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Death and life in El Paso and Las Cruces AUGUST 31, 2019 APPLES AND WORMS BACK TO SCHOOL Homeschool charters: Take the money? Blaine Amendments: What’s next if they die? Christian colleges: Financial troubles A better idea in New York City: Play chess BIG PROBLEM, LONG MARRIAGE FORTNITE’S $3 MILLION WINNER World Gate.indd 1 7/23/19 10:05 AM Trust. It’s something that’s earned. It doesn’t come quickly. It’s the result of being time tested. When the trustworthiness of God’s Word was being challenged, we stood for truth. When many offer faster, easier, and simpler, we embrace deeper, richer, and stronger. Because in the end, we place our trust on the truth that endures. We are The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and we are TRUSTED FOR TRUTH. SBTS.EDU World Gate.indd 4 7/23/19 10:04 AM World Gate.indd 4 7/23/19 10:04 AM Trust. It’s something that’s earned. It doesn’t come quickly. It’s the result of being time tested. When the trustworthiness of God’s Word was being challenged, we stood for truth. When many offer faster, easier, and simpler, we embrace deeper, richer, and stronger. Because in the end, we place our trust on the truth that endures. We are The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and we are TRUSTED FOR TRUTH. SBTS.EDU World Gate.indd 4 7/23/19 10:04 AM CONTENTS | August 31, 2019 • Volume 34 • Number 16 36 19 32 50 55 FEATURES DISPATCHES 7 News Analysis • Human Race 32 Offering ‘the love of Jesus’ Quotables • Quick Takes With federal agencies overwhelmed, churches at the border are stepping up to help with a flood of traumatized migrants CULTURE Movies & TV • Books back to school 19 Children’s Books 36 More money or more strings? Q&A • Music A homeschooling innovation brings opportunity and danger NOTEBOOK 42 Drowning in red 55 Health • Medicine Historic Christian colleges like Nyack College are facing Sports • Lifestyle financial crises that are forcing big changes VOICES 46 Blaine, Blaine, short-sighted 5 Joel Belz 16 Janie B. Cheaney briber from the state of Maine State constitutional roadblocks to school choice grew out of 30 Mindy Belz anti-Catholic hostility and the myth of educational neutrality 61 Mailbag 50 Life after chess 63 Andrée Seu Peterson Former New York public-school student Alex Lenderman, 64 Marvin Olasky one of the world’s top chess players, mastered the game and embraced the Christian faith in the process ON THE COVER: Illustration by Krieg Barrie Give the gift of clarity: wng.org/giftofclarity What Jesus purchased is precious. We’ve made it our purpose. COME STUDY for the church MBTS.EDU/WORLD What Jesus purchased is precious. We’ve made it our purpose. COME STUDY for the church MBTS.EDU/WORLD Notes from the CEO “The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof; the world and those who dwell therein.” —PSALM 24:1 From my nonscientific survey, it seems all the mainstream news and Chief Content Officer Nick Eicher R educational organizations dabble in “kids’ news.” But two of them—CNN Editor in Chief Marvin Olasky Senior Editor Mindy Belz and NBC—seem more intentional about it and appear to be putting substantial resources behind the effort. Editor Timothy Lamer CNN10, the network’s daily show aimed at students, is not quite as bad as you National Editor Jamie Dean might expect. It seems that the producers are not force-feeding their worldview to Managing Editor Daniel James Devine Art Director David K. Freeland viewers. Instead, they prefer a splash of secularism here, a pinch of progressivism Associate Art Director Robert L. Patete Reporters Emily Belz, Charissa Koh, there. What’s most subversive is what the program leaves out: any evidence of Sophia Lee, Harvest Prude God’s work in the affairs of the world. East Asia Bureau June Cheng, Angela Lu Fulton Story Coach Susan Olasky NBC News Learn, the “educational arm of NBC News,” according to its Senior Writers Janie B. Cheaney, Andrée Seu website, is much worse. NBC serves up a worldview stew laden with poisonous Peterson, Lynn Vincent Correspondents Sandy Barwick, Megan Basham, adult agendas diced into smaller chunks for kids. Their story selection and age- Julie Borg, Bob Brown, John Dawson, Juliana Chan Erikson, inappropriate subject matter reveals an appalling agenda. I found these headlines Katie Gaultney, Charles Horton, (accompanied by video stories on the website) when I filtered stories for sixth Mary Jackson, Sharla Megilligan, Jill Nelson, Arsenio Orteza, Jenny through ninth graders: Lind Schmitt, Andrew Shaughnessy, Laura Singleton, Russell St. John, • “What It’s Like to Undergo Gender Transition in College” Marty VanDriel, Jae Wasson Mailbag Editor Les Sillars • “Teen Who Defied Parents … Testifies Before Congress” Editorial Assistants Kristin Chapman, Amy Derrick, Mary Ruth Murdoch • “LGBT Community Worries About What Will Happen During a Trump Graphic Designer Rachel Beatty Presidency” Illustrator Krieg Barrie Digital Production Assistants Arla J. Eicher, Dan Perkins Admittedly, I cherry-picked those headlines to demonstrate the absurdity of grown-ups who want to impose their obsessions upon Website wng.org the young. But there are many more stories like these, and even Executive Editor Mickey McLean Managing Editor Lynde Langdon the less egregious ones contain overt cultural “lessons.” Assistant Editor Rachel Lynn Aldrich God’s World News, the division of WORLD that focuses Reporter Onize Ohikere Correspondents Kiley Crossland, Anne Walters on fulfilling our mission with school-aged children, wants to Custer, Laura Edghill, Samantha Gobba, Julia A. Seymour, Steve fill the void of video news from a Biblical perspective. We’re West, Kyle Ziemnick working toward rolling out a daily video news program for Editorial Assistant Whitney Williams students at the beginning of the 2020-21 school year. For our small staff, this is an ambitious project. The effort Website wng.org/radio will be worthwhile if the program allows us to inform, educate, Executive Producer/Cohost Nick Eicher Managing Editor J.C. 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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VOICES Joel Belz religious liberty clause, is very deliberate—and that fussing with the tax code on that front is dangerous business. “Every other American law —whether a federal statute, state constitutional provision, state law or university regulation—is subordinate to and subject to review under the Bill of Rights.” That doesn’t mean every constitutional Liberty at risk right is absolute. It is time, French asserts, to be careful. A TIMELY DEBATE BRINGS A SOBERING Altogether unlikely and unnecessary, says CONCLUSION Marci Hamilton in her side of the WSJ debate. She is a professor at the University Whenever, in recent times, the conversa- of Pennsylvania and CEO of Child R tion among us evangelicals has turned to USA. And she says bluntly, “Too the so-called LGBTQ community, two themes much harm is done in the name of surface frequently. religious liberty.” She cites cases “Can you believe,” folks ask repeatedly, “how like the Amish communities where fast all this has happened?” she says children’s education is And second: “So where is the LGBTQ badly damaged by their parents’ movement moving next? I can’t see any more claim of religious liberty; or like taboos for them to cross.” the North American Indians who Both are thoughtful and legitimate questions.