In This Month's Report:
* Editorial - Nuclear Giants and Ethical Infants
* May Events - King's College under threat
* May Ministry - See who we ministered with in May
* Update - David Cartledge
* Tips and Resources - Home School Super Search
* Products - Two new resources (see link below)
* Partnership - Invest in God's program for the Northeast of America

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"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.... The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." - General Omar Bradley

INTR0DUCTION

The last hundred years have seen an explosion in technology. We have gone from the first flight with the Wright Brothers in 1903 to walking on the moon in 1969. Jet flight and the Nuclear Age gave way to the Space Age, which gave birth to the Information Age, which has exploded since then. Is there any limit to our technological expertise? Should there be any moral 'brake' to slow us down from what could be a technological calamity as a result of unrestrained development? Just because we can do it, should we do it?

AT WHAT COST?

Stem cell research is but one area where there is an unclear line between the positive motive of improving quality of life for those who have suffered a disability, and taking one life to preserve another. If a benefit is gained at the expense of embryonic life, then this is where technology and ethics collide! The question is, if adult and umbilical cord stem cells are available, why is there a persistence for the use of embryonic stem cells? The answer to this is that ethics and morality have not kept pace with the unfettered growth of technology.

culture of narcissism

Ethics must have as its ultimate aim the preservation, extension and multiplication of life, not from a uni-generational perspective, as our egocentric generation tends to think, but with a multi-generational viewpoint. Mark Steyn hits it right on the head, "Essentially modern post-Christian Europe, and Canada, and large parts of the United States... have replaced the traditional impulses of civilization, which is to breed, prosper, to expand and survive, with a culture of narcissism. I'd like to have... meaningless, promiscuous sex, and just think about myself all day long, and all week long, and all year long. But in the end, when you prioritize that, you actually destroy the culture that enables it. It's a completely absurd culture and brazen. And that's what we've done.... Most societies have built into their DNA the need to survive, the need to prosper, and the need to reproduce. And we have managed to lose that in an extraordinarily short period of time."

DO THE MATH!

Any culture that allows the multiplication rate to slip into the negative is a culture that values death more than life. That is what has happened in Europe, and it is getting that way here in the United States. The key word in all the foundational covenants that God made with Adam, Noah and Abraham was 'multiply!' Will we use our technology to pander to our selfish needs or will we see from God's perspective? He works multi-generationally and so should we.

The church was at one time, a strong arbiter in these issues, but has long since accepted its relegation by society to the ideological backwaters of our culture. I believe those days are coming to an end! Lord, let the church rise up and take back its rightful position of promoting life, liberty and morality. #

City Action Coalition Formation Meeting in Newark, NJ - On May 13th, myself and Walt Healy, another CAC Executive Council member, joined Pastor Gloria Harris for a formation meeting in Newark that she hosted on our behalf.

Over 40 local pastors and leaders joined us to hear about our efforts to have an impact on the Northeastern culture and see how they could be involved.

Family Research Council Hosts Second Pastor's Briefing in Washington, DC - FRC President, Tony Perkins spoke from Ezekiel 3:17 encouraging the pastors present "…to be a watchman on the wall!" Speakers and guests included Claude Allen, Assistant to President Bush on Domestic Policy, Mike Pense, from the US House of Representatives (R-IN), both of whom spoke on the dangers of stem cell research apart from adult and umbilical cord stem cells.

Other speakers were Senators Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Tom Delay (R-TX), Majority Leader in the House of Representatives, whom Tony Perkins introduced as "...a point man, they are always the first ones to come under fire...," in relation to the political attacks he has come under in recent times. The line up also included Mark Levin, renowned talk show host on New York's WABC Radio and Bill Maier who spoke on the Myths of Homosexuality.

Tommy Tenney showed a preview from a Hollywood production based on his book about Esther, called "One Night with the King." Starring Omar Sharif and Peter O'Toole, this movie promises to have a major impact similar to "The Passion."

In conjunction with this event, Bishop Harry Jackson hosted a press conference that focused on the stalling of Bush nominee, Judge Janis Brown to the Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit. The sound bite was, "Up or Down for Janis Brown!" Senator Bill Frisk joined the conference along with many other key spiritual leaders from around the nation. This was covered by all the main networks including CNN and was carried live on C-Span.

Kings College, Whose Tenure in the Empire State Building is Under Threat, Partners with City Action Coalition for Regular Meetings with New York City's Spiritual Leaders - In an article, "Board of Bozos," in the New York Post on Tuesday, March 29, 2005, Naomi Schaefer Riley wrote, "Choosing to attend The King's College, an evangelical school based in the Empire State Building, instead of George Washington University was the 'best decision of my life,' says King's freshman Anthony Randazzo. But if state Board of Regents member John Brademas has his way, students like Randazzo might have to think twice before making a similar choice.

Brademas, 78, is leading a crusade that could deny accreditation to King's — despite ample evidence of the college's quality, including the professional views of the state Education Department. At best, Brademas has shown himself (and his fellow Regents) to be severely lazy. At worst, he's shown an anti-Christian bias.

Established in Briarcliff Manor, King's College had been authorized to confer degrees by the Board of Regents since 1955. About 10 years ago, it ceased operation; then, in 1999, was purchased by Campus Crusade for Christ, which moved it to the Empire State Building. Today the college has about 260 students, who attend classes on two floors of the building and live in apartments nearby. The school's mission is to offer a high caliber academic program with a Biblical worldview in order to train students to be national leaders.

Brademas, former president of NYU and a onetime congressman from Indiana, is a new member of the board. He's already gotten that [five year] extension reduced to one year, thereby severely impairing the college's ability to recruit students and faculty.... Brademas' crank complaints impressed his fellow Regents enough that the board put off voting on the matter until its March meeting.

The school's students and faculty are 'obviously disappointed,' says the college's president, J. Stanley Oakes. 'We can't prove it and we hope it's not true, but this looks like a case of bias.' Either way, Oakes explains, 'We have no forum in which to defend ourselves.' Indeed, the board is appointed by the Legislature and is then left to its own devices, unaccountable to anyone. King's has just filed an appeal, but even that has to be addressed to the Board of Regents itself. Oakes wonders, 'How can we expect to have justice when the foxes are guarding the henhouse?'"

On May 4th, Sheila Webber of Marriage Savers, wife of B.J. Webber, former chaplain to the Yankees, was one of the guests at our CAC meeting, hosted by Kings College. To register your support for King's College, go to http://www.tkc.edu/na.htm
 

NJ Statewide Prayer Leaders Convene Inter-Generational Prayer Meeting in State House - On May 3rd, the eve of the National Day of Prayer, Pray NJ facilitated an Intergenerational Prayer Meeting in the Assembly Room of the Capitol Building, in Trenton, NJ. Over 250 intercessors declared righteousness for New Jersey in the very room where the future of the state is decided. Associate worship leader at The Church of Grace and Peace, Adam Panepinto led worship on behalf of his generation of young adults.