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JANUARY 23, 2016 IT’S NOT PERSONAL. IT’S STRICTLY BUSINESS ROE V. WADE ISSUE 0 Planned Parenthood 0 Ancient child sacrifice 0 Students: Life or death? 0 California euthanasia 0 Abortion and cancer? 0 Genesis riddle: Abraham and Isaac Humphrey World 1.16.indd 1 12/4/15 2:02 PM 2 CONTENTS.indd 2 1/5/16 9:39 AM JAN2316 / VOLUME 31 / NUMBER 2

FEATURES A time for plain speaking Planned Parenthood beneﬁ ts from a culture that disguises what the organization truly is and does The ABC scientist Joel Brind, chief academic DEPARTMENTS proponent of the abortion– breast cancer link, isn’t shy Joel Belz about holding unpopular DISPATCHES opinions News ‘In God’s hands’ Human Race Advocates for seniors and Quotables the disabled warn that newly Quick Takes legalized assisted suicide Janie B. Cheaney in California may snowball beyond the terminally ill CULTURE Movies & TV The riddle of Isaac Books Genesis has a pro-life Q&A subtext, and missing it Music has led to a multitude of religious errors Mindy Belz

ON THE COVER NOTEBOOK Illustration by Krieg Barrie Lifestyle Technology Science “It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.” —Michael Corleone in Sports The Godfather as he explains his Religion plan to kill two men Mailbag Andrée Seu Peterson Marvin Olasky

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KRIEG BARRIE JOEL BELZ women in America has suffered some kind of unwanted sexual intrusion or offense. Similar statistics say that 1 out of every 3 men in America has an ongoing relationship with pornography. What’s your immediate, intuitive response to those assertions? If your tendency is to say promptly and defensively, “Couldn’t be!—no way!—not in my family!—not in my church!— ‘Keep it quiet, not in my neighborhood!” well then, might it be that you’ve already allowed yourself to fall into the “got-you-silenced” trap? please’ I don’t say this to scare you, or to raise INTERPRETING SILENCE IS A TRICKY AND inappropriate fears of evil or suspicions about people very close to you. I say it because I have DANGEROUS DUTY IN A SCANDAL-PRONE WORLD come to believe the statistics as providing an

It’s the very nature of sex crimes, of R course, that the perpetrators do everything they can to keep their wrongdoing quiet. Silencing of this sort can happen on any scale. It might be the attorney for comedian Bill Cosby emphatically denying multiple women’s charges that the TV star had forced them into unwanted sexual relationships. Or perhaps it’s the government of Japan claiming there are no records of their army’s ever compelling thousands of Korean women and girls to serve as “comfort women” during World War II. Keep it quiet, please. Very quiet. But don’t let the fact that things seem so silent trick you into thinking nothing nasty has Don’t let the accurate picture of our very sick society. I have happened. Or may even still be happening. personally witnessed the ugly astonishment Remember how many years you absolutely fact that that comes when someone (and especially believed in Bill Cosby. Remember that Japan things seem someone in a leadership role) we all thought kept the “comfort women” issue pretty quiet for so silent trick was trustworthy proved not to be so. I have several decades. personally experienced the sober surprise of We might also have been stunned silent if you into discovering the betrayal of a colleague—a there had been a few more truth-tellers around. thinking friend who was only pretending to live the pure We all might have collapsed in shock if either nothing nasty life he suggested to those around him. Cosby or Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has happened. But I am specifically not encouraging you to had earlier surprised us by acknowledging in head to church next Sunday, settle into your straightforward fashion: “Yes. Guilty as charged.” Or may even seat, and then—looking up and down the row But instead, perpetrators and whitewashers still be of fellow worshippers—try to decide who is of sex crimes count on the fact that most of us happening. concealing some grievous secret. are reluctant to talk about such things. We’re like Somehow, instead, we all need to embrace a the next-door neighbors of the Islamic terror- humble balance, in which we are—at the same ists in San Bernardino, Calif., who suspected time—both confident in and altogether suspi- something unsavory was going on, but couldn’t cious of each other. We need to start by confess- quite bring themselves to say so. Sex crimes are ing our own sins. Then, when and if someone a different kind of violence—but they impose suggests there’s activity nearby that deserves a the same kind of cautious and reluctant silence closer look, we dare not shirk our duty, but do a on everyone close at hand. faithful and diligent check. Want to measure just how skeptical you In it all, God’s people need to keep in mind might be? Try a brief and easy test by reading just how tricky and dangerous an assignment

BARRIE this: Reliable statistics say that 1 out of every 3 interpreting silence can be. A KRIEG

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DEC. 31 SKY-HIGH FIRE New Year’s Eve took an unexpected turn in Dubai when a massive fi re climbed the 63-story Address hotel near the city center. No deaths were reported, but the fast- moving blaze injured at least 16 and took four teams of fi refi ghters some 20 hours to contain. Irish singer Anita Williams, who was performing at the fi ve- star hotel, told the BBC that people fl ed in a “stampede” when the fi re “shot up through the entire hotel. ... I thought, ‘This is a fi lm.’” During the fi re, the United Arab Emirates government allowed a huge fi reworks display to continue at the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, only 600 yards away. IMAGES SAHIB/AFP/GETTY KARIM

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JAN. 3 ISLAMIC FEUD World leaders called for restraint as flaring tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia threatened to esca- late Sunni-Shiite conflict across the Middle East. Saudi Arabia, a Sunni majority nation, cut diplomatic ties with Iran on Jan. 3 after Iranians set fire to the Saudi Embassy in protest of the Saudi government’s execution of a well-known Shiite dissident cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr—one of 47 “terrorists” beheaded or shot by firing squad. Saudi Arabia gave Iran 48 hours to pull its diplomats from Riyadh. Bahrain and Sudan followed Saudi Arabia’s lead and also cut diplomatic ties with Iran. The tension revealed internal strife in Saudi Arabia, leading former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to predict the possible downfall of the Saudi royal family.

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Caption `1 Forward momentum 2015 WAS A YEAR OF PRO-LIFE OPTIMISM by J.C. Derrick in Washington

Following Republican losses in and passed the Born-Alive Abortion -week protection line, even as a spate R , the Republican National Survivors Protection Act. of polling shows Americans support it by Committee urged the party’s future None of the bills became law, but they a -to- margin. Four months later, only candidates to put less emphasis on framed the debate and illustrated how ﬁ ve Democrats voted for the abortion social issues. Arizona Sen. John McCain, ideologically rigid the Democratic Party survivors bill, which would have made it the GOP’s presidential nominee, has become on abortion. In May, only four a criminal o ense to fail to provide care went so far as to call for a truce on out of House Democrats voted for the for a baby born alive after a botched MICHIGAN: abortion. abortion. Meanwhile, undercover videos

Three years later, that think- showing Planned Parenthood’s role in MARTIN/AP

ing felt like a distant memory. States in motion fetal tissue transactions led to defund NICK

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R Operation Rescue reports 54 abortion JACQUELYN when a handful of U.S. House seven states, and creation of a special centers either closed or stopped providing Republicans derailed a vote on abortions in 2015, leaving only 730 in business congressional committee to investigate

a -week abortion ban sched- fetal tissue procurement. RICHARDS: across the 50 states—down from 2,176 in 1991. • uled to coincide with the March In September the House passed a bill for Life, but pro-life semi-victo- R State lawmakers introduced almost 400 to reallocate Planned Parenthood’s CITIZEN ries soon came: The House pieces of pro-life legislation in 2015: Lawmakers f ederal funding to community health BAUER/AP

passed 47 such pro-life measures, according PATRIOT passed another, stronger bill centers that don’t provide abortions, but to a Center for Reproductive Rights tally. SCOTT protecting unborn children who Democrats blocked a similar measure in make it to weeks, passed a R Wisconsin and West Virginia in 2015 approved the Senate. Republicans later used a rare VIA life protection for babies after 20 weeks of AP ban on federal abortion funding, budget maneuver called reconciliation WISCONSIN: gestation, joining 25 other states that have similar laws—but three states are stuck in 8 WORLD JANUARY 23, 2016 legal limbo due to court challenges.  [email protected]  @jcderrick1

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GONZALES/JACKSON defund measure to President Barack “Living worthy of the gospel means displaying an honorable JACQUELYN Obama’s desk this month—setting testimony to the world through loving unity within the church.” an important precedent. –Steve Pettit

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CITIZEN Church groups or individuals can learn to humbly serve with cases will help drive the pro-life BAUER/AP conversation during the election love and unity from this inspiring walk through Philippians. PATRIOT season. Marjorie Dannenfelser, presi- SCOTT dent of the Susan B. Anthony List, says, VIA “The pro-life movement has tremen- AP Order this new book

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CAPTURED Authorities on Dec. 28 captured “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch, a Texan who violated his probation by fleeing to Mexico. Couch had first made headlines when a judge gave him a light sentence, 10 years’ probation, after he had killed four pedestrians in a drunk driving accident in 2013. The judge had agreed with a psychologist who said Couch’s pam- pered upbringing led to his reckless decisions. Couch, now 18, will likely face jail time for breaking his probation when he fled the country in early December with his mother. Authorities found the two DIAGNOSED in Puerto Vallarta, a resort “I have Parkinson’s, and I am at peace,” announced Wayne Grudem on Dec. 22 on the desiringgod.org city on Mexico’s Pacific website. Grudem is professor of theology and biblical studies at Phoenix Seminary, in Phoenix, coast. Ariz., general editor of the ESV Study Bible, and the author of 20 books, including a prominent systematic theology. Grudem wrote that he is experiencing diminished fine-motor control, and a neurologist confirmed the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease on Dec. 18. He hopes to finish two current writing projects and plans to continue teaching as long as he is able. He and his wife THREATENED Margaret, he wrote, “feel a deep peace from the Lord about this. King David said to the Lord, Employers and landlords GRUDEM: ‘My times are in your hand’ (Psalm 31:15), and I truly feel that way.” in New York City are facing a new threat: The city’s HANDOUT Commission on Human Rights issued rules in • DIED December that impose BRIGHT: Vonette Bright, who co-founded fines of up to $250,000 on

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called Cru) with “misgender” employees or GERRARD/WORLDWIDE her late hus- tenants. Employers and band Bill “covered entities,” accord- Bright, died ing to the regulation, must on Dec. 23 of “use an individual’s pre-

complications ferred name, pronoun and CHALLENGE from acute title (e.g., Ms./Mrs.) regard- leukemia. The less of the individual’s sex • Brights were married in 1948 assigned at birth, anatomy, BILL

and launched Campus Crusade gender, medical history, AND

in 1951 at UCLA. Vonette Bright appearance, or the sex VONETTE also served as a chairwoman of indicated on the individu-

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International. She was 89. “hir.” The rule also opens COLE: MATT SAYLES/AP • LEMON: SUZANNE VLAMIS/AP • ROGERS: CBS/LANDOV

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‘If we are funded for it and Congress says you are going to have a ‘It was horror.’ ninth cutter, I A 28-year-old woman identiﬁ ed only as KATJA guess that is L. in reports, on being groped and assaulted by a how it goes. But gang of men in Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s we are good Eve. Police said roving packs of “Arab or North with eight.’ African” men assaulted dozens of women—and CHAD SAYLOR, a U.S. Coast raped at least one—in Cologne on Dec. 31. Similar Guard spokesman, on incidents occurred in Stuttgart and Hamburg. unnecessary funding that lobbyists secured in a year- The news ignited debate in Germany about end spending bill the wisdom of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s passed by policy last year of admitting the Republican

hundreds of thousands of majority in SMITH/AP BRUCE • CUTTER: MORGAN/AP SCOTT • CLINTON: IMAGES POST/GETTY WASHINGTON THE • ISLAM: IMAGES PFEIL/AFP/GETTY ROBERTO COLOGNE: Muslim refugees. Congress.

‘For the feminist sect ‘58.’ women … are The percentage of convenient AMERICANS who have an objects useful unfavorable opinion of Islam, for the purpose according to a YouGov/ of infl aming Huff ington Post survey. Only 17 percent of Americans hatred against had a favorable view the Christian of Islam. religion, hatred against men, hatred against the beauty of ‘Uh, you’d women, hatred have to against the equilibrium of ask—I am families.’ SARA FERNANDA GIROMINI, not one.’ formerly a leading feminist Democratic presidential activist in Brazil, on the candidate Hillary Clinton after views of radical feminists. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, on Giromini says she has Jan. 5, asked her what the repented of having had an abortion: “Please, women diff erence is between who are desperate to abort, a Democrat think carefully about it. I was and a Socialist. very sorry I did it.”

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COLOGNE: ROBERTO PFEIL/AFP/GETTY IMAGES • ISLAM: THE WASHINGTON POST/GETTY IMAGES • CLINTON: SCOTT MORGAN/AP • CUTTER: BRUCE SMITH/AP DISPATCHES QUICK TAKES

Pilot compassion ILLUSTRATION: The two Delta pilots in charge of Flight 3955 decided to defy tower orders at Minneapolis- St. Paul International Airport when they caught a KRIEG glimpse of a frantic family waiting in the terminal.

Because of a ﬂ ight delay, Rick Short and his family BARRIE almost missed their connecting ﬂ ight to Memphis, • Tenn., on Dec. 19 to attend a funeral for Short’s BEREZOVSKIY: father. Standing in the terminal with the plane taxiing away from the gate, Short frantically waved his arms, hoping to get the attention of the pilots

S t o c k i n g s s t u e d MAXIM For the holidays this year, dieting residents of Russia’s Kemerovo region were while his sisters and mother cried nearby. When

treated to lumps of coal. The governor of the Siberian province promised to reward the two pilots spotted the distraught family, they LISOV locals for losing weight during 2015. And on Dec. 20, Gov. Aman Tuleyev arranged checked to see if they could return to the gate. •

for 45 metric tons of coal to be delivered to the small town of Berezovskiy—1.5 Tower controllers denied the request, but the pilots KOHLHOFER: tons for every 22 pounds lost by residents. The coal will come in handy this winter returned anyway, allowing the Short family to in Berezovskiy, where temperatures routinely drop far below zero. board and make it to the funeral. ANTENNE

Book of the month Holiday heartbreak KARNTEN/YOUTUBE Most retailers strive to provide a variety of goods An Austrian disc jockey annoyed his listeners on for customers. Yoshiyuki Morioka, owner of a book- Dec. 18 when he barricaded his radio studio store in Tokyo, has a diﬀ erent approach. Since last door and began playing “Last Christmas” by

May, Morioka Bookstore has been off ering just one Wham! over and over again. Locked in the • MORIOKA title at a time. Morioka said he changes the store’s control room, DJ single off ering every week and redesigns the shop’s Joe Kohlhofer ambiance to suit each book. So far, the less-is-more managed to play BOOKSTORE: strategy has fared reasonably well: Morioka fi gures the 1980s holiday he’s sold more than 250 books per month. hit 24 times

consecutively, only MIYUKI breaking to take phone calls from listeners pleading with him to stop. KANEKO/NACASA Deputy program director Tommy Schmid said the station punished Kohlhofer by scheduling him to work on Christmas Eve and on New Year’s Eve. & PARTNERS • Smells like supper SAUERKRAUT: A pungent dinner delicacy prompted a Dec. 18 phone call to the fi re department in the Bavarian village of Waldkraiburg, Germany. DELMONTE1977/ISTOCK After a resident reported what he thought smelled like a gas leak at his home, volunteer fi refi ghters checked his gas meters but could not locate a leak. Further investigation revealed the odor’s source: a

neighbor fermenting cabbage for sauerkraut. JOBIAH: HANDOUT • O’MALLEY: SARAH BECKMAN • BIGGS: ALASTAIR JOHNSTONE/SWNS • ILLUSTRATION: KRIEG BARRIE

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ILLUSTRATION: city that her young son with an aﬀ inity for the garbage crew really wanted new trash bins for Christmas. So Aaron Wilson and Cliﬀ Kallis, the two men who normally work the Wellses’ route, woke up early on Christmas morning and delivered four brand-new blue trash cans KRIEG wrapped in red bows. “It was the highlight of the day,” Wells said. BARRIE • BEREZOVSKIY: Deductive delivery Despite having few clues to work with, British Royal Mail investigators were able to deliver a Christmas card with just MAXIM “England” written on the envelope. The mysterious letter, mailed on Dec. 21, bore a German postmark and little else. LISOV From there, Royal Mail postal workers determined the

• envelope originally had an address label on it when it KOHLHOFER: departed Germany that must have fallen oﬀ by the time it reached Longlevens, England. So postal administrators instructed mail carriers to ask people on their routes if ANTENNE anyone was expecting a letter from Germany. By Dec. 23, Royal Mail employees found the intended recipient—Paul KARNTEN/YOUTUBE Biggs—when he remembered he had friends in Germany.

O’Malley one-on-one

• When former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, the long-shot Democratic MORIOKA presidential contender, walked into a campaign event in Iowa on Dec. 28, he doubled the population of the room. Inclement weather plus O’Malley’s BOOKSTORE: ﬂ agging support resulted in just one person showing up to a meet-and- greet event in Tama, Iowa. O’Malley cheerfully told MSNBC the next day that the lone attendee was happy to see him, but that he had yet to MIYUKI secure his support in the upcoming Iowa caucus. KANEKO/NACASA Beer belly A New York woman’s rare gastrointestinal &

PARTNERS disease has saved her from drunk driving charges. Police in Hamburg, N.Y., arrested the unidentiﬁ ed woman in 2014 when they • SAUERKRAUT: discovered her driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.33 percent—four times the legal limit. In December, town Justice Walter Rooth dismissed the DWI charges because DELMONTE1977/ISTOCK the woman suﬀ ers from a gut fermentation syndrome. According to her doctors, the woman’s digestive system acts as an internal brewery, converting excess yeast Paul and Sandra Biggs into alcohol and leaving her legally drunk even

JOBIAH: HANDOUT • O’MALLEY: SARAH BECKMAN • BIGGS: ALASTAIR JOHNSTONE/SWNS • ILLUSTRATION: KRIEG BARRIE when she hasn’t been drinking.

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2 QUICK TAKES.indd 17 1/5/16 4:51 PM JANIE B. CHEANEY Coates’ second book was supposed to be a collection of essays on the Civil War, but then Ferguson happened. He began a stream-of- consciousness letter addressed to his teenage son, which became Between the World and Me. In it the author mixes raw honesty—exposing some of the most painful episodes of his past—with broad- brush pessimism. None of the love, learning, and The world literary success he’s achieved outweighs the pain of living among “the residue of plunder,” in a system built upon the exploitation of the black body. between us “Bodies” stand in for selves. As an atheist, THE ATHEISM OF TA-NEHISI COATES GETS IN Coates may not be able to conceive of any reality beyond the physical body, but it’s an odd formu- THE WAY OF REAL RECONCILIATION lation: Instead of “The white man is out to get me,” whites are always, consciously or not, In the midst of the Trayvon Martin case a angling for his body and the bodies of the R few years back, I speculated in these brothers. The emotional core of his pages about what it would take to move forward memoir is the death of a college friend, on race relations. Considering what’s happened Prince Jones, in 2000. Jones was on the since then—Ferguson, Baltimore, Charleston, road late at night when he was mistaken Black Lives Matter, campus protests, and climb- for a wanted drug dealer and pursued by ing murder rates—race relations have taken a an undercover cop. It was not a racist big step backward. A little book published last incident—the officer was also black—but summer has enlightened many readers as to somehow this and other forms of violence why this might be so. in the community are due entirely to white Between the World and Me, by Atlantic writer plundering. Ta-Nehisi Coates, charged upon the literary Black identity is bound up with suffering, scene waving ecstatic endorsements. “This is Coates’ atheism whether intentional or collateral. The damage required reading,” said novelist Toni Morrison. misleads him: is great; the pain is real; the roots are long. But Dozens of reviewers echoed Morrison’s pro- though Coates’ book is hailed as an important nouncement: required reading. The author, they There’s no “conversation starter,” it does not invite conver- agreed, was the literary heir of iconic black material com- sation. He presents his feelings as the whole writer James Baldwin. pensation for story. He adopts suffering as his identity, to Coates grew up in Baltimore, the son of spiritual harm. which there’s no adequate answer except fur- leftist parents with connections to the Black ther suffering (while living off the substantial Panthers. His parents’ determination to live in The greatest royalties of the most heralded book of 2015). the ghetto sentenced their bookish, sensitive reparation Whites are told that they must deal honestly son to a harrowing childhood where gunplay was made on with the tortured history of race relations in between 11-year-olds was not uncommon and a cross. America. But by now that history is too tortur ed most young black men of his acquaintance for either side to deal with honestly. As spent time in jail. Eventually the elder Coates Jeremiah 17:9 asks, Who can understand the accepted a librarian’s job at Howard University, heart? Who can untangle the twisted motives described by his son as “Mecca.” Here Ta-Nehisi and missed opportunities of almost 400 years? all but lived in the library, immersing himself in If there were some way to make real repara- YORKER NEW THE FOR IMAGES WEBBER/GETTY ANNA the texts of his people, both celebrated and tions for slavery and bigotry, we should not obscure. hesitate to pay the cost, shake hands, and go Though he never earned a college degree, forward. But Coates’ atheism misleads him: the young man soaked up enough black history, There’s no material compensation for spiritual poetry, apologetics, and literary style to launch harm. The greatest reparation was made on a a journalism career and publish a memoir. His cross. If he could meet me there, I would gladly first article for The Atlantic was a widely dis- ask his forgiveness for any perceived harm on cussed critique of Bill Cosby’s “black conserva- my part, because that’s the only place he could tism.” “The Case for Reparations” set pundits forgive me. Otherwise, resolution seems buzzing from coast to coast. forever out of reach. A

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Christians less excuse, for the more we could charge learn about the complexity God vs. atheism the book subti- of cells and the necessity of OR, FAITH VS. OLD-FASHIONED CRANKY tle with exag- intelligent design, the more geration, since we rationally see that the ARROGANCE by Marvin Olasky Whitmarsh only explanation for our admits that his existence is God’s eternal Is theism virtually Tim Whitmarsh’s book is only power. Whitmarsh’s book, R universal or touch-and- Battling the Gods: Atheism about ancient with his apparent hostility go? Recent decades give us in the Ancient World (Knopf, Greece. toward Christianity, is considerable evidence for ) has a di erent Nevertheless, the Apostle helpful for a Christian apolo- abundance: Look at the perspective. He readably Paul would fi nd no reason to getic: The suppressive survival of belief despite argues that theism has doubt Whitmarsh’s conclu- pathology of atheism has totalitarian e orts in always faced compe- sion: Paul told the Romans always been with us, and the China and the for- tition: Seeing (and us) that men know the more we know the more we mer Soviet atheism as a truth but “by their unrigh- should believe. Union, and modern invention teousness suppress the Or, to put the research is a myth nurtured truth.” The atheists it bluntly, indicating that by both atheists who and polytheists atheism is people on scattered “wish to present Paul encountered old-fashioned Pacifi c islands as skepticism toward were “without excuse, cranky arro- well as in ancient China wor- the supernatural as the result for although they knew gance. It’s shipped a “high god.” (See of science’s progressive God, they did not honor always fought Don Richardson’s Eternity in eclipse of religion, and the him as God or give against God- Their Hearts and Chan Kei religious wish to see it as a thanks to him.” centered trust and Thong’s Faith of Our Fathers: pathological symptom of a Recent scientifi c alwaysalways will, until Christ God in Ancient China.) decadent Western world.” advances give us even returns.

TRAVELING detailed account of how New York The Dude’s Guide to Marriage: Ten Skills COMPANIONS minister Asa Jennings in 1922 rescued Every Husband Must Develop to Love refugees following the Muslim burning His Wife Well (Thomas Nelson, 2015) Eric Weiner’s The Geography of Genius: and ethnic cleansing of largely Christian isn’t a silly book. The maxims it off ers in A Search for the World’s Most Creative Smyrna, the city in western Turkey now 10 chapters with titles like “Listen,” Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon known as Izmir. “Provide,” “Serve,” and “Pursue” are Valley (Simon & Schuster, 2016) is a light Ben Mezrich’s Once Upon a Time in sensible: “A wise husband knows that and speculative read about why the Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs (Atria, winning an argument with his wife is not residents of some tiny towns produced 2015) vividly describes Russia’s as important as winning her heart. … You ideas that still infl uence us. Timothy betrayal-fi lled past 25 years. In Red are going to fi ght. Are you going to fi ght Mahoney’s Patterns of Evidence: Exodus Notice (Simon & Schuster, 2015), Bill well? … When husbands don’t take their (Thinking Man Media, 2015) is a loosely Browder—grandson of the Communist roles as providers seriously, many wives written but important tale of how he Party USA’s leader in the feel that they are bearing a double found evidence that shows the historicity 1930s—skillfully narrates his tale of burden. … When women aren’t inten- of the second book of the Bible. making money by seeing opportunities in tionally and consistently pursued by Mark Molesky’s This Gulf of Fire Russia’s crony capitalism, and then run- their husbands, they tend to look for (Knopf, 2015) comprehensively covers ning afoul of Vladimir Putin. Oleg something to fi ll that void.” —M.O. the huge earthquake/tsunami/confl a- Kashin’s Fardwor, gration that destroyed Lisbon, Portugal, Russia! (Restless, in 1755; infl uenced the thought of 2016) satirizes Voltaire, Rousseau, and Kant; and bureaucratic life launched the careers of village atheists under Putin. who saw the disaster as evidence for Despite the RAMAKER

disbelief. Lou Ureneck’s The Great Fire silly title, Darrin HANDOUT (Ecco, 2015) is a loosely written but and Amie Patrick’s EO/ARIANNE

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MARRIED AND STILL LOVING IT Gary Chapman and Harold Myra Unlike many recent marriage books, this one examines the lives of long-married couples who have weathered storms: illness, fi nancial pressures, and prodigal children. Each chapter focuses on a diff erent challenge and off ers practical advice for getting through it. Married also off ers an insightful interview with Joni and Ken Tada about the role of thankful- ness in their marriage and the importance of praying for your spouse: “You have a solemn obligation to get engaged in your spouse’s sanctifi cation through prayer. He’s the person God put in your life to pray for, cheer on, defend, encourage, appreciate and applaud.”

THE LIFEGIVING HOME Sally and Sarah Clarkson Every home has a culture—and a wise woman thinks about the “traditions, habits, rhythms, experiences, and values” Tim and Kathy Keller she wants to characterize her home. The book is organized divide the Book of thematically by month (February focuses on establishing a Psalms into 365 culture of love, for instance), with mother and daughter readings, acknowledging that Bible alternating chapters. It’s loaded with practical ideas and readers don’t need a theological insight and off ers encouragement to those who devotional book in want their homes to be places of beauty and warm memories. order to read the Warning: If you are prone to regret, or to comparing your Psalms daily. In The Songs of home with others, this book might not be for you. Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms (Viking, 2015), JOY IN THE JOURNEY: FINDING ABUNDANCE IN THE they off er scriptural context and SHADOW OF DEATH Steve and Sharol Hayner explanation along with short For nine months Steve Hayner fought a losing battle against prayers meant to help the reader an aggressive pancreatic cancer. During that time both he use the Psalms in prayer: “The and his wife kept in touch with friends and relatives through psalms fi re our imaginations into the CaringBridge website. Their journals provide an intimate new realms yet guide them look at the struggles they faced together and individually— toward the God who actually and what trusting God looks like. There’s wisdom here for exists. This brings a reality to others facing illness, or befriending those who do. They write our prayer lives that nothing of hymns and the succor they receive from knowing that else can.” people are praying. Notes of encouragement bring “hope and Sarah Palin’s joy, not to mention distraction from some of the daily grind of this disease.” Sweet Freedom (Regnery Faith, 2015) is a compilation of HEAVY LIFTING: GROW UP, GET A JOB, START A 260 daily readings FAMILY, AND OTHER MANLY ADVICE and some extras for Jim Geraghty and Cam Edwards holidays. She blends Conservative writers Jim Geraghty and Cam Edwards have in her distinctive written a funny, though sometimes vulgar, book of advice to voice self-help young men. At the end of each chapter is a pithy “What aphorisms with Would Ward Cleaver Do?” that refers to the classic 1950s TV Scripture, patriotism, and father from Leave It to Beaver. The authors’ basic premise: common sense: “Today, vow to get

RAMAKER We mock those TV dads, but they actually got many things your butt—and the butts of your

HANDOUT right. They argue that Ward Cleaver and the other 1950s family and friends—back into the dads may not have been perfect, but, “He’s responsible, a man pews at church. I’ll try to.” —S.O.

EO/ARIANNE everyone can count on.” Question: Will those who need this book actually read it?

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Children’s books SPOTLIGHT GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR AGES 6-14 reviewed by Janie B. Cheaney and Betsy Farquhar When lightning strikes the elm tree where young Martin Luther seeks shelter during a violent storm, he cries out to God, vowing HILO: THE BOY WHO CRASHED TO EARTH Judd Winick to leave law school for the mon- Nothing exciting ever happens to D.J., until he discovers a astery. This is one of many child in a crater. The kid, who calls himself Hilo, has super- attempts by a restless Luther to powers and can process information in seconds but doesn’t placate what he sees as an angry remember his origin. Hilo fi nds charm in everything about and implacable God. Earth until he meets a monster from another world who When Lightning seems to know everything about him. In the ensuing fracas, Struck! by D.J. discovers unexpected reserves of courage and ingenuity. Danika Cooley The story illustrates valuable themes of human worth and (Fortress potential, but it’s mostly for fun: Outstanding! as Hilo would Press, 2015) say. (Ages 6-10) tells Luther’s story from FABLE COMICS edited by Chris Du y birth to death More than two dozen contemporary cartoonists update and from his quest centuries-old fables that, while timeless in their depiction to earn salvation to his revelation of humanity’s foibles, have often lost their punch because of grace. of inaccessible language and illustrations. Purists may Cooley, relying heavily on groan at the treatment Aesop and his contemporaries Luther’s own words and carefully receive, but children will delight in the humor, action, and annotating them, pieces variety of cartoon styles. Some treatments are more together the “thunderstorms” eff ective and clever than others, but the variety of artistic in Luther’s life and the European interpretations off ers something for everyone. Each fable world after his 95 theses trigger has an implicit or explicit moral. Parents may wish to preview the Reformation. The latter half the contents since the tone is sometimes disrespectful or sarcastic. (Ages 8-12) of the book looks closely at ensuing theological disputes, ESCAPE FROM THE LIZZARKS: NNEWTS Luther’s writings, and his Doug TenNapel controversial choices and vices. Herk would be perfectly happy in his peaceful village and Cooley gives young adult readers loving family, except for his puny back legs. The crippled little a thoughtful picture of how God salamander spends most of his time in the family pond baby- used a fl awed man to change the sitting his sibling spawn, until the day evil lizzarks invade the course of history. —Mary Jackson village. Herk appears to be the only one to escape, embarking on a perilous journey through underground streams. He turns

out to be a newt of destiny with one surviving family member, COOLEY: but further revelations will have to wait until the next volume.

TenNapel layers Christian themes with nonstop action, scary BILL

creatures, and occasional belly laughs. (Ages 8-12) Luther D. JOHNSON

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CAMILLA HERSH The happiness specialist A PRO-LIFE OB-GYN DELIVERS HOPE IN A WORLD OF PAIN by Marvin Olasky photo by Lee Love/Genesis

Dr. Camilla Hersh, founder and owner of arguments. Everything we do in medicine has informed R Virginia Women’s Health Associates, is a board consent. Even when my daughters had their ears member of the American Association of Pro-Life pierced, I had to sign a consent form. My dog has Obstetricians and Gynecologists. more rights than young women have: She actually People say you always remember your first kiss. Do swallowed an entire bone that was puncturing her you remember the first baby you delivered, in 1979? stomach, so we took her to the vet and saw informed I do remember my first baby. consent forms for surgery. I had to smile, thinking that And 5,000 since then—does it become old at some if my daughter had been going in for an abortion, she point? It never gets old. One of my favorite phrases in wouldn’t have required my consent, in many places. obstetrics and gynecology is: “I get to specialize in People in favor of keeping abortion legal say if you happiness.” It’s an honor and privilege to be able to criminalize abortion, you will be cutting off the ability see a mom and dad see their baby for the first time. to abort babies who are the results of rape, or pregnan- Tell us about one of the happy memories. A patient cies that could harm the mother’s life. How frequently had insurmountable infertility: Every test in the works do you see that in your practice? Rare. I’ve had a couple showed that. She had three adopted children. We of patients where the baby’s little amniotic sac has were pretty sure she was going through premature ruptured too soon and an infection has set in and the menopause because her periods had stopped. I mother’s white count is elevated and she has a fever thought she might have fibroid tumors in her uterus and her uterus is tender. That’s the onset of sepsis, because her uterus was enlarged. I got the ultrasound which if untreated she will die of, so to save the out, and one of the fibroids moved. But it wasn’t the mother you have to evacuate the uterus—technically fibroid at all—it was her baby who was six months it’s a type of abortion. We had a sad case five or six along. When that baby was delivered, her adopted years ago with a woman who was 18 weeks along. children, now teenagers, were there. That was a really Usually we can save the baby at 24-26 weeks, and it’s beautiful delivery. getting closer to 23 now in some studies, so we You can specialize in happiness, but sometimes wanted to get this lady a little further along, but she there’s unhappiness. When it’s happy, it’s very happy. was 18 weeks and the placenta was bleeding. The When it’s sad, it’s dreadful. One in 100 babies is still- uterus at 18 weeks should be football-sized. Instead, it born. With people who are nonsmokers, exercisers, was beach ball–sized, full of blood. Meanwhile the taking their vitamin every day, one stillbirth still baby’s heart was still beating and still moving around occurs in every 200 to 300 births. So when a person in there. We’d already given the woman six units of has gone through pregnancy and everything seems blood, and a woman her size only has four or five units fine and we check the heartbeat and the baby has of blood. We’d already replaced her whole system and passed away—that’s unspeakable. blood was coming out like a faucet. I had to do an Why do some OB-GYNS trade happiness for evacuation to save her. abortions? Most decline to do them. They refer patients Those memories stick with you. It’s a bit like being a to abortion centers. To be the one who, with your own fireman, I suppose. If I went into a burning building hands, ends the life of the growing baby—you wouldn’t and could put you and you over my shoulder and drag A VIDEO OF THIS get up on a Monday morning saying, “Oh great, I’m INTERVIEW you out, but one person has a beam over his torso and going in to do abortions today.” IN ITS ENTIRETY I couldn’t get him out, I would have to save the people Pro-aborts complain about pro-life fanatics CAN BE FOUND I could drag out even though my heart would break AT WNG.ORG imposing on women requirements for ultrasound and AND IN THE forever wishing I could have saved the person informed consent. What valid arguments are there IPAD EDITION OF trapped. When I have to empty the uterus, I think against informed consent? There are no valid THIS ISSUE about it for years and it brings me to tears: If only I

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2 Q&A.indd 28 12/31/15 10:26 AM had an incubator small enough to put that -weeker in. But I didn’t. I did save one life, and she had a baby about six months ago. We love that baby, but it won’t bring back the baby we lost. How do you respond to abortion in the case of rape? It’s interesting to say you’re solving a crime by killing a victim. I would understand if a legislator voted that way. I would like to think that society would imprison the perpetrator and provide life-sustaining situations for the baby who’s a victim. Incest exceptions? Here’s an incest story: One day a colleague from pediatrics called and said, I have to bring a patient to you, a -year-old girl who’s pregnant, and security is coming to arrest her father because when she found out she was pregnant he put his ﬁ st through the wall and threatened the girl and the mother. We need you to set up an abortion for her. I’m thinking, “You haven’t met me yet, have you?”—but I said, “Bring her up.” I have found you don’t need to go full guns blazing right away when someone brings up a topic. So we talked to the girl and her family. She said, “Oh, you mean you’d kill the baby? I don’t want to kill the baby. No, no, no. I just want you to stop Grandpa from hurting me.” The mom and dad were working, the grandfather was doing the day care and hurting everyone. The girl continued her pregnancy, placed the baby up for adoption, continued school, had a good life, and the law stopped the grandfather ‘Most [O B-GYNs] decline to do [abortions]. … To be the one who ... ends the life of the growing baby—you wouldn’t get up on a Monday morning saying, “Oh great, I’m going in to do abortions today.”’

from hurting her and her sister and her brother. When you say there’s a pregnancy as a result of incest, there’s usually some horrible abuse that must be diagnosed and treated. To kill the victim doesn’t really treat the crime. You’ve been at this a long time. When you look at your patients, American society generally, or perhaps this younger generation that’s represented here at Patrick Henry College—optimistic, pessimistic? I’m optimistic, but I’m an obstetrician: I specialize in happiness. I have never seen a generation as intelligent, well-informed, and pro-life as our young people are now. You really have to be counterculture, but more young people are pro-life than ever have been. A

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ences free admission, she not only can be bought but is being bought. And she must keep being bought if she’s to continue to avoid having to fund her music-making activities with a day job. So far, she hasn’t burrowed far enough into this contradiction to dis- cover whether there’s a paradox at its heart or merely a cul-de-sac. But she apparently has the musical and attitudi- nal means at her disposal to do so should she be so inclined. The same cannot be said of Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterﬂ y, the verbal component of which comprises a dim self-awareness Barnett Lamar held together with innumerable “N-words,” “F-bombs,” and other expressions indicative of an intelligence far too limited to be taken seriously. Critics’ choices So whether he’s promising a race war the next time cops shoot a black man or

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City, reached the Top 10 in 2012. But her next three singles which she calls Jesus a “she,” Barnett is peaked at 86, 90, and zero respectively. And E-MO-TION’s no more o -puttingly exhibitionistic or singles haven’t fared much better. transgressive than Joan Jett or Chrissie In short, neither Jepsen’s unassuming persona nor her Hynde. uncontroversially eﬀ ervescent pop is the kind of thing to which

True, sometimes her much-celebrated critics usually respond.respond. That they have (this year anyway) is a CREDIT eye for detail results in little more than pleasant—and an inexplicable—surprise. —A.O.

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31 1/6/16 7:27AM MINDY BELZ physical energy and psychological strength, we are not less than a stick of wood. But as the rod of Moses had to become the rod of God, so that which is me must become the me of God. Then I can become useful in God’s hands.” If we aren’t careful, infinite value becomes another way of boasting about our own self- worth. In the time of the book of Judges in God so used a Israel, there was no king and “everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” Failed states may follow social and political breakdown, and stick of wood soon, we learn from the book of Ruth, a famine NO LITTLE PEOPLE AND NO LITTLE PLACES IN 2016 forces families to leave Bethlehem. We live in a time when populist rebellion seems to be the spirit of the The world, have you noticed, takes stock age near and far. The “little R of the value of life toward its end, counting people” clamor over injus- accomplishments or fidelity to a creed. Only the tices, real and imagined. And God of the Bible gives value to a person’s life beware that mob: Forming a from the beginning. cause and making a clamor It’s astonishing, really, yet shapes not only do not esteem a neighbor our pro-life politics or our efforts to save made in God’s image, don’t unborn lives. It shapes those things, yes, alone build a country or because it shapes everything. I could spend a better a world. year—I might—writing columns about the I say all this because for a implications for life when it has value starting long time at WORLD we’ve at zero. made “no little people” part Let’s start with a view of ourselves as global of our work ethic. Yes, we citizens. What role do I—one of 6 billion—have care about the presidential in the world? Infinitely the same value as all candidates debating onstage, others, and theirs infinitely of more value to ‘Though we but we value more what their tax plan means me when I know they matter infinitely to God. for the young mother in Minnesota. When The fact that life is valued before it has done are limited Baltimore rioted over the death of Freddie Gray, anything of value is groundbreaking enough to and weak in we wanted to report what the mayor had to say, remake whole political systems—if it means talent, but what we most wanted to know was what a the life of plumber, poet, or president can be pastor would say to his congregation across the conducted for God’s glory. All men everywhere, physical street from Gray’s housing project. leveled. Your one blank slate, while it is yet energy and In 2016 my work will turn fully once again blank, created equal—preeminently so—to all psychological to focus on the world overseas. I plan next in others. It is earthshaking enough to unravel the this page to summarize more why the leading world’s looming human catastrophes—if a life strength, we overseas threat from Islamic State is one we has infinite value to God. are not less cannot turn from, how even in recent weeks This led Francis Schaeffer to his famous than a stick new evidence should alert us more to the consideration of Moses’ rod and one of the structure of the foe we face (or won’t face). But theologian’s best-remembered declarations: of wood.’ whether we face populist anger or existential “There are no little people, no little places.” —Schaeffer threats, finding and valuing “little people” may Consider “the mighty ways in which God be crucial to helping our understanding. I will used a dead stick of wood,” said Schaeffer, be searching also for the people in trenches, recounting how the rod became a serpent where the work gets done. I saw one of them in before Pharaoh, summoned plagues, protected a photo on New Year’s Day—his feet a blur of God’s people, and supplied them with water in movement as he slogged through mud and his the desert. head obscured as he carried four mattresses in “‘God so used a stick of wood’ can be a one of the Middle East’s many displaced camps, RACHEL banner cry for each of us,” wrote Schaeffer. to a family now entering their second winter BEATTY “Though we are limited and weak in talent, there and needing resupply. A

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2 COVER STORY.indd 35 1/5/16 2:26 PM ROE V. WADE 0 1973-2016 Abortionists kill babies. They sell baby brains, hearts, livers, kidneys, and other body parts. They eat, drink, and joke about it. ¶ No, let’s rewrite that: “Planned Parenthood medical personnel terminate pregnancies. They then perform a public service by making available for scientific research fetal organs otherwise heading to landfills. They work so hard that they have to seize time in restaurants to make sure those parts find their highest and best use.”

Which description is best? Before who wants to come with me and track Parenthood largely unchanged. Some

last year many Americans would have down fat, greedy, selfish, murderous 53 percent of likely U.S. voters retained TIMES/REDUX PAUL

gone with No. 2. Six months ago some businessmen like Dr. Palmer. Then we’d a favorable opinion of Planned YORK HENNESSY/POLARIS/NEWSCOM

opinions changed as The Center for calmly walk over, skin him alive, cut his Parenthood, and 42 percent viewed it NEW Medical Progress (CMP) began putting head from his neck, and took [sic] a unfavorably. Polarization, though, was online, week by week, videotaped inter- bunch of photos of us all grinning increasing: Slightly more than half of views with Planned Parenthood officials inanely at his quivering flesh.” those on the “favorable” side were very

that looked a lot more like the first The relative ignoring of CMP’s work favorable, but three-fourths of the KIILSGAARD/THE description than the second. meant that after three months of weekly “unfavorables” were very unfavorable. CARL Half a year later, though, pro-lifers videotape releases, Rasmussen Reports Another sign of polarization came in

who exulted seem like latter-day biblical found attitudes toward Planned September when Amelia Bonow and BONOW: WEST: AN RONG XU/THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX Leahs: She thought each new son she bore would make her husband, Jacob, love her, but his heart was set on Rachel. Last year abortion supporters typically ignored inconvenient facts, much as they did in 2011 when a jury found Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell guilty of murder. Furthermore, most Americans did not view the CMP videos, and many barely heard of them. During one two-week period after the initial videos emerged, ABC, CBS, and NBC gave nearly three times more attention to the death of Cecil the Lion, shot by dentist Walter Palmer in Africa, than to the selling of organs from a few of the nearly 60 million unborn children aborted since 1973. That’s according to the Media Research Center, which along with showing the 30-minute to 11-minute disparity also documented the prompts network anchors gave viewers. NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt noted “anger” and “outcry” over the lion’s death. ABC World News Tonight host David Muir stressed “outrage.” CBS This Morning upped the ante to “worldwide outrage.” While any criticism of abortionists prompted concern for their physical protection, few seemed alarmed when British journalist Piers Morgan said, “I will sell tickets for $50,000 to anyone

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2 COVER STORY.indd 36 1/4/16 10:23 AM Jezebel journalist Lindy West started holy crocodiles devoured their children. #ShoutYourAbortion. Aborting women An Algerian inscription from around have generally been reluctant to speak A.D. 200 reads, “Prosperity and salvation! of their experience; but Bonow said, To the holy lord Saturn a great nocturnal “Having an abortion made me happy,” sacrifice—breath for breath, blood for and West tweeted, “My abortion was in blood, life for life.” In the Western ’10 & the career I’ve built since then Hemisphere, Aztecs killed children, fulfills me.” often as an offering to the rain god Hundreds of women added their Tlaloc, and Incas sacrificed children in sentiments. The most common mes- a ritual called capacocha. `1 sage was along these lines: “I respected Excavations at Carthage, a Baal- my life, relationship & body enough to worshipping Phoenician colony founded

TIMES/REDUX do what was right for me.” West even around 750 B.C., have found hundreds of PAUL

YORK became a denier of ultrasound appear- urns filled with charred bones of small HENNESSY/POLARIS/NEWSCOM

NEW ance and scientific evidence: “It is a fact children and animals. Carthaginians without caveat that a fetus is not a per- probably filled up 20,000 urns in that son. I own my body and I decide what I way from 400 B.C. until Rome destroyed allow to grow in it.” She argued: “There’s their city in 148 B.C., with the percent-

KIILSGAARD/THE a reason why #ShoutYourAbortion has age of infant bones versus animal bones been getting mountains of positive, increasing as time went on and the CARL mainstream press attention. … It’s increasingly desperate Carthaginians

BONOW: WEST: AN RONG XU/THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX `2 because we are upped their investment in death. One (1) Amelia Bonow. right.” account from the time describes drums (2) Lindy West. That is West’s and fifes drowning out shrieks, much 3 ` (3) Protesters explanation, but as situation comedies now distract us from Operation Save America we shouldn’t be from considering abortion. demonstrate in so surprised by In the ancient Middle East, front of a Planned the popularity of Ammonites sacrificed children to Parenthood abortion among Molech, and Canaanites, Nabateans, center in Orlando. believers in the Edomites, and Sepharvites also “burned “do what’s right their children in the fire” as an offering for me” ethos: Sacrificing babies to win to their gods. Psalm 106 describes how favor from gods of power and sex has even some Israelites “sacrificed their been customary in most societies for sons and their daughters to the demons; which we have records. they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom Edgar Allan Poe wrote in 1845 they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, 0 about “the glory that was Greece,” and the land was polluted with blood.” but child sacrifice fills its mythology The prophet Micah in the eighth and history. Agamemnon killed his century B.C. asked, “Shall I give my daughter Iphigenia to obtain fair winds firstborn for my transgression, the fruit for sailing to Troy. Aristodemus of of my body for the sin of my soul?” Most Messenia sacrificed his daughter to people would have called that a dumb stop a plague. Leos of Athens slaugh- question: The answer obviously was tered his three daughters after the yes. Micah, though, gave the biblical Oracle at Delphi said human sacrifices response: “He has told you, O man, would stop a famine. This was part of what is good; and what does the Lord exchange religion, the most common of require of you but to do justice, and to man’s devices: You give something love kindness, and to walk humbly with valuable to a deity, the deity pays you your God?” back. Jeremiah and Ezekiel were furious Other European lands from Rome when even kings in Judah’s declining to Sweden also saw child sacrifice, as years tried to exchange what was or did China, India, New Guinea, and should have been of greatest value to Australia. Egyptian mothers were sup- them, their children, in return for safety posed to shout out their pride when and prosperity. Ahaz “burned his son as

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A statue marks the care about.” He thought students grave of a child killed “unanimously” believed the CMP tapes as a sacrifice in Carthage, Tunisia. to be doctored beyond recognition: “Loud voices against something [give] you more of a reason to push back and fulfilling career in support something that you know is 2015. good.” Surely we don’t At the Longhorns football practice, throw babies into the sounds of smacking shoulder pads and fire so that by giving hip-hop music filled the background as something precious Trey Schmidt, a sophomore studying to Molech he’ll give sports management, angled toward the something to us—do field to take his position as a team vid- we? No, not Molech as eographer. He had not seen the Planned such, but shortly after Parenthood videos or looked into the God gave Moses 10 “Planned Parenthood stuff.” Nor had commandments he many other students, but the typical offered an 11th: You assumption was that Planned shall not make for Parenthood is a good organization and yourselves gods of would not have done anything silver and gold. improper. Others, like music major Susan, Austin, Texas— argued that Planned Parenthood pro- 0 “blowing away vides birth control, Pap smears, and every other big city in STD testing, so the federal government population growth,” should continue to fund it. according to a Slate Some students said that as long as headline—is a boom- Planned Parenthood was selling body town for worshippers parts to find cures for diseases, they of silver, gold, and wouldn’t object. Sophomore Jamie sun. Ambitious teens Whelan, unsure about her view of from all over Texas abortion, saw the videos, talked with come to The her parents, and initially turned toward University of Texas a pro-life position—yet after talking and often stay. High- with a friend who uses Planned tech wizards make Parenthood’s non-abortion services, fortunes on Silicon Whelan said she was neutral. Prairie. Planned The verdict wasn’t unanimous. an offering, according to the despicable Parenthood has three sites in Austin, Nutrition science major Emily practices of the nations whom the Lord and this past October the Austin City Rodriguez said she hadn’t seen the

drove out before the people of Israel.” Council voted 8-2 to have Austin tax- videos but would find them “horrific,” CARTHAGE: Manasseh doubled the stakes: He payers fund lobbyists at the state and assuming they are legitimate. The “burned his sons as an offering.” federal levels who would “support any senior reticently leans pro-life and WINFIELD Today, abortion to save the life of the legislation that would maintain or wouldn’t mind saying so to her pro- mother is very rare, and even a survey expand funding for Planned Parenthood” choice friends—but the subject doesn’t by the Planned Parenthood–created and “oppose any legislation that would come up much. Senior Jeannette Ilongo, PARKS/NATIONAL Guttmacher Institute found only 1 reduce funding for Planned Parenthood.” manning a sidewalk booth for Kairos percent of abortions connected to rape WORLD correspondents talked with Christian Fellowship, wasn’t familiar or incest. Some abortions arise out of several dozen students on The with Planned Parenthood. She had told poverty, and at least 2,000 pregnancy University of Texas campus. Economics her sociology class that she opposes GEOGRAPHIC/GETTY resource centers around the country major Alexander Chase walked his abortion because of her biblical values, try to make that not a dominant consid- bicycle up a hill and said many students and said since then “no one has come eration. Many abortions come because were sexually active but without a lot of up to me to talk about it.”

young moms in crisis hope to imitate disposable cash (or disposable time to At Austin’s 11-mile hike-and-bike IMAGES #ShoutYourAbortion Lindy West’s learn about medical systems), so trail that attracts 1.5 million annual

upward mobility: Abortion in 2010, “Planned Parenthood is something we visitors and parallels a river close to VIDEO STILL: CENTER FOR MEDICAL PROGRESS • RAYBURN BUILDING: TOM WILLIAMS/CQ ROLL CALL/NEWSCOM

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2 COVER STORY.indd 38 1/4/16 3:01 PM downtown, sentiment also favored issue and got much less co verage.” Alex cause legal problems for Planned Planned Parenthood. Libby and identified himself as a Christian. Parenthood. Christanna, both in their 20s, were Gregg Cunningham, who directs the walking small barking dogs. Both had Some national pro-life leaders Center for Bio-Ethical Reform and has heard much about Cecil the Lion. Both 0 accentuate the positives arising been trying for 25 years to wake up supported abortion availability and from the CMP videos. college students by showing graphic were not familiar with the tapes. Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO abortion photos on campuses, said the Richard Springer, a young professional of Americans United for Life, called the videos shifted “the debate from the in a black shirt and visor preparing for video release a “pinnacle moment” that abstract (freedom of choice) to some- an afternoon run, said the videos did pushed Americans to “look at something concrete: a horrifying act that not change his level of support for thing we have very decidedly looked kills a baby.” Students for Life of Planned Parenthood: He still liked the away from for 40 years: the humanity of America national director Kristan organization. the unborn child.” She said they showed Hawkins said, “The scandal has cleared Just down the trail Suzanna, in her the “monetary worth” of unborn children the way for us.” Some SFLA campus early 30s, said fetal-part selling did not that arises because they are human. representatives pull up video segments really happen: “It makes me feel Yoest also said the videos were boosting on their smartphones when pro-abortion despair that people are so opposed to attempts through state legislation to activists charge them with lying about Planned Parenthood they will put out protect unborn children and could Planned Parenthood. false information.” Her friend Angie, wearing a T-shirt and a Chicago Cubs visor, knew of Cecil the Lion, whose death she called “just wrong and so real. It shows how stupid our society is, focused on trophy killings.” She then spoke about Neville, a dog who might be euthanized, and said his story had led her to donate to Austin Pets Alive: “It’s just awful.” Other views exhibited some diversity. Hal Dantone, a retired grandfather who volunteers with World Vision, said he did not strongly object to Planned Parenthood before seeing the videos; but after seeing them, he thought the organization should not receive gov- `1 ernment funding. Jackie McAllister, in her 50s, stated emphatically that Planned Parenthood did not have the right to sell the parts of an aborted baby: “They don’t own it.”

CARTHAGE: Jenny, in her 20s and wearing running shorts and a tank top, said, “I heard about the lion. That was so sad. I maybe heard WINFIELD about the Planned Parenthood videos, but I’m not sure.” But Alex, also in his PARKS/NATIONAL 20s and walking a dog, said tele vision networks had blown the Cecil story “way out of proportion. The Planned Parenthood story is a much bigger GEOGRAPHIC/GETTY

(1) A scene from the CMP videos. (2) Xotchil Flores, 12, of Fredericksburg, Va., waits to enter a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee

IMAGES hearing in the Rayburn Building on whether Planned Parenthood Federation `2

VIDEO STILL: CENTER FOR MEDICAL PROGRESS • RAYBURN BUILDING: TOM WILLIAMS/CQ ROLL CALL/NEWSCOM of America should be federally funded.

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The charge of lying cuts both ways, And it’s those who stick to hard tasks, lawn puncture, students bring out though. Former Planned Parenthood no matter how small, who may make plastic foam. Over the crosses, students facility manager Abby Johnson now the difference. raise bright pink panels. From 10 a.m. runs And Then There Were None, which One of those unsung heroes is R.J. to 5 p.m., passersby read the panels’ helps abortion staffers leave the industry: McVeigh, 23, a Students for Life regional white lettering and learn how Planned She said conflicted staffers now think director who often awakes at 6 a.m. and Parenthood each year performs hun- they may be befriended, secretly dreds of thousands of abortions recorded, and betrayed. This saddens (income: $150 million) upon 94 her: “It’s very unfortunate that pro-life percent of the pregnant women who people used deception,” since “this walk into a franchise. further victimizes abortion workers.” McVeigh, who holds a B.S. in She recognized that the CMP video task biomedical science and chemistry, is “exposure. Mine is healing.” estimates that Still, 2015 overall was a positive year one-fourth of (1) A scene from for the pro-life movement, as crisis the CMP video of students who pregnancy centers continued to save and Melissa Farrell. ask him about change lives, and many states saw legis- (2) McVeigh (right) the display with students on lative progress (see p. 8). In Texas, the the University of didn’t know CMP videos led Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to Michigan-Flint Planned convene a special hearing of the Health `1 campus. Parenthood and Human Services Committee, and Gov. Greg Abbott announced his LIFE `2 Initiative “to provide greater protections for children in the womb and prevent the sale of baby body parts.” The videos sparked investigations by the state attorney general and the Harris County [Houston] district attorney. Houston investigators found particularly interesting the video starring (in a manner of speaking) Melissa Farrell, research director for one of the nation’s biggest sources of fetal parts, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc. Farrell downplayed decisions to abort (“Most

of the time … there’s no boohoo and AMERICA OF LIFE FOR STUDENTS • McVEIGH: PROGRESS MEDICAL FOR CENTER STILL: VIDEO grief”) and boasted: “My department contributes so much to the bottom line of our organization. … Our research department is the largest in the United States, larger than any the other affili- drives a van he packed the night before does abortions. Another fourth “pretty ates’ combined. … I know it’s sickening to a college in Michigan, Ohio, or stubbornly” support the abortion on some level, but it’s fun. … Those of us Indiana. When he arrives perhaps two provider. The remaining half includes who are into medicine and nursing, hours later, five or six pro-life students some pro-life students but many others things that other people find gross we carry his cargo to a grassy commons still figuring out where they stand. enjoy. … Except for snot. I can hold the such as Ohio State University’s South Those are the ones who will determine bucket if you’re throwing up but please Oval, or the University of Michigan- the future legality of abortion—and the don’t sneeze on me.” Flint’s North Lawn, or Eastern Michigan pro-life movement is swimming against So far, though, the threat of legal University’s Pray-Harrold field—any cultural currents to reach them. action to shut down Planned Parenthood high-traffic area near a dining hall, All that makes 2015 not the beginning seems at most a sneeze. The battle is student center, or both. of the end for Planned Parenthood. But it still a worldview one, and the pro-life By 9 a.m., McVeigh and students have may have been the end of the beginning. A

movement depends on those who staked into the lawn 897 bright pink, —with reporting by World Journalism Institute believe in God and dedicate themselves 6-inch metal crosses—one for each baby mid-career course graduates Michael Hamilton, Tony to defending all those whom God won- Planned Parenthood aborted every day Douglas, Nick Gibson, Jim Long, Leslie Beggs, Kimberlee derfully makes, no matter how small. in 2013. Where administrators forbid Fletcher, Dori Abbott, Joy Riley, and Susan Richter

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2 COVER STORY.indd 41 1/5/16 9:35 AM ROE V. WADE 0 1973-2016 The ABC scıentıst Joel Brind, chief academic proponent of the abortion–breast cancer link, isn’t shy about holding unpopular opinions

by EMILY BELZ in New York PHOTO BY MARILYNN K. YEE/GENESIS

It’s not typical in academia for a pro-life groups in the late 1980s and in 0 professor to attack entrenched 1992 saw research in Science News campus orthodoxies, and those bold about how pregnancy protects women enough to do so are likely to have some from breast cancer. He remembered an quirks. That’s Joel Brind in a nutshell— earlier study that said the protective and a nutshell is where some of his pro- effect came from a full-term pregnancy, abortion colleagues think he belongs. so he wrote a letter to the publication Brind, a professor of biology and pointing out that the pregnancy must be endocrinology at Baruch College in full-term. Manhattan, is not a typical Yale When Science News refused to print University graduate. Hailing from a his letter, Brind thought the fix was in: liberal Jewish family in Queens, he is “I realize abortion increases the risk of small increase in risk can lead to many conservative and pro-life. He entered breast cancer, and this journal is cover- breast cancer cases. Yale as a 16-year-old in 1967 and ing it up. Somebody has to bring this Here’s how Brind explains the risk: remembers working on the student out because a lot of women are being Pregnancy initiates hormonal changes medic teams to wash protesters’ faces of made sick and [will] die from this.” that multiply breast cells. Later in preg- tear gas in the intense campus clashes Baruch had just granted Brind nancy, those cells fully develop into milk of those years. His contemporaries of tenure, so he felt some freedom and factories. But an abortion halts that that revolutionary “genre,” Brind said, became that “somebody.” In 1996 he development, making the undeveloped “are still in control … and guys like me published a review and meta-analysis— cells vulnerable to cancer. Brind says are very much in the minority.” a summary of scientific reports from miscarriages don’t have the same Brind, 65, has been a lone voice in around the world—showing that abor- breast cancer risk, because pregnancies the scientific community arguing that tion increased a woman’s risk of devel- that miscarry typically have lower levels abortion increases the risk of breast oping breast cancer by 30 percent. That of hormones and end earlier in the cancer. Pro-life groups have used his amounts to about a 13 percent lifetime pregnancy than the average abortion. research in advertisements about the risk, since the overall risk among The central critique of Brind’s 1996 risks of abortion. Pro-life academics women is 10 percent. report and similar ones: They depend on are a small minority, and those open The 30 percent increased risk factor, women self-reporting their abortions to about their position are even rarer. if accurate, is significant but not as researchers. Critics argue that healthy Brind first turned that way while severe as some other established can- women would underreport their abor- driving through a snowstorm in 1970 cer risks. Cigarette smoking increases tions due to stigma, while those with and listening to a tearful New York leg- the risk of lung cancer by at least 250 cancer would freely share their abortion islator opposing legalization of abortion percent. But because of how wide- history in hopes of finding a cause for in the state. He began working with spread abortion is among women, a their cancer.

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2 ROE JOEL BRIND.indd 42 12/31/15 10:54 AM The National Cancer Institute, the Brind in the China, so ABC-link other glycine supplement, can prevent American Cancer Society, the World endocrinology proponents said cancer. teaching lab at Health Organization, and the American Baruch College women in the study This isn’t the only slightly zany Congress of Obstetricians and were more likely to element to Brind. In the course of our Gynecologists deny the abortion–breast report their abor- conversation, he demonstrated his cancer (ABC) link, but they also have tions. The CMDA’s senior vice presi- impression of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. various ties to the abortion industry. dent, Gene Rudd, called the report “a “My greatest talent is mimicry,” he said. Even some Christian medical groups very good piece of work,” but he said it A few years ago he tried his hand at don’t treat Brind’s ABC research as wasn’t “the final answer.” stand-up in a Manhattan comedy club. definitive. The pro-life Christian Medical Brind is now researching the effects He calls himself a devout Christian, but & Dental Associations (CMDA) has of inflammation, not the ABC link. He he believes religions aren’t mutually never fully backed the ABC link, saying sees inflammation as the source of exclusive, so he married his second the link might exist but the evidence most health problems—“all it does is (and current) wife in a Hindu ceremony. still is inconclusive, because studies damage”—and anti-inflammatory amino Brind enjoys challenging orthodoxy, have produced conflicting results. acids as a cure-all. He is “not a big fan” of whether Christian orthodoxy or the pro- Research supporting the ABC link the peer-review process because he says abortion bias in the medical community. has recently emerged from China, it is politicized, so he self-publishes a At a campus event last year, Brind ques- where both abortion and breast cancer lot of his inflammation articles online. tioned a climate change documentarian are prevalent. A 2014 report showed a Every day Brind takes a dose of his about his data, causing deep offense. 44 percent increased risk of breast own anti-inflammation supplement, “I do it just to see what’s going on cancer after abortion in China—and the Sweetamine, in his coffee. He hawks the and just to ask a little question here and risk went up as women had more abor- supplement for the amino acid glycine there,” he said. “Poke people a little bit. tions. Abortion has less of a stigma in online. Sweetamine, he says, or any And boy—what a hornets’ nest!” A

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2 ROE SUICIDE.indd 44 1/4/16 10:11 AM ROE V. WADE 0 1973-2016 ‘In God’s hands’ Advocates for seniors and the disabled warn that newly legalized assisted suicide in California may snowball beyond the terminally ill

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Ever since 59-year-old Laurie really hard. … Maybe it would be Brittany Maynard drew national 0 Hoirup was a year old, doctors easier if I wasn’t here.” sympathy in 2014 when she cham- have predicted she had only Under California’s new assisted pioned “aid in dying” as a means months to live. When she struggled suicide law, beginning this spring of escape from her aggressive to stand months after her first doctors can prescribe lethal brain cancer. The 29-year-old birthday, a doctor diagnosed her drugs to patients with terminal newlywed told People, “I am with Lou Gehrig’s disease. That day illnesses who want to kill them- choosing to suffer less.” She Hoirup’s mother placed her in her selves. The new law roughly triples moved from California to Oregon crib with a bottle, turned on the access to physician-assisted to use that state’s 1997 “Death gas, and laid herself on the couch, suicide nationwide—1 in 7 with Dignity” law, the first of its waiting for both of them to die. Americans now has access to it— kind in the United States. She ended But within a few moments and proliferates what advocates her life with doctor-prescribed Hoirup’s mother realized the call “death with dignity” and deem lethal drugs and quickly became a doctor could be wrong. She turned a worthy alternative to end-of-life beloved public face for assisted off the gas and resolved to face her suffering and dependency. suicide—one more palatable than daughter’s illness. Hoirup has never attempted to Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who elicited In the years following, doctors take her own life. The author, dis- horror in the 1990s when he changed Hoirup’s diagnosis ability advocate, and grandmother showcased homemade life-ending several times until at age 17 she of four continues to outlive doctors’ machines he named “Mercitron” learned she had spinal muscular predictions: “I’m still here. … Does and “Thanatron.” atrophy, a condition that leaves this mean I don’t have dignity?” Since Maynard’s death, public her with little to no use of body Hoirup fears that as assisted support for doctor-assisted suicide parts except for her right hand. suicide becomes widely accessi- has risen 10 percent, with nearly 7 The Sacramento, Calif., woman ble, the implications will stretch in 10 Americans and 81 percent of relies on a ventilator and tempers far beyond the terminally ill. She young adults (ages 18-34) support- pain with daily medication. She points to the burgeoning of eutha- ing it, according to a recent Gallup depends on family members and nasia deaths in the Netherlands poll. Nearly half of the states have caregivers to feed, bathe, and and Belgium and to Canada’s recently introduced assisted sui- groom her and to assisted suicide law that includes cide bills and ballot initiatives or assist her with using the disabled. She worries that have litigated the issue in court. Hoirup at the restroom. some of her elderly, disabled, and California activists made sure her home office Hoirup has seen cancer-stricken friends will be to leverage Maynard’s death. Last many persons with tempted to think they are better off October, after five previous failed a prognosis like dead: “The idea of being a burden attempts, California lawmakers had hers sink into depression and con- to family is already scary for most enough momentum to legalize template suicide. Indeed, she has people. This law may be reason physician-assisted suicide for those had moments over the past 59 enough for them to end their lives with a prognosis of six months or years when she thought, “This is prematurely.” less to live. The nation’s most

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for lethal drugs to include those with up to a year to live rather than six months. In European countries where assisted suicide and euthanasia are legal, more people are using it and for an expanding number of reasons: 0 In 2002, the Netherlands became the first country since Nazi Germany to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide. In the past five years, euthanasia deaths have doubled. In 2013 nearly 5,000 people were euthanized: Cancer is often the reason, but patients can be euthanized if they convince two doctors of their “unbearable” pain. That definition has expanded to include blindness, multiple sclerosis, depression, loneliness, or simply being over the age of 70 and “tired of living.” Doctors granted one woman her request to die in order to avoid living in a nursing home. Another dying patient was euthanized to free up a hospital bed. populous state joined Oregon, Washington, Debbie Ziegler holds a photo of her late 0 In the Dutch-speaking parts of Vermont, and Montana, where the prac- daughter, Brittany Maynard, while Belgium, euthanasia and assisted suicide receiving congratulations after the tice is legal either by law or court order. state Assembly in Sacramento, Calif., now account for nearly 5 percent of all Gov. Jerry Brown, a former Jesuit approved a right-to-die measure. deaths. Last year lawmakers broadened seminary student, signed California’s the law to include terminally ill children. “End of Life Act” with an unusually In recent years Belgian doctors granted personal message: “I do not know what University of California, Irvine, medical death requests from a healthy, 24-year- I would do if I were dying in prolonged ethicist Aaron Daniel Kheriaty explains old “depressed” woman and from a and excruciating pain. … It would be a that those around people who commit transsexual after doctors botched her comfort to be able to consider the suicide have a much higher chance of sex change operation. options afforded by this bill.” A California also killing themselves: “Once you 0 Six hundred suicide “tourists” from referendum effort failed to gather introduce suicide as a reasonable way 31 countries traveled to Switzerland enough signatures to put the issue on the out for some, that message is heard by between 2008 and 2012 to die there, ballot. Now, a group of seniors, disability everyone. … Restrictions become arbi- and the number is growing. One traveler, advocates and pro-life groups plans trary and it becomes a slippery slope.” Jeffrey Spector, a British businessman instead to file a lawsuit to stop the law. Last March one Oregon lawmaker and father of three, said it was in his The same day Brown signed introduced a bill expanding eligibility family’s “best interests” that he end his California’s law, the Southern Medical Journal published a study connecting physician-assisted suicide with an increase in overall suicide rates. Two ‘Once you introduce suicide as a British scholars studied data from Washington and Oregon since assisted reasonable way out for some, that suicide became legal and found a 6 per-

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RICH PEDRONCELLI/AP ROE V. WADE 0 1973-2016 The riddle of fear had offered Sarah to the Philistine king Abimelech and later made a covenant with him. Perhaps Abraham had not offered thanks and sacrifices at the birth or weaning of Isaac, so when Satan asked God to test Abraham, God said yes. Or maybe Abraham Genesis 22 has a pro-life subtext, had not proved he would submit Isaac to God even when it hurt deeply. and missing it has led to a Others said God knew multitude of religious errors Abraham was wonderful and wanted all the nations of the by MARVIN OLASKY ILLUSTRATION BY KRIEG BARRIE world to see Abraham’s obedi- ence. That way they wouldn’t be jealous because God chose Abraham to carry His message WORLD’s writers have done so well ponder Chapter 22 of Genesis, which I and made Jews His chosen people: The 0 that it’s been 15 months since my had read in Hebrew school. You know nations would recognize superiority. last magazine article about God moving the story: God, who repeatedly con- Alternatively, maybe angels were jeal- me from Judaism and atheism to faith demns child sacrifice such as our con- ous because God loved Abraham, so in Christ—and continuing to teach me. temporary abortion practice (see p. 34), God had to show them why Abraham But two articles planned for this issue commands Abraham to sacrifice his was so great. are delayed, and one crucial part of my and Sarah’s only child, Isaac. Some rabbis said Abraham had mis- background relates to questions about That passage, along with reading understood God: That seems unlikely child sacrifice relevant to abortion, so atheist books, led me to view the Bible since God’s command was clear. Others I’ll now take you back to 1963. as self-contradictory and fundamentally suggested the problem developed At my synagogue bar mitzvah cere- nutty. For the next 10 years I was an because Isaac had one-upped his half- mony that year, I chanted in Hebrew a atheist. I never took the time to read brother Ishmael: Yes, you’re the first- chunk of Chapter 11 of Judges, which how rabbis before the time of Jesus, in born, but you’re only the son of a tells of mighty warrior Jephthah. He their oral tradition, explained the pas- servant. Yes, you obediently underwent offered God an exchange: You give me sage. (That oral tradition, eventually circumcision at age 13 when you could victory, I’ll sacrifice as a burnt offering written down, turned into the Talmud.) have resisted, while I was circumcised whoever or whatever first runs out of Now, at age 65, I finally have. at eight days and so could not con- my house to greet me. Jephthah won One thing my reading quickly clari- sciously submit, but I’m ready to offer but lost, because his only child, a fied: Rabbis 2,000 years ago did not see God not only my foreskin but my whole daughter, came dancing out, waving a Genesis 22 as teaching the wrongness body. OK, let’s test that. tambourine. She and her friends wept of child sacrifice. That frequent inter- A fourth group contended that Jews for two months. Then Jephthah “did pretation today dodges the obvious: facing extreme persecution down the with her according to his vow that he God praised Abraham for his willing- road would contemplate Abraham’s had made.” ness to kill his son. Besides, if God’s behavior and be ready to kill their own That’s a lesson about one danger of teaching style was to command and children rather than see them seized exchange religion, which is the most then countermand, He would also have and trained by pagans. Others came popular faith in the world. A dozen ordered patriarchs to commit adultery, close to exchange religion: Since the years ago I watched a Hindu slit the steal, and bear false witness. So, ancient sacrifice of Isaac was the last of throat of a goat just outside an Indian scholars offered 10 other reasons for Abraham’s 10 tests and he aced all of temple, happy to be trading the goat for God’s strange demand. them, God was right to send 10 plagues the child he was sure would come. In Some said Abraham had to prove his on Egypt. Or, since Abraham cleaved 1963 the Jephthah passage led me to faithfulness. After all, Abraham out of wood to make the fire that would turn

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Isaac into a burnt offering, God cleaved Why the change in focus from wrote in 1978 that there was “no trace the Red Sea to allow the Israelites to Abraham to Isaac? From where came of Akedah doctrine” in pre-Christian escape the Egyptian army. the idea that Isaac was offering a literature. For centuries Israel’s religious lead- substitutionary atonement? Abraham Chilton and Davies also pointed to ers discussed these variants, but Geiger, one of Germany’s leading 19th- rabbinical speculation that Abraham around the time of Christ, something century Jewish scholars, concluded in did shed a few drops of Isaac’s blood changed: The episode became known an 1872 article that the concept entered before he almost drove the knife home, as “The Binding of Isaac”—in Hebrew, Judaism from Christianity. Others, like so temple sacrifices were “perpetual akedah—rather than “The Testing of German scholar E. Lohse in 1955, also reminders of Isaac’s blood loss.” Today Abraham.” The Jewish historian said Christian teachings influenced many American Jews, competing with Josephus wrote that when Abraham told rabbis. B.D. Chilton and P.R. Davies Christmas, elevate Hanukkah to a Isaac he would be the burnt offering, “Isaac received these words with joy.” The leading Jewish scholar of Alexandria, Philo, wrote that Isaac was “born good by nature” and thus—unlike his father and his son, Jacob—did not have to receive a name change. Philo even wrote that “God may with perfect truth be said to be Isaac’s father. … Isaac is not a product of created beings, but a work of the Uncreated One.” The writer of one targum (an Aramaic translation/commentary) imagined Isaac telling Abraham, “Bind my hands properly that I may not struggle.” Then “the eyes of Isaac were turned to the angels of heaven. Isaac saw them but Abraham did not see them.” Isaac became the star, and his willingness to die stored up merit that others could tap into. One rabbi said Isaac’s willingness later saved the firstborn sons of Israel in Egypt. Others said it saved the Israelites when they entered the Red Sea, saved Jerusalem after King David sinfully ordered a census, and saved Persian Jews from Haman’s planned massacre. Temple sacrifices purportedly reminded God of Isaac’s merit, which— one rabbi suggested—might even be able to raise the dead. When Romans in A.D. 70 destroyed the temple and sacrifices could no longer be made there, a memorial prayer replaced the sacrifice: “Let us be looked upon by the Lord through the merit of the sacrifice of Isaac.” Some offered these prayers: “Remember today the Binding of Isaac with mercy unto his seed” and “When the children of Isaac commit sin, and do evil, remember on The 1586 painting their behalf the Sacrifice of Isaac

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2 ROE ISAAC.indd 50 1/5/16 9:55 AM holiday status way beyond its minor Ibrahim asking his son about becoming role in Jewish history. Chilton and Abraham was a sacrifice: The son responds, “My Davies argued that the emphasis on father, do as you are told. You will find Isaac’s blood was a Jewish response to not justified me steadfast.” The holiest day of the Christianity. year for Muslims is now the Feast of the Bishop Melito of Sardis in the sec- Sacrifice, Eid al-Adha. Radical Muslims ond century A.D. portrayed Isaac as a by his work— believe faithful fathers should be will- forerunner of Jesus, who “carried the ing to sacrifice their sons and daugh- wood on his shoulders as he was led up holding his ters: Send them off to holy wars or wrap to be slain like Isaac by his father.” bombs around them. The children must Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria knife above obey and should even be joyful as they wrote similarly. Some rabbis acknowl- head toward homicide and suicide. edged the comparison, judging from his only son, A misreading of Isaac-sacrifice one fifth-century A.D. text that included leads to stoicism and terrorism and these two sentences: “Abraham placed ready to brings us back to exchange religion. A the wood of the burnt offering on Isaac quarter-century ago scholar Nahum his son. Like a man who carries his plunge it in. Sarna’s commentary on Genesis, put cross on his shoulder.” out by the Jewish Publication Society, Few Jews went that far, and few noted that the “willingness of the Christian theologians took their eyes Abraham founding father to sacrifice his son as off Abraham to focus on Isaac: proof of his devotion to God created an Honoring Christ, they did not need a was justified inexhaustible store of spiritual credit competitor in sacrifice. Christians upon which future generations may typically continued to marvel at the by his faith. draw.” That sounds like the worship of fortitude of Abraham. Bishop Basil of saints who were so virtuous that they Seleucia in the fifth century A.D. wrote, have a surplus of merit on which “How did his soul not contract? … O! resurrection, and we’ll only have that ordinary people can raft. The strength of his soul! He did not faith if we have faith in Christ’s. Let’s recognize the courage of groan. He did not weep. … Nor did he let Apart from that faith, both Jews and Abraham and Isaac, but if their stead- out a paternal cry, refusing the slaugh- Muslims emphasize Abrahamic sto- fastness is why God should be merciful ter of his child.” It’s a riddle—and icism. Philo of Alexandria applauded to their physical or spiritual descen- Abraham’s equanimity is particularly Abraham’s rock-hard commitment: “He dants, we are back to “I do for God, He remarkable in comparison with his devoted his whole soul to holiness and does for me.” The exchange temptation willingness to argue with God about disregarded the claims of their com- lurks whenever we believe that what Sodom in Chapter 18 of Genesis. mon blood. [He] showed no change of man gives God is the key to salvation. If The solution to the riddle lies in one color nor weakening of soul but Jesus were not God, His willingness to of the greatest New Testament chapters. remained as steadfast as ever with a suffer and die would merely be high- Hebrews 11:17-19 declares, “By faith judgment that never bent or wavered.” level exchange religion. But since Jesus Abraham, when he was tested, offered Later, many Hasidic rabbis made is God, we depend not on a payoff for up Isaac, and he who had received the Abraham almost Buddhist-like, totally our work, but grace. It’s all God. promises was in the act of offering up indifferent to Isaac. Menachem Mendel That’s something I certainly did not his only son, of whom it was said, of Lubavitch (1789-1866): “In understand at age 13. I didn’t really ‘Through Isaac shall your offspring be Abraham’s trial there was no pain.” understand that at age 26 when publicly named.’ He considered that God was Simcha Bunem of Przysucha (1765- professing faith in Christ. But now it’s able even to raise him from the dead, 1827): “It made no difference to my greatest comfort in life and in death, from which, figuratively speaking, he Abraham whether he was being com- which is now far closer to me than birth. did receive him back.” manded to sacrifice Isaac or the ram.” It’s also the only real comfort for millions That’s the explanation I was looking Jacob Isaac of Lublin (1745-1815): of women who have aborted their chil- for at age 13. Abraham did not think he Abraham “was happy to slay him for dren. They can donate their time and would lose his son. He expected God to God. … The matter of his son did not money to crisis pregnancy centers, but raise Isaac from the dead. Abraham was exist in his heart at all. … He had no joy they cannot buy back their dead babies. not justified by his work—holding his from taking him back … except for the The faith of Abraham and Isaac shows knife above his only son, ready to sake of God who commanded him, and that they can throw themselves into plunge it in. Abraham was justified by not for the sake of his only son.” God’s arms and depend on His grace. A his faith. He’s a model for us: We will Muslims take that understanding 19th in a series; for previous episodes,

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LIFESTYLE Colorado Springs, and sees politics as a “broken system” with indistinguishable candidates, expensive No-confidence vote campaigns, and little hope SHOULD CHURCHES TRY TO GET MORE NONVOTING MEMBERS for change. TO THE POLLS? by Kiley Crossland Rugg was registered for 20 years before he finally voted in the 2000 presiden- Tens of millions of not vote for president, and are fighting an uphill battle tial election. He decided to R American evangelicals 12 million of those were with folks like Steve Rugg, vote in part because he felt do not vote. A Barna Group not even registered to vote. 46. Once Rugg dreamed of as if he should—but also

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Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, told Bloomberg. “We have basically decided to stick to the speed limit. But when you go out and drive the speed limit on the highway, pretty much everybody on the road is just zipping past you.” Google researchers, at the forefront of autonomous vehicle science, have been working to make their driverless vehicles behave more like assertive yet law-abiding human drivers, according to Bloomberg. For example, they have programmed their cars to inch forward at four-way stops to signal they’re the next to go. Disruption of the status quo is normal anytime a new technology Rules of the road emerges, and driverless cars will be no FOLLOWING THE LAW CAN GET SELF-DRIVING CARS exception—particularly when it comes INTO ACCIDENTS to who’s at fault in an accident. Scott by Michael Cochrane Gant, an antitrust lawyer writing in Forbes, said car companies such as Developers of driverless cars Even the safest human drivers Volvo and Mercedes-Benz have already R scrupulously program them to sometimes “fudge” the posted speed announced they will “accept full lia obey all traffic laws. You might think limit in order to keep up with traffic bility” for accidents caused by their that would be a good thing, but research flow. And who among us always comes driverless vehicles (when they become has found that driverless cars are rack- to a complete stop at stop signs? available). ing up accidents at a rate twice that of Autonomous vehicles that ignore these Yet California’s long-awaited pre- cars with human drivers. The reason? human behaviors might catch other liminary rules for autonomous Unlike humans, the autonomous cars motorists by surprise, perhaps trigger- vehicles, issued last month, “hold obey traffic laws without exception. ing a human-induced accident. motorists responsible for obeying According to a recent Bloomberg If driverless vehicles eventually traffic laws, regardless of whether they report, a University of Michigan make up a significant portion of cars on are at the wheel,” according to The Wall Transportation Research Institute the road, it raises the question: Should Street Journal. study of self-driving vehicle accidents engineers program them to break the Gant believes the arrival of driver- found that the driverless vehicles were traffic laws once in a while in order to less cars will eventually lead to safer never at fault. They were typically adapt to human driving patterns? roads, but the need for automobile involved in minor fender benders in “It’s a constant debate inside our insurance will likely never disappear: which an inattentive human motorist group,” Raj Rajkumar, co-director of the Software glitches may replace driver rear-ended the autonomous vehicle. General Motors Collaborative Research error as the major cause of accidents.

Googly eyes? As school districts around the country embrace classroom technology, many are looking to inexpensive, cloud-based solutions such as Google’s Chromebook and its free suite of apps called Google Apps for Education. But in a complaint filed last month with the Federal Trade Commission, privacy watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation accused Google of “collecting, maintaining, using, and sharing student personal information” in violation of the K-12 Student Privacy Pledge, to which Google is a signatory.

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In September , the journal PLOS ONE published a study in which Nelson and her team examined the brains of deceased older women who had given birth to sons. They found male Y chromosomes left ‘Flower power’ behind by the baby boys in percent A rose is a rose, unless it’s a transistor. of the maternal brains. Researchers in Sweden have created It appears these cells are often a bionic roses with digital circuits run- beneﬁ cial gift from baby. Fetal cells ning through their stems. In a study can make collagen, which facilitates published in Science Advances in wound healing, and they may reduce November, scientists submerged the the mother’s risk of rheumatoid cut end of a rose stem into a chemical arthritis. They may also help protect compound. Capillary action pulled the the mother from cancer, V.K. Gadi, compound into the vascular system of the rose, where the chemicals self- an oncologist at Seattle’s Fred assembled into a network of wires, A mother holds her child in her Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, some up to 10 centimeters long. The R heart as long as she lives— told USA Today. researchers then attached gold literally. And also possibly in her brain, The exchange of cells is a two-way probes to the wires to make individual ILLUSTRATION: liver, and other tissues, according to relationship: The mother’s cells also organic transistors and a simple digital recent research. cross the placenta into the baby, circuit.

Scientists have discovered that a including those cells she carries from The scientists believe it may be KRIEG baby’s cells can travel through the previous pregnancies and from her possible to trigger a growth spurt in placenta into the mother’s bloodstream own mother. That means we may all the plant by means of the embedded BARRIE and slip into her organs. And, similar be carrying bits of our older siblings electronic circuits. If successful, the • to stem cells, these rogue cells have and grandmothers within us, Amy method could also be used to convert ROSE: some of the fl ower’s sugars into elec- the ability to transform into other cell Boddy, a postdoctoral fellow at ELIOT types. Arizona State University, told NPR. tricity. “We call it fl ower power,” lead researcher Magnus Berggren told the GOMEZ/LINKOPING “They can go to the liver and become Initially researchers blamed rogue journal Nature. fetal cells for maternal health risks liver cells, or go into the heart and The technique is inexpensive and become muscle cells,” J. Lee Nelson, a such as pre-eclampsia, a dangerous combines the functions of electronics rheumatologist at the University of pregnancy complication, and autoim- with the plant’s natural resistance to UNIVERSITY Washington, told National Public mune diseases. cold and moisture. The scientists told Radio. According to Nelson, fetal cells But Nelson believes the benefi ts Gizmag the method may even make it can even cross the mother’s blood- outweigh potential problems: “It’s possible to harvest electrical energy • brain barrier and turn into brain cells. actually a beautiful cooperation.” from the plant’s photosynthesis. —J.B. TRACTOR BEAM:

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A rural church unique problems in Geyser, Mont. for rural towns and those wanting to minister to them. Shira thought Southern Baptist churches should think more about “a ‘circuit-rider’ type of system” in which several churches share one pastor. If they don’t, “they are going to get nongifted, unqualifi ed, and never-trained pastors, which will only further contribute to the decline of the churches in their area.” Every small town has its own trajec- tory. The city of Olive Branch, Miss., doesn’t face the problem of population decline. It had just over , people at the census. It has approxi- mately , today. Robert Browning, senior pastor of Olive Branch’s Christ Presbyterian Church, struggles to get his congregation to invest in the community. “We really are more of a suburb Away from the big city of a big city (Memphis),” he said, “than SMALL-TOWN CHURCHES FACE SOME UNIQUE we are a self-sustaining small town.” CHALLENGES by James Bruce The challenge: to get his people to see the surrounding county as more than just “a place to lay their heads before The sign at the edge of town says Sunday service of the town’s Baptist they go back into the ‘big city’ for work R people live there. O’Brien, church. Chas Shira, the pastor, told me and entertainment.” Texas— miles east of Lubbock, about his break-even budget—a blessing Shira identifi ed a special benefi t of miles north of Abilene, and miles compared with other churches in the being a small-town pastor: “I know my west of Dallas—has fewer residents area—and the challenge of encouraging people.” He can easily identify visitors, than a megachurch Sunday school his people to fellowship with one given that he addresses every person in class. Small-town pastors get far less another. “We struggle,” he said, “to the congregation by name, and, he said, recognition, too—but that doesn’t build close-knit community.” being a small-town pastor “makes it mean their work is any less signifi cant, Though Shira said the challenges easier to know when people have been or challenging. facing his church “seem to be the same absent for more than a week.” So a word About people from O’Brien and challenges that every church faces,” he to O’Brien Baptists: Don’t go fi shing

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2 MAILBAG.indd 62 1/5/16 9:13 AM ANDRÉE SEU PETERSON sacrificing countless lambs on the Temple Mount than they would cross the Kidron Valley and cord the standing shocks of barley to be offered publicly three days later. Jesus, three noncoincidental days in the tomb, rose as the “firstfruits” (1 Corinthians 15:20), and with Him saints who came out of their graves and Shape of the future appeared to many (Matthew 27:53). Next, the Feast of Weeks (aka Pentecost) 50 DOES THE JEWISH CALENDAR GIVE US CLUES days after Passover—perhaps explaining the lag ABOUT EVENTS TO COME? time waiting for the Spirit in an upper room in Jerusalem. No coincidence here either. But wait. If human history is like a Some year it will be the last year. Some calendar of a year, that leaves us with R issue of WORLD will be the last issue. But still three Old Testament feasts not yet how does the world in fact end, assuming fulfilled, still future to us—Trumpets, Robert Frost is half right with “Fire and Ice,” Atonement, and Tabernacles. These are and T.S. Eliot all wrong in forecasting “not with the autumn celebrations in the Jewish a bang but a whimper”? Surely it comes like a annual cycle, coming after a gap of thief in the night for the unready, and surely no about four months from the completion man knows the hour or the day. But is this all of the spring feasts. Are we in that gap? we can say? Do we peer into shadows and fog? Now a word about patterns. I What if history is not shapeless and learned from Esther Meek, Christian unknowable but has a shape? What if we are philosophy and apologetics professor, meant to know that shape, that we may be like that an integral part of the human act of the tribe of “Issachar, men who had under- knowing things, whether about God or standing of the times” (1 Chronicles 12:32)? our auto mechanics, is extrapolating What if that clear outline is under our very If Jesus in the whole pattern of something from the part of noses, and broadly hinted at by our eminently it we know, in order to have assurance about Jewish Messiah when He says He came to fulfill careful the part still hidden (Longing to Know). the Law and the Prophets (Matthew 5:17)? sequence has If Jesus in careful sequence has fulfilled the The Law and the Prophets ordained feast fulfilled the first three great Jewish feasts in seam-bursting days that structured the Jewish year, the main fulfillment, why would we not expect Him to ones being, sequentially: Passover, First Fruits, first three fulfill the other three? What do the Scriptures and Feast of Weeks in the spring; Trumpets, great Jewish say? That Israel, which will never cease to be a Day of Atonement, Feast of Tabernacles in the feasts in nation before God (Jeremiah 31:36), which has fall. Today we think them quaint. Some churches experienced a hardening in part until the full re-enact them for our cultural enrichment. seam- number of the Gentiles comes in (Romans Jesus, for His part, enacted them with studied bursting 11:25), will be the scene of the Lord’s return deliberateness. fulfillment, with trumpets, according to Matthew 24:31; Yeshua, emphatically laying down His own 1 Corinthians 15:52; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; life as He chose, chose to lay it down at Passover why would we and Revelation 11:15 (Feast of Trumpets). That season and no other. Was it random that the not expect a spirit of repentance and mourning as for an Baptist called Him “lamb of God,” of all possible Him to fulfill only son will be poured out on Israel, according titles? Or that Paul writes of “our Passover to Zechariah 12:10-11 (Day of Atonement). That lamb” who was “sacrificed” (1 Corinthians 5:7)? the other after the divine defeat of the rage of nations Or that on the pre-Passover days when the high three? against Israel we shall see the ingathering of priest Caiaphas was inspecting a selected lamb their remnant worshipping in Jerusalem from for imperfections, the religious leaders were year to year, according to Zechariah 14:16 examining Jesus with questions? (Feast of Tabernacles). First Fruits comes second, and corresponds The secret things belong to the Lord our to Jesus’ resurrection. An offering to God from God, but the things revealed, to us. With so the harvest, the ancient feast was celebrated the much thus revealed, let us exchange a hazy first day after the Sabbath falling during future for the shape vouchsafed by prophets,

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2 SEU PETERSON.indd 63 1/6/16 10:53 AM MARVIN OLASKY others are too polite to say. They give him more publicity than all the other candidates combined. His poll numbers and their ratings go up. It’s OK that the candidates are implicitly debating what year it is. That’s better than the position we’re in on abortion, where we’re stuck in 1973, the year the Supreme Court Sailing into history hamstrung both democracy and science in its IS IT 1940, 1980, 1933, 1973, OR 1859? Roe v. Wade decision. For example, the North Carolina Legislature wanted each customer at an abortion business in the Is this 2016? Maybe. The crucial but state to be able to see and R unspoken question as the GOP primaries comprehend an ultrasound beckon: What year is it? image of her baby. An For Ted Cruz it’s 1940, when appeasement appeals court said no. policies had failed and the British had to choose In 2015 many other state between surrender to Hitler and a willingness legislatures passed baby- to fight on the beaches and the landing strips, if protective measures, but necessary. Winston Churchill became prime courts repeatedly struck minister because, as his wife Clementine said, down anything viewed as “He has the supreme quality which I venture to undermining the 42-year- say very few of your present or future Cabinet old Supreme dictate. Require possess—the power, the imagination, the that second-trimester abor- deadliness to fight Germany.” Cruz has that tions in Idaho be done in a deadliness: Do most Americans think it’s It’s OK that the hospital? No. Ban abortions in Arkansas when needed? doctors detect a fetal heartbeat? No. Stop web- For Marco Rubio it’s 1980. That year Ronald candidates cam abortions in Iowa? No. Require Wisconsin Reagan laid hold to a “Great Communicator” are implicitly abortionists to have admitting privileges at badge because he could articulate in an opti- debating what nearby hospitals? No. mistic way the conservative principles most Meanwhile, many advocates of macroevolu- Americans were ready for after two decades of year it is. tion are stuck in 1859. That’s the year Charles liberalism. Rubio has shown that capability, and That’s better Darwin published On the Origin of Species, but he I also suspect he would be the rare GOP candi- than the and his contemporaries thought cells were sim- date able to defeat Democrats on that all- ple. As the Discovery Institute has pointed out, important question, “With which candidate position we’re Darwin cited G.H. Lewes as his authority on cell would you like to share a pizza?” in on abortion, structure, and Lewes wrote that a cell consists of For Donald Trump it’s 1933, the year where we’re a nucleus with “mysterious powers” surrounded Germans rolled the dice with Hitler. By writing by a “microscopic lump of jelly-like substance” this I am not at all suggesting that Donald stuck in 1973. that is “destitute of texture” and “destitute of equals savage Adolf, the author of Mein Kampf organs” with “no trace of organization.” (“My Struggle”). The title for Trump’s collected We know much more now. As former works could be My Money, and he’s open to National Academy of Sciences President Bruce anyone who’s ready to make a deal. But Hitler Alberts put it, “We now know that nearly every came to power amid financial and psychological major process in a cell is carried out by assem- depression, gaining a plurality because many blies of 10 or more protein molecules.” Our Germans disdained weak leaders and worried great gains in scientific knowledge since 1859 KEYSTONE-FRANCE/GAMMA about cultural decline. make Darwinism and Neo-Darwinism irratio- Are most Americans angry enough to propel nal propositions, but true believers stick with Trump to the presidency? I still don’t think so, them: They should read Stephen Meyer’s but it’s clear that some candidates with guber- Signature in the Cell and Darwin’s Doubt. natorial experience miscalculated by thinking In this Year of Our Lord 2016, presuppositions

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2 OLASKY.indd 3 1/5/16 9:36 AM Lana’s story: Member for fourteen years Heel injury Echocardiogram Go to: mysamaritanstory.org

Lana “We’re going to give up on this concept of insurance and trust God and His people?! Yeah, of course! That’s a no-brainer!”

For more than twenty years, Samaritan Ministries’ members have • More than 50,000 families been sharing one another’s medical needs, without using health (over 167,000 individuals)* insurance, through a Biblical model of community among believers. • Sharing over $15 million* in Samaritan members share directly with each other and do not share medical needs each month in abortions and other unbiblical practices. • The monthly share has never Come see what our members are saying and start your own exceeded $405 for a family Samaritan story today at: mysamaritanstory.org of any size*

samaritanministries.org 888.268.4377 Biblical community facebook.com/samaritanministries applied to health care twitter.com/samaritanmin

* As of November 2015

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