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RESTORED FORGIVING THE UNFORGIVABLE PAge 16 MORE THAN HER WORST MOMENT PAge 20 PEACE, BE STILL PAge 24 A PUBLICATION OF TAYLOR UNIVERSITY spring2015cover.indd 3 3/5/15 10:48 AM “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Adminis- ter true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.’” Zechariah 7:9 “Being human, not one of us will ever have a BEHIND THErelationship COVER with another person that doesn’t have a wrinkle or a wart on it somewhere. The unblemished ideal exists only in ‘happily ever He who was seated on the throneafter’ said, fairy “I amtales. making I think that there is some merit everything new!” Revelationto a description 21:5 I once read of a married couple as ‘happily incompatible.’ Ruth likes to say, ‘If A broken plate. On the one hand, it is the symbol of failure and loss. But in God’s reckoning,two the peoplebroken state agree of a on plate, everything, one of them is or our lives, does not always meanunnecessary.’ loss. Every human The soonerheart we accept that as a is marred by sin – that brokennessfact inevitably of life, the impacts better not we will be able to adjust only our lives, but the lives of allto we each come other in contact and with.enjoy togetherness. ‘Happily But when we forgive, and whenincompatible’ we seek forgiveness, is a good we adjustment.” participate in the Lord’s redemptiveBilly Grahamplan for this world. Because of Christ’s sacrifice, our brokenness can lead to healing and restoration.“Therefore Thanks be to encourage God! one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” 1 Thessalonians 5:11 “A new command I give you: Love one anoth- BEHIND THE COVER spring2015cover.indd 4 3/5/15 10:48 AM spring 2015 • vOLume 109 CONTENTS 10 12 16 24 IT'S NOT ABOUT THE PATH TO FORGIVING THE PEACE, BE STILL BASKETBALL FORGIVENESS UNFORGIVABLE For Emily Cho ’16, joining the women's Forgiveness does not necessarily mean Michele (Moore ’95) Leach’s outreach to Replacing bitterness with forgiveness, basketball team had less to do with her a blank slate, says Bob Neideck ’82, survivors of the Rwandan genocide was Rhonda (Bloss ’02) Cahill navigates dad and more to do with her Father. Director of Taylor’s Counseling Center. life changing – for her and for them. through the desert. 14 1 spring2015magazinebody.indd 1 3/5/15 10:43 AM President Eugene B. Habecker ’68 Vice President for University Advancement Ben R. Sells Vice President for Enrollment Management and Marketing Stephen R. Mortland ’83 Editor James R. Garringer Creative Director Adam E. Perry University Marketing Team Donna K. Boatwright, Jenna (Fahlen ’13) Borst, Beth A. Fitzjarrald, Valerie Newby ’12, Meredith Sell ’14, Christa L. Siegelin ’93, Benjamin B. Wehling Executive Director of Alumni Relations Dara (Johnson ’01) Berkhalter Alumni Notes Editor Kate (Westrate ’11) Austin Contributors Nicole Arpin ’17, Lindsay Robinson ’16 Photo on page 18-I, Inisheer Taylor: A Magazine for Taylor University® Alumni, Parents and Friends (ISSN 1073-4376) is published by the Office of University Advancement. Copyright © 2015 Taylor University®. E-mail: [email protected] Taylor University online: www.taylor.edu Send address corrections and mailing updates to: Office of Alumni Relations, 236 W. Reade Ave., Upland, IN 46989, or call (800) 882-3456, ext. 5115. E-mail: [email protected] Opinions expressed by individuals in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of Taylor University®. Founded in 1846, Taylor University is one of America’s oldest Christian liberal arts colleges. Over 2,000 graduate and undergraduate students from 42 states and 30 foreign countries attend Taylor, where majors in 64 fields of study are available. For the eighth year in a row, Taylor University is the number one Midwest University in the category Best Regional Colleges in the 2015 US News & World Report survey, America’s Best Colleges. The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ’s redemptive love and truth to a world in need. 2 spring2015magazinebody.indd 2 3/5/15 10:43 AM BACKSTAGE RESTORING WHAT WAS LOST I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten … It is hard to forgive those who injure us and Joel 2:25 watch them walk away seemingly unaffected as our wounds are laid open. We all know we should They may have loved each other once. But years forgive. We all seek forgiveness. But it is so very of careless words, wrongs – real and perceived – hard to grant. and paybacks had long since crushed that love, leaving in its shattered place dueling senses In this issue of Taylor, we have prayerfully of anger and resentment. It was a miserable shared a few stories on forgiveness, healing existence. The subject on this night was his and restoration entrusted to us by our alumni. mother, whose death a few months before was Hopefully, we will be encouraged, chastened, still fresh and painful. As his wife began to recite inspired and convicted by stories of grace in the litany of wrongs that she believed his mother Rwanda, forgiving and embracing one whose had heaped on her, he at long last had heard suicide left an indelible mark since childhood, enough. “She’s dead,” he said, anger rising within and the renewal of innocence after the greatest him. “Can’t you just let it go?” of betrayals. Her answer was profound and honest. “I just One of the passages that has touched my heart can’t.” No, she could not – not now, not 10 years the deepest is from the Old Testament Book of from now. The decades of hurts were as fresh as Joel. God’s promise to repay his children what they always had been. She had come to him to was lost to the swarming, invading locusts defend her, to support and embrace her, and he of their lives (and ours) gives me hope. I pray had failed. She was well past talk of mercy and that each of you will embrace that hope that is forgiveness. She wanted justice. How incredibly possible only from our Lord. sad. James R. Garringer Editor 3 spring2015magazinebody.indd 3 3/5/15 10:43 AM NEWS CAMPUS CENTER CONSTRUCTION BEGINS On April 9, the $20 million LaRita R. Boren Campus Center will officially begin its trek from drawing boards to mortar, bricks and steel. Campus officials say the 48,000 square foot facility will cel- ebrate and house vital elements of Taylor’s historic community life. When it is finished, the complex will be nearly The Campus Center’s namesake, “Many universities reference ‘community’ as triple the size of Taylor’s existing student union. LaRita R. Boren, was a longtime being a hallmark of their experience. At Taylor The new Campus Center will be home to not only Taylor trustee, honorary alumna and University, our discipleship-focused, living and the student union, but also a commons, small friend who was known for her love serving together model of community is one that auditorium, coffee shop, and eating area. Also of the Taylor community. She died is transformative and unique,” added Habecker. located there will be the offices of Taylor’s Calling after a brief illness in 2011. “We believe the LaRita R. Boren Campus Center and Career Center, Intercultural Programs, Taylor will fulfill two lasting purposes. First, this center World Outreach, Taylor Student Organization, President Eugene B. Habecker ’68 will serve as the hub from which our vital, life- Spencer Centre for Global Engagement and Cen- said the generosity of Taylor alumni changing community originates. Second, it is our ter for Student Development. and friends has been critical in the wish that for years to come this wonderful facil- push to complete fundraising for ity will honor the legacy and memory of a godly, The facility will be constructed adjacent to the building. “At the beginning of beloved member of our Taylor community, LaRita Taylor’s Rediger Chapel/Auditorium. As part of the academic year, this effort stood R. Boren.” the construction project, the nearly 40-year-old at a little over $4 million, but thanks Chapel/Auditorium will be renovated, leading to to the visionary and sacrificial giv- Campus officials say the LaRita R. Boren Campus chapel services and other events regularly sched- ing of many wonderful friends, we Center is expected to open before the conclusion uled for Rediger to move to the Odle Arena and have reached $19.6 million,” he said, of Spring Semester 2016. other venues. during the 2015 fall semester. adding Taylor officials will continue to raise needed funds before ground- breaking ceremonies. 4 spring2015magazinebody.indd 4 3/5/15 10:44 AM NEWS OVERSEAS STUDY PROGRAM HIGHLY RANKED IN NATIONAL POLL Taylor University has received high national rankings for its overseas study program from Open Doors, a publication of the Institute of International Education (IIE) in association with the U.S.