From the brief profile it sounds as though Mr. Fujimura is doing the Lord's work in a much needed area of cultural influence. And I'm glad to see that WORLD is promoting his work. But with that said, I have to ask:
HAS EVERYONE AT WORLD LOST THEIR MINDS????
If you had chosen the Indonesian Christian community, which has had to endure their daughters having their heads cut off and their churches destroyed, bombed, and raided by government-protected thugs and raging jihadists, I would have loudly applauded. Or if you had picked an arrested leader of the underground church in China, I would have concurred whole-heartedly. All of these stories, and many more like it, have been covered in WORLD's pages over the past year.
But to appoint Mr. Fujimora - who again I think is doing excellent work and WORLD is right to recognize - as the "Daniel of the Year" is just so over the top it is hard to put it into words. Oh, the horror of bad art reviews! And how does one survive the trevail of living in an art studio in Manhattan! Oh, the humanity!!!
Shame on you, WORLD. This is nothing more than Ivory Tower snobbery.
I could have said it better, but I have to admit that I'm still a little hot about it. Mr. Fujimora sounds like a man worthy of respect and praise -- but he is no Brother Andrew, and I doubt he pretends to be so. My beef is not with Mr. Fujimora, but with the evangelical clowns at WORLD who decided that this was the most courageous Christian individual of the year? Note that they are giving out the DANIEL award. Remember that Daniel was faithful in the face of certain (in human terms, at least) death.
For a moment I forgot if I was reading the New York Times or WORLD.
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Dear Mr. Poole,
This is one of the clowns at World--the letters editor. If you could care for your post to be considered for the Mailbag section, please re-send it to our letters address mailbag at worldmag dot com.
Thanks much.
Cordially,
Les Sillars
I've been reading WORLD lately too and have been disappointed over and over by its poor editorial taste and clumsy polemics. I'm sure your confusion over whether you were reading WORLD or the New York Times cleared when you remembered that NYT is generally very well-written.
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