NEWSLETTER

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AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION - CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC & CHRISTIAN AFFILIATION

VOLUME 30 NUMBER 6                                                                 DECEMBER 1988/JANUARY 1989

MAYBE A MIRACLE

We greet you in the name of Jesus, whose birth will soon be celebrated around the world. In Christ the cosmic Creator came light-years more than halfway to meet us, to the crust of a satellite of a medium star, in a perennially dangerous region, in a smelly stable via a human womb. He entered geography and history (and chemistry and biology) to participate intimately in the lives of all who welcome him as Lord and Savior.

Like other scientists, we look for causes and effects. Yet our eyes are also open to miracle because we believe we have experienced one. Confronting other improbable events, we're neither voraciously skeptical nor desperately gullible. Life as it comes seems rather miraculous. (This is written after an Oakland "A" miracle failed to occur, and while the Denxxrus were, hoping for one Ed.)

It may not be miraculous but it's at least remarkable that in 1988 we complete our nineteenth year of editing this Newsletter. Our files and piles are still in a mess. Maybe by some miracle we'll get organized, though we're inclined to doubt that it will happen in the last months of this year. In this decade? Well, if not, it could still happen in this century.

Realism. That's us. We believe that God is real, that he really entered this world in Jesus Christ. May your life be anchored in reality as you worship him at Christmas, as you serve him in the coming year.

This story is not about Berkeley, but about all that went on, and went wrong, this fall in Ipswich. ASA executive director Bob Herrmann, due back from his sabbatical in England a few weeks hence, may be as surprised to read this as we were to see a Savings & Loan manager this morning in convict stripes. (With so many S&Ls in financial trouble, we hope it was just a Halloween costume Ed.). In Ipswich, everything is probably back in place by now.

Ruth Hardy is back in the ASA office, anyway, after giving birth to Noah James on August 31. One day when we called we got an inoperative answering machine that wouldn't even speak to us. We kept calling until a human voice answered, but it wasn't Frances Polischuk, whom we expected to be holding the fort. She was out for a month, too, recovering from a cholecystectomy. Was it managing editor Nancy Hanger? No, it was fill-in Vikki Melvin. Nancy was laid up in bed with a broken vertebra after being thrown from a horse. A back brace propped Nancy up for her October 8 wedding. (And keeps bracing her up!-Man. Ed.) Her home computer has kept ASA publications more or less on track.

What happened to the Sept/Oct Newsletter? The printer (Rowley) got it out it on time but a glitch at the mailer (Heritage) held up the mailing three weeks. At last report, despite a massive changeover to a new computer system at Science Press, the December issue of Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith is running on time. Unless the system is virus-infected, of course.

This will be the third meeting of FCB. Years ago, the American Society of Biological Chemists (now ASBMB) met with the five other societies of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). When the "Federation" meetings grew so large that few cities could hold them, the biochemists began meeting separately. In 1988 FASEB and ASBMB met together *in Las Vegas and FCB met jointly with the Federation Christian Fellowship, which had been founded some thirty years before by Walt Hearn and the late Kurt Weiss. Speaker Bob Herrmann discovered that some in attendance had not even heard of ASA.

Sparkplug behind FCB is Paul Craig of Ann Arbor Michigan, who does research at Henry Ford Hospital in' Detroit. When Paul was working on his Ph.D. at Ann Arbor, a roommate came back from a meeting of the American Nuclear Society with word about the Christian Nuclear Fellowship. Paul began to pray that something like that would happen at the biochemists' meetings. When the 1986 call for abstracts arrived, he got up his nerve to reserve a room for a breakfast at the Washington, D.C., meeting. The year before, a biochem grad student at North Carolina had come to Ann Arbor to visit the charismatic Word of God community with which Paul's household is associated. At the Washington meeting, the two friends went to the room Paul had reserved, wondering if anyone else would show.

Twenty-five people came to that first meeting, some eager to continue a Fellowship of Christian Biochemists. FCB met again in Philadelphia in 1987, in Las Vegas in 1988, and now San Francisco in 1989. The mailing list has about sixty names, with only one or two ASA members. A larger list of Christians in biochemistry is now being put together. Paul Craig seems to share Walt Hearn's dream of someday seeing a "Federation" of Christian professional societies, each with its own agenda but occasionally meeting together.

Durwood Ray of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, suggested the topic for discussion. He had seen an article by William Provine, "Scientists, Face It! Science and Religion Are Incompatible," in The Scientist (5 Sept 1988). Provine, a Cornell University biologist and science historian, had made similar remarks at the 1987 (?) Systematics Conference in Chicago, reported by Paul Nelson at the 1987 ASA Annual Meeting. At that conference, Provine denounced evolutionary biologist Francisco Ayala for positive statements about religion in the preface of Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences (1984).

A number of responses to Provine's blast appeared in a subsequent issue of The Scientist, but Walt says every Christian in science should pray about effective ways to respond to such nonsense.

3. Kenneth J. Van Dellen sent us a heart-warming story of his efforts to help a Christian student from Sierra Leone. Just when the Christian Reformed Church began focusing on a hunger project in Sierra Leone, Ken discovered that Kabba M. Jalloh, from the same tribal region, was enrolled at Macomb College where Ken teaches geology. Kabba (pronounced Ka-BAH) was in the U.S. to study agriculture-just the kind of person the CRC missionaries were hoping to find for the long haul. A lot of things came together, and soon Ken was helping Kabba transfer to CRC's Dordt College in Iowa, which has an outstanding progam in agrigulture.

Kabba is an exceptional student intent on going back to Sierra Leone to work. He has no money, so Dordt has set up a special account which Ken is committed to fund. Faculty colleagues held a fund-raising event. Ken has raised several thousand dollars but needs more. Checks should be made out to Dordt College, designated for Kabba Jalloh. Contributions are tax deductible. Send to Third World Students Fund, Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA 51250. For the full story, write Ken Van Dellen, 1018 Nottingham Rd., Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230.

5. Don't shoot! Street-level gun control seems to generate more correspondence than nuclear arms control. Jim Patrick of Staunton, West Virginia, felt we had finally balanced things out in the Oct/Nov issue, and recommended an article by James Wright, "Second Thoughts About Gun Control," in The Public Interest (Spring 1988). Jim couldn't resist asking how we thought the parable would have come out if the Lord had set it up so that the Good Samaritan arrived just as the robbers were beginning to attack the hapless traveler: would he have waited until the traveler was left for dead, then gone to his aid with bandtges?

From the other end of the gun barrel came a letter from Tim Wallace of Bedford, Massachusetts. An electrical engineer whose research has been supported largely by the military, Tim is evidently no dovish wimp, but he supports an organization called Handgun Control. To him the propaganda tactics of the National Rifle Association are on a par with those of the Tobacco Institute (which continues to argue that nobody knows whether or not cigarettes are harmful). For example, Tim thinks the NRA's push for unrestricted sales of (fully) automatic weapons and machine guns, currently outlawed, is inexcusable. He said a lot of other stuff, too, but said he'd understand if we didn't print it. Christians are divided too much already, and none of us wants a shooting war to break out in ASA.

By December, an August meeting is hardly news anymore, but we want to whet your appetite for the 1989 ASA ANNUAL MEETING, to be held AUGUST 4-7 at INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY (new name for Marion College) at MARION, INDIANA. Actually, December is a good time to start thinking about a paper (1989 keynote theme: BIOMEDICAL ETHICS) or corresponding about some project so you can sit down and talk it over at the 1989 meeting.

Members are invited to contribute papers on any subject relating science and faith. On the Pepperdine program, for instance, various papers explored the integration in which ASAers have always been interested. A paper on hierarchy theory in science/faith interaction by psychologist Marvin McDonald (The King's College, Edmonton, Alberta) was quite philosophical. So was a paper on Christian views of science by physicist Seung-Hun Yang (Kyungpook National University, Taegu, Korea). Biochemist Jack Haas (Gordon College, Wenham, MA) reviewed A. R. Peacocke's God and the New Biology and Peacocke's perspective of critical realism. Physicist Jim Neidhardt (NJ Inst. Technol., Newark) spoke on the epistemological symmetry of the dependence of reason on faith in both science and theology.

How to interpret biblical passages on origins is a familiar but seldom dominant topic at ASA meetings. Physicist John Frederickson (Rolling Hills, CA) discussed "Genesis 1, and Cosmic Background Radiation." Paleontologist J. -D. Stewart refuted claims that the more or less vertical position of a fossil whale found in California provided evidence for rapid deposition in the flood of Noah.

Several papers dealt with conflict on a relatively small scale. Psychologist Stan Lindquist (Link Care, Fresno, CA) examined conflict resolution in the church, with a number of case studies. Sociologist David Moberg (Marquette U., Milwaukee, WI) tackled hypocrisy as a source of conflict within families, churches, and larger Christian groups, with special attention to "selective indignation" toward the sins of others. The social and behavioral sciences can help Christians find biblically based solutions.

Physicist George Bate (Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA) blasted the violence inherent in American politics. Physiologist Tom Hoshiko (Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH) charged that animal rightists consciously or unconsciously denigrate the status of human beings.

Have we missed any papers unrelated to the keynote theme of "Science, Weapons, and Hope"? Probably, including an exciting live demonstration by physicist Paul Arveson (Silver Spring, MD) of the computerized index of 50 years of ASA's Journal. And we mustn't leave out an overview of the whole publishing process by ASA managing editor Nancy Hanger (After all, she's our boss.-Ed.)

HAWKS, DOVES, AND OWLS

0mithologist Frank Cassel of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs wasn't at the 1988 ASA Annual Meeting to identify the species contributing to the keynote theme, "Science, Weapons, and Hope." Let's just say that hawks, doves, and owls were probably all represented, as even the titles seemed to indicate.

Several papers seemed to be sounding warnings for the U.S. to keep up its military guard in the dangerous world we live in. For example, philosopher David Siemens (Mesa, AZ) spoke "In Defense of Nuclear War," and John Munday (CBN University, Virginia Beach, VA) on "Biblical Principles of War." Political scientist Oskar Gruenwald (Inst. for Interdisciplinary Res., Santa Monica, CA) showed the film  "Agents of Deception," in a discussion on Soviet peace campaigns as a threat to the rest of the world.

At what may have been the opposite end of a spectrum were warnings of at least the spiritual danger of maintaining a belligerent posture in a world loaded with misunderstanding as well as destructive weaponry. Veteran peacemaker Harold Hartzler (Goshen, IN) emphasized Matthew 5:44, Jesus' words on loving our enemies and doing good to those who hate us. Harold Northrup (Pawcatuck, CT) weighed the possibility of a safer and more humane world, suggesting some practical steps for getting there. (Can you believe that Northrup, who went on ASA's 1987 China tour, is the senior of these two Harolds?-Ed.)

Among the most compelling papers on the keynote them were two papers by Christians who work on nuclear weapons. Sid Niemeyer and Doug Phinney asked, "Is There Hope for One Who Works in a Nuclear Weapons Lab?" Both participate in the weapons development process at the Livermore Lab in California. Not everyone in the audience agreed with their approach, but all admired them for speaking from their own experience and continuing to examine their work from a Christian perspective.

Talk about controversy! One paper with controversy built into it was presented by a father-and-son team from the weapons community in Livennore, California. It was called "Comparative Analysis of the Nuclear Weapons Debate: Campus and Developer Perspectives." One author was materials scientist Jack Swearengen, who was shifted into weapons development work a few years ago by his company, Sandia Corp. 'Me other was his son Peter, a campus anti-war activist at U.C. Santa Barbara. Father and son have carried on a sharp but good-natured debate over the years. They managed to convey the spirit of their confrontation, a good many facts and "counter-facts," and a kind of strategy for coping with such strong differences between Christians.

Giving the Swearengen & Swearengen paper additional intensity was the fact that lack had been reaasigned to the Pentagon in Washington since the signing of the -INF-treaty, and was about to enter "the belly of the beast" to participate in the verification process. Jack Swearengen is one Christian who knows about arms control from the inside. A lot of us are anxious to hear his next ASA paper.

For the time being, God seems to want Dave Fisher at the U.S. Center for World Mission in Pasadena, California, where Jim Buswell and several other ASAers have preceded him. Having moved from Wheaton, Illinois, this summer, Dave hopes to meet many others for fellowship and for interviews for his Radio Academy of Sciences programs, beamed into Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union by the Slavic Gospel Association.

In addition to RADAS, though, Dave Fisher has a new assignment related to the missionary incentive provided by the approaching end of the 20th century. Missionary broadcasters now transmit the gospel in 170 languages, understood by more than 90% of the world's population. The four major broadcasters (Trans World Radio; Far East Broadcasting Co.; HCJB of Voice of the Andes; ELWA of SIM) hope to raise that to 97% by the year 2000. That would include every language spoken by a million or more people-a total of at least 276 languages.

Speakers and other broadcast participants are being sought in many languages you've never heard of. "Go ye into all the world"? How about "Go, Ye"? Yes, Yi is one of the Chinese languages, like Zhuang and Tujia, to be added to Mandarin, Cantonese, and several others already broadcast into China.

If you or a friend speaks a language that may fit into these objectives, contact Dave Fisher at "World by 2000," 1605 Elizabeth St., Pasadena, CA 91104. Or phone him at (818) 398-2490 or talk to his computer via MCI Mail ID. 353-0889. Or, on a smog- free day, you could try smoke signals.

After retirement, Marvin and his wife Florence moved to a home on the edge of the Firs Conference Grounds in Bellingham. He served on the Firs board of directors. He is survived by his wife (who also taught at San Diego State), two daughters, and three grandchildren. F. Alton Everest, who sent us this information, remembers Marvin as something of an iconoclast. He was "a researcher at heart, reaching ahead toward unexplored territories in science, and also in his studies of the relationship of science to his Christian faith."

Jan's challenge to work toward redemption of the world, not merely to "play games with abstract ideas from our imaginations," was itself challenged: abstract matherntics has often proved to be practically useful to later generations. After that exchange the discussion ranged widely, including such topics as biblical numerology and the meaning of the trinity. From such intellectual arguments, the tenor of the meeting returned to testimony of the significance of faith in Jesus Christ in individual lives.

Dave Wilcox earned his Ph.D. in population genetics at Penn State with research on the evolution of energetics in vertebrate predator-prey systems. He began teaching biology at Edinboro State College in 1970, has taught at Eastern since 1975. He currently chairs ASA's Creation Commission and served as a consultant on Teaching Science in a Climate of Controversy. His paper on "A Taxonomy of Creation" appeared in JASA vol. 38, pp. 244-250 (Dec 1986).

In May 1988, Ken's announcement that executive director Bob Herrmann would be in the area, and that a paper would be given by psychologist Paul Cameron of the Family Research Institute (P.O. Box 2091, Washington, DC 20013), drew about two dozen registrants to Denver University for an initial meeting. Cameron's paper asked, "Did the American Psychological Association Misrepresent Scientific Material to the U.S. Supreme Court?" He was referring to an amicus curiae brief in the "Georgia sodomy case" (Bowers vs. Hardwick). Cameron challenged APA's claim that early childhood sexual exoperiences have no direct relationship to later sexual orientation, citing the same studies referenced in APA's brief. A. P. Bell et al., Sexual Preference (Indiana U. Press, 1981); W. G. Stephan, J. Abnormal Psychology 82, 506 (1973); and M. D. Storms, J. Personality & Soc. Psychology 38, 783 (1980).

After that lively beginning, three members of the organizing committee, psychologist John Vayhinger, chemist Pamela Veltkwnp, and Ken Olson, met on July 30 to take stock and make further plans. After expenses, $5 registrations from the May event plus local "dues" of $5 left a net $173 to work with. Pam was asked to prepare a letter, to be signed by the whole committee, applying for official status from the ASA national office. Ken prepared a finanial report. John volunteered to give a paper at a meeting tentatively set for November 5.

Things were really rolling by September 10 when the committee met again. John Vayhinger and Eldon Hitchcock were nominated as co-chairs; Ken as secy.-treasurer; Eldon and Karl Evans as program chairs; and Bill Bryan, Gordon Brown, and Pam as members-at-large of the new section's council. Ken had heard that former ASA president V. Elving Anderson would be in Colorado in November, so they went after him as speaker.

From the ASA directory and acquaintances of members, the new Rocky Mountain Section already has a mailing list of 200. (Instead of waiting for the sequel, "Rocky Il," how about stirring up some ASA action in your vicinity?-Ed.)

PERSONALS

Cheryl & Robert Dykstra are a newly married ASA couple in graduate school at the U. of Wisconsin in Madison. Both are 1988 graduates of Calvin College. Cheryl, whose B.S. is in biology, is interested in nutritional ecology and is studying in the dept of wildlife ecology. Bob has a B.S. in chemistry and is doing his work in organic chemistry.

Randall D. Davy received his Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry from Texas A. & M. University this spring. He now has a postdoctoral appointment at the U. of Georgia in Athens, working with Prof. Fritz Schaefer at the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry.

Robert C. Frost of Escondido, California, has been in a ful-time lay "ecumenical ministry of the Holy Spirit" since 1970. His five books on the Holy Spirit's place in Christian life and many articles have brought Bob invitations to speak in Protestant, Catholic, and nondenominational charismatic meetings all over the world. This fall, for instance, he conducted missionary leadership seminars in Taiwan. Bob has a B.A. from Reed College and an M.A. and Ph.d. in biology from Rice. He served on the faculties of Baylor Medical School, Evangel and Westmont Colleges, and Oral Roberts University before leaving academic life. At ORU he chaired the Natural Science Dept for three years. 

Norman L. Geisler is a theologian who heads Quest Ministries in Dallas, Texas. In January 1989 Quest will move to Lynchburg, Virginia, where Norm will host a Christian "Firing Line"-type program on the LBN TV network. He will also direct the Liberty Center for Christian Scholarship, a new venture to foster Christian writing in areas crucial to penetrating American culture. Norm will do some teaching in the Liberty University Graduate School but remain on the visiting faculty of Dallas Seminary.

Arthur W. Hill of Wyckoff, New Jersey, is headmaster of Hawthorne Christian Academy in Hawthorne, New Jersey. Art was formerly headmaster of Lexington Christian Academy in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Edward R. Huff is on a year's sabbatical from the U. of Maine agricultural engineering department. He and wife Ellen have settled into Valley, Nebraska (near Omaha), where Ed is woridng a Stirling engine project at Valmont Industries. He's surprised to find only 9 ASAers in Nebraska and 2 in the Omaha area. "Must we be loners," he asks, "while groups in both the Christian and scientific camps flourish by insisting that Bible and science are antithetical? How can we promote ASA's view, accepting the validity of both God's Word and his world, and allowing for differences in biblical interpretation in the Christian community?"

Glenn L Kirkland of Bethesda, Maryland, a physicist retired from Johns Hopkins's Applied Physics Lab, has appeared in a second video about his wife Grace's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Marquette sociologist Dave Moberg spotted a review of Caregiving with Grace in The Gerontologist (April 1988). The reviewer called the earlier Living with Grace "superb," but felt that the sequel should have focused more on Glenn, the caregiver, and less on Grace, the Alzheimer victim. Glenn's narration "hints at his frustration, his sadness, his anger, but his feelings are restrained and never explored."' The review recommends that professional caregivers see the two videos together to observe the progression of this debilitating disease from the moderate to late stages. (Caregiving with Grace, 28 min., color, 1987, is available for rent or sale from Dept. of Physical Therapy, U. of Maryland School of Medicine, 32 So. Green SL, Baltimore, MD 21201.)

Randall A. Kok of Decatur, Illinois, is a chemist who with John A. Taylor and Walter L. Bradley (Texas A. & M.) published "A Statistical Examination of Self-Ordering of Amino Acids in Proteins" in Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere (Vol. 18, pp. 135-42. 1988). A reprint of that paper, refuting some of the exaggerated deterministic claims of Sidney Fox and others, is available for $1.50 from Reasons to Believe, P.O. Box 5978, Pasadena, CA 91107. Reasons to Believe is an evangelistic and apologetic ministry founded by astronomer Hugh Ross, a consultant for ASA's Teaching Science in a Climate of Controversy. Books by Thaxton-Bradley-Olsen (Mystery of Life's Origins) and R. Shapiro (Origins) skeptical of origin-of-life claims are $10 each from Reasons to Believe.

W. Scott McCullough completed his Ph.D. in physics at Purdue in August and is now a postdoctoral research associate in the physics dept. of Oklahoma State U. in Stillwater. He is studying the statistical mechanics of models related to the ripple phase of lipid bilayers. He and wife Ann are also trying to reach out in the Lord's name to international students.

Don C. Miller dropped in at the Newsletter office all the way from Peace Dale, Rhode Island, in July. Don and wife Ellen were visiting their daughter Lynn, who with husband Mark Baker is studying at New College Berkeley before going back to Christian service in Honduras. Don is a research aquatic biologist at EPA's Environmental Research Laboratory in Narragansett, with a Ph.D. from Duke. He says he's a relatively new member of ASA, but knows

Wilbur Bullock and Charles Hummel. When Don was a student and a new Christian, Charlie encouraged him to get his doctorate and go into secular teaching, which Don did for ten years (mostly at Queen's in New York) before going to work for the Environmental Protection Agency.

Lawrence Molnar is a visiting assistant professor in the dept. of physics & astronomy at the University of Iowa. Larry moved to to Iowa City in September, from Arlington, Massachusetts.

Thomas Morton is the new religion writer for the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph. Colorado Springs has become an evangelical hot spot, site of international headquarters of Young Life, The Navigators, Compassion International, International Bible Society, Christian & Missionary Alliance, evangelists James Irwin and Nicky Cruz, and now Students for Origins Research. Tom was formerly religion writer for the Beaumont (TX) Enterprise, where he won the 1987 Thomas Stokes Award for environmental reporting, for his investigation of a hazardous-waste disposal company. Tom has a B.A. from Miami U. (OH) and an M.Div. (1983) from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

David L. Nenvquist, it turns out, IS head of the physics department at Tunghai University in Taichung (as reported in the Aug/Sep 1988 Newsletter), but Taichung is in Taiwan, Republic of China, NOT the People's Republic of China. That error leaves the editor with egg (foo yung) on his face, but we're glad that Mrs. Wayne Newquist of Kearney, Nebraska, corrected it-before sending that issue on to her son Dave-Ed.

Armand M. Nicholi, Jr., professor of psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School, was a plenary speaker at the ASA/CMS Imago Dei Symposium at Gordon College in June. He is also editor of The New Harvard Guide to Psychiatry (Harvard U. Press, 1988), an update of a similar volume published ten years ago. A review in American Journal of Psychiatry praised the new work for being authoritative and up-to-date without technical jargon: "It has something for everybody--clinician, researcher, student, teacher, and anyone else interested in the psychiatric field."

Wayne D. Norman is now assistant professor of psychology at Redeemer College in Ancaster, Ontario. He moved there from Northwestern College in Iowa. Wayne teaches experimental psych and has research interests in hemispheric laterality and in human choice behavior on operant schedules.

Kenneth D. Racke has left the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and is now working for Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan. Ken is a senior research chemist in the Pesticide Environmental Chemistry Group of Dow's Agricultural Products Department. He studies the fate and biodegradation of pesticides in soil. Ken, who hails from the Chicago area, seems glad to have midwestern soil to work with once again.

Neal J. Redmond has moved from Florida to Huntsville, Alabama, where he leads SASC's Survivability Technology Development (STD) program, funded by the U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command. The purpose of STD is to develop survivable components for the ground segment of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). What SASC stands for we're not sure, but Neal, a physicist, says he received SASC's five-year service award in June.

James W. Sire, senior editor of InterVarsity Press, is happy to see the "updated and expanded edition" of The Universe Next Door (IVP, 1988; $8.95) in print at last. The book has served as A Basic World View Catalog (its subtitle) since it was first published in 1976. Jim has added new material to the excellent chapter on "Naturalism" (i.e., scientific materialism), citing secular humanism and Marxism as two examples of "naturalism in practice." Jim has also substituted Shirley MacLaine for Carlos Castaneda as prime exemplar of "New Age" thought. What he didn't have room for in the book went into Shirley MacLaine & the New Age Movement (1988), one of IVP's new "Viewpoint" pamphlets. Jim's Bible study, Meeting Jesus, also appeared in 1988, from Harold Shaw Publishers (Box 567, Wheaton, IL 60189; $2.95 plus $1 p&h). Jim now spends about 70% of his time in direct campus ministry, but he took time out in October to represent IVP at the internationally famous Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany.

Brian P. Sutherland of Victoria, B.C., is a retired mining industry chemist and founding chair of the board of Regent College in Vancouver. In April, Brian gave a brief homily during a ceremony unveiling the cornerstone of a new $5.4 million building which will house the 18-yearold graduate school of theology. He compared Regent to a plant made stronger by numerous "re-pottings," and encouraged faculty to continue planting and watering the "good seed" of the Word of God.

Jack S. Swenson left chemistry about thirteen years ago to become co-pastor of the First Baptist Church of Flagstaff, Arizona, later known as Flagstaff Christian Fellowship. Since resigning from that post in 1987 he has been general director of the Flagstaff Mission to the Navajos (FMN), which in 1988 celebrated forty years of ministry to the Navajo Nation. The Navajo constitute the largest Indian tribe in the U.S., growing at a rate that may double their population of 200,000 in ten to fifteen years. jack says that cultural differences tend to make Christian witness to the Navajo difficult, with only about seven percent of the tribe now calling themselves Christian.

Davis A. Young, professor of geology at Calvin College in Michigan, reports that his Christianity and the Age of the Earth is now back in print, available from Artisan Sales, P.O. Box 2497, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360. Single copies are $8.50 postpaid; ten or more, $4.50 apiece. (We could never understand why this "modem classic," originally published by Zondervan in 1982, was allowed to go out of print. Dave's book discusses the earth's age from the standpoint of church history, scientific evidence, philosophy, and Christian apologetics, readably but with excellent documentation. We don't know much about Artisan, but we say Hooray for them!-Ed.)

PEOPLE LOOKING FOR POSITIONS: Douglas B. Kennard (2201 Riverside Dr., Apt. 108, Columbus, OH 43221) seeks a position in sociology, preferably in a medium-sized college or university. Doug is married, has a B.A. in political science (U. of Denver), a Masters in International Management, and a Ph.D. in rural sociology (Ohio State, 1987). Doug has packed a lot into his 40 years, including rural development as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal (1971-73) and as a U.S. AID adviser in Mali (1978-79), both in West Africa; as an analyst for several firms and a part- time social science research assistant for the Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation at Battelle Memorial Institute (1980-81); as a full-time asst. prof. of sociology at Warner Southern College in Florida (1983-85); as academic adviser for engineering students at Ohio State (1985-87); as a adjunct prof. of economics at Franklin U. and of sociology at Columbus State Community College (1987-88); and as consultant to Mercy Corps International (Portland, OR) on African village-level assistance projects (current). Doug's Christian critique of development perspectives was published in JASA (Vol. 36, No. 3, Sept 1984).

POSITIONS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE: Whitworth College: director of academic computing; M.S. in computer science or related field required, background in VAXIVMS and application software for microcomputers desirable; to administer a 2-yr, S652K Murdock Foundation Grant for academic computing, then teach 2 courseS/YT. Contact Academic Computing Search Committee, Personinel Office, Whitworth College, Spokane, WA 99251. (Call 509-466-3202 to see if this one has been filled.) Calvin College: tenure-track position, possibly also a 2-yr temporary replacement, in physics for Sept 1989; M.S. required, Ph.D. preferred. Contact Dr. John Van Zytveld, Chair, Physics Dept, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI 49506. Also, tenure track position in math education, computer science, or mathematical statistics for dept. with 18 faculty, nearly 100 majors at jr/sr level. Contact Prof. Sanford Leestma, Chair, Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI 49506. Bethel College: tenure-track post in sociology for fall. 1989; Ph.D. or ABD, preferably with applied emphasis (urban; social problems). Contact Dr. H. David Brandt, Provost, Bethel College, 3900 Bethel Dr., St. Paul, MN 55112. Wheaton College: tenure-track position in developmental genetics, beginning Aug 1989; Ph.D. required, teaching experience preferred; opportunities for research; closing date Dec 15. Contact: Dr. Dorothy F. Chappell, Chair, Dept. of Biology, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL 60187. King's College: tenure-track positions in mathematics (w/computing science) and experimental psychology; Ph.D. (or be very close) required, research required. Canadian citizens & permanent residents only, due to Immigration regs. Positions commence July 1, 1989. Send application, curriculum vitae, copies of transcripts, 3 letters of reference to: Dr. S. Keith, Academic V.P., The King's College, 1076697 St., Edmonton, AB, Canada T511 2ML Tel. (403) 428-0727. Messiah College: full-time faculty position in Inorganic chemistry, fall 1989. Ph.D. in inorganic chem. required. Responsibilities include teaching inorganic cbem. and introductory cbem. Send inquiry and curriculum vitae to: Dr. Noel Falk, Chair, Dept. of Natural Sciences, Messiah College, Grantham, PA 17027.