re:RQ
Babeling on about Unity
Joseph L. Maxwell
April 1, 1997
One of my mentors, Marvin Olasky, forced me reluctantly to acknowledge and to own the Reformed fact that the best, most truthful journalism cannot be achieved through mere common-grace, AP-style, he-said, she-said reporting. Real truth-telling comes rather, insists Olasky, when reporting is done from "God's eye." That is to say this: only as writers submit their craft to Christ, his word, and his Spirit can they truly make sense of the world's events via the ultimate objectivity of God. When it comes to considering the idea of multiculturalism, I return to my friend and mentor's basic premise: just as journalism will only truly work to the extent it is attempted in the light of transcendent truth, the whole glitzy concept of multiculturalism must be filtered through God's eye or face despondent defeat. Let's be honest: God emphatically crushed the Bible's only scientific attempt at unity. As humanity joined in common cause, God squashed Babel into a confused multiplicity of languages and cultures. In a day and age when, as rq managing editor Peter Edman has noted, the typical sidewalk vendor in Washington, DC, offers hot dogs, tacos, pizza, and egg rolls; in an era when more always seems better, so "multi" seems always positive and "anti" seems naturally negative; in a decade when various renewal and "revival" movements amidst the American church, perhaps more cohesively than those top-down efforts orchestrated by Ivy League commissions, visibly champion unity and reconciliation as prerequisites to convincing God to move—in such times as these, it is tempting to "lower the standard" (even that phrase sounds snobbish these days, doesn't it?). We live in a multicultural society in America. With growing rapidity, moreover, ...
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