our same Christianity here, and it’s important that we “looking into” the cases, but he did not have our communities with us too.” A respond to follow-up requests for , information. Last year Austria elected its first center-right government led by Sebastian Kurz, who ran mainly on , , an anti-immigrant platform. , The State Department refused to Other , Other say how many Lautenberg Muslims OBAMA’S Muslims TRUMP’S Amendment applicants had been LAST YEAR FIRST YEAR denied asylum, or how many may be Christians Christians given preliminary­ approval this year to leave Iran. The Department of Homeland Security did not

KRIEG BARRIE; U.S. DATA: DEPARTMENT REFUGEE OF STATE PROCESSING CENTER respond to requests for comment.­

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aul Jackson took his first ­short-term mission trip during by LEIGH JONES his junior year at California Baptist University. He came home convinced God had called him to life in the mission field. He and his girlfriend, Riley, spent the month of Ramadan praying over wanted to work with them, with a caveat: They had to do something about Pwhere God might eventually send them. They their $45,000 in student loans. They moved in with Riley’s parents, worked emerged with a heart and vision for the Muslim full time, and began raising money in preparation for moving overseas. They world. (Paul and Riley are pseudonyms: paid $500 a month on their loans, hoping to cut the total in half. Riley called Publication of their names would jeopardize their it a manageable goal, but they never raised 100 percent of what they needed safety and work in a Muslim country.) to cover their living expenses and their loan payments. In 2006 they graduated and married, but felt About two-thirds of college students now graduate with some level of they needed more education to improve their debt, the average rounding out at just over $30,000. The student debt crisis vocational experience and give them a better has hampered graduates’ ability (or inclination) to pass the milestones of ­platform for working in countries not open to adulthood: getting married, buying a house, starting a family. It’s also ­traditional missionaries. Paul called it a “strategic ­dampened enthusiasm for long-term missions. decision,” even though they knew it would saddle Sending agencies began tracking a decline in applications for long-term them with some debt. missions at the start of the Great Recession. At the same time, they watched Four years later, Paul completed his the amount of debt listed on applications skyrocket past what families could ­certification in adapted physical education, reasonably expect to repay on a missionary’s salary. While agencies have enabling him to work with special needs students. become more creative about how they send people overseas, a new Three years after that, Riley finished her master’s ­fundraising effort aims to ease the student debt burden directly for traditional in nursing. They found a sending agency that missionaries, freeing them to take the gospel where it’s needed most.

March 17, 2018 • WORLD Magazine 51 oel Sutton began working with the International Mission Board’s assessment and deployment team in 1999. Students had debt then ‘Nearly 3 too, but the average topped out at $17,000. Now, Sutton regularly talks to prospective missionaries who have between $60,000 and billion people $100,000 in debt. “Those kinds of folks have really disqualified J themselves for service,” Sutton said. “They’re living in the don’t have moment. They think they need the loan to get their education, but they don’t think about the ramifications down the road.” Sutton and his Southern Baptist Convention colleagues urge college access to the ­students to think about what they want to do with their lives before taking out loans. If students can’t avoid loans altogether, missionary recruiters urge gospel. Tens them to take on as little debt as possible, get jobs to help pay some of their expenses, and even take a little longer to get their degree, if necessary. of thousands That’s a hard sell, especially for students at Christian colleges, which rely on tuition payments to survive and have little incentive to encourage are dying ­students to take on less debt. “We’ve found schools are not really talking to students about this,” Sutton said. “It’s a real conflict because schools are a business. Loans mean more payment out of students, so they don’t daily. We ­discourage them from doing the loans.” Kendra Jeffreys, director of mission engagement with Mission to the don’t have World, echoed similar experiences with Christian colleges. She recalled ­talking to one young woman about to graduate with a Bible degree. She really time to wait wanted to go into missions, but she had $96,000 in debt. “That just broke my heart because she wanted to be a missionary, but unfortunately, with that for someone amount of loans, she wouldn’t have been able to survive,” Jeffreys said. Like the International Mission Board, Mission to the World has seen a drop in the number of recent graduates applying for long-term missions. to pay their Jeffreys doesn’t blame all of the decline on student debt, but she believes it’s a significant factor. Interest in short-term work hasn’t waned as much, in part student because it’s easier for students to defer loan payments for a year or two while they work on a limited project. Jeffreys also has seen a rapid increase in the loan debt.’ number of people interested in bivocational ministry, in which they work full time while also participating in missions projects. “There are lots of reasons —Luke Womack for that, but some of it is needing to work to pay off loans,” she said. Three years ago, the International Mission Board partnered with so few bivocational missionaries it didn’t even track the numbers. Then the in their responses. But surely some really wanted ­organization started to encourage potential missionaries to stay in a career to go, and felt God’s direction, but were still sitting track and try to get a job overseas, partnering with full-time missionaries on on the couch.” a more informal basis. The number of applications jumped. In the last few Womack knew missionaries raised their own years, about 1,400 people have applied to work with the International financial support to cover living expenses. What if Mission Board as a professional, retiree, or student. Sutton ties that increase they had a way to do the same thing for their directly to student loans. “If they’re going overseas on their own funding, we ­student loan payments? As a self-described can advise them on debt issues, but because we’re not paying their salary, we ­pragmatist and fan of Dave Ramsey’s financial don’t have a say on it,” he said, adding that extremely high levels of debt responsibility message, Womack had qualms would still make it hard for someone working overseas. “But with moderate about forgiving someone’s loans. But he believed amounts, it’s a way for them to serve.” finding a solution to the student loan crisis ­transcended debt forgiveness: “Nearly 3 billion uke Womack graduated from California Baptist University with people don’t have access to the gospel. Tens of a business degree in 2011. He got a well-paid sales job and felt thousands are dying daily. We don’t have time to himself settling in to live the American dream. Then he listened wait for someone to pay their student loan debt.” to a John Piper sermon on the Great Commission: “He said to In 2013, Womack started the GO Fund, a be an obedient Christian we must either go or send to the ­nonprofit dedicated to raising money to pay off Lunreached, or disobey.” Womack wanted to go, but because of his degree and student loans for long-term missionaries working experience, he thought he might be better suited to sending. He started with among the unreached. He recruited board an informal survey of about 100 of his former classmates. Had they ever ­members and began raising money for his own ­considered missions work among unreached people groups? salary so any funds he secured for missionaries “Most people said yes, but everyone said they couldn’t because of student would go directly to paying for their debts. The loan debt,” Womack recalled. “That just hit me like a ton of bricks. My Go Fund launched a website in 2014 and invited ­generation wanted to go to the mission field but wasn’t going because of prospective missionaries to apply. Nearly 50 did, ­student loan debt. Granted, there was probably a differing level of sincerity including Paul and Riley Jackson.

52 WORLD Magazine • March 17, 2018 GREG SCHNEIDER/GENESIS  last year. be aproblem: Womack gained55 newapplicants Finding prospective missionarypartnerswon’t be makingloanpayments for125missionaries. ambitious goalforgrowth: By 2020hehopesto started theiroverseas work. Womack hasan ­missionary families, 11ofwhichhave already year’s event netted$201,000. The next year, donors pledged $137,000. Last work withoutworrying abouttheirstudent loans. that atleast thosethree couplescouldbegintheir overseas. Donorspledged$92,000, guaranteeing share theirvisionandplanfortakingthegospel first fundraising dinner inSouthernCaliforniato Jacksons andtwo othersattendedtheGO Fund’s applicants tothree finalists. In May 2015, the would resume makingtheirown loanpayments. ­reason duringthat decade, themissionaries loans. If theydecidedtocomehomeforany that time, theGOFund would pay offalltheir commit tostay inthe fieldfor10 years. During good tobetrue. Eachmissionaryfamilyhadto [email protected] The GOFund now partnerswith19 It tookmonthstowhittle thefirst batchof The dealWomack offered soundedalmost too  @WORLD_mag P influential membersofthewidercommunity. Rileyhopes soonto start and parent workshops, he’s gottentoknow educatorsandfamilies, aswell as special needsstudents. Through teacher training, curriculumdevelopment, consulting withlocalschools, whichdon’t offerathleticopportunitiesfor be obedientpeople toGod.” Paul said.“We alsotellpeoplethisiswhere Godwants ustobe. We want to “Oftentimes we tellpeople we have peace forwanting to live andwork here,” around theworld, even iftheydon’t always talkaboutfollowing Jesus. not shyfriends, aboutsharing why they’re theymoved theirfamilyhalfway trying topursuecareers. avery driven They’re people.” ­something thatallows ustogainrespectalso andrelate to themasthey’re say,” shetoldme. “Thatmay notbefullyfrom oureducation,butit’s said. donesofarwould bepossiblewithouttheireducation,Riley of whatthey’ve significant influence over theircountry’s cultural andpoliticalfuture. None pregnancies. ­working withexpectant motherstoencourage betterfitnessandhealthier Although theydon’t describethemselves asmissionariesto their new “We’re taken seriously. People respect ouropinionsandwhatwe have to All oftheireffortsfocuson young professionals, whocouldoneday have neighbors. Paul hasbegundoingadaptive physical education and buildingrelationships withtheirnew working onmastering aforeign language with theirfourkidsinMarch 2016. They’re aul andRileyJackson arrived inWest Asia A March 17, 2018 March • WORLD Magazine WORLD GO Fund offices Womack atthe 53

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the heart”—and went on to 0 Abraham Arechiga, so that option is unavail- Yuriana Aguilar earn a Ph.D. in cardiac 19, co-owns four Mexican able to her. Velazquez is electrophysiology. Rush restaurants in the Chicago now 27, and although she University invited her to area, and another four in can’t apply for permanent come from California to Indianapolis, with plans for status herself, she oversees Chicago in 2016 to con- even more expansion. 750 citizenship applica- tinue her research on Along with his brothers, he tions a year in her job with understanding how hearts also started selling real World Relief. The DACA beat. Her work permit, estate last year, and they executive order in 2012 obtained under DACA, hope to flip two houses per allowed her to earn a four- expires in October. month in 2018. Abraham year degree—the first in 0 Scheri Espinoza, 28, has lived in the western her family. Scheri was born in Santiago, suburbs since age 5 and 0 Juan—he wants to Espinoza Chile, with spina bifida. recently received his green protect family members, She came to Chicago with card. But one of the main and we agreed not to use her family at age 2 and reasons he loved DACA, he his last name—came to the grew up going to church, says, was that it allowed United States as an infant accepting Christ as her him to obtain credit. A lot and has told his parents he Savior at summer camp. of immigrants, he says, resents being taken away Until DACA she relied on come here with the from their close-knit charities for her wheel- “American dream” and extended family in Mexico. chairs. Now—or until her then get comfortable with Juan now feels a parallel current DACA permit the system, but his goal is with Joseph in Egypt, Abraham expires—she can legally to keep creating jobs. though, and often repeats a Arechiga hold a job (with good 0 At age 13 Ruth personal mission state- insurance) at Walmart. Velazquez and her family ment: “to teach, preach, Espinoza’s schooling has moved to Joliet, Ill., around and spread the gospel here, been stop-and-go because Christmastime: They lived near, and far.” He’s intern- of finances, but now she’s in an unfinished, one-room ing at a church while only seven classes away basement for a year. Most studying at a local commu- from an associate’s degree of the family members are nity college and dreams of in psychology from a sub- legal citizens now, but she earning an M.Div. from urban community college. just missed the age cutoff, Trinity University. 0 Mayra Serna, now 30, was 14 when she crossed. Mayra Serna She remembers clutching her 3-year-old brother and whispering to him not to speak to the border agents. With her high-school degree, Mayra has worked at a number of fast food places and now manages Ruth one of the Arechiga fami- Velazquez ly’s restaurant locations. Before DACA, she says, she never dreamed of having something like a driver’s license, so each two-year permit renewal feels like a chance to say, “Let’s see what I can do in two years.”

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AIR TO GROUND One of the most visible features of any major airport is the air traffic control tower. But advances in video display technology and pressure to improve safety and reduce costs could make those Live- iconic structures a thing of the past. More and more airports are streamed closing their physical control tow- ers and building remote air traffic surgeons control centers—in some cases dozens of miles away from the IMMERSIVE DIGITAL airport—where air traffic control TECHNOLOGY COULD workers monitor flight traffic at multiple airports simultaneously CHANGE THE WAY using a system of video feeds. DOCTORS ARE TRAINED London City Airport is the by Michael Cochrane ­latest facility to upgrade to a ­virtual air traffic control system, according to Gizmodo. The airport is building a new control center 80 miles away in the town of Swanwick and will use a system Healthcare is going digital, According to Ahmed of 14 high-definition cameras to R with fitness apps, wearable Forbes, medical and wearing a give the controllers a detailed HoloLens digital view of the entire airport. devices, and online medical consul- educational institu- headset tations rising­ in popularity. Now tions like Johns Advocates say the new remote facilities improve safety and even medical training is poised for a Hopkins and the reduce costs. Huge video screens ­disruption: Surgeons are experi- Cleveland Clinic have increasingly surrounding the controllers’ desks menting with immersive visual used virtual-reality surgery simula- give an enhanced view of the ­technologies that could provide tions, such as those produced by ­airport, especially at night and in ­realistic digital learning to medical Chicago-based ImmersiveTouch, to poor visibility. Backup cameras students in remote locations. reduce surgical errors in training. and dedicated video links ensure “This technology will allow “The evidence appears to suggest continuous coverage if one of the ­[doctors] to get help whenever that, on the whole, these technologies cameras or screens fails. But required,” British colorectal surgeon are likely to be equivalent to tradi- ­controllers will continue to use Shafi Ahmed told Bloomberg. Last tional modes of education,” Josip Car, radar and voice communications year, Ahmed used Snap Inc.’s a medical professor at Singapore’s as they do presently. Spectacles, a set of glasses equipped Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine Norway has already consoli- with high-resolution cameras, to at Nanyang Technological University, dated control of 15 airports­ into walk student doctors and millions of told Bloomberg. “If this turns out to one virtual control tower, accord- other viewers through a hernia be so, that’s very good news because ing to The Economist, and the United States and Australia are operation. many of them allow scalability and testing virtual towers as well. —M.C. Ahmed also recently used flexibility of learning.” Microsoft’s HoloLens headset to Many of Ahmed’s colleagues, bring dozens of physicians into a though, are not so sure that watching “virtual” operating theater during an an operation will be an adequate operation on a bowel cancer patient. substitute for interacting with real He believes such immersive visual patients. And live-streaming such technologies can help meet the surgeries also creates potential World Health Organization’s goal ­privacy concerns. But Ahmed to eliminate a projected shortfall of believes his approach will help to 15 million healthcare workers by demystify ­surgery and make it more

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LGBT agenda, it’s somewhat surpris- ing that Charlotte, Nashville, and Breaking the rules Wichita are host sites: During the 2016-17 academic year, the NCAA FOR AN NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP, STATES MAY FLOUT moved seven postseason events out of THEIR OWN PRO-LGBT TRAVEL BANS by Ray Hacke North Carolina to express disdain for the state’s since-repealed “bathroom bill,” which required transgender LGBT persons on ­persons to use public restrooms corre- religious or other sponding with the gender listed on grounds. their birth certificates. Nevertheless, A California law this year’s venues are set. that went into effect California isn’t the only state to ban last year prohibits its public universities’ sports teams the state’s public from traveling to states deemed anti- universities from LGBT: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo funding or sponsor- has issued an executive order forbid- ing travel to those ding “nonessential” travel to such purportedly dis- states. Stony Brook, one of New York’s criminatory states. four public NCAA Division I universi- But if UCLA gains ties, canceled an early-season baseball an invitation to the series at Southern Mississippi for that tourney, as seems reason. likely, the Bruins The cancellation of a nonconfer- will disobey the law ence baseball series didn’t make many by playing there, waves. The NCAA tournament is Charlotte, Nashville, and Wichita according to UCLA athletic depart- ­different. California and New York R are hosting early-round games in ment spokeswoman Shana Wilson. legislators will have to decide: enforce this year’s NCAA men’s basketball The effect: absolutely nothing. their travel bans, even at the expense tournament—but LGBT advocates say California’s law provides no penalties of national championships for their North Carolina, Tennessee, and for violators. college sports programs, or come off Kansas allow discrimination against Since the NCAA supports the as paper tigers?

SAVING BERNIE CARBO Keith Hernandez implicated Bernie Carbo was such a rule-breaker that him in a federal drug distribu- some of his biggest moments in baseball are tion trial in 1985. Six years blurs he can’t recall. Years of marijuana, later he hit rock bottom: ­alcohol, amphetamines, pain pills, and sleeping ­business failures, divorce, his pills will do that to you. He doesn’t remember dad’s death, his mom’s suicide, ILLUSTRATION: KRIEG BARRIE • CARBO: BERNIECARBO.COM ­striking out to end the 10th inning of Game 6 in and his own suicide attempt. the 1975 World Series—but he does remember Friends and former major hitting the big home run two innings earlier. leaguers got him help through The Boston Red Sox were battling the the Baseball Assistance Team Cincinnati Reds. Down three games to two, Boston and took him to rehab. Then, in a hospital room with a needed a win to force Game 7. Down 6-3 with two outs in Baptist minister, getting tested for what they thought the bottom of the eighth inning, Carbo pinch-hit a three- was a heart attack, Bernie repented and professed faith run home run. That made possible the iconic 12th-inning in Christ. He worked his way through rehab and, despite home run by teammate Carlton Fisk: Millions have seen some early setbacks, persisted in his addiction recovery. the video of Fisk trying to “wave” his homer fair and Carbo and another former player in 1993 began the rejoicing as it hit the foul pole to win the game for the “Diamond Club Ministry,” a Christian organization that Sox. teaches hitting to young people and hosts an annual Carbo had been the Sporting News Rookie Player of ­fantasy baseball camp in Mobile, Ala. the Year in 1970, but drugs and alcohol made him a jour- —by D. ERIC SCHANSBERG, an Indiana University Southeast neyman. His career but not his troubles ended in 1980: economics professor and a longtime baseball fan

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The Bible says every human Some evangelicals agree. R being—unborn or born, young or Frank Powell, a blog editor for old, male or female—bears the image of Bayside Church, a multisite congre- God. But like fingerprints, no two per- gation in Sacramento, writes, “The sons, not even identical twins, are truly Enneagram is about transformation.” A search on the website of identical. God creates each person­ Powell suggests, “The first step in Christian Book Distributors yields unique, and the Holy Spirit possesses transformation is self-awareness,” and more than 15 titles applying the the unique power to transform sinners asserts, “You can experience heaven Enneagram to Christian counseling, into the likeness of Christ. right now.” parenting, or church work. And even Or maybe all you need is the right In three posts about the ChristianityToday.com recently personality test. Enneagram, Powell fails to mention offered “The Enneagram for Pastors,” According to the Enneagram the presence, power, or necessity of furnishing shepherding advice to each Institute, the Enneagram is a per- the Holy Spirit but affirms, “The Enneagram type based on that type’s sonality inventory developed with Enneagram is about spiritual purported weaknesses. “components from mystical Judaism, transformation.” A personality test may offer true Christianity, Islam, Taoism, Buddhism, Likewise, Otter Creek Church, a personal insights, but according to and ancient Greek philosophy.” Oscar 1,500-member congregation near the Bible, only the Holy Spirit renews Ichazo, a Bolivian-born philosopher- Nashville, Tenn., offered a weekend a human mind to live according to mystic, developed contemporary Enneagram conference last spring. God’s “good and acceptable and per- Enneagram theory in the 1960s. Based The conference advertised the fect” will (Romans 12:2). The Bible, on Ichazo’s belief that the ego becomes Enneagram to Christians as a way to not a personality test, reveals His will. stuck in childhood, the Enneagram help them “fulfill Jesus’ mission of While the Holy Spirit may use the identifies ego fixations that inform loving God and loving others.” Enneagram for spiritual good, He has nine basic personality types. Variants Both Bayside and Otter Creek promised to use the Word, sacraments, of Enneagram theory abound—­ churches confess the power of the Holy and prayer. including Christianized versions—but Spirit for spiritual transformation in Only the Holy Spirit turns infor­ undergirding each is the belief that their respective statements of faith. mation into transformation. Self- self-knowledge empowers personal But they also ascribe transformative knowledge is interesting, but apart transformation. power to the Enneagram. from the Holy Spirit it is also impotent.

LEAVEN AND LENT Lenten devotional. The LGBT-affirming religious In the Christian tradition, Lent and self- meditations serve HRC’s mission to “create a deprivation go hand in hand. During Lent, world where nobody is forced to choose between Christians remember Jesus’ suffering and who they are, whom they love and what they sacrifice, and in small waysemulate ­ it by choosing believe.” to forsake something—whether chocolate or Jesus, though, demanded exactly that decision. He Facebook—while also renouncing personal sin. called a rich young ruler to forsake his money and an At least that’s the way it used to be. adulterous woman to forsake her adultery. Every Christian On Feb. 14 the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) must forsake himself, take up his cross, and follow. Foundation, the teaching arm of America’s largest HRC, by affirming homosexual behavior, offers what LGBT advocacy group, launched its third annual daily Jesus never did: Have your sin and have Him too. —R.S.J. ENNEAGRAM: RACHEL CROSS: BEATTY • EVGENIY BELYAEV/SHUTTERSTOCK

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having a good autoclave for sterilizing scissors used to cut up the baby’s hands and feet in order to get them out of the mother. The D.A. had a tough row to hoe. He had to portray Gosnell as a “monster” without making all abortionists look like monsters. He did that by emphasizing the safety of hospital abortions for the mother. He did it by emphasizing the Before the board cleanliness of this hospital’s surgery units ­versus what he repeatedly called Gosnell’s A PLEA TO THOSE WHO ARE CULPABLE IN “house of horrors” clinic. He did it by arguing ABORTION, WHILE THERE IS TIME that Gosnell aborted babies at 25 weeks, even though his obstetrician The only board I normally stand before is witness was fine with R the cutting board. But Jill asked if I would abortions at 23.5 weeks, say a few words before the august conclave of and even though the our large regional hospital on the fourth defense showed us a Tuesday in January. It was once again that time photo of a “preemie” of year when the meeting is, by law, open to the who survived a 23-week public. And once again the community pro-life delivery. He did it by contingency would shuffle in and disgorge their contending that it was five-minute index cards pleading for the unborn, cruel to snip the aborted and poker-faced powers-that-be would be glad baby’s spinal cord to when it’s over. This has been the drill for hasten death (Gosnell’s decades. There are a method) but that it was compassionate to place It gave me a chance to dust off my stack of the still-breathing baby under a blanket till it yellow legal pads from an old WORLD assign- finite number expires (this hospital’s method). ment. Here was my five minutes’ worth, though of these get- He had to make those differences seem like not equal to what the Christian doctor and togethers, very big differences. Nigerian and American pastors shared: But arguing about details like that seems to Thank you for the opportunity to address and every me like arguing about the silverware on the the board of this hospital. Five years ago my time you Titanic. magazine assigned me to the Kermit Gosnell hear the facts In the end they all come out dead. In the Old trial in Philadelphia, from which I sent back Testament a city in Israel is under siege and daily dispatches. I sat directly behind Dr. it increases people are starving, and the king comes upon two Gosnell the first few weeks, which was easy to your women arguing and asks what they are arguing do because practically no one was there except culpability. about. What they are arguing about is whose a couple of lonely reporters from the Daily turn it is to cook and eat their babies. The king News and Philadelphia Magazine. tears his robes and dons sackcloth and ashes. Later the world showed up. Everybody Or, as Mercutio said just before dying, to the wanted Gosnell found guilty. The pro-lifers warring Montagues and Capulets, “A pox on wanted him put away because he killed babies both your houses!” for a living. The pro-abortion crowd wanted This is a familiar dance we’re doing tonight— him put away because they understood that a this charade where pro-lifers come here once a lot would come out about abortion, and it year and plead, and where you grin and bear it. would look uncomfortably similar to what had But this won’t go on forever. There are a finite occurred at 3801 Lancaster Avenue. number of these get-togethers, and every time The prosecution’s first witness was an you hear the facts it increases your culpability. obstetrician from this hospital who does abor- Then the Judge will come, and where will you tions. She was supposed to make Gosnell look be then, having forged your chain link by link, bad. She was supposed to show the way a like Ebenezer’s partner Marley? proper abortion is done. We learned many Today, while you have today, be courageous. interesting things from her—such as the right Whatever you fear to lose from changing your way to measure a baby’s head before aborting policy—money, prestige—is rubbish. Take the so that we don’t violate the 24-week adventure. As Jesus said, “The truth will set

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could he drop by at 3 p.m. and ask a few ques- tions? Esperanza was flattered. She had read FA I tHFUL articles by and about him so he certainly wasn’t like a horny sophomore. He was married with like Mary grown daughters. It would be midafternoon. She said yes. It turned out to be not midafternoon but 5:57. “Still afternoon but barely,” he said when he CREAtIVE Could have knocked on her door. “Got hung up doing another interview,” he apologized. Esperanza smelled his like Naomi breath and suspected he had interviewed a bottle, been worse but he was from The New York Times, so she GROWING UP POOR AND PRETTY minded her manners and let him in. He asked for a drink of water and followed her into the kitchen. She explained she was DEVOtED Eleventh in a once-a-quarter series of putting in new appliances and everything was like Sarah R short short stories. Read previous stories at way behind schedule, so for two weeks she had wng.org/shortstories. lived without a refrigerator, stove, or micro- Esperanza grew up poor, without a dad but wave. “How did you manage?” he asked. She with a chessboard. All the other chess nerds in explained: An electric kettle heated water, so Send your high school wanted to sleep with her. She told for breakfast she had instant oatmeal supple- student to a them that anyone who checkmated her king mented by flaxseed and powdered peanut could also checkmate her. She knew no one ­butter. Soy milk in individual boxes didn’t need Worldview ever would. refrigeration. She liked apples and bananas, and Esperanza won a scholarship to the opened cans of black beans and peas. Academy University of Texas and moved into a freshman Then things got weird, and bad. The two- dorm. She didn’t have the cash to keep up with timing Mr. Times backed her up against a coun- Leadership her sorority roommate so she felt right in shop- ‘When you’re ter and pressed his face on hers. She broke from Camp. lifting clothes. She got away with it every time his grasp and said, “Let’s keep this professional.” until a security guard caught her. No problema: accused A minute later he left angry. A week later She flashed her student ID and convinced the superficially, Esperanza read the profile and was horrified. He guard that her rich lawyer-dad would sue him people who had portrayed her as a Luddite who used only She’ll come back if he pursued the matter. “I beat the system,” an electric kettle and claimed refrigeration was she bragged to friends. care will unnecessary: “I like to eat apples and bananas.” with life-long friends, Esperanza had a rebellious sophomore year. know or One story led to another. The New York Post an unstoppable faith, She hooked up with Mike Khan, the leading learn what’s called her “herb girl.” Other profilers plagia- campus Marxist. She signed many radical peti- rized the Times, making Esperanza sound like and the devotion tions. But when he dropped out, she started true.’ Ridicula. At the Church of Adullam on Sunday, playing chess again and met Larry Gardner, a she blurted to mentor Larry, “I hate it that to live boldly UT professor who advised the chess team. He ­millions of people think I’m an airhead.” for Christ. was a Christian, so she told him if he ever beat Gardner smiled. “Es, they’re not thinking her she’d go to church with him. Once he did, about you. They’re thinking about what they’ll then she did—and gained both a Father in have for dinner. Besides, don’t you think you’re heaven and a different faith. getting off easy?” Ten years later she was a professor herself, Esperanza was astounded: “You think with a million subscribers to her YouTube humiliation is easy? ‘Herb girl’?” channel, and an adviser to a presidential candi- Gardner explained: “When you’re accused date. Because she was pretty and winsome, the superficially, people who care will know or campaign asked her to talk about the candidate learn what’s true. But think about what wasn’t with male reporters. She worked out of her in the article. Do you remember what you Camps where students home in northwest Austin but always met them signed when you were a sophomore? What if become bold leaders in truth and grace. at the Capitol or some other public place. the Times guy had been a good reporter and One of The New York Times’ most distin- connected you with Mike Khan?” KRIEG BARRIE www.worldview.org • 800.241.1123 guished political writers saw a photo of Esperanza laughed: “Good point. But he’ll Esperanza and decided to profile her. He said it never be back in my life again.” was important to portray her in her office, so She was wrong. A

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