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It's Not Personal. It's Strictly 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 Human Race ‘In God’s hands’ 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 g Visit our website—wng.org—for breaking news and more 2 CONTENTS.indd 1 1/6/16 11:41 AM “The earth is the L’s and the fullness thereof; the world and those who dwell therein.” For your tablet —P : Editor in Chief Marvin Olasky Editor Timothy Lamer Senior Editor Mindy Belz National Editor Jamie Dean Managing Editor Daniel James Devine Washington Bureau Chief J.C. Derrick Reporters Emily Belz • Sophia Lee • Angela Lu Senior Writers Janie B. Cheaney • Susan Olasky Andrée Seu Peterson • John Piper Edward E. 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POSTMASTER: Send address changes to WORLD, PO Box 20002, Asheville, NC 28802-9998. 2 JOEL.indd 2 1/5/16 3:45 PM 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 every- thing 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 thou- sands 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 concealing some grievous secret. happening. 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 [email protected] JANUARY 23, 2016 WORLD 3 2 JOEL.indd 3 1/6/16 10:50 AM COME MEET OUR FACULTY We want to meet you, and we want you to meet our faculty, staff and students. Join us for an overnight visit as part of our Bulldog Days, or just spend one day as part of Day at the U. If you’re unable to attend one of these, we’ll be glad to arrange a personal visit geared toward your specific interest. Schedule your visit at uu.edu/campusvisit. DAY AT THE U: Feb. 15 | April 15 Founded in 1823 | Jackson, Tennessee BULLDOG DAYS: March 11-12 CREDIT EXCELLENCE-DRIVEN | CHRIST-CENTERED | PEOPLE-FOCUSED | FUTURE-DIRECTED 2 NEWS.indd 4 1/5/16 9:19 AM DISPATCHES NEWS / HUMAN RACE / QUOTABLES / QUICK TAKES DEC.
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