NEWSLETTER
of the
American Scientific Affiliation &
Canadian Scientific Christian Affiliation
VOLUME 31 NUMBER 6
DECEMBER 1989/JANUARY 1990
NEWSLETTER of the ASA/CSCA is published bi-monthly for its membership by the American Scientific Affiliation, 55 Market St., Ipswich,
MA 01938. Tel. 508-356-5656. Information for the Newsletter may be sent to the Editor:
Dr. Walter R. Hearn, 762 Arlington Ave.,
Berkeley, CA 94707. Q1989 American Scientific Affiliation (excepting previously published material). All Rights Reserved.
Editor: Walter R. Hearn / Production: Nancy C. Hanger
SOMETHING SPECIAL
We greet
you at
Christmas as
we end our
20th year of
editing the
Newsletter.
That makes
1989
somewhat special, though each of
those years seemed special around
this time. Maybe the coming of
Christmas has that kind of effect
on us.
The first Christmas, the birth of
Jesus, was obviously something
special. Unusual things occurred.
Strange events shook people up.
Tough shepherds got so scared that
they needed comforting (Luke 2).
Confused scholars kept checking
things out, as scholars should
(Matthew 2).
It's hard to picture exactly what
happened. But if a single life (and
death) was meant to affect all life
(and death), how would we expect
it to be marked? For a message of
eternal importance, astounding
cosmic events may have been
perfectly "in order." At the
crucifixion, seismic events got the
attention of even the military
authorities, when "the curtain of the
temple was torn in two, from top
to bottom; and the earth shook, and
the rocks were split" (Matthew
27:51-54).
THAT we can picture, this year
at least. The problem is keeping
the memory alive, not only the
shaking of October 1989 but the
thousands it made homeless and
jobless for months to come. Even
harder is remembering all those
people homeless and jobless long
before the earthquake. Millions
suffer tragedy all over the world.
It's so easy to forget.
Christmas is a special reminder
that God loves us all. Jesus Christ,
having brought God's love to you
and me, wants us to pass it on.
He
cares
about people in persistent
hunger and pain, and about those
around us in imminent danger. He
wants us to care about them. We
begin by caring for each other. So,
dear brothers and sisters in the
Lord's family, Merry Christmas.
-Walt & Ginny Hearn
GETTING OUR
ATTENTION
At 5:04 on Tuesday, October 17,
the Lord definitely got our
attention. Now we're trying to
figure out what he wanted to tell
us. At the very least he wants us
to finish bolting our house to its
foundation. And to get serious
about some other things.
Our Wedded Editor crawled out
from under the dining room table
at 5:05 saying, "Let's move." We're
still thinking about that. If the
violent motion had lasted another
15 seconds, or the quake had been
on the Hayward fault, or the
epicenter had been 50 miles farther
north on the San Andreas, we'd
probably be among the homeless
people TV soon tired of showing.
Homelessness isn't "visual."
Remarkably, the only thing here
that fell over was a foot-high stack
of unanswered mail in the
Newsletter office. Honest. We
suffered essentially no structural
damage.
Psychological damage is
something else. Aftershocks and
predictions of a much more
devastating 7-pointer on the
Hayward fault disturb our sleep.
We didn't lose electricity, so we
watched news break nonstop on
TV, once stations came back on in
a few minutes with auxiliary power.
It was ironic that people who tuned
in to the first ever "Bay Bridge
World Series" saw only pictures of
a gaping hole in that bridge. Was
this "The Big One"? At first we
didn't know. We knew only that
we were alive and that our house
was still standing.
Jammed lines made us think our
phone was out. Out-of-town
relatives and friends dialed our
number for days before reaching us.
Eventually calls began coming in
from people checking on us from
around the country. One of the first
to get through was ASA managing
editor Nancy Hanger. This time
she wasn't asking the whereabouts
of the Newsletter copy but the
howabouts of the editor. She
recalled staying in our already
shaky Troll House on her way to
the 1988 Annual Meeting-and
traveling through the Cypress
section of 1-880, now a concrete
deadfall. Jim & Kathleen Buswell of Pasadena sent a note assuring us
of their concern and prayers.
All over the Bay area, damage
was terrible in some places but not
in others. We've checked on a few ASAers. Buildings were damaged on
the Stanford campus and some
Stanford homes lost chimneys. Dick
Bube had glass breakage and
spillage in the kitchen, but Dick
cleaned up the mess before Betty
returned home from ushering in a
new grandchild in Illinois. After a
note in
C&EN
about slight damage
at Genentech in South San
Francisco, we called Ken Olson in
Burlingame; daughter Marcie said
her dad went to work the day after
the quake and hadn't mentioned
damage.
Ken Lincoln was O.K. in
Redwood City but we still haven't
reached Bob Miller in Gilroy,
where, we've heard, a whole block
of houses collapsed. Berkeley soils
engineer Al Kropp was undamaged
but embarrassed: a bookcase fell
over in his office with his
earthquake books-all advising that
bookcases be fastened to the wall.
After working three days as a
volunteer in hard-hit Santa Cruz,
Al's badge gained him a close-up
look at Oakland's collapsed 1-880
freeway. (We remember Al saying
years ago that during an earthquake
he wouldn't want to be driving that
stretch.-Ed.)
An ASAer who narrowly missed
being there at the wrong time is Paul McKowen, who was returning
to Fremont on 1-880 that Tuesday
afternoon. Deciding that the
commuter traffic looked lighter on
1-580, Paul turned off just before
that stretch, at about 5:00. Almost
immediately his car radio went on
the fritz, he thought-not realizing
that the station had gone off the
air. At home, trying to tune in the
Series game, he suddenly realized
what had happened. At a later
prayer service at his church, these
words conveyed a special meaning:
God is our shelter and strength,
always ready to help in times
of trouble.
So we will not be afraid, even if
the earth is shaken
and the mountains fall into the
ocean depths;
even if the seas roar and rage,
and the hills are shaken
by the violence.
(Psalm 46:1-3, NEB)
BULLETIN BOARD
(1) ASA's MID-EAST TOUR may
still have room for YOU! Deadline
for deposit of $200 was set at Nov
15, but a quick call to ASA's
Ipswich office (508-356-5656) may
still get you on this bargain tour.
Dates: 6-20 August 1990. Roundtrip
Philadelphia-Cairo-Amman-Istanbul-
Philadelphia via KLM Airline; 14
nights' accommodations (6 in Cairo;
3 in Amman; 5 in Istanbul); airport-hotel transfers; continental breakfasts
included. Cost per person (including
tax), double occupancy, $2143.00;
single occupancy, $2393.00. Additional charge for optional side-trips to
Luxor (2 days, from Cairo, $200);
Petra (from Amman); Ankara (from
Istanbul). Full information from
George Jennings, Middle East Missions Research, P.O. Box 632 Le
Mars, IA 51031; tel. (712) ~46-5947.
Leading the trip will be
missionary anthropologist and
Islamic specialist George Jennings,
plus Middle East historian Ed
Yamauchi. In Egypt, visit the
pyramids- -famed-, Cairo museum,
Islam's prestigious Al-Azar
University, the American University,
a
fellahin
(peasant) village, plus the
temple city of Luxor. In
Jordan,
ruins of the Roman city of Jerash,
Bedouin city of Mafiraq,
ML
Nebo
overlooking the Jordan Valley as
seen by Moses, plus the famous
Nabatean capital of Petra. In
Turkey,
St. Sophia and Istanbul
sites, New Testament city sites
(Ephesus), ancient Troy, perhaps
even Ankara and ancient Hittite
sites. Imagine having Ed to guide
you through the centuries, George
to interpret contemporary Islamic
culture on this trip of a lifetime!
(2) The ASA/CSCA DIRECTORY
for 1990-91 should be mailed to
members in the spring, according to
managing editor Nancy Hanger. Electronic mail addresses won't be
included in a separate category because so few were submitted.
Maybe next time, if enough members with electronic addresses send
them into the ASA office!
(3) The Canadian Scientific &
Christian Affiliation held its own Annual Meeting at the U. of Toronto
on Saturday, November 4. The theme was "Ethics of Organ
Transplants." Featured speakers were
Dr. Abbyann Lynch, director of
Westminster Institute for Ethics and
Human Values and professor at the
U. of Western Ontario, probably
Canada's foremost Christian biomedical ethicist, and Dr. Calvin Stiller,
an evangelical Christian and head
of organ transplantation at the
University Hospital in London,
Ontario.
(4) Physicist Jim Neidhardt and
physiologist Tom Hoshiko represented ASA in September at a
meeting with ITEST director Robert
Brungs, S.J. (Ph.D. in physics) and
his assistant. ITEST is an institute
set up at St. Louis University to
explore the interaction of theology
with science and technology. It has
about 500-600 members; holds conferences; publishes proceedings, a
bulletin, and monographs; and has
experimented with video production.
Fr. Brungs was interested in ASA
publications and all parties
wondered if some kinds of---cooperation might be beneficial to
both groups.
MARION: FRESH LOOK
John Suppe is Blair Professor of
Geology at Princeton University.
He has a B.A. from U.C. Riverside
and Ph.D. from Yale, and has
taught at UCLA, National Taiwan
University, and Caltech. John
became a Christian about 11 years
ago through Princeton Univ. Chapel,
primarily through reading the
Gospel of Mark. He edits
THE
NEWS!
of the newly formed
Affiliation of Christian Geologists
(ACG). In Vol. 1, No. 1, John
tells how he discovered ASA at its
1989 Annual Meeting in Marion,
Indiana, where ACG held its first
official meeting.
Before that meeting, John knew
of us only vaguely through
Princeton physics colleague Bob Kaita. He assumed that ASA's
founding in 1941 made it part of a
broader effort, begun in the '40s,
to provide scholarly underpinnings
for Christian faith. He thought our
existence had probably encouraged
Christians in science to be more
articulate. But what was "a fellowship of Christians in the
sciences committed to understanding
the relationship of science to
Christian faith" really like? That , s
what he learned firsthand at Marion:
"It was like no other scientific
meeting I have ever attended. We
were a very diverse group of about
200 scientists together with nearly a
hundred spouses. I met biologists,
chemists, physicists, geologists,
biochemists, engineers, medical
researchers, computer scientists,
historians, philosophers, and others.
Nevertheless, it was a much more
unified, friendly, and interactive
group than I have ever met in the
scientific or academic world. The
fact that we all stayed in the
dorms and ate together
helped-Penrose Conferences in
geology also involve small groups
living together, but this was far
beyond any Penrose Conference I
have attended. Clearly our unity
was in Christ. And now I'm
starting to see more clearly what
the academic world is meant to be.
"Each year the meeting
emphasizes some public issue 'in
which science and religious faith
intersect. This year's theme was
medical ethics, which included a
field trip to the research labs of
Lilly Pharmaceutical Company. It's
stimulating to hear talks on topics
far from your field, such as gene
splicing, in-vitro fertilization, and
medical practice in the ancient
world. It's stimulating to listen to
other scientists at lunch or on the
field trip describe how they became
Christians or how their faith is
making an impact through their
careers. It's stimulating to sing
hymns and choruses in chapel each
morning with two hundred scientists,
half of whom sound like they are
in church choirs-this is a great
way to start off the day at a
scientific meeting."
John found the ASA booktable
Itquite stimulating to my
pocketbook." He went on to
describe ASA publications and give
ASA and CSCA addresses, since
only about a quarter of the 250
earth scientists on the initial ACG
mailing list are now members of
ASA. We hope his experience
draws more ACG members into
ASA. John Suppe joined ASA right
after the Indiana Wesleyan meeting.
Maybe seeing an Annual Meeting
through fresh eyes will help you
resolve not to miss another one.
MARION: HOT TOPICS
0n I Nov 1989, James Mason,
assistant secretary of the U.S.
Dept. of Health & Human Services,
announced continuation of a ban on
federal funding of medical research
using fetal tissue. Many NIH
scientists expressed anger over a
virtual shutdown of what they
consider a promising area of
investigation. The announcement was
cheered by the National Right to
Life Committee and others who
argue that such research encourages
abortion.
That Washington Post news story
shows the ongoing relevance of our
1989 Annual Meeting theme. Not
all of us who attended would be
on the same side of the argument,
no doubt, but all of us are better
informed. Even the plenary speakers
and panelists disagreed on certain
issues--but that's what makes an
ASA meeting so stimulating.
Howard Jones's keynote lecture
and Jim Swanson's response (see
Oct/Nov Newsletter) were followed
by plenary speakers taking the
"Human Intervention" theme beyond
in-vitro fertilization. Don Munro described recombinant DNA research
and its applications. Few but
Jeremy Rifkin now raise objections
to somatic-cell gene therapy (where
unforeseen problems would not be
passed on), but other applications
cause more concern. Almost
everybody has some reservations
about germ-line gene therapy; many
worry about misuse of human
enhancement (e.g., using
bioengineered human growth
hormone to produce taller basketball
players); and much debate ensues
about engineering new forms of life
(e.g, oil-eating bacteria to clean up
oil spills). Don concluded that the
risks of going ahead may be
balanced by the costs of holding
back, especially in life-or-death
situations.
Bob Herrmann traced the history of DNA research from
1953, when, as a biochemistry grad
student at Michigan State, he read
a new paper on DNA structure by
Watson & Crick. About a dozen
inherited human diseases can be
alleviated (e.g., by diet for
phenylketonuria); for thousands of
other genetic defects, gene therapy
is the only hope. Bob said
everyone in the audience probably
inherited half a dozen defective
genes, but the diseases aren't
expressed because we have two
sets, though our offspring may get
a bad gene from each parent.
Biochemist Gordon Mills added
that to keep a PKU child alive for
four years costs some $7,000/year
for the special, phenylalanine-free
diet. Gene therapy, if it were
possible, would cure the disease by
restoring the child's missing
phenylalanine-metabolizing enzyme.
Peter Vibert brought all this
technical talk down to a personal
level, telling of his wife's
amniocentesis when it was known
that Peter's sister had Down's
syndrome. Amniocentesis is only
one way of gaining hitherto
unknown genetic information about
ourselves and our unborn children.
Peter thinks the human genome
project will accelerate the process,
enormously complicating the task of
genetic counseling. It is difficult to
resist the onslaught of information,
though Gareth Jones argued in
Brave New People that some
information is unusable because it
would be irresponsible to use it.
"Do we really want to know what
we'll die of?" The church has an
important role, Peter insisted, in
declaring the full humanity of
people with handicaps.
Many contributed papers took up
similar themes. Tomuo Hoshiko, for
example, spoke on "Forbidden
Knowledge," showing how the
acquisition and use of various kinds
of information is put "off limits"
by legislation or government decree
(e.g., by the ban on funding of
fetal tissue research). He argued
that biblical precepts should
illuminate, not dictate, the public
interest.
Stanley Rice discussed
"Limitations of Genetic
Engineering," concluding that the
complexity of human gene
expression will probably place great
limitations on our ability to
redesign people. Stan reviewed the
sorry history of
"eugenics," which
tried to benefit certain elite groups
with little regard for the welfare of
humanity as a whole (a point also
made in a recent NOVA program
on mapping the human genome).
Hessel Bourna emphasized that
"breakthroughs" in genetic
knowledge will continue, as will
the need for moral reflection on
the power such knowledge brings.
To what extent ought we to
diagnose, treat, and intervene in the
lives of human beings in utero, in
newborns, in children, in adults, in
the aged? How do we act faithfully
without risking violation of the
image of God in human life?
We can't review all the papers
here (with parallel sessions, we
didn't even hear all of them), but
many others related in some way
to medical ethics or the practice of
medicine itselL Some were heavy
on theology: for example, George
Murphy applied Luther's theology
of the Cross to bioethical issues
and Howard Ducharme discussed
the moral theology of IVF, relating
it to the Incarnation. Mary Jane
Mills looked at the history of
medicine in the ancient Near East,
and Ed Yamauchi extended that
into New Testament times, with
specific regard to ideas and
practices of contraception, abortion,
and infanticide.
The richness of this year's theme
was illustrated in Arn Nelson's
concern for the human side of
medicine; William Watson's review
of Institutional Review Boards in
clinical research; Barb Hoshiko's efforts to bring a spiritual
dimension to nursing; Miriam
Ross's concern for the world's
children; Bill Monsma's echo of C.
S. Lewis's warning in
The Abolition
of Man.
Discussion groups offered
by Ken Dormer on research ethics
and David Moberg on the health
care system continued the theme.
Topics unrelated to the bioethics
theme also got a workout, including
the perennially popular topic of
creation and "creationism" (David
Wilcox on the critical issues;
Gordon Mills on evolutionary
presuppositions; Joe Lechner on
Bob Genrty's radiohaloes; Dallas
Cain on interpreting Genesis 1).
More generally, Jerry Bergman spoke on the physics of time; Jeff
Greenberg on the crisis in science
education; Charles Hummel on
science and hermeneutics; Sherm
Kanagy on the proper place of the
miraculous in science education; Stan Lindquist on cognitive and
emotive aspects of Christian faith; Jack Richardson on the permeation
of society by New Age thought.
All that and more, in just one
Annual Meeting.
MARION: SCENE &
HERD
ndiana Wesleyan University was
called Marion College until a few
years ago. Local opinion was
evidently divided on the name
change. Some thought having a
University upgraded the town;
others thought the name Marion
College had been good
advertisement for Marion, Indiana.
Local arrangements chair Bob
Werking and his transportation
subcommittee, Marvin Hinds, didn't
seem puffed up by their move up
the academic ladder from a college
to a university. When Marv
delivered his first vanload of
incoming ASAers to the wrong
dorm, though, he took some kidding
about how easy it is to get lost on
a big university campus. His brand
new "previously owned" Plymouth
Voyager made the trip back and
forth to the Indianapolis airport
countless times.
Marion is in Grant County,
"situated strategically between
Indianapolis and Fort Wayne," six
miles off 1-69, which runs between
those somewhat larger cities.
(Indianapolis is in Marion County,
which is a bit confusing.) Most
ASAers had no chance to see the
26,000 acres of recreation area
surrounding Lakes Mississinewa and
Salamonie just north of Marion. But
the corn was everywhere beautiful,
lush and green, after getting plenty
of rain at just the right time. The
weather committee had arranged
very pleasant weather for the first
week in August-with air
conditioners in the dorm rooms as
back-up. Indiana Wesleyan
University was a great place to
meet.
A field trip to Eli Lilly and
Company's Corporate Center on
Monday morning was arranged by
Lilly research chemist and former
ASA president Ann Hunt. After
an early breakfast, ASA
pharmaceutophiles were herded onto
a big bus for the 80-mile trip into
Indianapolis. A well-orchestrated
program began with a multi-media
presentation of Lilly's history,
facilities, and major products. After
touring the Lilly "campus" in small
groups, they gathered for a
question-and-answer session before
lunch in the company cafeteria. The
man with answers was Dr. Ray
Fuller, a world authority on
serotonin biochemistry and
pharmacology whose work paved
the way for the anti-depressant
Prozac. The sheer magnitude of the
lab's operation, and of the time
and money put into developing a
new pharmaceutical agent, gave
many a new perspective on
state-of-the-art medicine and medical
research.
MARION: SEEN AND
HEARD
0fficers of the new Affiliation of
Christian Geologists had been
elected by mail: Davis Young of
Calvin College, president; Solomon
Isiorho of Indiana/Purdue in Fort
Wayne, vice-president; and John
Suppe of Princeton, secretary. At
Marion they got down to earth,
you might say, with a couple of
business meetings, a field trip to a
nearby patch reef, and a meal
together at a local eatery. They
elected Ken Van Dellen of
Macomb College acting treasurer
and planned a breakfast get-together
for Nov 8 at the Geological
Society of America meeting in St.
Louis. Jeff Greenberg of Wheaton
College was making final
arrangements.
If the biologists are forming a
similar subgroup, it seems to be at
a more embryonic stage, but they
did forage together at Rosie's Little
Italy on Monday night. Plans are
afoot for a special Friday session
for biologists at the 1990 ASA
ANNUAL MEETING at MESSIAH
COLLEGE, AUGUST 3-6. The
program for that meeting will be
planned by the Creation
Commission, by the way, chaired
by Dave Wilcox of Eastern
College.
As usual, a lot more was going
on than we can report here (even
if we could still read our notes).
Almost a dozen topics were aired
in Sunday night discussion groups.
We stumbled into one conversation that turned out to be a meeting of
the Global Resources &
Environment Commission, working
on plans for the environmental
Sunday school curriculum material
they're writing. Reports at the
Annual Business Meeting were
upbeat, even about the television
series: incubating, possibly
accelerating.
Both nominees for the Executive
Council were introduced at the
Annual Business Meeting: biologist
Elizabeth Zipf of Biological
Sciences Information Service in
New Jersey and earth sciences
teacher Helen Martin of Unionville
High School in Pennsylvania. (We
predict that the vote will be close
but that the next Council member
will be a woman from an eastern
state.-Ed.)
A card handed us by Luis 0.
Garcia identified him as an M.D.
in the practice of obstetrics &
gynecology in Santa Ana,
California. The booklet he handed
us, "Recuperaci6n Cientffica del
Perd," was, er, uh, in Spanish. We
caught on that Luis goes back to
Peru regularly to work in a clinic.
As a Christian he was upset that
most Peruvian expatriates seem to
care little about the decline of . their
homeland; they can vote absentee
but pay no taxes to Peru. Luis
spoke English well, though so
softly that we missed a lot. His
booklet seems to contain scientific,
theological, and political arguments,
but our Spanish may not be good
enough to distinguish them. It
seems to argue that Roman
Catholicism has not helped the
Peruvian people and that the
economic situation is becoming
critical. Evidently several
professional organizations, such as
the Peruvian Medical Association,
were planning to discuss such
issues in Lima in August, and Luis
Garcia was seeking some kind of
moral or intellectual support from
ASA. Yo
lo sentf, pero no pude
ayudarle.
Que
lastinw.
Ken Dormer of the U. of
Oklahoma Medical Center was
participating in his first Council
meeting at Marion. Ken may get
famous if his new technique aids
as many hearing-impaired people as
tests seem to indicate. He won't be
any prouder of that, though, than
he was of carrying the real
Olympic torch for a leg of a
cross-country relay to an Olympic
Festival. At Marion he ran three
miles each morning. Trained as a
cardiovascular physiologist, Ken
spoke at the first morning devotions
on taking care of our hearts, both
physically and spiritually. The
spiritual "exercises" of trusting,
forgiving, and not getting angry
turn out to be physically important,
too.
In the joy of fellowship were
reminders of the reality of pain and
death. A truly "Asian flu" picked
up at the Lausanne Conference in
Manila kept Dave Fisher from
attending. We were glad to see Harold Hartzler, ASA's most
faithful attender, but seeing him
reminded us of his wife Dorothy's
death this year. Glenn Kirkland told us that his wife Grace can no
longer speak. At the meeting, John
Vayhinger fell and had to have his
cut lip stitched up. Wayne Ault showed us a big scar from getting
konked on the head while he was
building something at home. Tom
Dent told a scary story about
passing out in the classroom and
still not functioning at full capacity
months later. And Mike
Sonnenberg-remember the
videotape of his badly burned little
son at the 1982 Calvin College
meeting? His son, now 10 years
old, is still having operations to
make his joints more flexible after
all these years.
At the first chapel, Jim
Neidhardt read a memorial to his
friend and mentor, theologian
Harold Nebelsick. It seemed an
appropriate thing to do, and it gave
us an idea. Maybe instead of
publishing obituaries irregularly in
the Newsletter, we should devote
one devotional period at every
Annual Meeting to memorial
tributes for each member who has
died in the past 12 months. Then
we could publish the whole list
together in the following issue of
the Newsletter.
FIDELIS ET CLARUS
Several readers expressed
appreciation for the account of
the revision of ASA's Statement of
Faith (Oct/Nov 1989, pp. 2-3),
including the range of opinion
expressed on the ballots. Charles
Hummel wanted to add some
clarification of both the content of
the new statement and the process
of arriving at it.
Charlie reminded us that the
committee (Jim Neidhardt, George
Murphy, and himself) was
appointed in 1986 to advise the
Executive Council. After making
changes in the committee's
proposal, the Council submitted a
fmal version to the membership for
a vote. Charlie wasn't passing the
buck, just pointing to the broad
denominatinal. spectrum represented
in the combined committee and
Council: Baptist, Brethren in Christ,
Christian Reformed, Independent,
Episcopal, Lutheran, and Presbyterian.
The committee kept in mind that
ASA is not a church but a
para-church organization, and that
any "statement of faith" merely
identifies biblical teaching essential
to an organization's nature and
purposes. Apart from Scripture, no
statement has ultimate authority,
whether it be the Apostles' Creed
or some evangelical group's
"doctrinal basis." Brevity and
adeTi~cy were the major criteria,
requiring a focus on major issues
pertinent to ASA's special calling.
In hindsight, the committee
recognizes that it let brevity rule
when it recommended "Triune God"
instead of "Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit."
The word
trustworthiness
was
introduced partly because, although
inerrancy
has been a center of
theological controversy, it is not a
biblical term. The committee took
its wording from David's prayer of
thanksgiving, "Your words are
trustworthy, 0 Lord," from 2
Samuel 7:28. (Other versions have
true
or
truth;
paraphrases read
something like, "You keep your
promises.
"--Ed.)
The statement calls
for a response of personal trust in
God, who has revealed himself in
Scripture, our final authority in faith and conduct.
Despite some unfamiliarity, the
phrase contingent order was chosen
to convey the theme of Colossians
1:17
and Hebrews 1:3: the creation,
for its continuing existence as much
as for its origin, is constantly
dependent on God. Further, Charlie
adds, "God's continuing actions in
the creation, both recurring and
miraculous, are a result of his
sovereign will and free choice, not
some kind of necessity laid upon
him. That is the ground for
scientific explanation of nature's
forces through investigation of how
they work."
Finally, the added statement of
commitment to stewardship is an
example of sensitivity to new
issues. When the old statement was
formulated, science was enthroned
with little if any concern for the
effects of its technology on the
environment. That's why, Charlie
says, "Statements of Faith" have to
be revised from time to time.
WHEREVER GOD
WANTS US: 9.
The developing two-thirds world
is where many ASA and CSCA
members think of serving God,
because that's where technical skills
like ours are scarce. God may also
desire our service in parts of the
world where science and technology
abound but where Christian
commitment may be scarce. Maybe
that's in the lab where we are
now, or some other place in North
America. On the other hand, it
might be somewhere else.
A fascinating report at the
Indiana Wesleyan meeting was
given by Gordon College chemist Jack Haas. Jack made use of a
Pew Foundation travel grant under
auspices of the Christian College
Coalition to spend the past three
summers visiting European scientists
interested in theology, and
theologians interested in science.
Tape recorder in hand, Jack made
contact with such scholars wherever
he could find diem, asked about
science-faith dialogues there, and
spread the word about our
Affiliations at the same time.
Communication wasn't always easy,
even in English, because words like
evangelical, religion, or even
science can have different shades of
meaning in different countries.
Jack learned of several landmark
conferences paving the way for
future dialogue, in West Germany
in
1986,
at the Vatican in
1987,
and in the Netherlands in
1988.
ASA member Herman Haefner
told Jack of his work with the
SMD (German Student Mission) and
the Karl Heim Society (which
publishes Evangelium und
Wissenschaft). Jurgen Huber of
FEST, a Protestant "think-tank" near
the University of Heidelberg, has
published an annotated bibliography,
Der Dialog zwischen Theologie und
Naturwissenschaft
(1987),
which
should introduce more
English-language works to German
thinkers.
In France, evangelicals are a
minuscule minority in a country
where only 4 percent of the
Catholic majority attend church
regularly and where Islam is the
second largest religious affiliation.
In the Netherlands, Calvinist
scholarly associations, a broader
Institute for Christian Studies, and a
more conservative new Evangel
College coexist, interacting to some
extent. In Spain Jack found a few
evangelical scholars functioning in a
changing political scene. Italy has
few Protestants and far fewer
evangelicals. In Greece the few
evangelicals lack literature on
science and theology in the Greek
language.
The U.K. scene seems more
familiar, of course, but isn't always
easy for an American to sort out.
Jack found different perspectives
and some resentment as he crossed
borders between England, Wales,
Ireland, and Scotland. Overall, he
concluded that in both the English
and non-English speaking nations of
Europe, interest in the relationship
of science and Christianity is
growing. Evangelicals have some
voice in such discussions, but in
many areas need encouragement and
help. "Scientific creationism" has
advocates here and there, and other
factors also divide the evangelical
witness.
Jack thinks our Affiliations and
individual members should try to
develop stronger links with our
European counterparts, to broaden
our perspectives as well as theirs.
He recommends more effort to
establish one-on-one contact on
visits to Europe, more participation
in meetings, possibly some
collaborative speaking, writing, or
translating projects. As he takes
over the editorship of Perspectives
on Science and Christian Faith,
Jack may be able to stimulate
some of these activities. For
example, he said at Marion that he
wants to encourage announcements
and reports of meetings in Europe.
He may even appoint some "foreign
correspondents" to keep us in touch.
Some kind of international directory
of evangelical scholars might be
very useful.
In 1985, the Greater Europe
Mission (P.O. Box 668, Wheaton,
IL 60189; P.O. Box 984, Oshawa,
Ontario L1H 7N2) established an
evangelical English-language
seminary on the continent. Tyndale
Theological Seminary
(Egelantierstraat 1, 1171 JM,
Badhoevedorp, Netherlands) has an
international and interdenominational
student body. Wonder if their
library has a subscription to
Perspectives9
ACROSS OUR DESK
More "books and rumors of
books" have been flowing
across the Newsletter desk. We call
your attention to a few of them.
A PERSONALS item last time mentioned the role of Charles
Thaxton in editing the forthcoming
Of Pandas and People,
by Dean
Kenyon & Percival Davis. The
supplementary high school biology
text has since come forth, with
full-color illustrations and a
winsome panda on the cover.
Published by Haughton Publishing
(P.O. Box 180218, Dallas TX
75218-0218), the book is really the
product of the Foundation for
Thought and Ethics in Richardson,
Texas, of which Jon Buell is
director. Your sharp-eyed editor
rushed off a letter to alert Jon that
some not-so-sharp editor at Haughton had dropped the footnotes
but left their numbers in the text.
Then we saw a full-page ad for
Pandas in the Nov 1989 issue of
NSTA's The Science Teacher,
indicating that the
"chapter-by-chapter lists of
references" are to be found in a
Teacher's Guide to the text. That
ad, by the way, contains
endorsements by Brandeis
biophysicist Peter Vibert and Texas
science teacher Lois Harbaugh.
Months ago we spotted an ad
for a two-volume work by Wendell
R. Bird, The Origin of Species
Revisited: The Theories of Evolution
and of Abrupt Appearance
(Philosophical Library, 31 W. 21st
St., #1117, New York, NY 10010).
The ad quoted Gareth Nelson of
the American Museum of Natural
History as saying that Bird "is
basically correct that evidence, or
proof, of origins-of the universe,
of life, of all the major groups of
life, indeed of all the species-is
weak or nonexistent when measured
on an absolute scale.... " Nelson,
who called the book "perhaps the
most scholarly effort among many
of this kind to appear in recent
years," contributed the Preface. Bird
is the attorney whose name is well
known for his role in the Louisiana
"balanced treatment" UW that went
to the U.S. Supreme CourL Thanks
to the generosity of Davis
Weyerhaeuser, we received two
sets of this big "Bird Guide to the
Fields" (of origins and evolution),
with instructions to pass one set on
to Eugenie Scott, director of the
National Center for Science
Education. Vol. I "outlines a
scientific theory of abrupt
appearance" and discusses possibly
insoluble difficulties with evolution.
Vol. 2 covers the "philosophy,
theology, history, education, and
constitutional aspects of origins." It
will take time to work our way
through these massive missives. We
note already that Bird tries to refer
to advocates of "the nonevolutionary
family of views" not as "creationists" but as "discontinuitists."
(Maybe if enough of us avoid
misusing it, the term Creation will
make a respectable comeback.-Ed.)
The first double issue of the
Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies,
official journal of the International
Christian Studies Association,
published by the Institute for
Interdisciplinary Research (2828
Third St., Suite 11, Santa Monica,
CA 90405) has appeared, under the
editorship of Oskar Gruenwald. The book-sized JIS contains over a
dozen papers on the future of
interdisciplinary research and on
Orwell, Huxley, and
twentieth-century totalitarianism. The
first section has papers by David
0. Moberg ("Is There a 'Christian
Sociology'?") and James 0.
Buswell 1H ("Toward a Christian Memanthropology").
So far we've seen only a flyer
about its Sept 1989 release, but the
latest book from the Calvin Center
for Christian Scholarship sounds like
a reprise of the Annual Meeting
theme: Christian Faith, Health, and
Medical Practice (Eerdmans, paper).
Calvin biologist Hessel Bourna, who gave a paper at Marion, is
one of the co-authors.
A fascinating volume on which
we hope to base an issue of
SEARCH is Vol. 4 of MY7A: A
Publication on Entontology (1989),
published by Insect Associates, 3955
Reston Court, South San Francisco,
CA 94080 (for sale by Dept. of
Entomology, California Academy of
Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San
Francisco, CA 94118). It contains
Autobiographical Anecdotes (I Was
a Preacher's Kid) by Edward
Luther Kessel, plus A Tribute to
Edward Luther Kessel on the
Occasion of His 85th Birthday and
a bibliography of Ed's work, both
by Paul H. Arnaud, Jr. The
hardcover book is full of great
yams, so keep an eye out for a
SEARCH issue on octogenarian
entomologist Ed Kessel.
"Now for something completely
different." Education in the
Sciences, the 1989 Science
Education Directory available on
request from the Office of Science
& Technology Education, AAAS
(1333 H Street, N.W., Washington,
DC 20005), contains many
addresses and other useful
information. But in a list of
organizations and societies affiliated
with AAAS, we couldn't resist
tracking down the following: Amer.
Soc. for Aesthetics; Amer. Soc. of
Agronomy; Amer. Sociological
Assoc.; and Amer. Statistical Assoc.
Those "other ASAs" sound like
better company for the American
Scientific Affiliation to keep than
some we already knew about, such
as the American Schizophrenic
Association and the American
Sunbathing Association.
LOCAL SECTION
ACTIVITIES
METROPOLITAN NEW YORK
At the Oct 7 meeting at The
King's College, the topics of Thomas Torrance's two lectures
were "The Impact of Christian
Theology on the Foundations of
Scientific Knowledge" and "The
Singularity of Jesus Christ."
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
Oops. We goofed. The date set
for the meeting at the U. of
Colorado at Boulder featuring Ken
Touryan as principal speaker is
Saturday, Feb 10 (not Feb 3 as
announced in the Aug/Sep issue).
THE EDITOR'S LAST
WORDS: 6.
Does this issue seems to have a
more serious tone than usual?
Frankly, we can't tell. Most of it
was written within three weeks of
a 7-point earthquake, close enough
to Berkeley to sober us
considerably. While writing it I felt
one aftershock strong enough to
make me move toward safety-after
saving to disk, of course.
A light heart seems appropriate
for anyone whose spiritual burdens
have been lifted by faith in Jesus
Christ. I usually test the Newsletter
by watching Ginny proofread the
next-to-last draft, hoping for three
audible chuckles, or two chuckles
plus a definite smile. For this
longer issue my calibration scheme
may not be reliable.
At the Annual Meeting I recall
expecting a British accent from
David RandaH,
then figuring out
that the "U.K." on his T-shirtmeant
"University of Kentucky." I
enjoyed another double meaning
when olfactory physiologist Molly
Bailey, wife of Ohio chemist David
Bailey, assured me that "rats smell
better than humans." And I took
note of Howard Van Till's asking,
"Is this Session 11-B, or not 11-B?"
I'm sure a lot of other funny
stuff went on, but the earthquake
seems to have rattled my . . .
Oops. Save to disk and head for
the door. See ya.
PERSONALS
Elinor Abbott is finishing up
her Ph.D. work in anthropology at
Brandeis University (disrupted once
by the theft of all her field notes).
This fall she was scheduling her
oral defense and a public lecture
sponsored by the Andover Historical
Society. Although she has studied
both Latin American and West
African societies, her dissertation
explored the early social history of
the town of Andover, Massachusetts.
Wycliffe Bible Translators has
reassigned Elinor to Guatemala,
where she will help phase out
Wycliffe work there by training
local people at a small university
in Guatemala City to continue
translation and literacy work among
Indian descendants of the Mayas.
She expects to leave for Guatemala
Jan 10, returning briefly to the
States on May 20 to take part in
Brandeis graduation exercises.
George W. Andrews of
Alexandria, Virginia, has retired
from the federal government after
thirty years with the Branch of
Paleontology & Stratigraphy of the
U.S. Geological Survey. He plans
to continue research on fossil
diatoms as time and circumstances
permit.
George Ayoub has a Ph.D. in
physiology and does research in
retinal physiology at U.C. San
Francisco. He and his wife Kirsi
live in Berkeley and are active 'in
Berkeley's First Presbyterian Church.
George's writings on the application
of theology to everyday life have
appeared in several issues of the
church's quarterly magazine, First
Press.
Thomas Bieler completed his
Ph.D. in materials science at U.C.
Davis in April 1989 and accepted a
one-year position as assistant
professor at Michigan State. Tom
and Stacey found an apartment in
Okemos, four miles from the East
Lansing campus. In his spare time,
Tom has been building an
airplane-not a model, a real one.
He had finished the fuselage and
was almost ready to install the
engine when we last heard. The
Bielers have a vision for ministry
to international students and at
Davis spent much time with friends
from China. Stacey, co-author of
China at Your Doorstep (IVP), a
booklet encouraging Americans to
make Chinese friends, serves on the
board of the Association of
Christian Ministries to Internationals
(ACMI). Tom and Stacey look
forward to contact with some of
the 300 Chinese students at MSU.
Joel Cannon is now a physics
professor at Calvin College in
Michigan after completing his Ph.D.
at the U. of Illinois. He specialized
in the theoretical physics of
condensed matter and statistical
mechanics. Joel missed the 1989
ASA Annual Meeting because he
was defending his thesis in Urbana
and moving to Grand Rapids. He's
looking forward to being part of
the Calvin community and exploring
more fully how scientists can serve
God's kingdom.
William W. Cobern has moved
from Texas to Phoenix, Arizona,
where he is professor of science
education at Arizona State U.-West
Campus. In that new institution Bill
has responsibility for developing a
program of teacher training in
science and for coordinating joint
efforts with local community college
and school districts to improve
science teaching.
Arnold Dyck of Penticton, B.C.,
Canada, was featured in a full-page
story in the 16 July 1989
Okanagan Sunday about his Sterile
Insect Release (SIR) project at the
Surnmerland Research Station. After
receiving his Ph.D. at McGill in
1964, Am did entomological work
at the International Rice Research
Institute in the Philippines until his
return to Canada in 1982. There he enlisted in the Okanagan Valley's
30-year war against the coddling
moth (responsible for wormy
apples). He picked up the "insect
birth control" project from a
predecessor at the Ag Canada lab
after trying other approaches. Total
eradication is the aim, which begins
to be cost-effective when compared
with, say, 30 years of spraying
with insecticides, besides being
better for the environment. Getting
all growers to agree to a huge
integrated cleanup and quarantine
project required diplomatic skill, but
just before adjournment, the 1989
B.C. legislature passed a bill
launching the SIR project. Relieved,
Am is still working to reduce costs
and to be sure other pests don't
increase once the spraying stops.
Betty ("moth-er" of Tim and
Andrea) says the whole Dyck
family plans to relax on a
well-deserved Christmas vacation in
Austria.
Robert J. Frank is now an
assistant professor of mathematics at
Seton Hill College in Greensburg,
Pennsylvania. He was formerly at
The King's College in New York.
Norman Geisler of the Liberty
Center for Research and Scholarship
in Lynchburg, Virginia, spends a lot
of time speaking under the auspices
of Quest Ministries but continues to
write books. Recently released were
The Infiltration of the New Age
(Tyndale) co-authored with Jeff
Yutaka and The Battle for the
Resurrection (Thomas Nelson). In
November Norm took part in the
Evangelical Theological Society
meeting in San Diego.
Kenneth "Gil" Gilman is the
psychologist for an inpatient
psychiatric unit of the Aroostook
Medical Center in Presque Isle,
Maine. For the past two years he
was in outpatient practice with a
mental health center in the same
community, in the northernmost
county of the state. Aroostook
county is the size of Connecticut
and Rhode Island combined, with a
population of less than 100,000
spread "all over the north woods."
With only six psychologists in the
whole county, Gil has to maintain
a fairly general practice but can
still cater to his interests in group psychotherapy and psychological
evaluation. He does a lot of
teaching in workshops and seminars
for organizations and church groups.
He recently returned to Texas
A&M, where he got his Ph.D., to
give a seminar in the counseling
psychology program on "Clinical
Practice in a Rural Environment."
Rural? Yee-ehpp. Wife Ana and
son Luke have adapted well to an
environment suited to cross country
skiing, followed by folk music
around the wood stove. Not many
church options in any one place.
The Gilmans, who worship at the
local Catholic church, have recently
started a home Bible study.
Raymond E. Grizzle, a marine
biologist, has moved from Durham,
New Hampshire, to Livingston,
Alabama. Ray has joined the
faculty of the Division of Natural
Sciences & Math at Livingston
University there.
Charles E. Hummel of Grafton
Massachusetts, favorably reviewed
Evolution: The Great Debate (Lion,
1989) by Vernon Blackmore and
Andrew Page of England in the
Sept 22 issue of Christianity Today
("The Evolution of Evolution," p.
54). Charlie, recent past president
of ASA and author of The Galileo
Connection and the booklet
Evolution or Creation? (both IVP),
serves as faculty specialist for
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. In
November he spoke at several
campuses in Texas and in
December will visit U. of
Tennessee campuses in Chattanooga
and Knoxville.
Jack Irvine of Oakland,
California, has just retired from 20
years as International Services
Officer and Counselor at Merritt
College. As president of Evangelical
International Schools, Inc., Jack
keeps supporters informed about
Murree Christian School in Pakistan
and also about what goes on in
Kabul, Afghanistan, where he once
taught. Christians returning to Kabul
to serve people there are finding
food and fuel extremently expensive
in the besieged city. Jack and
Beverly's daughter, Shireen Perry,
has told the story of her late
husband's ordeal with AIDS in a
new book in IVP's "Saltshaker"
series. The Irvines are praying that
In Sickness and in Health,
co-authored with writer Greg Lewis,
and a CBN videotape of the story
will bring God's love to many
people living in the shadow of
AIDS.
Fred Jappe, chemistry professor
at Mesa Community College in San
Diego, has returned from a very
satisfying six-month leave at
Daystar University College in
Nairobi, Kenya. Fred highly
recommends Daystar, Africa's only
liberal arts college, as a place for
Christians to invest a sabbatical. Its
undergraduate curriculum is
accredited by Messiah College and
its graduate work by Wheaton.
Daystar does research on improving
ways of communicating the gospel.
Fred took several graduate courses
while teaching there and met some
outstanding faculty members.
Daystar needs help with its science
facilities so Fred urges us to send
them science textbooks and
equipment. Even better, take
experiments and lightweight
equipment with you when you go
to teach there. Right now an
unpaid position in physical science
and/or bio-ecology needs to be
filled. Contact Dr. Godfrey Nuguru,
Daystar University College, P.O.
Box 44400, Nairobi, Kenya. (Never
mind the pay: Fred went on five
safaris and saw Egypt and Israel
on his way back to the States!)
Glenn 1. Kirkland was one of
six persons elected to the Maryland
Senior Citizens Hall of Fame for
1989, which rated him not only a
Certificate of Recognition but a
congratulatory letter from the White
House signed by Barbara Bush. A
physicist retired from the Johns
Hopkins Applied Physics Labs,
Glenn is also known as the founder
of the Alzheimer's Disease
Association of Maryland in 1979,
and the "best supporting actor" in
two award-winning films starring his
wife Grace, a victim of Alzheimer's.
Andrew Levin received his
Ph.D. in economics at Stanford this
year and is now an assistant
professor at U.C. San Diego, with
interests in macroeconomics and
economic development. Andy lives
in La Jolla and when we heard from him this summer he was
looking for a church home.
James E. Logan is a student at
the U. of Kansas School of
Medicine in Wichita. So is his
wife Donna, whom he married in
July of this year.
Mary Jane Mills of Galveston,
Texas, is a historian and wife of biochemist Gordon Mills, recently
retired from the U. of Texas
Medical Branch. This year Mary
Jane is chairing a committee to
plan a 1990 celebration of the
sequicentennial of the founding of
their local church. In 1989 the
church celebrated the centennial of
its present church building. After
the celebration, she's thinking about
going on the 1990 ASA Middle
East Tour.
Douglas Pittman is a Ph.D.
candidate in biology at the U. of
Iowa. He has a B.A. from Mt.
Vernon Nazarene College (OH) and
M.S. from Marshall University (WV), both in biology. Doug taught
at Mt. Vernon before moving to
Iowa City. The transition was made
smooth for Doug and his wife by
helpful folks at "a neat little
church" in Iowa City.
Pattle P. T. Pun, Wheaton
College biology professor and
author of Evolution: Nature &
Scripture in Conflict? (Zondervan,
1982), had an opportunity to
publicize ASA and Teaching
Science in a Climate of
Controversy recently. On October
12 and a subsequent evening, the
call-in program "Open Line" (8-9
p.m. Central Time) on the Moody
Radio Network (WMBI in Chicago)
featured a discussion between Pattle
and Ken Ham of the Institute for
Creation Research. The number of
phone calls received indicated an
enthusiastic audience response. Pattle
felt that the atmosphere was cordial
despite implications that he elevates
science over Scripture. He appealed
for unity in presenting the gospel
to the secular world in place of
contention over details of creation.
Bradley A. Roth is a geneticist
with the Pioneer Hybrid Com
Company in Des Moines, Iowa,
after spending several years in the
Plant Gene Expression Center of the USDA Regional Lab in Albany,
California. Brad received his Ph.D.
in 1987 at Iowa State in Ames,
where he worked under corn geneticist Don Robertson.
Alan E. Van Antwerp of Big
Rapids, Michigan, retired last year
from Ferris State University, where
he and his wife had a long history
of advising the IVCF chapter. Since
retiring, Alan has lined up a
temporary teaching job through May
1990, teaching physics and BASIC
programming at Alice Lloyd College
in Pippa Passes, Kentucky.
Geologist Neill Nutter chairs the
Natural Sciences & Math Division
at the college.
Lois Visscher is a retired (?)
missionary doctor in Thailand who
discovered ASA through a visit to John & Betsy Guyer in Chiang
Mai. Lois was attracted to ASA's
Journal because its articles present
"both sides of controversial issues
with intellectual honesty while
showing respect and Christian love
for those with contrary opinions."
As a Presbyterian (USA) missionary,
she worked in Christian hospitals in
north India for 36 years, plus a
year in a government hospital in
Sudan before retiring. Doubting that
God "had withdrawn his call to
serve him in a third-world country,"
Lois found work in Thailand. She
worked in the hospital of a Khmer
(Campuchean) refugee camp, then in
the (Baptist) Kwai River Christian
Hospital (where she passed the Thai
government medical licensing exam)
and a Hmong refugee camp. Now
she does general practice and a
little obstetrics in the Christian
Hospital at Manorom run by the
Overseas Missionary Fellowship.
Since the Thai government no
longer allows foreigners to take
government licensing exams and it
is hard to attract Thai Christian
doctors to that small-town
environment, Lois expects to stay
on for a few years and then
11
really retire."
Richard Wildanger
has moved
from Los Altos, California, to
Berkeley, where he is now a
student at New College for
Advanced Christian Studies. Rich's
degree is in English, but he is
interested in science and has been
doing technical writing.
Kurt A. Wood, whose
adventures teaching chemistry in the
Muslim world have been followed
in these pages, is now at Rohm
and Haas Company in Spring
House, Pennsylvania, where he is a
senior scientist in powder coatings.
Such coatings are sprayed on
electrostatically as a powder, then
heated to form a smooth coat. Kurt
says they're nonpolluting because no
organic solvents are used and
because any powder that doesn't
stick is recycled. Kurt and Debbie
live in Wyndmoor, participate in a
small group conducive to spiritual
growth.
Frank E. Young, U.S. Food and
Drug Commissioner in Washington,
D.C., is frequently in the news
these days, mostly over FDA's new
policy for speedier approval of
therapeutic agents for AIDS and
other life-threatening diseases. A
trustee at Fourth Presbyterian
Church of Bethesda, Maryland, he
was recently appointed to the board
of World Vision. In an interview in
the Sept 8 issue of Christianity
Today, Frank spoke of ethical
issues faced by public officials, of
how he as a Christian copes with
the pressures of his job, and of the
effect on the Young family when
son John was paralyzed in a wrestling accident three years ago:
"Wefelt the power of prayer, the
upholding presence of God as we
never did before." Frank has felt little animosity toward his Christian
commitment, but wouldn't let it
bother him if he had. After all, he
says, "life is a parenthesis with eternity on either side."
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Grand Rapids, MI 49506, tel. 616-957-6340. Clinical Psychology: tenure track position beginning 1/90. Competency in administration &
interpretation of intelligence & objective personality tests, projective techniques, behavioral assessment methods, & ability to train students
in "an integrative approach to assessment." Needs strong report writing skills. Will also advice students in Psy.D. program. Contact: Dean,
Graduate Sch. of Psych., Fuller Theological Seminary, 180 N. Oakland Ave., Pasadena, CA 91101.