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over the isolated Asian nation for decades, suppressing opposition with ruthless beatings, imprisonment, rape, and murder. e results: Smoking fl ax widespread misery and deep poverty for m a ny. But progress fl ickered after Burma held its fi rst NEWS: New P B O’ assessment elections in two decades last year. Election observ- of political progress in the military- ers called the contest a sham that entrenched openness in dominated nation of Burma over the last military leadership, but government offi cials Burma covers >> year: “Flickers of progress” after “years instituted a handful of reforms that surprised lingering abuses of d a rkn e s s.” e fl ickers—including eased opponents, including releasing some politi- press restrictions and legalized labor unions— cal prisoners. (An estimated , remain in jail.) BY JAMIE DEAN led to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit e reforms were enough to lead famed Nov. , the fi rst visit to Burma (also known as opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to announce Myanmar) by a high-ranking U.S. offi cial in that her National League for Democracy party more than years. would participate in upcoming parliamentary But urgent questions remain: Will the fl ickers elections. at represented a major shift for the of progress bring light to the deepest darkness, Nobel Peace Prize winner, who spent over LOEB/AP including ongoing oppression years under house arrest for opposing the
SAUL of Christian minorities? And Burmese regime, and who led her political party will the U.S. continue applying to boycott elections. needed pressure to Burmese But Burma remains one of the U.S. State • CLINTON: offi cials, even while extending Department’s eight countries of particular
IMAGES a fresh olive branch? concern for religious oppression. Offi cials in the e years of Burmese dark- predominantly Buddhist nation regularly repress ness are infamous: e nation’s religious minorities, including Christians and military has ruled brutally Muslims. (Christians are nearly percent of WIN/AFP/GETTY Burma’s population, according to Operation
THAN QUESTIONS REMAIN: Suu Kyi World.)
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candidates will meet at CARLSON/AP Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, on Dec. for regularly deny Christians permission to a debate hosted by e Des PERRY, • build churches. e government also bans Moines Register, ABC News, religious meetings in unregistered venues, WOI-TV, Yahoo!, and the CAIN, like homes, making legal meetings nearly Republican Party. Fox News impossible for m a ny. and the GOP will host SANTORUM, Religious oppression fl ared recently in another debate fi ve days later in Sioux City, Iowa.
Burma’s northern state of Kachin—home ROMNEY,GINGRICH, to the Kachin ethnic minority group, made up mostly of Christians—when the Drill, baby, drill! Burmese military sparked a confl ict with e U.S. government the Kachin Independence Army in June plans to resume sell- LOOKING BACHMANN: that forced thousands to fl ee their homes. ing exploration leases Partners Relief & Development, a in deep sea areas in the Gulf of Mexico on Norway-based human-rights group, AHEAD EVAN Dec. after a moratorium that
reported on Nov. that results from a VUCCI/AP had been in eff ect since the recent fact-fi nding mission to the region Taylor jewelry Gulf oil spill during the summer revealed fresh attacks on Kachin residents, sale Auction house of . But prospectors aren’t HUNTSMAN: • including torture and rape. e U.S.-based Christie’s will put up the all pleased—the Obama Human Rights Watch reported that during late Elizabeth Taylor’s administration has doubled
a similar visit this summer witnesses in jewelry forfor auction on the price for leases. MCNAMEE/GETTY WIN Kachin described “serious abuses commit- Dec. . Experts say the ted by Burmese soldiers, including killings actress, who died in and attacks on civilians, pillaging of vil- March, assembled one of the greatest private lages, and the unlawful use of forced labor.” collections of jewelry everever Meanwhile, U.K.-based Christian and estimate that the col- IMAGES Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reported that lection could fetchfetch moremore Burmese soldiers were targeting pastors than million. JEWELRY: • during the violence: In early November,
Burmese soldiers attacked and looted an STEWART Assemblies of God church in Kachin. ee A century ago on Dec. , Norwegian soldiers detained two ministers, and a South Pole explored COOK/REX youth leader remained missing after the explorer Roald Amundsen trekked to the South Pole, beating British explorer Robert Falcon Scott to the pole byby just overover a month. OneOne attack. CSW reported that one of the hundred yearsyears later,later, enthusiastsenthusiasts areare attemptingattempting toto re-enactre-enact thethe FEATURES/AP detained ministers, Shayu Lum Hkawng, journey byby racingracing toto thethe SouthSouth Pole.Pole. “died on Nov. after severe torture.” During his November remarks, Obama DRILLING: • said the U.S. remains concerned about OPEC meets Analysts Burma’s human-rights abuses, persecution expect oil ministers from the
of political opposition, and brutality Organization of the Petroleum ALEX
against ethnic minorities. Benedict Rogers Exporting Countries (OPEC) to BRANDON/AP of CSW said the United States should agree to cut production in continue to press those issues publicly:publicly: “It eff orts to keep oil above per barrel when they meet Dec.
is vital that in our enthusiasm to welcome OIL • in Vienna, Austria. OPEC ministers some political changes, we do not overlook may also have to deal with Libya, which could soon PUMP: the grave human rights violations that increase oil production after the end of its civil war. HASAN continue to be perpetrated.”
Clinton praised Burma’s progress d uring JAMALI/AP her November visit, but told reporters that Earthquake bicentennial the country should release all political pris- Two hundred years ago on Dec. , the fi rstrst of fourfour massivemassive • MADRID: oners and break military ties with North earthquakes struck near present-day Missouri and Arkansas. Korea. “It will be up to the leaders and the e e fi rst trembler, estimated to be as powerful as . on the Richter USGS people to fan fl ickers of progress into fl ames scale, struck in Northeast PHOTOGRAPHIC of freedom that light the path toward a Arkansas. Over the next two better future,” she said. “ at—and noth- months, three major earthquakes ing less—is what it will take for us to turn a shook the area, culminating in a A solitary visit into a lasting partnership.” Feb. , earthquake that LIBRARY destroyed New Madrid, Mo.
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“I don’t even have to pretend to try to be nice to people I don’t l i ke.” U.S. Rep. BARNEY FRANK, D-Mass., on an advantage of retiring from politics. Frank, notoriously mean-spirited, announced on Nov. that he would not seek reelection in after serving terms in the House. FRANK:
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’T for Oscar-contending through the experience of one woman (Beloved). Is it m o v i e s , and by the look and feel of it, J. Edgar capitalism? Sketch the sweep of the Russian revolu- is supposed to be one. e reviews average a tion through the tempestuous relationship of a single >> B+, with raves for Leonardo DiCaprio’s aging couple (Reds). Multiculturalism? Show one of the years in two hours of screen time. A biopic of J. most brutal battles of World War II from the perspec- Edgar Hoover ca. is almost sure to center on tive of two soldiers—on the other side (Letters from one aspect: his supposed homosexuality. Director Iwo Jima). is is a valid approach: the inductive J.
Clint Eastwood receives method of starting from a single example and EDGAR universal praise for avoiding drawing larger conclusions from it. But the problem : salacious details, and that’s only with a lot of contemporary inductive storytelling is IMAGINE sporting. Neither Hoover nor his that there may be no larger conclusion to d r aw.
close companion Clyde Tolson is struck me forcefully with Saving Private ENTERTAINMENT ever confessed to being g ay, and Ryan. Critics and veterans alike hailed it as the most though rumors fl e w, then and realistic depiction of war ever fi lmed, and that may n ow, the allegation has never well be true. What troubled me was the relentlessly • been proven. tight perspective. Captain John Miller and his BELOVED at’s good enough for company are on a mission to demobilize a single : screenwriter Dustin Black to soldier, a boy who is the last of his siblings not to TOUCHSTONE make homosexuality a ke y, if not appear on a casualty list. Using a poignant story to the ke y, to Hoover’s my s te r y. dramatize the sacrifi ce of thousands of American
“[T]he lack of concrete evidence GIs is perfectly legitimate. But a teenager seeing the PICTURES about their relationship means movie for the fi rst time would not necessarily learn the fi lm eff ectively outs t h e m,” that there were larger issues at stake. • writes Manohla Dargiss for e Beginning with the Normandy landing and REDS : New York Times (rather ending with the horrifi c Battle of the Bulge, what PARAMOUNT non-sequiturally), but that’s not the Allies accomplished was to liberate Europe, all: Hoover’s story “shows the open the death camps, and strangle the murderous
tragic personal and political ird Reich. But Captain Miller’s dying plea to the PICTURES f a l l o u t of the closet.” rescued soldier—“Earn this”—seems to imply that
Any tragic fallout from orga- the war was not about great goals but individual • LETTERS nized crime or communism? Not ones—a thousand Private Ryans, who will ever after having seen J. Edgar, I can’t s ay. feel a sense of guilt and obligation. Like white FROM My point is not this movie but a p e o p l e should feel about slavery or men should feel general trend in pop culture: the about rape. IWO personalization of everything. Of course the war had a personal meaning for JIMA : e phrase “the personal is everyone who experienced it, and when soldiers WARNER political” dates from the late stand their ground under withering fi re they do it
’s and the Women’s Liberation for the guy next to them, not for the big picture. But BROS. Movement. Nobody knows the underlying, and probably unintended, message PICTURES exactly who coined it; it blos- of movies like Saving Private Ryan is that there are somed in the hothouse of civil- no greater goals or eternal truths—just me and my • rights agitation that enveloped hang-ups. e political is personal: Heroism and PRIVATE SAVING race, gender, and fi nally sexual ideals are illusory; self-preservation and self- preference. An intense personal expression are real. focus has become the approved But ironically, a person reaches his greatest RYAN way of looking at h i s t o r y and potential when he sees himself as part of a larger : PERSONAL & POLITICAL: politics, infl uenced by perceived whole. “What is man, that you are mindful of him?… DREAMWORKS Scenes from J. Edgar; Beloved; Reds; Letters social ills. a little lower than the heavenly beings” (Psalm ). from Iwo Jima; Saving Is it racism? Tell the story of To exist in the mind of God is real existence; to live Private Ryan. Reconstruction-era blacks in your own mind is mostly imaginary. A
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A comes to an end, thoughtful critique some catching-up to do: of liberal plans to Brian Godawa’s Noah Primeval make the United >> (Embedded Pictures, ) is a States subject to a world rollicking tale of Noah in rebellion government. against pre-fl ood powers. Godawa goes Mary Ann Glendon’s e Forum way beyond the Bible but his essential and the Tower (Oxford, ) features worldview is biblical, and every page readable chapter biographies of screams, Movie! In Day of War intellectuals—from Plato and Cicero (Zondervan, ), Cliff Graham is also through Locke, Rousseau, and going for a movie, this time starring beyond—who tried to put ideas into King David’s mighty men, but he’s less practice, often with poor results. successful and the publisher’s press Charles Kurzman’s e Missing release appallingly claims the novel Martyrs (Oxford, ) says acts of showed David “Suff ered Post-Traumatic terror would be more frequent if more growing up (and sometimes Stress D i s o rd e r.” Muslims were radical, but he discounts down) during the s. Stephen Hines’ Michael Horton’s For Calvinism and the anti-terrorist actions that decreased Titanic: One Newspaper, Seven Days, and Roger Olson’s Against Calvinism, both the butcher’s bill. Kurzman also claims the Truth at Shocked the World newly published by Zondervan, show most Muslims don’t want Sharia law (Cumberland House, ) shows two thoughtful scholars in vigorous and because they favor democracy—but Christian themes in coverage by illuminating debate. Horton and Olson we’re likely to see in movement London’s most-read newspaper, e show respect for positions opposite toward Sharia brought in by popular Daily Telegraph, of the nearly century- their own, and that’s a lot better than vote. old sinking. the response from some Christian Alex McFarland’s Answers for academics to those without Ph.D.s who Skeptics (Regal, ) will helphelp dare to write history or cultural loosen the tongues of evangel- criticism. For example, in e Anointed icals responding to a wide (Harvard University Press, ), variety of questioners: Randall Stephens and Karl Giberson are educated, wounded, Write about snide about not only the hyped predic- frightened, proud, what you know tions of Hal Lindsey but the reasoned tolerant, sensual, Scott Sabin’s Tending to Eden: Environmental Stewardship for critique of Francis Schaeff er: “not an syncretistic, and God’s People (Judson, ) is good when he writes about what intellectual heavyweight,” they sniff . many more. e he’s seen: “When we began, cutting trees had been illegal in the e Patriot’s Toolbox (Heartland Marriage Plot, Dominican Republic for many years. ese laws slowed deforestation, but Institute, ) has succinct summaries by Jeff rey they also removed the incentive to plant trees, because farmers could not of good free-market approaches to Eugenides benefi t from them. … IfIf farmers are givengiven the rightright toto benefibenefi t fromfrom thethe treestrees healthcare, energy and environment, (Farrar, Straus and see a return on them, they are moremore willing toto school reform, privatization, business and Giroux, plant and nurture them.” climate, telecommunications, state ), is a When Sabin writes about what he hasn’t seen, he fi scal policy, and even property and highly mar- off ers standard liberal nostrums. Nevertheless, his casualty insurance. David Pryce-Jones’ keted and well- observations about giving stuff rather than helping Treason of the Heart (Encounter, ), reviewed novel people start businesses are true: “We bring clothes that put local tailors out of business and with its chapter biographies of unpatri- that is foul in give away free food that undercuts the local otic British subjects, takes us from the spots—language farmers. We construct buildings for people, poet Byron to the prosaic bureaucrats and sex—but putting local masons and carpenters out who recently ceded big chunks of their spot-on in evok- of work and implicitly sending the HANDOUT country’s sovereignty to the European ing the wounds message that it takes outsiders to Union. John Fonte’s Sovereignty or and pride of get things done.” —M.O.
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Opposing crony capitalism is an Meaning of Marriage Timothy Keller issue upon which both the right Many books exist to help couples work through marriage problems, and left in American politics should but Keller’s excellent book connects a big scriptural picture— be able to agree. In row em All What is God’s plan for marriage and how does it connect to the gospel?—to the personal: How should this change me? It begins Out (Houghton Miffl in Harcourt, with a brief history of marriage and a snapshot of its current ), Peter Schweizer documents state before shifting to a discussion of the mystery described in with mind-numbing detail how Ephesians . So what is marriage for? “It is forfor helping eacheach otherother politicians get rich by using infor- to become our future glory-selves, the new creations that God mation they are privy to because will eventually make us.” at overarching vision provides a of their public offi ce. He names framework for chapters on gender roles and sex.sex. ExamplesExamples drawndrawn both Republican and Democratic from the Kellers’ -year marriage help fl esh out the chapters. offi ceholders, detailing Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, specifi c Friendship, and Life Together trades, land Mark & Grace Driscoll purchases, After a chapter in which the Driscolls talk about their liveslives and and other sometimes rocky marriage, the book divides intointo a section on marriage and another on sex. Whether dealing with friendship or profi table sex, the book is practical, drawing fromfrom their experience and thethe deals. For lives of those they’ve counseled. InIn thethe chapterchapter “Can“Can wewe ______?” ______? ” example, they deal with specifi c sexualsexual topics byby drawing twotwo importantimportant John Kerry questions from Corinthians :: Is it lawful? and, Is it helpful? made mil- e fi rst asks whether God permits a practice, and the secondsecond lions trading heavily in asks whether it draws a couple togethertogether or drivesdrives the spouses health-related stocks during the apart. e language is blunt and the content is probably tootoo graphicgraphic forfor somesome folks.folks. debate over reform. As Schweizer states, “ is stuff is completely Just How Married Do You Want to Be? legal and, according to Senate Practicing Oneness in Marriage rules, ethical.” He advocates mak- Jim & Sarah Sumner ing politicians abide by the same e Sumners come from diff erent backgrounds: Sarah is a rules that govern the rest of us: theologian, and Jim—before he came to Christ—was a male stripper. In marriage, they also had to overcome personality and “Crony capitalism has a corrosive work diff erences. is slender book shows how understanding eff ect on our politics, our economy, the biblical metaphor of headship is key to working out many and our character.” marriage issues. Half the book focuses on teasing out the meaning of the metaphor, and shows how some common understandings don’t hold up when subjected to careful s c r u t i n y : ey say the metaphor highlights the connectedness of a head with a body. e second half of the book covers many practical topics, using anecdotes from their marriage and showing how a dynamic of submission and sacrifi ce can provide a way through marriage thickets. 4 Days to a Forever Marriage Gary & Norma Smalley If marriage problems stemmed primarilyprimarily fromfrom lacklack ofof knowledge,knowledge, this little book would havehave a greatgreat chance ofof success.success. ButBut sincesince the problem we bring toto marriage is our sinful selves,selves, it’sit’s unlikelyunlikely that four days is enough toto fi x us.us. Nonetheless,Nonetheless, thethe SmalleysSmalleys address important topics that contribute to marital happiness: loving wordswords and actions; communication andand resolvingresolving anger;anger; aff ection and intimacy; and trials and treasures. e bookbook includesincludes global statements and sloppy writing: “Women tend toto be betterbetter HANDOUT at honoring their mates than men do.”do.” Still, the SmalleysSmalleys havehave been married more than years. ey’ve weatheredweathered manymany
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25 BOOKS.indd 29 11/28/11 2:48 PM Reviews > QA Consumer’s choice e government, says veteran welfare reformer JAY HEIN, can level the playing fi eld for eff ective religious charities without violating the Constitution BY MARVIN OLASKY
J H, president of e vast majority. We proved knew only inter-generational Did those who went to the Sagamore Institute the point that labor force poverty? e answer is not work stay attached? Has for Public Policy attachment is not only statisti- getting a job: It’s getting a n y o n e tracked them? In the >> Research in Indianapolis, cally the only road out of attachment to the workforce. late s and early we served as director of the White poverty, but sustainably so. stopped talking about welfare House Offi ce of Faith-Based We experienced the same reform. Each governor and Community Initiatives from thing nationally after produced the press release PATRICK through . During the when the federal law declaring victory because of HENRY s he was instrumental in was passed: For single caseload reduction. We took it
reforming the Wisconsin mothers employment off the nation’s agenda. e COLLEGE welfare system. went to record highs, research atrophied. Now wewe What was the Wisconsin and poverty wentwent toto are running on the fumes welfare system like when record lows. from those days. you arrived? It needed toto be How do you sustain transformed. WeWe thought the that progress? only route out of poverty would It’s hardhard work.work. be work, but the welfare “job” People often was to sit behind a computer need not only and prove howhow poor you werewere a job but a to become eligible for benefi ts.ts. progression of So your goal was to ... jobs: What To say to this person full of does career promise, “You “You cancan realizerealize youryour progression look potential in the workforce.” We like toto some- had to transform the service one who delivery system. grew up Did you? We had , in a heads of household on welfare welfare in in Wisconsin. AllAll thethe house- sophisticated social science hold literature literature at the timetime saidsaid aa that third of them were gaming the system and a third could never be working. Within four yearsyears our , head-of-household case load—, or so people—went toto a , head- of-household welfare caseload. What happened to those , heads of households? How many of them actually went to work?
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25 Q&A.indd 30 11/28/11 10:16 AM As you were reforming welfare program from AFDC, diff erent types of organiza- When I became involved welfare in Wisconsin, I visited Aid to Families with tions: salad groups (lots of in the Bush campaign in , the Kenosha County Job Dependent Children, to TANF, lettuce, with “religion” some very thoughtful people Center in that state and saw Temporary Aid for Needy mixed in like pieces of said I was dumb to think that women being taught to for- Families. Wasn’t the empha- tomato or cucumber) and government can do some- get about the possibilities of sis on “temporary” an brownie-mix groups thing useful. I commend “ e marriage—even though the improvement? Correct. I was (“religion” inseparable from Duty of Hope,” the speech life of a single mom is so thrilled to be a part of that the entire product). What if George Bush made in July . tough. e offi cials were also experiment, depressed as you brownie-mix groups are It was his fi rst major policy decidedly opposed to religious were to realize the job wasn’t often more eff ective in address as a presidential candi- infl uences. Right. You’ve diag- done, and hopeful when I fi ghting addiction than date. He said we as a society nosed the diff erence between discovered who was doing the salad groups? Which I happen should look fi rst to private what government can do and job and had been doing it all to believe. actors. Government’s role is what government shouldn’t do. along: people of faith and good As do I—yet government, secondary or tertiary. I would never trust government will who were serving their in terms of direct grant- But Bush administration with the formation of character neighbors in need. making, can fund salad practice fell short of the PATRICK and the building of the person. at gets to the question groups that are less eff ective, speech. is is a challenge for at is the role of civil society of how government should but not the brownie-mix conservatives who pursue HENRY and faith-based institutions. interact with religion-based groups. Yes. at’s why vouch- offi ce: America is not the
COLLEGE Congress did learn institutions. We want the ers are the answer. You get to American government, but enough from Wisconsin to best providers to help people use taxpayer resources but in a once you’re in offi ce you run change the name of recover from drugs or attach manner that enables consumer government. Tangling the faith- one big to the workforce. At the same choice. If a person receives a based initiative in that web was ttimeime we need voucher and can choose any a bad idea. to respect provider he wishes, there’s no Compassionate conserva- the constitutional problem. tism originally focused on dynamic It seems to me that the removing the barriers reli- balance of grant system, which central- gious groups faced. e idea the First izes power in Washington, is was the right one. While I served Amendment. in and of itself a problem. e in the last two years of the It protectsprotects the government has subcontracted Bush presidency and traveled free expression services in increasing propor- the country, many inner-city, of our religious tions since World War II. Many faith-based leaders came up to me and said, “Please thank the president.” ese weren’t grantees. ese were servants “’ of the Lord. ey said, “Before this initiative I was either . ignored or discriminated against in society. Now I’m seen as a fi rst responder.” at was a culture shift. Is it shifting it back under Obama? Organizationally, he’s .” kept everything in place: an Offi ce of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives staff ed faith and at the of those grant-receiving by the White House, but also same time pro- organizations were faith-based, with staff in a dozen federal tects against the but in the ’s and ’s dis- agencies. establishment of crimination arose and choked What has alarmed you? A religion. the participation of many of higher degree of political advo- How does that these organizations. Faith- cacy—for example, conference work out in prac- based groups and smaller, calls between the White House tice? You know the grass-roots organizations and the religious leaders about metaphor about two s u ff ered the most. advocating the health bill. A
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aesthetic strides. For another, to the extent that Heard ever sounded like anyone else, he usually sounded better. Heard Perhaps what he found most irritating about such again comparisons—apart from the extent to which they Almost years after suggested people were his death, a Christian m i s s i n g the point of his emphasis on individuality—is singer-songwriter’s that they were a kind of easy music still beckons answer to the question of BY ARSENIO ORTEZA what made him so eff ective at what God had put him on the earth to do. Heard was unsatisfi ed W that take exclusive pride that we abide so far with easy answers. Even as the develop- children who were born when from hell?” he sang on his album ing quality of his work and the respect Mark Heard died are now years Ashes and Light. “We might laugh it engendered among the more serious >> old? It means that, except for together, but don’t we cry alone / for circles of the singer-songwriter those reared by parents with uncom- the ashes and the dust we’ve swept community nudged him toward monly deep album collections, an entire beneath the Holy rone?” crossover popularity, he never stopped generation has come of age without Also, with the exception of the asking tough questions. encountering one of the best, boldest, intermittent ballad and ’s stripped- When after three years behind the and most infl uential Christian down Eye of the Storm, Heard’s CCM scenes he returned with the zydeco- singer-songwriters ever. albums unabashedly rocked. On one driven Dry Bones Dance in , he When Heard’s Appalachian Melody level, “going electric” may have been seemed more determined than ever to appeared on Larry Norman’s Solid Rock his way of putting to rest the James fi nd fresh ways of keeping both himself label in , its acoustic sheen and Taylor comparisons that his gentler and his listeners sensitive to the deepest overtly faith-centered songs guaranteed recordings had provoked among meanings of being alive. it a warm reception among fans of what well-meaning fans oblivious to the Second Hand followed in , people had only recently started calling extent that such “compliments” drove Satellite Sky in ’, musically Contemporary Christian Music. him up the wall. To Heard, fi nding and adventurous albums that made even the But, from the beginning, Heard embracing one’s uniqueness was strongest of his ’s eff orts seem like criticized the genre’s self-imposed inseparable from achieving full blueprints and that won Heard fans constraints. He would eventually record m a t u r i t y in Christ. Not for nothing did among those who’d probably never six albums for labels distributed mainly he name the record company he given religion a second thought. He to Christian bookstores but not without founded in Fingerprint. co-produced a Vigilantes of Love savoring (and occasionally writing A lot of good it did him: By the album with R.E.M.’s Pete Buck. Finally, songs about) the irony that he—as mid-’s, he was sometimes being lik- widespread recognition beckoned. someone particularly resistant to letting ened to T Bone Burnett and no doubt en, suddenly, he was gone: dead of ACM FOR even a “spiritual” bottom line dictate to chafi ng under that assessment too. cardiac arrest at the age of . his art—was doing so. He needn’t have. For one thing, He would’ve been on Dec. IMAGES What he came to do best was expose going from being compared to James . One could do worse this Christmas and probe the shallowness of much Taylor to being compared to T Bone than to give a young person the gift of mainstream evangelicalism. “Don’t we sBurnett itself i indicative of big his song. A POLK/ACMA2011/GETTY CHRISTOPHER
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25 MUSIC.indd 32 12/1/11 11:54 AM N O T A B L E CDs Five new country CDs > reviewed by SPOTLIGHT
Ghost on the Canvas Glen Campbell If Miranda Lambert’s latest album Campbell announced last June that he has is too long for what’s good about it Alzheimer’s and that this album would therefore to shine as brightly as it should, be his last. So it would feel haunted byby intima- Hell on Heels (Sony Nashville) by tions of mortality even if nearly everyevery songsong andand her side project with Angaleena the titles of Roger Manning Jr.’sJr.’s instrumental Presley and Ashley Monroe—Pistol interludes (e.g., “ e RestRest IsIs Silence”)Silence”) didn’tdidn’t Annies—is, at minutes, too address the subject. But because Campbell, , short. e obvious solution is a Christian, the moodmood doesn’tdoesn’t coagulatecoagulate intointo would’ve been to extract the gloom. Rather it culminates in hope. And solo-Miranda songs most in keep- because he’s humble, he never lets on that he’s ing with her intimate and/or wild headed toward a “better place” for any other side (“Look at Miss Ohio,” “Fastest reason than grace. Girl in Town,” respectively) and to Clancy’s Tavern Toby Keith have used them to put some meat If these songs areare anyany indicationindication (and(and withwith oneone on the Pistol Annies’ bones. called “Made in America” they had better be), TobyToby On the other hand, lean and Keith’s Southern-Democrat politics are simply mean is what the Annies are all what would’ve passed for common national about, the better to drive home the sentiments back when his grandmother, the pointedness of their mini morality bar-tending “Clancy” of thethe titletitle track,track, waswas keep-keep- tales. e title cut serves fairfair gold- ing her blue-collar patrons’ beer glassesglasses full.full. AndAnd digger warning to middle-aged rich although a Puritan might’ve viewed her taverntavern as guys intent on adding a hot young a den of iniquity, Keith remembers it as a macro-macro- wife to their trophies. And “Takin’“Takin’ cosm of a democratic bonhomie unique to this Pills” and “Housewife’s Prayer” great land. Give him that, and he’s a happyhappy man. elucidate more consequences Own the Night brought on by the sexual revolution than Hugh Hefner could shakeshake a Lady Antebellum eir fi rst album not to include an instantly paradigm shift at. irresistible single (unless their ChristmasChristmas albumalbum counts) is also their fi rst toto suggest that they’ll never turn into the country Fleetwood Mac. e problem is greater than that Charles KelleyKelley is no Lindsey Buckingham and that Hillary Scott is no Christine McVie or Stevie Nicks. It’s probably more a case of their being so content as actual human beings that their artistic personae can’t help lacking the subtextual tension that transforms high-quality popularpopular entertainmententertainment ACM into something moremore like art.art. FOR
Four the Record Miranda Lambert IMAGES If only forfor the energy, humor,humor, andand intelligentintelligent sympathy that went intointo it, this album deserves the acclaim it’s received. But it’s not energetic, funny, or intelligently sympathetic enough to justify its nearly one-hour length. Crossover POLK/ACMA2011/GETTY potential notwithstanding, it’s country enough to have benefi tted from playing by the country rules, one of which is that if you can’t bowl ’em CHRISTOPHER over inside minutes, maybe you deserve toto be
COUNTRY GIRLS: HANDOUT passed over by posterity for the music that Lambert, Presley, ANNIES: Loretta Lynn Lyn n and Tammy Wynette were making and Monroe.
PISTOL at your age.
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T my refrigerator hums, happily I imagine, with the comings and goings of harvest >> and feasting—roasts and leftover g r a v i e s , cooked squash and potatoes, the summer peppers not eaten by grubs, and the last of the lettuces. How can my family receive such bounty while others go poor and hungry? It’s a complex question. North Korea is up, more and HUNGRY: North Korean Take my refrigerator, a sturdy -cubic-foot more children are starving: children suff ering from malnutrition rest in a model made by the LG Corporation of South Korea. In October the UN’s top bed in a hospital in e reason I’m able to own an appliance from the humanitarian o ffi cial, Haeju, South Hwanghae Korean Peninsula is that a man named Koo In-Hwoi Valerie Amos, reported that province, in September. in was intrepid enough to found a company one-third of North Korean called Lak-Hui Chemical Industrial Corp., then to children under age are malnourished. Vitit get into plastics, then to build the country’s fi rst Muntarbhorn, UN special rapporteur on human radio, and ultimately to merge the plastics side (by rights in North Korea, went so far in his fi nal report then called “Lucky”) with the electronics side as to call the long-term starvation of millions of (called Goldstar) into what is today the second- North Koreans, together with other human-rights largest conglomerate in South Korea after Samsung. abuses, a form of genocide. e reason Koo In-Hwoi was successful is that he Viewed from the Korean Peninsula, the causes of formed his company under the auspices of the famine and gross impoverishment couldn’t be provisional government in the southern half of the clearer. Yet the prevailing wisdom, not to mention Korean Peninsula, a region under U.S. control after the so-called percenters, wants to indict free the defeat of the Japanese in World War II—and not markets and a lack of centralization. the northern half under control of the Soviet Union. A report by Reuters blames North Korea’s food In that environment LG grew into fi ve global shortages on “a string of natural disasters and sanc- divisions that today earn more than . billion in tions imposed on its nuclear and missile p ro g ra m s.” net annual income and employ more than , David Beckmann of Bread for the World, speaking people. It remains a family-owned company run by last month to a gathering of the Methodist General Koo’s grandson Koo Bon-Moo. LG has remained Board of Church and Society, insisted, “We’ve got to notably scandal free. In the grandson praised get our government to do its part. We can’t foodbank the generations before him, saying on his parents’ our way out of h u n ge r.” He complained of “a very th wedding anniversary, “My parents set an diffi cult Congress” made up of freshmen who “all are example to married couples, which is a precious conservative and some not well-informed,” and con- l e g a c y to be continued.” cluded, “More people who experience God as a loving Corporate and familial success in South Korea feed presence are more likely to support food s t a m p s.” a country with per capita GDP in of , Alleviating the world’s hunger hot spots doesn’t ( r i s i n g from ’s per capita GDP of )—and an begin at my refrigerator door, or with support for unemployment rate of . percent. North Korea, food stamps. For us in the West, it begins some-
with a nearly identical culture and history until where in Ezekiel , where the guilt of Jerusalem, DAMIR communist takeover in , by contrast has a per the holiest of cities, is compared alongside the guilt capita GDP of maybe ,. And needless to s ay, of Sodom: “She and her daughters had pride, excess SAGOLJ/REUTERS/NEWSCOM there are no global conglomerates employing over of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the , people and making it possible for others poor and needy.” Let’s lay aside pride and excess halfway around the world to eat and live well. What long enough to marvel at the remarkable ways to a diff erence years of centralization makes. deliver and keep food around the world, to examine Despite over a decade of massive international why systems fail, and to resolve to reject falsehoods food aid, and reports that this year’s grain harvest in disguised as fi x-its. A
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DAMIR SAGOLJ/REUTERS/NEwScOM D of the Y ALAN CHAMBERS Since WORLD has selected a Daniel of the Year, one Christian from the millions around the world who have put their faith in God and gained the strength to stand up against ungodly trends. ¶ Particular years suggest particular Daniels, and this year, with victories for gay-rights groups at high tide and marriage being redefi ned, is no diff erent. Alan Chambers is in denial. It’s a charge his critics level against him on a regular basis. ey say that Chambers—a former homosexual who helps others struggling with same-sex attraction—is denying what comes naturally to him. Chambers wholeheartedly agrees. “For Christians, every day we’re called to a life of biblical self-denial,” he says. “We take up our cross and follow Christ, and we deny what comes naturally.” But he says denial isn’t without reward: “ ose who reject the concept of self-denial haven’t reaped the joys that come with i t.” Self-denial isn’t a new concept to Chambers. e -year- old president of Exodus International—a Christian ministry that helps people struggling with homosexuality—grew up in a Christian home but embraced homosexuality as a teenager. But through years of an active gay lifestyle, Chambers couldn’t shake the biblical conviction that what came naturally to him was also sinful. He didn’t want to be g ay.
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25 COVER STORY.indd 38 12/1/11 5:16 PM Eventually, he embraced the biblical C a nationwide teaching that Christ could change his ministry, you wouldn’t know it by heart, and his sinful patterns, including standing outside the Orlando homosexuality. It didn’t happen quickly. headquarters where he works. After “I didn’t get a magic wand or a lighten- a handfulI of security threats from ing bolt,” says Chambers. “I got a very opponents in recent years, the Exodus diffi cult, painful, blood-sweat-and-tears staff ers don’t post a sign on the front journey—and a Jesus who never left me door. ey don’t publicize their address. along the way.” ey usually lock the doors. at journey began years ago this It’s a striking contrast to an annual gay past September in a Florida chapter of pride festival that drew , people to Exodus International, where Chambers an Orlando public park last year. Two days fi rst sought help. Ten years later, before this year’s festival was set to begin Chambers became president of the orga- in October, a local alternative newspaper nization that’s one of the largest Christian carried a front-page preview of the ministries to homosexuals in the c o u n t r y. “Come Out With Pride” event. A large It’s not an easy job. Part of Chambers’ block-quote hailed the repeal of the U.S. work involves treading into the lion’s military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy den of mainstream media outlets that and declared: “Orlando’s [gay] veterans scorn the notion that homosexuality is and advocates, not content to simply cele- wrong. Critics have called him a bigot, a brate the policy change, have begun to lay homophobe, and a spiritual terrorist. An the groundwork for a new social o rd e r.” online petition to ban an Exodus applica- Inside a sparse conference room at tion from Apple’s iTunes store earlier this Exodus headquarters that morning, year drew more than , signatures. Chambers wasn’t discussing the festival Apple dropped the Exodus app, saying it or contemplating social order. Instead, off ended large groups of people. his nine staff members were reading But there’s something that angers perforated cards with handwritten Chambers’ opponents as much as his prayer requests sent to the ministry. ( e belief that homosexuality is wrong: His cards come from a newsletter Exodus message that homosexuals can change. sends to its mailing list.) at’s not a new teaching in evangelical On one card, a set of parents asked Christianity, but it might be one of the for prayer for their daughter to overcome most radically unpopular messages in homosexuality. Another off ered the same America today. request for a son. A third card came from In a year that has brought the legal- a man asking for prayer as he and his ization of gay marriage in New York, the wife raise their newborn child. “I’ve repeal of the U.S. military’s “don’t ask, struggled with my sexuality all my life,” don’t tell” policy, and a decision by the he wrote. “Pray that I’ll set a good Presbyterian Church USA to allow the e x a m p l e of holiness and sexual purity for ordination of homosexuals, Chambers my daughter.” has continued to champion publicly a Chambers prayed for the new father historic Christian teaching: Christ can and asked that God would help people change the life of anyone who seeks understand: “When we’re pursuing You, Him—including a homosexual. You can’t help but change us. … When we Meanwhile, Chambers has issued an become more like You, everything urgent call to evangelical Christians: ch a n ge s.” Make churches places where anyone can e marks of change in Chambers’ fi nd compassionate help—including life decorate his offi ce: Framed photos of homosexuals. his wife of years, Leslie, hang near For bearing both of those messages pictures of Isaac and Mo l l y, the couple’s in the face of fi erce opposition for adopted son and daughter (both years more than a decade, old). A pink, handmade card from Molly Alan Chambers is reads: “I love my d a d d y.” A red card from “MY WIFE ISN’T MY DIPLOMA”: WORLD’s Daniel Isaac includes a drawing and says: “Me Alan and Leslie. of the Year. and daddy ice s ka t i n g.”
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Chambers takes homemade cards from his children and wife when he travels for work and displays them on the dresser in his hotel room. But he doesn’t off er the cards or pictures as proof that he’s not gay anymore. “My wife isn’t my d i pl o m a,” he says. Instead, he says he pursued marriage and children after his homosexual desires changed. Gay websites sometimes mock Chambers’ marriage as a sham. But during a long lunch at a nearby restaurant, the pair seemed like a h a p py, loving couple, and Chambers said: “My wife is every bit the object of my desire.” A homemade card from Leslie on a coff ee table in his offi ce returns the aff ection: “To my lovely, faithful, hand- some, wise, strong, helpful, fun, tough, well- dressed, loving husband. We love you, we miss you, pray for you, kiss you, count on you, and can’t wait for you to come home.” Chambers knows this doesn’t happen for everyone. He regularly tells audiences that marriage isn’t the goal for those seeking to leave homosexuality, and he warns that fi nding an opposite-sex partner won’t “fi x” a gay person. Many who leave a homo- sexual life may decide never to m a r r y. So what is the goal? What does change mean? Gay activists regularly accuse Chambers of promoting a “cure” for homosexuality. Chambers off ers an emphatic response: “What’s our mission? It’s not to fi x people. It’s to point them to Jesus. He’s the one who changes people’s hearts and l ive s.” Indeed, Chambers often repeats what he wrote in his book Leaving Homosexuality: “ e opposite of homosex- uality isn’t heterosexuality. It’s holiness.” at’s a crucial tenet in the message that Chambers promotes in writings, conferences, speaking engagements, and media interviews. He emphasizes the Christian teaching that homosexuality is like any other temptation that the Bible calls people to resist. He says he didn’t choose “What’s our mission? It’s not his homosexual temptation, to fi x people. It’s to point them to though he did choose to Jesus. He’s the one who changes indulge it: “I chose to look at gay pornography, people’s hearts and lives.” to go to gay bars,
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lofty Christian language, the reality has been g r i t t y, and the battle hard-fought. When Chambers fi rst visited an Exodus chapter I in , he had already been praying for years that his attraction to men would go away. He remembers telling the counselor: “I want to be done with this in six months.” Six months later, he says, “I was in a gay b a r.” Eventually, his sister-in-law invited him to begin attending church again. He met people who “didn’t look at me cross-eyed because of what I struggled with. ey didn’t think that my stuff was any diff erent than their stuff . ey were just committed to helping me like some- body helped t h e m.” Friends in the church met with Chambers re g u l a rl y, prayed with him, and even retrieved him from a gay bar on an Easter Sunday evening when they saw his car in the parking lot. When change didn’t happen overnight, they didn’t give up. Over time, Chambers’ same-sex attractions diminished and he stopped indulging temptation. He still relies on the members of his local congregation near his home to encourage him and pray for him. at experience has formed a core piece of Chambers’ focus at Exodus: Get churches involved. Exodus maintains a network of about local ministries and churches across the country willing to help people seeking to leave homo- sexuality. ( ey also help families with gay loved ones.) e ministries are autonomous, though they do sign an agreement to affi rm biblical principles when they join the network. And while Chambers is grateful for the counseling that he found at an Exodus chapter, he wants to refer more people to churches that can help people long-term.
FACING FIERCE OPPOSITION: Chambers speaking; protesters outside an Exodus International conference at Vista Ridge Baptist Church in Carrollton, Texas (opposite page). CHAMBERS: HANDOUT • PROTEST: LM OTERO/AP
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“ is isn’t about counseling,” he Most of his critics contend it’s says. “ is isn’t about a -step group. destructive. Websites like Truth Wins It isn’t about meetings in days. Out and Ex-Gay Watch have whole is is about what you do on the st sections devoted to condemning d ay, and what’s the th step. Because Chambers and other ministries to that’s where you live your life.” homosexuals. ey note that some at’s where a church can be prominent former leaders of Exodus especially eff ective, he says: “It’s not have returned to homosexuality. rocket science. You don’t have to have Chambers acknowledges that many a counseling degree to bring some- people do return to homosexuality, but body to Jesus and walk them into a he says that doesn’t negate the validity place of wholeness. But you do have of Exodus’ message. to have a lot of patience because it’s Others loudly disagree. e gay not going to get all cleaned up website Queerty described Chambers’ immediately.” message at Exodus as: “Advocating Chambers says that kind of adults and young people (and their patience is lacking in some churches families) disavow the way their creator that have spoken the truth about the made them for a life of hating yourself sin of homosexuality but have failed to so a man on a cross won’t send you to “God is percent grace and extend Christ-like compassion to hell. is man [Chambers] does not those struggling. “God is percent teach love and prosperity; he prescribes percent truth. If we fail to grace and percent truth,” he says. dangerous advice for malleable m i n d s.” “If we fail to represent any part of that Activists regularly protest outside represent any part of that then then we fail to represent C h ri s t.” Exodus events, including a September Chambers’ emphasis on church is a event in rural Auburn, N.H., that drew we fail to represent Christ.” pointed answer to critics who say that about protesters carrying signs Exodus is solely focused on reparative with slogans like: “Conversion erapy or conversion therapy—a counseling Kills,” and “Exodus, Exodus, Quack, method that tries to help a person Quack, Quack/You Can’t Change Gays change his sexual orientation. Some of and at’s a Fa c t.” When a group the Exodus affi liates do focus on protested outside an Exodus meeting reparative t h e r a py, and Chambers says in Wheaton, Ill., in , Andy ayer he believes it has merits: “But it’s of the Gay Liberation Network told the ultimately not about counseling. It’s Chicago Tribune: “ ey say they ‘love’ about a life of Christian discipleship.” us, yet their fake attempts to change gays into straights is rooted in their where hatred of gay people.” Chambers’ critics most And in an ABC News segment with misunderstand him. e anchor Brian Ross earlier this year, concept of self-denial as a Ross barely concealed contempt for part T of Christian discipleship doesn’t Chambers when he asked: “But you make sense to those who believe that really believe that homosexuality is a affi rming self is the greatest good. sin?” (Chambers answered yes.) Ross Chambers knows it’s a point that he later asked: “Isn’t this a dangerous can’t make others understand: “I’m message you’re sending?” not the Holy S p i ri t.” Criticism reached a peak last But he also knows that while many March when Exodus submitted an embrace their homosexuality, others application to Apple’s iTunes store that don’t want to live with same-sex included a calendar of events and a attractions, including people already link to the ministry’s website. When in churches. He believes that Christian Apple approved the app, a website groups should be able to share what called Change.org launched a petition the Bible teaches about faith and to remove it from the store. e sexuality and to off er compassion petition called Exodus “dangerous” rooted in Christ: “Why shouldn’t that and eventually garnered , be out there for people who want it?” signatures. Apple dropped the app.
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25 COVER STORY.indd 42 12/1/11 10:46 AM Christian author Charles Colson “changing the hearts and minds of and asked Schmierer to avoid it. called the eff ort against Exodus “a religious leaders who engage in Chambers eventually agreed: “I wish I bare-knuckled smear campaign,” anti-homosexual campaigns.”) had known the complexity of this ini- noting that one reviewer called In an email, Willow Creek tially and said [to Schmierer]: ‘Don’t Exodus “as dangerous to Christianity spokeswoman Susan DeLay said the do t h i s.’ But I didn’t, and I’m s o r r y.” as al-Qaeda is to I s l a m.” Soulforce visit didn’t infl uence the Earlier this year, after criticizing But Chambers says it’s most dis- church’s decision to cut ties with the “It Gets Better” campaign appointing when the criticism aff ects Exodus, but she didn’t off er a specifi c ( t a r g e t e d at gay teens) for using the Exodus’ relationships with other reason for the decision. DeLay did character Woody from the children’s Christian groups. Christian youth say: “We do not believe same-sex movie Toy Story, gay blogs questioned leader Dawson McAllister agreed to attraction is a sin; engaging in sex Chambers’ concerns for suicidal drop Exodus from his radio show’s outside marriage is. Willow believes youth. Chambers backtracked, saying website and referral list last year marriage is ordained by God for one he shouldn’t have criticized the when a gay activist complained to the man and one wo m a n.” campaign’s use of a child’s toy without affi rming the message that gay teens shouldn’t commit suicide. “Wou ld I rather a kid choose life and be gay?” he “God is percent grace and says. “Of course, I’d rather percent truth. If we fail to him choose life.” represent any part of that then steeped in heated controversy would be we fail to represent Christ.” exhausting to m a ny, andS personal threats might lead others to seek new work. Chambers says he’s received a Clear Channel radio station that car- Whatever the reason for separating handful of threatening calls, including ries the program. ( e activist called from Exodus, Soulforce executive a message saying he should be killed the show’s hotline pretending to be a director Cindi Love wrote an editorial for what he’s doing. He maintains a confused gay youth, and the phone in July hailing Willow Creek’s substantial security system at his counselor suggested he call Exodus.) decision. Love said the group met home and calls his wife when he’s Chambers said McAllister’s with Hybels in and to traveling to go over a security check- decision to drop Exodus at Clear encourage the church to cut ties with list at night. “I don’t live my life in Channel’s insistence was “astounding” Exodus, and said that Soulforce was fear, but we’re c a re f u l,” he says. because McAllister referred him to “celebrating today that Willow Creek Despite the pressures, Chambers Exodus years ago: “It’s hurtful has found a door in the wall of remains notably upbeat and energetic. because he believes everything we r e l i g i o u s bigotry and walked through He bounds around his offi ce and believe, but he won’t stand up for i t.” it in such a public way.” peppers his conversation with humor. Tim Altman, CEO of the program, Despite the ever-widening torrent And he doesn’t worry about a climate declined a request for comment. of criticism, Chambers says he that seems to grow increasingly hostile Last J u l y, news broke that Willow remains dedicated to his work and to his work. “For me to do nothing Creek Community Church had ready to admit his own mistakes. For with my story is a waste of God’s severed formal ties with Exodus in example, shortly after a Christian grace and His redemption and His . e mega-church with its conference on homosexuality in mercy and all He did for m e,” he says. , members and well-known Uganda in that included Exodus “It changed my life, and I’ve watched pastor Bill Hybels didn’t publicly board member Don Schmierer, a it change other people’s l ive s.” specify a reason for breaking the handful of Ugandan offi cials drafted At a Friday night regional confer- longtime ties, but Chambers noted legislation to institute the death pen- ence, Chambers told the same thing that the decision came after the alty for “aggravated homosexuality.” to more than people packed into a gay-rights group Soulforce met with Chambers condemned the legisla- chapel at a church outside of Orlando. Willow Creek leaders. (Members of tion, but critics said he should have He had forgotten his notes for the Soulforce visit churches and Christian listened to pre-conference concerns evening, but he hadn’t forgotten his colleges around the c o u n t r y, and the about speakers at the event known message: “Is change possible? If you group’s website says their mission is for infl ammatory language and views, know Jesus, anything is possible.” A
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25 COVER STORY.indd 43 11/30/11 9:35 PM Christian Aid It’s a New Day! . . . because Indigenous Missions Carry On in Countries we love the brethren. Now Closed to U. S. Missionaries hen Bob Finley, founder of Christian Aid, went to China 63 years ago he could not have imagined what is happening there today. The house church movement has exploded throughout the country, Wand millions have turned to Christ. Christian Aid has provided financial help to start and operate 151 Bible institutes which have trained, graduated, and sent out over 50,000 missionary church planters, some to every province of China, including Tibet. Following World War II missionaries from America were forbidden to do evangelistic work in most countries where hundreds of tribes and nations are still unreached with the gospel message. But God has raised up indigenous missions to win souls and plant churches SUPPORT A NATIVE MISSIONARY in almost all of those lands today. 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You, your family, or your church Concurrent with these developments the Spirit SUPPORT A BIBLE INSTITUTE group can send missionary of God began to move in supernatural ways among A missionary training school with 100 the few Christians that lived within these countries, offerings through Christian Aid students needs $30,000 a year to 3 operate. Christian Aid sends financial and anointed “chosen vessels” for witness and for over 800 ministries with evangelism among their own people. Also, help to more than 400 Bible schools in closed hundreds of Asians and Africans turned to Christ 80,000 workers that have no lands. A gift of $300 will provide training for one while away from home as foreign students or other source of support. missionary for one year. businessmen, and went home to launch indigenous evangelistic ministries among their people. Either alone or with your SPONSOR AN EVANGELISTIC But they had a problem: financial support for loved ones, you can enable CRUSADE $1500 average cost per weeklong event attended by missionaries was not available in these poorer native missionaries to 4 countries. To solve that problem, God raised up 2000 or more. Native missionaries Christian Aid just at the time when indigenous evangelize unreached people conduct hundreds of these special meetings. missions were developing in almost all of the in closed lands. Your gifts PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION countries that were closing their doors to foreign through Christian Aid equip Thousands of missionaries are missionaries. praying for a bicycle ($80) or Christian Aid staff visit and evaluate all of the 800 them with the tools, provisions 5 motorcycle ($800). And every indigenous ministries now being supported, and have ABOUT CHRISTIAN AID MISSION: Founded by and the resources they need to mission needs at least one jeep ($10,000) or Bob Finley in 1953, Christian Aid links American church-church approved hundreds more which have thousands of van ($12,500) which can be shared by 50 or es and individual Christians to over 800 indigeindige- missionaries already out on the fields with no promise plant churches where Christian even 100 workers. Christian Aid sends 100% nous missions in Asia, Africa and Latin Ameri-Ameri of financial support. Christian Aid is seeking sponsors witness has never been before. of gifts so designated to the foreign fields. ca. These ministries deploy more than 80,000 who will provide $50 per month, full support, for each missionary workers who are winning souls missionary. and planting churches among 3000 tribes Shouldn’t you, your family, and your local church Give now using your credit card at 800-977-5650 and nations. Visit us online at www. include indigenous ministries in your missionary ChristianAid.org or call 434-977-5650 giving? Review some of the opportunities on the or find us online at www.ChristianAid.org for more information. Christian Aid is opposite page, then call our number to give your All gifts and offerings are used 100% as designated and are tax-deductible. Costs for a member of the Evangelical Council offering today – or go online to find our special gift projects are based on averages and may vary from place to place. Checks should be for Financial Accountability. guide at www.ChristianAid.org made payable to Christian Aid Mission and sent to Box 9037, Charlottesville, VA 22906, or use the handy scan code, left, with your smart phone. 59:083 AD-W1111
25 COVER STORY.indd 44 11/28/11 2:52 PM Christian Aid It’s a New Day! . . . because Indigenous Missions Carry On in Countries we love the brethren. Now Closed to U. S. Missionaries hen Bob Finley, founder of Christian Aid, went to China 63 years ago he could not have imagined what is happening there today. The house church movement has exploded throughout the country, Wand millions have turned to Christ. Christian Aid has provided financial help to start and operate 151 Bible institutes which have trained, graduated, and sent out over 50,000 missionary church planters, some to every province of China, including Tibet. Following World War II missionaries from America were forbidden to do evangelistic work in most countries where hundreds of tribes and nations are still unreached with the gospel message. But God has raised up indigenous missions to win souls and plant churches SUPPORT A NATIVE MISSIONARY in almost all of those lands today. This Year, $600 for the year ($50 per month) Communists had long forbidden evangelistic work average support. Receive the name in the Soviet Union, and after 1946 extended their Include Indigenous 1 and photo of the one you sponsor. control to China, Vietnam and other countries. Muslims had control of many countries in North Africa, the Ministries in Your BUILD A HOUSE CHURCH CENTER Middle East and Central Asia where they would not $5000 average for a large house allow foreign missionaries to evangelize. In 1947 India Missionary Giving where believers can gather for gained independence and adopted new laws excluding 2 teaching, fellowship and worship. foreign missionaries. You, your family, or your church Concurrent with these developments the Spirit SUPPORT A BIBLE INSTITUTE group can send missionary of God began to move in supernatural ways among A missionary training school with 100 the few Christians that lived within these countries, offerings through Christian Aid students needs $30,000 a year to 3 operate. Christian Aid sends financial and anointed “chosen vessels” for witness and for over 800 ministries with evangelism among their own people. Also, help to more than 400 Bible schools in closed hundreds of Asians and Africans turned to Christ 80,000 workers that have no lands. A gift of $300 will provide training for one while away from home as foreign students or other source of support. missionary for one year. businessmen, and went home to launch indigenous evangelistic ministries among their people. Either alone or with your SPONSOR AN EVANGELISTIC But they had a problem: financial support for loved ones, you can enable CRUSADE $1500 average cost per weeklong event attended by missionaries was not available in these poorer native missionaries to 4 countries. To solve that problem, God raised up 2000 or more. Native missionaries Christian Aid just at the time when indigenous evangelize unreached people conduct hundreds of these special meetings. missions were developing in almost all of the in closed lands. Your gifts PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION countries that were closing their doors to foreign through Christian Aid equip Thousands of missionaries are missionaries. praying for a bicycle ($80) or Christian Aid staff visit and evaluate all of the 800 them with the tools, provisions 5 motorcycle ($800). And every indigenous ministries now being supported, and have ABOUT CHRISTIAN AID MISSION: Founded by and the resources they need to mission needs at least one jeep ($10,000) or Bob Finley in 1953, Christian Aid links American church- approved hundreds more which have thousands of van ($12,500) which can be shared by 50 or es and individual Christians to over 800 indige- missionaries already out on the fields with no promise plant churches where Christian even 100 workers. Christian Aid sends 100% nous missions in Asia, Africa and Latin Ameri- of financial support. Christian Aid is seeking sponsors witness has never been before. of gifts so designated to the foreign fields. ca. These ministries deploy more than 80,000 who will provide $50 per month, full support, for each missionary workers who are winning souls missionary. and planting churches among 3000 tribes Shouldn’t you, your family, and your local church Give now using your credit card at 800-977-5650 and nations. Visit us online at www. include indigenous ministries in your missionary ChristianAid.org or call 434-977-5650 giving? Review some of the opportunities on the or find us online at www.ChristianAid.org for more information. Christian Aid is opposite page, then call our number to give your All gifts and offerings are used 100% as designated and are tax-deductible. Costs for a member of the Evangelical Council offering today – or go online to find our special gift projects are based on averages and may vary from place to place. Checks should be for Financial Accountability. guide at www.ChristianAid.org made payable to Christian Aid Mission and sent to Box 9037, Charlottesville, VA 22906, or use the handy scan code, left, with your smart phone. 59:083 AD-W1111
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DISABLING Hundreds of thousands of Americans are gaming Supplemental Security Income — and doing great damage to themselves and their children SECURITY . of the death of a who lost wages by taking time off from work to care for chil- -year-old, Rebecca R i l e y. She died on the fl oor of dren with muscular dystrophy or cerebral p a l s y. Politicians her parents’ Massachusetts bedroom. She was one spoke of families having additional expenses such as more victim of governmental compassion. wheelchairs or taxi rides to hospitals. DEight million Americans now receive SSI, Supplemental Fair enough—but psychologists asked, why not us? ey Security Income, because the Social Security Administration argued that depression can be as disabling as a bad physical deems them unable to hold a job now or at some point in the ailment. True enough, but while medical exams reveal physi- future. Washington will typically give each person so classifi ed cal cancers, psychological ones are often judgment calls— about per month. Rebecca Riley’s parents received about which means that some money-seekers can game the system , because administrators had deemed them and their when they want the money that a diagnosis can generate. two older children “disabled” because of “mood swings” and Rebecca Riley’s parents and hundreds of thousands of attention defi cits. others learned how to do just that. Some learned by word-of- Last year, after extended legal wrangling, jurors found the mouth, but others gained tutelage from “eligibility service parents guilty of murdering Rebecca by giving her a fatal providers” hired by hospitals and health insurers eager to pay overdose of a drug taken for bipolar disorders. eir goal, their bills by getting poor patients onto SSI. When Washington prosecutors said, was to increase their income by decreed that at least percent of preschoolers in Head h a v i n g their -year-old also diagnosed as disabled. Start programs needed to be disabled, that also To do that they had to make sure that she ingested created an incentive to have more children so lots of powerful medicine garnered by way of a classifi ed. prescription-wielding doctor. How much gaming goes on? Last year Boston Rebecca Riley’s death was an extreme Globe reporter Patricia Wen did a terrifi c job of circumstance, but many of the million accumulating specifi c detail. She interviewed children who garner SSI income for their Geneva Fielding, , a single mom for years parents are also on drugs that many of them do with three sons, who opposed putting a child on not need. Even the Boston Globe, which usually psychotropic drugs, but concluded, “To get the cheerleads for more governmental welfare, has seen check ... you’ve got to medicate the ch i l d.” Wen tracked something wrong. e Globe editorialized this past May that down a mother whose -year-old is now on SSI after being “the damage done to children who are misclassifi ed as mentally diagnosed with speech delay and potential signs of autism: ill is incalculable: Some linger in special ed classes when they “It’s an easier and better form of welfare. You get more money, are capable of accelerated work; others come to believe and they don’t check up on yo u.” themselves to be impaired when no such impairment ex i s t s.” at mom was receiving per month from SSI because Some SSI recipients need help—sometimes much more she had obtained a diagnosis of depression. e bankable help than they receive. But many do not, and their subsidies diagnosis she received for her toddler meant more and signify a new national development. In the past, Americans an apartment upgrade. “I can move o u t,” she happily told rich and poor were known for having a can-do, never-give-up Wen, even as she described the cost to her spirit: “SSI sucks attitude. Now, the poor benefi t from saying cannot do and you in. Most people get l a z y.” never-start-up. In the past, Americans were sometimes known at entrance into a corrupt system, even with awareness for bragging: We tried to seem better than we are. Now we of the personal damage, is poignantly frequent among some of have incentives to seem worse than we are. the teenagers on SSI. One -year-old told reporter Wen she wanted to work, but if she did “they’ll take money away from PHOTO/AP C made disabled children eligible my mom. She needs it. I don’t want my mom’s money to go
FAMILY Wfor SSI payments, the goal was to help poor parents d own.” A young man said he wanted to work but “I’m afraid
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25 SSI.indd 47 11/30/11 9:43 PM to lose the check. It’s attached to m e.” (No wonder both of them are depressed.) Wen met many who think of getting a job but then visualize being laid off : ey compare that uncertainty to the eternal security they think a government check aff ords them. She also observed that unmarried fathers have learned news they can use: Authorities can garnish work wages for child support but not SSI checks. Wen concluded, “ e sense of depen- RILEYS: dence on SSI checks, for children and for
their families, can creep up s l owl y.” She GARY
quoted a psychologist’s view that “children HIGGINS/AP who grow up on SSI often cannot see them- selves ever living outside the system. ...
ey develop an identity as being dis- CHECK: • abled.” In the movie Forrest Gump, Forrest
has below-average intelligence but his GETTY mother is always telling him, “You’re not IMAGES TRAGIC CONSEQUENCE: Michael Riley (center), leaning his head on his attorney, s t u p i d.” Today, mothers tell children of and Carolyn (right) being arraigned in Hingham District Court in . average intelligence, “You are s t u p i d.” A
from catastrophe poverty: A plant closes, a poverty, because SSI might push them to act person is injured, or—right now—a person is worse than they otherwise would. TWO KINDS laid off when recession begins and doesn’t get Administrators looked at disabilities without new opportunities, as economic blight drags asking how the disabilities had occurred and on year after year. whether money would make them worse. OF POVERTY Catastrophe poverty is not like lifestyle pov- Many adults have been hurt or killed by gov- e liberal Boston Globe was not ready erty. ose who suff er through catastrophe ernment compassion for self-generated prob- editorially to declare the SSI program entirely poverty are often work-oriented. ey have not lems. Walk around with Denver homeless a fundamentally misshapen mess. Instead, it fallen into joblessness: Situations beyond their shelter manager Bob Cote and see places asked for SSI reforms in eligibility standards control have pushed them into it. ey may where alcoholics who received SSI because and payment structures. at’s fi ne. It asked need fi nancial help to bridge the gap until they they were alcoholics had cashed their govern- for more social workers to re-evaluate cases. are ready and able to work again, but their val- ment checks, gone on binges, and then frozen Maybe. But more radical changes may be ues do not need realignment. to death. Rebecca Riley’s death reminded needed: Why not diff erentiate among SSI With lifestyle poverty, though, a us that children also become victims. recipients so that each is more likely to government check can hurt But the Boston Globe articles receive “help” that actually helps? As with rather than help, because it about SSI did have a couple of poverty-fi ghting generally, why not may just further a non-work encouraging paragraphs amid all distinguish between lifestyle problems and psychology. ose sunk into the gloom. One told of Eliseo catastrophe problems? lifestyle poverty need chal- Ramirez, a -year-old who Lifestyle poverty comes about when lenging, personal, and spiritual “virtually begged his mother not people don’t do four things: Stay sober, stay in help, rather than cold, enabling, to apply for SSI benefi ts for him, school at least through high school graduation, entitling, by-the-numbers even after a state social worker ... stay out of bed in situations likely to lead to bureaucratic aid. We should not predicted quick approval of benefi ts. pregnancy or abortion, and stay with a job treat them the way we treat pet dogs: ... Eliseo said he has seen troubled class- even if it lacks thrills. When people don’t follow In the morning put some food and water in their mates qualify for SSI, then lose their ambition these basics, the result is often alcoholism bowls, and in the evening take them out for to get part-time jobs or strive for better things and addiction, single parenting, and lack of the walks. in their lives. Some, he said, have drifted into the skills or perseverance needed to get and hold Given the logic of Social Security, SSI is a underworld of drug dealing because they didn’t a job. logical supplement to it. But when Congress want any above-board income. Lifestyle poverty arises out of messy lives, grandly created the program years ago, Ramirez said he is turning his life around and and sending a government check does leaders did not recognize that it would become wants to earn his own way in life: ‘I don’t want to nothing to clean up the mess. at’s diff erent a moral hazard for those sunken into lifestyle depend on the check.’
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rileys: Gary HiGGins/ap • cHeck: Getty imaGes An American missionary couple’s daughter and her Guatemalan employees of the U.S. e m b a s s y, they s ay, and each 0 baby remain in Guatemala after the family was astonished time they discover another document requirement. Efforts to 15 months ago to be told by U.S. embassy employees that her speak with American officials in Guatemala have been refused. U.S. citizenship does not transfer to her b a by. An immigration They are always directed back to the same w i n d ow. Kiara is expert questions that interpretation of the Child Citizenship pointedly frustrated that she hasn’t found someone there who Act of 2000, but the American-born mother has not yet been will help her as an American citizen find a way through her able to return to the United States with her b a by. problem: “That’s what the American embassy is for.” Kiara was 13 in 2004 when her parents John and Donna Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Reynolds took her to the mountains of Guatemala, where they Immigration Studies, agrees: “She’s a citizen. She should be minister through Cross Commission. In doing so, they are now handled by a U.S. citizen’s officer or team at that e m b a s s y.” The told, they unknowingly lost their future grandson’s U.S. law itself is complicated and has changed several times. However, citizenship, greatly complicating their American-born this child appears to qualify for citizenship under a summary of daughter’s choices and efforts to return to the United States, the law posted by the U.S. State Department, which states: “If the even to visit. “It’s very hard when you’re an American citizen child’s American citizen parent cannot meet the physical presence and you don’t have those ri g h t s,” said Kiara, now 20 and requirement, it is enough if one of the child’s American citizen married to Guatemalan medical student Peter Molina. Their grandparents can meet it” (travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/ child, David Alexander, is 16 months old. types/types_1312.html#2). The real concern in this case is that The family says embassy employees insist the law requires the U.S. embassy does not seem to have explained the best Kiara to have lived in the United States at least two years since option and helped the family get through the application process. she turned 14 for her son to be an American citizen. Had the “I can understand why they’re frustrated,” Vaughan said. Citizenship test His grandparents are american missionaries and His motHer is tHeir U.s.-born daUgHter, bUt tHe U.s. embassy in gUatemala insists tHat little david alexander molina isn’t an american
family known in time, they could have easily satisfied the For n ow, the Reynoldses have been “spinning their wh e el s,” requirement since they routinely come home to visit family with the latest delay a demand by embassy officers for a new and the churches that support their ministry. “How are you copy of the couple’s marriage certificate from Guatemala. That supposed to know that?” said Donna Reynolds, Kiara’s mother. has meant a delay of several months so far, because the “If we’d have ever realized, she’d have come to the U.S. to Guatemalan lawyer they initially used has since had trouble with deliver her b a by.” his license to practice l aw. The family contends a new marriage The Reynolds family is back in the United States for a certificate from Guatemalan authorities should be two-and-a-half-month visit to relatives and supporting irrelevant. The baby has an American mother and hOpinG: churches. Kiara would be with them if she could emerge from that should be enough, they s ay. Guatemala “makes Donna and John her bureaucratic entanglement. Since Kiara was in school when it very difficult to get paperwork done,” Kiara said. Reynolds with they made their return trips, she largely stayed in Guatemala John and Donna Reynolds took their problem photos of Kiara, Peter, and for those years. She returned to the United States three times to the staff of Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., which has David Molina. from 2005 to 2008, with one stay lasting more than three suggested that the baby might be able to acquire a months, but nowhere close to the two-year mandate. tourist visa. If all had gone according to plan, So far, all their efforts end at a window at the U.S. embassy in Kiara’s husband would be contemplating applying for a student Guatemala. They have been proceeding with two tracks: still visa to the United States for a few years, but otherwise the couple hoping to get the U.S. citizenship for the baby that they think expected to live in Guatemala. However, Kiara made those should be his right, and trying to get clearance so the baby can plans anticipating her baby would be a U.S. citizen and that she be brought into the country for a visit. “My parents, this is their and the baby could go back and forth freely. “I haven’t seen my first [great] grandbaby and they’ve never met h i m,” Donna said. grandma now in six ye a r s,” Kiara said. “It’s very h a rd.” Each time they go to the e m b a s s y, they drive 130 miles, The family is frustrated with the law itself—if indeed it which is close to a five-hour journey due to the roads, and are prevents citizenship—and they feel that the U.S. government has directed to the same window—not the line for been unhelpful. John and Donna Reynolds note offi- American citizens, but the longer line for cials were happy to recognize the citizenship of two Guatemalans, since the baby is not legally by Joel HannaHs of their sons who serve in the U.S. military, although American. There, they wait up to two or three in Hillsboro, ill. the family lived in Guatemala. Fifteen months into hours holding the 1-year-old b a by, to talk to their quest, they remain entangled in bureaucracy. A pHoto by Mei-CHun Jau/Genesis 50 WORLD D E C EMB ER 1 7, 2 0 1 1
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A California nonprofi t is up fi ghting poverty in a destitute nation through alternative energy—and without giving handouts Haiti
H, power lines are dead After the January earthquake, Sirona organized the and dilapidated, yet light bulbs are brightening homes, largest drive for clothing, shoes, and medical supplies in churches, and faces. Haitian families laugh—or cry—as Northern California: “I will never do anything like that again,” they turn on new electric lights for the fi rst time, and their Lacourciere says. “It was hard, and it’s not sustainable.” neighbors peek into their huts to see where the glow is Instead, the organization’s current project, providing coming from: Instead of a foul-smelling kerosene lamp electricity to rural Haitians, shows evidence it can expand and that poses a fi re hazard, they see a portable, rechargeable remain as long as necessary. Since the late s, power I battery kit wired to two -watt LED bulbs. A total of availability in Haiti has oscillated, and years of power theft and households are renting the kits by the month, and now all their poor maintenance—in addition to last year’s quake—have neighbors want one, too. taken their toll on the grid. Even in the capital city of Port-au- e battery kits come from a California nonprofi t called Prince, lights blink on and off each day without warning. e Sirona Cares Foundation. But rather than giving charity Haitian government is slowly rebuilding infrastructure, but an handouts, Sirona Cares is off ering the battery kits as a business estimated two-thirds of the population remains without would, charging customers what they would otherwise pay for power. such things as kerosene, candles, and matches (about . a So, in partnership with the Institute of Electrical and month). In the process the organization is improving Haitians’ Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Sirona delivered six portable lives and creating local businesses—all with the help of native solar power stations (solar panels on trailers, essentially) to pastors who already know their people’s needs. remote areas and designated a local leader as the “operator” of Michelle Lacourciere founded Sirona Cares as a way of each one. With each station came battery kits that fi ghting poverty through alternative energy. e organization families in the community could take home to light their has helped over , Haitian farmers plant Jatropha trees, homes, recharge cell phones, or listen to the radio. which produce oil the farmers can sell as a diesel substitute. e business model: Customers don’t buy the battery kits; e group also has reversed malnutrition among Haitian instead they pay the local power station operator to recharge children by teaching caretakers to add locally grown moringa them. If a kit wears out or is defective, Sirona provides a new tree leaves to their diets. one. e station operators, in turn, become small business
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25 HAITI.indd 52 11/29/11 2:07 PM owners, selling power to villagers and paying a lease to Sirona Edmé oversees the power station operators and sends them for use of the .-kilowatt power stations. technicians if they encounter hardware problems. Operators Most of the operators Sirona has chosen are pastors, who are responsible for security: When one operator fi rst received already are trusted in their communities. Sirona’s manager of his solar station, he slept beneath it for several nights while the project in Haiti is Lex Edmé, a -year-old pastor who once arranging to enclose it with a -foot-high iron fence. moved to the United States to “try to get ri ch,” got married “You kind of have to ask yourself, can we really drop off instead, and eventually returned to his native country to start a , worth of equipment in rural Haiti and walk away?” church, an orphanage, and two schools that are currently edu- said Lacourciere. But as of early November, the fi fth month of cating kids. “ ese people [are] so excited about this operation, not a single bulb was missing, and not one power l i g h t,” Edmé told me by phone. Kerosene is expensive for his station vandalized, even though solar panel theft has occurred people, he says: “Now, they be able to save money. And the kids in nearby areas. Jealousy is a problem in Haiti, Lacourciere be able to s t u d y. And then they be able to get up in the middle said, but people seem to believe the solar stations will benefi t of the night, just pull the string, the light comes on. ey just the entire community, not just a few individuals. feel like they in the city right n ow.” Neighbors are asking to be put on a waiting list so they can obtain battery kits of their own. ( e list has surpassed , H , Edmé approves of Sirona’s names.) In the meantime, not one of the original customers Abusinesslike approach: “When you give somebody some- has been late with a monthly payment—astonishing in a nation thing for free, they feel like, ‘Well, I can get it anytime I want where half of electricity users illegally tap into power lines to.’ ” But paying for it gives a sense of ownership. e pastor says rather than pay the utility. that individuals with battery kits have started small businesses Computer technician Rick Davis, through his company of their own, charging their neighbors to Tech Assist Haiti, has partnered with Sirona to provide recharge phones or providing lighting for IN THE LIGHT: handheld devices that the station operators will use to record Pastor Honore events like wakes, all too frequent in Haiti. customer charge-ups in real time. He’s also preparing to outfi t Guerrier with e lights are even being used at some children from the power stations to operate as internet cafés, with the help e v e n i n g church services. his orphanage. of an Intel grant. French universities are already providing
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25 HAITI.indd 53 11/29/11 2:10 PM “tele-learning” to Haiti, where teachers provide instruction through a two- way, internet-based video conference, Davis said. He envisions rural internet cafés providing similar educational services, including “tele- medicine,” where doctors teach rural parents how to deal with tuberculosis or prevent malnutrition. Sirona’s goal is to provide electric lighting to 1 million Haitians within five years. The organization is making plans to provide more battery kits to waiting customers and to manufacture additional power stations in Haiti. Government officials have expressed support for the project, and Lacourciere said the president of EDH, Haiti’s state-run electric utility, asked her in November if she’d bring a solar station to his hometown, Aquin. The solar stations aren’t competing with the utility LONG-TERM FUNDING: lights first arrived on July 4, one of the because they provide power to areas the utility hasn’t reached. Orphans with a portable young boys pulled the chain to turn on solar power station. When it does reach them, the portable stations can simply be a bulb—and jumped back, amazed. moved to a new location. In a video Lacourciere made, Lacourciere said God has brought all the right people Guerrier spoke through a translator, wearing a black Sirona together to make the project life-changing: Honore Guerrier, a Cares baseball cap and speaking above the noise of frolicking pastor who runs an orphanage out of an abandoned nightclub kids. In spite of the popularity of the light kits in his commu- in Jérémie, had no outside funding and had been soliciting n i t y, Guerrier laughs and says they are causing at least one prob- locals for years for donations. But as the operator of a new lem among his orphans: “They don’t want to go to bed. Because power station, Guerrier is earning enough income recharging they have light, they can read. They want to do this and that. battery kits to help feed the 54 children in his care. When the They don’t want to go to s l e e p.” A
ENLIGHTENED BUSINESS MODEL: Michelle Lacourciere with kids at the St. Etienne school (left); station operator in Anse au Veaux (center); field technicians at the Anse au Veaux deployment (right). RAy LARSEn/IEEE
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25 HAITI.indd 55 11/28/11 3:00 PM Recovery amid ruins Waves of violence in northern Nigeria leave Christian communities devastated
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gathered inside an Evangelical Churches of West Africa (ECWA) church in in Malumfashi, a town in northern Nigeria’s Katsina State (see photo, top right). ree years later the same church is a ruin (near right)—torched by Muslim mobs in post-election rioting last spring. To fully appreciate the destruction, note the iron railing with crosses in the back- ground of the “before” photo and in the foreground of the “after” photo. e church, fi rst built in , held for weekly worship services before it was destroyed. N“ ough waves of violence against the [Christian] believers in northern Nigeria have repeatedly ravaged the region—Katsina state included—the ECWA churches in Malumfashi had previously been spared any eff ects from this scourge. is time, however, that was not to be,” reported John Teichroew. e Minnesota resident supports area pastors and recently traveled to Katsina, where he documented the damage to churches and homes of Christian clergy following the April election of Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian and leader of the ruling People’s Democratic Party. Jeremiah Kuzanah (bottom, near right), pastor of one of the ECWA churches at Malumfashi, was in his offi ce at the time of the attacks. His injuries included a serious blow to the back of his head with a machete. e Muslim mob wounded fi ve ECWA church members in the violence, but each has since recovered. Destruction to the Christian community remains. “I’m not sure a tsunami would leave much greater devastation in its wake,” said Teichroew. Today Malumfashi Christians are rebuilding, but tensions run high. Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa and one of the most densely populated in the world, is divided nearly evenly between Christians and Muslims. e north- ern states, including Katsina, practice Sharia law, and where the two groups overlap, violence fl ares. Attacks in killed and in approximately , mostly Christians. In , were killed. More recently a clash in northern Nigeria on Nov. left over dead and seven churches damaged.
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25 NIGERIA.indd 57 11/30/11 10:38 PM A question of cOnscıence As the White House reconsiders forcing religious groups to offer coverage for contraception and abortion, the left pushes back against allowing this kind of choice by Emily BElz in washington
he Obama administration has ended the govern- Some religious groups pointed out that Jesus’ ministry ment’s anti-trafficking contracts with Catholic groups, would not count as religious under this guideline if serving T which many say are the best in the business, and people of different beliefs is disqualifying. HHS is reviewing insisted that under its healthcare law many Christian groups public comments it received this fall on the contraceptives must offer insurance coverage for contraceptives and aborti- rule and the exemption, and without other changes, the facients, prompting the first lawsuit on that issue. Against proposed rule goes into effect in August 2012. HHS official that backdrop, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, president of the Richard Sorian wrote during the public comment period in U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), visited the late August that “we ... are open to other definitions of Oval Office towards the beginning of November for what he ‘religious organizations’ to ensure organizations that have described as an “extraordinarily friendly” meeting with religious objections to covering contraception can choose President Obama. whether or not to cover these services.” But Sebelius said “I found the president of the United States to be very open when she announced the rule that not covering contracep- to the sensitivities coming from the Catholic community— tives in insurance plans “would be like not covering flu shots.” that we’re worried about an intrusion on religious liberty,” Catholics weren’t the only ones to object to the rule. Dolan said during the USCCB’s fall general assembly on Nov. Representatives from religious organizations across the 14. Dolan wouldn’t go into specifics of his conversation with spectrum—Evangelicals for Social Action, the Union of the president, but he said, “I left there feeling a bit more at Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, Prison peace about this issue than when I entered.” Fellowship, World Relief, the National Association of Obama is considering expanding the religious exemption Evangelicals, and Notre Dame Law School, among others— of the healthcare l aw, giving more latitude for religious sent a letter to the White House in August protesting the organizations that don’t want to pay for coverage of contra- exemption, saying it was “narrow” and “ i n a d e q u a te.” The ceptives, sterilization, or abortifacients. Department of Health Council on Christian Colleges and Universities, representing and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced 137 Protestant schools, also wrote a letter saying the in August that the healthcare mandate for preventative mandate “will force most if not all of our institutions to services would include contraceptives. She also detailed a violate their religious consciences.”
paper-thin religious exemption from that mandate: Only In late November, Belmont Abbey College, a 1,700-student t/ Ap religious groups whose central purpose is “the inculcation Catholic school tied to a monastery in North Carolina, filed a of religious values” qualify for an exemption, and the lawsuit against the federal government over the preventative group’s employees must be primarily of one faith and coverage mandate. The college, which doesn’t qualify as primarily serve members of that faith—leaving out most religious under the current exemption because some of its ARlEs REx ARBogAs
religious hospitals, relief organizations, and the like. students and faculty aren’t Catholic, was the first religious Ch
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25 HEALTHCARE EXEMPTION.indd 58 12/1/11 11:49 AM organization to sue over the matter. Soon after the school later, a more panicked email went out: MORE LATITUDE?: fi led the lawsuit, the administration indicated that it was “ ere’s no time to lose. We’ve learned Obama speaking at St. Mark Missionary considering broadening the religious exemption. (A majority that President Obama may decide at Baptist Church in of Catholic voters supported President Obama in the any moment whether to take away Harvey, Ill. election, according to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public birth control coverage from millions of Life, more support than John Kerry received in and Al women.” Senate Democrats raised the Gore in . Aside from high Catholic populations in New issue on a conference call with White House offi cials, York, Rhode Island, and California—heavily Democratic d i s m a y e d at the potential reversal of what one Democrat states—the Catholic vote is concentrated in key swing states called “the progress made in favor of reproductive ri g h t s.” like Ohio, Michigan, and Nevada.) e administration hasn’t indicated when it may issue its “I hope they’re feeling the pressure,” said Lori Windham, decision on the religious exemption, but the government has a lawyer with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which just under two months to respond to Belmont Abbey’s is representing Belmont Abbey College in the healthcare l a w s u i t . e religious community isn’t cheering yet. “While case. “If a law is going to burden religion, it has to be neutral there is the real possibility of a broader exemption, it and generally applicable. is law is not neutral and gener- remains to be seen whether it will protect all religious ally applicable.” e Becket Fund lawyers argue that the organizations and the conscience rights of individuals and administration gave exemptions to certain businesses like insurers,” said Bishop William Lori at the USCCB’s fall McDonalds and teachers’ organizations, but gave almost no general assembly. e Catholic Church has formed a new protection to religious groups, which have explicit constitu- committee on religious liberty which Lori chairs, including tional protection. Belmont Abbey’s lawsuit denounces not bishops, consultants, a lawyer, and a lobbyist. Lori just the mandated coverage of contraceptives, sterilization, announced that the church plans to introduce curriculum to and abortifacients, but also “related education and counsel- educate all its members on religious liberty. i n g.” e lawsuit says the mandate “forces Belmont Abbey “For some time n ow, we have viewed with growing alarm College to fund government-dictated speech that is directly the ongoing erosion of religious liberty in our c o u n t r y,” Lori at odds with its own speech and religious te a ch i n g s.” told the room of nodding c l e r g y. He read from Ezekiel Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and some Democrats on where God describes the prophet Ezekiel as His “watchman.” the Hill are in uproar at the possibility of the change to the “We see these and other threats no longer from afar, but
ARBOGAST/AP exemption. Planned Parenthood sent a message to support- immediately on the horizon. … Together we will do our best
REX ers on Nov. , saying that “Tea Party Republicans and anti- to awaken in ourselves and in our fellow Catholics and in women’s health groups ... are trying to take away women’s the culture at large a new appreciation for religious l i b e r t y
CHARLES access to birth control—it’s as simple as t h a t.” Two days and a new determination to defend i t.” A
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25 CHURCH FORECLOSURES.indd 60 12/1/11 11:21 AM U.S. the foreclosure p r o c e s s hit a seven-month high in October. Some , properties received an initial default notice during the month, up percent from September, according to foreclosure listing fi rm RealtyTrac Inc. But homeowners aren’t the only ones being hit by foreclosure. Church foreclosures are at an all- time high. Since more than churches and other religious organizations have faced foreclosure, according to real estate services fi rm CoStar Group. In the decade before , church foreclosures were rare, averaging less than per year. Tim Trainor, a spokesman for CoStar, said is so far the worst yet, including the “highest d o l l a r volume” ever in the second quarter of , when properties totaling more than million e church foreclosure crisis also has an impact went into foreclosure. on fi nancial institutions that specialize in church ese foreclosures are likely just the tip of the fi nancing. e nation’s largest such organization, the iceberg. No one really knows how many churches Evangelical Christian Credit Union (ECCU), was the not offi cially in foreclosure are on the brink. Take, subject of a WORLD profi le two years ago (“Losing for example, e Church at South Las Vega s. e credit?” Dec. , ). At that time, spokesman church started in by Pastor Benny Perez now Jac LaTour said, “We’ve increased reserves for loan has more than , in regular Sunday morning losses. We think they’re more than a d e q u a te.” attendance. But the church also has a , per ey weren’t—not by a long shot. ECCU month mortgage payment, and it can’t sell any of its increased reserves to account for future loan losses real estate because that real estate is now worth at by about . million in . is was the number least million less than what the church paid for it. that LaTour said would be “more than a d e q u a te.” “Our back is against the wa l l,” Perez said in But ECCU has had to increase reserves by millions J u l y. His answer: e church declared bankruptcy of dollars since then (and did not provide exact and stopped paying its mortgage. St. Louis–based numbers to WORLD). e Credit Union has not First Bank has since sued the church. Mitch Fox, a made money since , and its cumulative losses spokesman for the church, would not answer since then now exceed million. WORLD’s questions except to say that the bank and On the other side of the ledger, the ECCU still the church were in “sensitive negotiations.” has assets of more than . billion and the National e causes of these fi nancial problems are not Credit Union Association considers it “well capital- mysterious: Churches face many of the same eco- i z e d,” meaning that its net worth was at least nomic realities as other property owners. Declining percent of assets. (ECCU’s . million net worth off erings from recession-plagued families, plunging was . percent of assets.) However, Tony Plath, a property values, and less leeway from the banks banking analyst with the University of North when they get behind on their mortgages have Carolina at Charlotte, said, “Another year of credit contributed to the foreclosure crisis. losses like they experienced in and they won’t
DEBTS HANDOUT Of course, the number of foreclosures may survive as a well-capitalized institution.” seem small compared to the approximately e bad news for ECCU and other fi nancial insti- VEGAS: , Christian churches in the United States, tutions with church loans is that will likely be LAS but they tend to take place with larger churches, even worse than . ECCU’s LaTour could not
SOUTH larger sums of money, and greater attention by the say how many loans it would foreclose this year,
AT media. California’s Crystal Cathedral made national except to say that “this year would probably be the headlines earlier this year when it declared bank- peak”—in other words, the worst year yet. CHURCH ruptcy with an estimated million debt. “When at’s one reason ECCU—which had not fore-
• THE a church doesn’t pay its bills, it’s a terrible witness,” closed on a single loan in its history until — said Dan B u s by, president of the Evangelical now has about foreclosed properties on its Council for Financial Accountability. books, which is all but about of the properties on Vital ministries to the community also take a which it has foreclosed since . at’s not good,
PRESS/NEWSCOM hit. Templo Calvario, in Santa Ana, Calif., was according to Scott Rolfs, a managing director with forced to close temporarily a food bank it had Ziegler & Co. who specializes in religion and educa- ZUMA operated for years in order to keep up payments tion fi nance. “It’s not a good time to sell church real on a million loan for a super-sized sanctuary. e s t a te,” he said.
CATHEDRAL: So will be any better? Probably not. “IT’S A TERRIBLE WITNESS”: e Crystal Cathedral (left) CoStar’s Trainor put it succinctly: “Clearly the
CRYSTAL and e Church at South Las Vegas (above). trend does not appear to be improving.” A
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systems display ads in response to a 3D REVOLUTION bystander’s Computers and inkjet ethnicity printers have found their (cosmetics), places in our daily lives, facial expression but are D printers next? (antidepressants), As their name implies, or clothing style? these geeky machines Facebook already “print” solid objects by serves ads on its squirting out melted social media website that are plastic layer by layer, I L, an advertising tailored to the profi les of users, according building any design a startup in Manhattan, planned to to topics they like and keywords they’ve computer sends to them. unveil new digital billboards in New posted in status updates. Amazon.com off ers a >> York C i t y, Los Angeles, and San Facial recognition is advanced enough, build-it-yourself D printer Francisco last month that will change the theoretically, to allow advertisers to target a for ,. Once it is way pedestrians view ads—and ads view specifi c individual, assuming details about assembled, the user can pedestrians. e sidewalk billboards use the person were publicly available online. go to a website like cameras and facial recognition technology Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University ingiverse.com and freely to identify the age and gender of whoever used a software called PittPatt (bought by download designs people is passing by at the moment, then serve up Google in July) to match pedestrians on a from around the world an ad t a r g e t e d to that demographic (Nike college campus to their Facebook identities, have created—bracelets, running shoes, perhaps). e internet- and then predicted their interests and par- toys, clothespins, puzzles, connected billboards collect some data, tial Social Security numbers. molecular models, repair such as how long people tend to look at a e Federal Trade Commission is slated parts—then print them SIDEWALK particular ad, and provide the feedback to to host a workshop in December discussing immediately. Or, software businesses. the privacy concerns of recognition tech- Although Immersive Labs doesn’t keep a n o l o g y. In November, offi cials in Germany can convert cell phone BILLBOARD: database of faces or store any personally were threatening to sue Facebook for stor- photos of an object into a identifi able info, it’s not hard to imagine ing biometric data of faces, used to auto- three-dimensional IMMERSIVE this sort of marketing becoming a privacy matically identify friends when a user rendering, enabling the hazard or a plain annoyance. Could such uploads a photo. printer to produce a scale
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releasing the cables in November . Allure’s technique uses a “honey pot” strategy, in which fake classifi ed docu- • MANNING: ments are stored on a server along with legitimate fi les. When a user attempts to open the fake documents, the s y s t e m alerts an administrator to the hacker’s Internet Protocol address and time of entry. Just having these digital AP landmines on government computers is expected to discourage would-be leakers from probing around. —D.J.D.
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held in Baltimore in August to discuss changes to the pedophilia entry in the Deviancy defenders Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Advocacy group aims to lift the stigma Mental Disorders (DSM), the authorita- against pedophiles BY DANIEL JAMES DEVINE tive handbook for psychiatrists. To ensure the voices of pedophiles A followed report confessed or planned illegal were heard, the organization even the allegations that Jerry activity to police, yet “we recognize arranged a conference call last year Sandusky, the former Penn State that laws … do not require the reporting between six MAPs and several editors of >> assistant football coach, and of sexual feelings and desires.” Further, the DSM, who are currently revising the Bernie Fine, an assistant basketball “we are not advocating treatment to manual. (Richard Kramer, BU-ACT’s coach at Syracuse University, had change sexual feelings.” director, later said his group’s recom- repeatedly molested boys during their BU-ACT promotes dialogue between mendations were largely ignored.) years at the schools. But while prosecu- self-identifi ed “MAPs” and the mental Such advocacy eff orts deserve scrutiny tors investigated those cases, activists health community. At a workshop last sooner rather than later: Homosexuality were quietly working to eliminate the year, MAPs shared stories about grow- shook off its status as a mental nillness i shame attached to pedophilia. ing up and self-acceptance. (One when the American Psychiatric A nonprofi t in Westminster, Md., attendee called himself a “law-abiding Association removed its entry from the called BU-ACT has been advocating pedophile.”) Several psychiatric experts DSM. Societal acceptance wasn’t far since on behalf of those it calls spoke at the organization’s most behind. Now activists are casting pedo- “minor-attracted people”—adults or recent conference, philia as just another sexual orientation. adolescents who feel sexual attrac- tion toward children. Relying on questionable psychiatric estimates, Homosexuality shook off its status the group claims up to million men in the United States experience as a mental illness in when the such attractions, but feel stigma- tized by society and are afraid to American Psychiatric Association visit a mental health clinic. r e m o v e d its entry from the DSM. “We see minor-attracted people as whole human beings, not as Societal acceptance wasn’t far behind. d a n g e r o u s criminals or ‘deviants,’” Now activists are casting pedophilia says the organization’s website. e group affi rms that therapists should as just another sexual orientation.
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Well versed perhaps your child will never make it onto American Idol or So You Think You Can Dance. or perhaps she just has a different calling. The shelby kennedy Foundation offers an alternative: a national Bible Bee that inspires thousands of children to commit the word of God to memory—and that sends Unequally yoked the winners home with a serious down pay- ment on their college tuition. The OWS movement does not align as well with the children ages 7-10 were asked to Bible as some suppose By tim dalrymple memorize 350 Bible verses, while ages 11-14 Occupy Wall Street is not yet over, and it’s not a religious were given 700, and the senior category, ages movement, though some would like it to be. 15-18, were assigned no fewer than 1,100 The protest movement and the world’s faith traditions seem, to verses to commit to memory. over 5,600 stu- >> some, naturally aligned. As Tom Heneghan, religion editor for dents entered the competition (with world Reuters, writes: “Religions condemn greed. The ‘Occupy Wall Street’ parent organization God’s world publications protests around the world condemn greed. So theoretically, religious as corporate sponsor), and the finalists gath- leaders should find common ground with the rallies denouncing the ered for the third annual national Bible Bee inequalities of capitalism.” on nov. 16 through nov. 19 in nashville, tenn. Yet few religious authorities have committed their support. If the OWS Three hundred competitors came to movement were merely opposed to crony capitalism, or political favor nashville and witnessed a clean sweep for trading, or even executive compensation structures, then it would have broader Christian support. Instead it has focused on increasing taxes and the girls: Olivia Davis of oregon won in the expanding the size and scope of government. youngest category, Bethany Xiques in the It’s not at all clear that this is what the Bible TIEs THAT BLIND: Rev. Michael Ellick, 11-14 group, and kari Erickson in the senior means when it condemns greed. Arguably the ranks. The foundation awarded $260,000 in center, introduces OWS movement seizes upon one strand of biblical “protest chaplains” to prizes, with the largest prize, $100,000, going guidance, the condemnation of greed, but cuts out religious leaders who to Erickson. the rest of the tapestry of biblical counsel. How, for have pledged their support to the OWS Yet the value of the competition goes instance, do attacks on “the 1 percent” comport protests at Judson beyond the money. The effort, davis attested, with the commandment not to covet? How would Memorial Church in showed her “how important the Bible is increased government spending, with a staggering New York on Oct. 14. compared to worldly entertainment.” —T.D. debt a l re a d y, reflect wise stewardship? Or is it true that taking more from “the rich” and giving more to “the poor” would improve the latter’s circumstances, instead of undermining incentives to industry and entrenching the poor in dependency? The list of religious leaders who have spoken in support of the OWS movement is relatively small and absolutely unsurprising. The Executive Council of the Episcopal Church stated on Oct. 23 that OWS “bears faithful witness in the tradition of Jesus to the sinful inequities in society,” and Jim Wallis of Sojourners has embraced OWS protestors as kindred spirits. As Katherine Clark from the Interfaith Center of New York, which has staged Ellick: services in support of OWS, explains, “the denominations most active with Andr the interfaith service we have been organizing are progressive Protestants.” Income inequality is not an evil. It’s a reflection of how the free market Ew Burton/ assigns values to differences of education, expertise, and effectiveness. Still, should a hedge fund manager make in one year what a teacher Ap • Ap would make in one millennium? That’s a fair question, and the OWS d Av
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I am encouraged byby ElyseElyse Fitzpatrick’s epiphany of grace. “ eir future However, if one of my children slapped another child, he would simply is now” get a spanking he would never forget. (Nov. ) WhatWhat a timely cover story. ee vivid description Mindy Belz gives us of Laurence Harbor, N.J. the young Afghan Hameed could have been written about young people in many other parts Susan Olasky’s article on homeschooling was excellent. Keep preparing these of the world. e rapidly expanding and coalescing Christ-centered articles. global youth culture, whose members see themselves as having more in common with each other than with Mitoyo, Japan their parents’ culture, blurs the geographic boundaries “Male call” (Nov. ) I know fi rsthand what eff ects that divided previous generations. is is a historic irresponsibility has on a family. I grew up opportunity for the church. without a father in the home, and as I grew older I started looking to these kinds of York, S.C. , men for affi rmation. I learned that we as women need to set the standard higher in order to help men have higher standards. e future of Afghanistan will be dismal if right” and joined a church of homeschooling, ey do not have to pursue us if we hand the Afghan people depend on the modestly dressing, and well-intentioned ourselves over. American and NATO military forces to do people all trying to do the same. We the job for them. If the Afghan people truly quickly realized that many there thought S a n d y, Ore. want a Taliban-free country, they have to they had found the magic formula. No get into the fi ght or the Taliban will return surprise that subtle legalism and self- “Defining the ‘test’ clause” as soon as the foreigners leave. righteousness were seeping in. (Nov. ) e facts that Mormons may be secretive about some of their ideas and Ontario, Calif. Houston, Texas practices, and that some
“A better exit strategy” CHENNAI BEACH, INDIA / submitted by Roy Philip (Nov. ) I appreciated this column. Mindy Belz is right there among them. We don’t around the world get this in the mainline news. Catonsville, Md.
“Getting grace” (Nov. ) What a beautifully crafted article truly revealing our Father’s heart of mercy and grace to undeserving sinners. For too many Christians grace is little more than a prayer we chant before receiving a meal. Grace is not a theology or just a church doctrine. Grace is a person, and His name is Jesus—this is the heart of the gospel. Shingle Springs, Calif.
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25 MAILBAG.indd 75 11/28/11 3:43 PM Mailbag Every conservative in America should own this book. Tommy of their places are out of bounds for activity when two-thirds of every dollar ThompsoN non-Mormons, piques my curiosity but is appropriated by the government? doesn’t particularly bother me. In some Demonizing those in a position to off er instances (e.g., a Muslim who is wobbly their fellow citizens employment seems on Sharia law), there may be legitimate a poor solution to our “deep” problems. concerns about a candidate’s religious convictions. But I think that candidates Portland, Ore. for public offi ce should be judged for their stands on public issues. “Turning inward” (Nov. ) is article does not take into Jesup, Iowa account that many believers today give outside of their local churches. ose I think Mormonism is a cult for all kinds who give to missions and other good of reasons, but I also believe that Mitt organizations usually do so as part of This book will delight the Romney has all of my values, both fi scal their “tithe,” not on top of it. Churches eye and inspire the mind. and social, so I hope he defeats are facing fi nancial hardship and must Cal Thomas President Obama. If Romney wins, spend more money on themselves—is Bringing humor to the liberal Mormonism will be uplifted, but that that a sign of “turning inward” when so derangement syndrome. bothers me a lot less than having a many of her members give to the Lord’s Ted NugeNT left-wing Democrat in the White House. work outside the local church? Craig’s book is great stuff. Same value system that I have. Stuart, Fla. Falcon, Colo. mike diTka Craig Wieland is the poet “Quit worrying” I appreciate Tim Dalrymple’s intent to laureate of the Tea Party (Nov. ) anks to Andrée Seu for her address the problem of mainline Generation. transparency about worrying. It is churches turning inward with their Chris ChoCola strange how it is more encouraging to limited giving, but would point out that it I wish I had this book when read someone who is honest about her is impossible to “tithe” . percent of my children were younger. weaknesses than someone who your income. To tithe is to give a tenth of lou holTz pretends to have none. our increase to the Lord as a covenant Craig explains economics response to God’s faithful provision. in a way that anybody can Minneapolis, Minn. . understand it. Springfield, Mo. grover NorquisT I consider myself a world champion Craig teaches conservative worrier but took some comfort from “DeMint’s prescription” values in a way that is both Seu’s description of her own affl iction. (Nov. ) Marvin Olasky asked Sen. fun and serious. rralphalph reedreed Her observation, “It’s the hypothetical DeMint, “When the GOP had a majority you overlook that will kill you,” made in both houses, why was there no me smile. healthcare reform?” What we had before Obamacare was the best the free Detroit, Mich. market can do in a culture that wants “free” healthcare paid for by somebody “No solutions” else. e only way to fi x the healthcare (Nov. ) ank you for your thoughtful system is to remove the third-party reporting on the Zuccotti Park protesters. payers (aka “health insurance”) from I run a small business that, by God’s the equation so that market forces can kindness and our hard-working team, work again. has had three consecutive years of sales growth despite diffi cult economic cir- Bolivar, Mo. cumstances. My CFO tells me that last Pointed year, over percent of our company’s “Sound and fury” POEMS income went to pay taxes: federal taxes, (Oct. ) In your article about several Tools for Teaching Conservative Thinking state taxes, duties and tariff s, property Muslims convicted of criminal charges By CRAIG WIELAND taxes, and employment taxes, not to for disrupting a speech by the Israeli mention the taxes our employees pay. ambassador, one protester’s father How much is enough? How do I invest in commented that he brought his family products, people, and promotional to America for peace, freedom of
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KRIEG BARRIE Andrée Seu No room at Days Inn Is our faith in God dependent on circumstance?
O N . and I were miles not a person was killed or even injured. Every from nowhere (with apologies to the folks in September Mama Viviana hosts a memorial prayer Belchertown, Mass.) and thought we would service to remember God’s kindness. >> waltz into the nearest Motel and cheer their Larissa writes, “I have much to learn from her. ... lonely lives with our overnight presence. We were In the West I think our conception of God’s love is so turned away—as we would be from the Econo Lodge much tied to circumstance—when we think He is and Days Inn in nearby Chicopee. With relief and answering prayer, or things are going as we think humility, we bagged the last vacancy in a Hampton they should. But I am challenged to conceive of a Inn, glad to fork over twice as much as we had love that is deeper than anything, which is not in hoped to pay for shut-eye. any way tied to circumstance.” What happened: We, two Mr. Magoos, had driven He-loves-me-he-loves-me-not. ¦ is has been into a natural disaster unawares. Power grids were the Achilles’ heel of my faith, but the Lord says it down from a freak storm that pounded doesn’t have to be: “Strengthen your weak knees, Massachusetts and Connecticut with wet snow on and make straight paths for your feet, so that what trees not yet shorn of their leaves. Commercial is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be lodgings swelled with locals. How wise of God to healed” (Hebrews :-). normally let New England’s colorful raiment pass to ¦ ere’s a wonderful children’s book called at’s Good! at’s Bad! by Margery Cuyler and David Catrow.C a t row. Page after page, a fortunate event develops into an unfortunate event,event, whichwhich then developsdevelops intointo a fortunate event. ¦ ee intelligent child catchescatches on pretty soon that if your life is going badly today, just wait a minute. In the Bible, Joseph gets soldsold intointo slavery. s l ave r y. (¦(¦ at’s at’s bad.) No, that’s good because he rises to be Potiphar’s manager. (¦ at’s good.) No, that’s bad because Potiphar’s wife gets him thrown in prison. (¦ at’s bad.) No, that’sthat’s good because in prisonprison hehe interprets a dream for the Pharaoh’sPharaoh’s cupbearer, whowho promises to talk to Pharaoh for him. (¦ at’s at’s good.) No, that’s bad because the cupbearer forgets. (¦ at’s at’s bad.) No, that’s good because later the Pharaoh has a bad dream that pricks the cupbearer’s memory. …… nakedness before sending Currier and Ives winter- You know how it ends. scapes. How true it is that wewe appreciate HisHis perfect ¦ ee sight of the eyes tells the Servant of the LordLord design only when He allows rare departuresdepartures fromfrom it. that he has labored in vain and spent his strength I prayed, of course, for a room at the inn and felt for nothing. ¦ e Lord’s Servant rejects the sight of confi rmed in my faith when heaven granted. But his eyes and stresses the promise of his God that he what if God had not answered that way—if we had will be glorifi ed (Isaiah :-). Look with joy slept in the car, or been forced to cut short our beyond today to the end of all things. c o l l e g e tour? Let us be plain: Is my faith in God ¦ ere was another Joseph who “went up from dependent on the response of a desk clerk at the Galilee … to be registered with M a r y, his betrothed, Hampton Inn? who was with child. And while they were there, the I know a missionary in South Sudan. Larissa lives time came for her to give birth. And she gave birth in the home of a Moru woman named Mama to her fi rstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling Viviana, whose town of Kotobi was bombed from cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was the air and machine gunned for a straight half hour no place for them in the inn” (Luke :-). in . Every hut was burned to the ground, and I’ll bet they prayed for a place in that inn, like I BARRIE the grain store with a year’s worth of food was did. I see no indication that their faith in God was
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I. Democrats want higher taxes on the rich and say GOP stalwarts are “selfi sh.” s h.” >> Republicans oppose tax hikes and say the Dems are big-government empire-builders. Impasse? Not necessarily. I have a proposal. StickStick ment letters to her tax form. She doesn’t enable with me, please, as I set it up. Washington bureaucrats. Score one for Republicans. Many Democrats claim their purpose is not to gain My proposal has problems. It won’t do as much to more power by centralizing political and economic trim the defi cit as a straight tax increase (combined authority. ey say they want “fairness.” ey say the with much larger spending decreases) would. Raising rich benefi t by working in a mostly free economy and taxes in a near-recession could be a disincentive to job should “give back” to America some of what they’ve formation in the private, for-profi t sector. gained by being Americans. Yet, this approach satisfi es both Democratic demands (Republicans might say the rich give plenty by that the top percent pay more, and Republican building and investing in businesses that create jobs desires that no one be forced to send more dollars to and opportunity for the not-rich, but let’s not debate wasteful Washington. is approach would create jobs right n ow. ) in nonprofi ts that provide eff ective compassion. A Many Republicans don’t trust Washington to spend stronger civil society would lead to less government. wisely any new tax revenues, but they claim to be at Some conservatives will complain that all of Susie’s least as public-spirited as their opponents. Evidence money is hers to use any way she wants—but Christians backs them up: Arthur Brooks showed in Who Really know that all of us are responsible before God to be Cares? (Basic, ) that conservatives give more to stewards, not owners, of the resources He gives us. A tax charity than liberals do. credit approach helps the poor while maximizing donor (Democrats might say that some of this giving goes choice and minimizing government aggrandizement. to tony private schools and other nonprofi ts that I recognize that this is a bridge too far for non- largely profi t the families of the rich, but let’s not theistic conservative theoreticians, so for them I’d debate right now.) propose Madisonian realism. Liberals who engage in Let’s grant each side its self-portrayal: Democrats class warfare have a destructive but potentially want to keep the poor from starving, and Republicans winning argument in today’s culture. Conservatives want to keep the federal government from becoming need to undercut their appeal. fatter. Can we break the impasse? Even greater opposition is likely to arise from the Yes, by using tax-and-credit. Let’s give President liberal side. In I met with six leading Democratic Obama, his Capitol Hill colleagues, and Warren Buff ett senators who were complaining about prospective the prize they desire: Raise rates on the top percent. GOP cuts in welfare expenditures. I proposed a grand Let’s give the top percent the opportunity to show bargain: No cuts, but decentralize welfare. ey were their public-spiritedness: Provide a percent tax unwilling to give up their power. ey said no. credit on those additional taxes so they can use that We’l l probably get a “no” this time as well, but even money not to grow Washington but to grow opportuni- if my proposal is dead on arrival among liberals it will ties for the poor. smoke out those whose real concern is not “fairness” Here’s how it works, in a simplifi ed form: Susie but power. with a million dollar income has her tax bill increase And what if, miraculously, we get a “yes” from by ,, according to the Obama proposal. If she enough people on both sides to have Congress pass a believes with Buff et that the federal government tax-and-credit measure? Civil society, the American should have more money, she sends it in. Score one for way of working together without growing government, Democrats. gets a big boost. Good poverty-fi ghting programs,
But Susie has an option. If she decides to give the often starved for funds as government grabs more and KRIEG , to religious or secular anti-poverty eff orts, or more, increase their funding base. Liberty and BARRIE job-creating business incubators, she writes checks to opportunity increase rather than decrease. those organizations and attaches their acknowledg- Impasse? It doesn’t have to be that way. A
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