79. Report On The 12th Speech Of The 12-City Speaking Tour Led By Dr. Hyun Jin Moon - A Call to Action: God's Kingdom of Peace is at Hand

Tom Corley
January 31, 2007
New York

Dr. Hyun Jin Moon, accompanied by numerous bishops and pastors representing a broad spectrum of races and denominations, swept into New York on Wednesday, January 31, for the final stop on his twelve-city speaking tour across America. "A Call to Action, God's Kingdom Of Peace Is At Hand" was the theme of the tour .The location for culminating speech was the Freedom Hall Church of God in Christ, Brooklyn, NY, pastored by Bishop Cecil Riley, Co-Chair of the ACLC, New York.

As pastors, community leaders, congregation members and guests representing many organizations crowded into this sanctuary of the heart, they were welcomed with song, dance, and testimonies. ACLC General Secretary Reverend Levi Daugherty warmly greeted everyone. He first introduced Reverend Michael Jenkins, who was the emcee for the evening. Reverend Jenkins began by calling the believers together to take America back to God, saying that with faith and love we can bring peace on this earth. Bishop Henry Coaxum of the Bronx led the invocation with an emotion-filled delivery of the song "Precious Lord Take My Hand," which he said helped sustain him during the 4th World Tour. Reverend Jenkins then led everyone in the Holy Wine Ceremony, in which each couple recommitted themselves to honoring God and being faithful to each other. In introducing host Bishop Riley, Reverend Jenkins proclaimed this day the beginning of a new day of freedom in America. Bishop Riley commenced his talk by saying tonight begins a great walk of freedom: "This is your Father’s house; hear what God has to say tonight. The bishop acknowledged several important dignitaries present, including Dr. Basil Bryant, Consul General of the Jamaican Mission to the United Nations. Several bishops and pastors were called on to give greetings and two of the participants of the 4th World Tour, Reverend Harvey Kendricks and Dr. Gilda Price, offered heartfelt testimonies of their experiences on the tour. Reverend Jenkins then introduced Dr. Chang Shik Yang, National Chairman of the ACLC.

Dr. Yang shared how Father Moon has spent 34 of his golden years here in America. Why? Because America is a nation chosen by God, he said, and stands in the elder son position among the nations of the world. He stressed the elder son’s position is one of filial piety and service and that in the Korean family tradition an exemplary elder son would love his younger brothers and sisters more than his own children. Hence, Reverend Moon’s many years of sacrifice for this nation. America is externally blessed, he noted, but it is becoming internally impoverished. Dr. Yang underscored that the true owners of America are those who love it the most and help it fulfill God's destiny. He stressed how Father and Mother asked Dr. Hyun Jin Moon and his wife to represent them on this tour across America. Following Dr. Yang's remarks, the Freedom Hall Youth Ensemble energized all present with the song "Pressed to the Mark."

Archbishop George Augustus Stallings, who founded and leads Imani Temple in Washington, DC, raised the church’s atmosphere to new heights with his opening remarks. He declared: "I hope you have come with new wine skins tonight, because we are going to receive some new wine!" He admonished all not to waste their time on the couch watching soap operas and then led us in a monologue by employing the themes of several popular soap operas including: "if you are the young and restless, sitting on the edge of night, complaining about all my children, concerned about Ryan's hope more than your own, or on your way to general hospital in Dallas, TX, you may be cute and pretty, bold and beautiful -- however, if Jesus is not your guiding light, you may not search for a new tomorrow. We need new wine skins for some new wine tonight! The speaker tonight is going to take us on a journey all the way to heaven," he roared.

After walking the pews, Bishop Stallings returned to the podium to introduce Dr. Hyun Jin Moon, whom he described as a man of many responsibilities who came to America with his family at the age of 4. He was later blessed in marriage to Jun Soon Kwak, and is now the proud father of 8 children. Bishop Stallings related that Dr. Hyun Jin Moon, sensing his future responsibilities, prepared himself well by attending Columbia and Harvard universities, in addition to the Unification Theological Seminary, acquiring degrees from all three institutions. Dr. Hyun Jin Moon is currently guiding several international organizations working for the establishment of world peace. One day, he hopes, they will help enable all humanity to live as one family under God. Lauding him as "strong, energetic, charismatic and blessed by God," Bishop Stalling announced, "Ladies and gentlemen, won't you stand to your feet and welcome Dr. Hyun Jin Moon!" The crowd responded enthusiastically.

Dr. Moon began his remarks by asking if people could believe that Bishop Stallings was a Catholic priest. Bishop Stallings, who is African American, and Reverend Jessie Edwards, who is Caucasian American, were recognized by him as leaders in the effort to break down racial and denominational walls. He mentioned that he had noticed a picture of his parents in our host pastor's office and how this made him feel at home. He then asked permission from the congregation to come down from the podium and walk among them, to which all agreed.

"I can see you better this way," he said. "I can feel you better this way. Will you be with me on this journey tonight? What was the will of God? In order for us to be united we need to know the will of God. When we open the first pages of the Good Book, in the Book of Genesis we find God outlined His Plan as the Heavenly Father of all humanity and creation. God bestowed his three blessings on man. God wanted man to inherit his divinity, to multiply and have dominion of love over the creation. However, something went wrong and instead of unity and harmony, disunity and conflict emerged."

He continued, "The first Adam was unable to substantiate the will of God. As a result a second Adam was needed. Jesus came as that second Adam. Jesus’ message was a message of true love, love your enemy. Jesus in and of himself was victorious in true love. In Genesis God's will and purpose was to create an ideal family filled with true love, true life, and true lineage. Jesus came to establish this ideal true family. Isn't this why Christians see themselves as the bride awaiting the bridegroom? The ideal of building a true family was central to the ministry of Jesus. That work was cut short by his crucifixion.

"We have to go back to the will of God," he explained. "The mission of Jesus was to establish a true family that would stand as a true olive tree so that all the false olive trees could engraft to the divine lineage of God. Jesus said he would come again. Why? Why would he come again if his mission was already fulfilled? Jesus needs to come again to substantiate the ideal family.

"I am here to set the record straight tonight! There are those who say Reverend Moon does not love Jesus. My father started his mission by being anointed by Jesus to carry on his mission to build one family under God. Be careful today. We have the son of Reverend Moon in this house and my father Reverend Moon is known as an accomplished brainwasher. However, I can tell you as a son that my father has no interest in your brain. My father has always taught that God has no need for money, power, or knowledge, especially knowledge, because he knows all things. The thing that God thirsts for, longs for, is true love. Yes, my father is a washer and so am I. I am here to wash tonight, but it's not your brain. It's your heart! You want to set the record straight. My father is the master heart washer because he was anointed, appointed and approved by God to carry out the mission of bringing the human family together as one. We have Muslims in the house tonight. What did Mohamed teach? To bring peace through love. Hate cannot bring peace. Let's set the record straight before we can break down the walls. We have to understand what the will of God was in the first place. If Jesus and Mohamed were here tonight and we were to ask them, was your mission to create a religion?, what do you think they would say? Jesus was the begotten son of God. He came to fulfill God's mission, not our mission, not the churches’ mission -- God's mission. God's will is to create one family under God."

He pointed out later that "Christians have been waiting, standing in the position of a bridegroom waiting to be united so they could substantiate the will of God on earth. This is the time, this is the time. Doesn't it say in the Lord’s Prayer, "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven?" We need to open our spiritual senses and align ourselves back to God. My goodness! I need to calm down my heart is fluttering! When we talk about the will of God we are high because we understand the holiness of that purpose."

Dr. Moon shared the example of children from different races and religions playing in a sandbox and how they don't treat each other differently. Somehow we learn the wrong things as we grow up. We need to be reborn, as Jesus said. We need to be like children to enter heaven. In order to substantiate the will of God, we need to know the will of God. He again noted how central the family is and how we describe all our relationships in familial terms: she is like my older sister; he is like my father, etc.

He explained that we need to open our hearts to the expectation that God has for this day. Let us have one clarion call, he cried, "One family under God! Aju." Aju, perhaps an unfamiliar term to some, means the settlement of God with man. Dr. Moon called on several people in the congregation to repeat this rallying cry. In commenting on the night's venue, Freedom Hall Church of God, he said we need to set our Heavenly Father free. In talking about the Cold War era, he noted that the rationality of the two sides keep them from pulling the trigger. However, he said, religious conflict in this era could potentially be more dangerous: "We need to take back America so that America can show its true face to the world." He believes that if Islam sees the true face of America, they will not hate it. "The leaders of the faith traditions here have a lot of responsibility," he advised. "This nation has a providentially responsibility for God. Those of you who want to take back this nation for God," he declared, "stand up and proclaim with me, "One Family under God. Aju."

At the conclusion of the talk, flowers were presented to Dr. Hyun Jin Moon and his wife by representatives from the youth of Freedom Hall. Dr. Moon and his wife then presented golden crowns to participants in the 4th World Tour. Following this a short moving testimony was shared by Mr. Hafiz Farad, who spent time together with Dr. Moon's father, who had been unjustly imprisoned in Danbury in the early 1980s. UPF flags were presented to attending pastors and an offering was taken for the host church. Our gathering concluded with the song, "Satan, Your Kingdom is Coming Down." A blessed time was truly had by all.

Reported by Rev. Tom Corley

78. Mobilize good ancestors

Sun Myung Moon and Hyun Jin Moon
January 16, 2007
Hoon Dok Hae
Cheon Jeong Gung Museum and True Parents Visit to Blue Sea Garden and Geomundo
Translation by Kunduk Koh of unofficial notes taken by the Unification Church History Compilation Committee

The following is a summary of what Father said that day:

From now, the time has come for the good ancestors in the spirit world to be mobilized. Today is the 16th; the 16th day in the seventh year of Cheon Il Guk make yesterday and today as one, day and night as one. (Quoting the Bible) 'There was evening and there was morning.' In the same way the providential era is moving over to an era of great transition.

Any claims to one's religion, whether on the earth or in the spirit world, will be swept away. The historical figures and well-know people who appeared in human history should be brought together centering on the saints and go over to a new world that is organized anew centering on God's will.

Therefore, now is the most difficult times centering on the UN. Korea and all other nations are in a difficult situation. I should help them find their positions. You must understand how amazing and fearful is the mission of True Parents who comes with the kingship of peace. The time has come in which you should no longer observe things from human eyes.

I have to decide whether Korea can become the center of the cosmic kingship and center of heaven and earth. That is why I have to quickly commission this task. Please understand that there are such inevitable circumstances of enabling Korea to find its place. You should not criticize or refute my making haste. You must know that a time is coming that is in need of new determinations.

God wishes in His heart to unearth the difficult elements of Christianity and bring harmony. We should understand His heart and wish for that with even greater intensity.

The spirit world is already unified but the earth is still divided. How will the Unification Church fill up this gorge created by the religious spheres in which they are fighting among themselves?

The spirit world can be perfected on earth and this principle cannot be changed. That is why, the entire spirit world including all the spirit people from different levels should return to the earth and quickly have the people in their nation and tribe be blessed and offered to Heaven.

Though the currents, waves and storms of the world may come crashing to the Unification Church, we will not disappear. Knowing this ahead of time, I continued with my work. The world cannot obstruct us anymore. Everything has been announced to the world. God's will shall come to pass.

Be aware that those who are alive that oppose us shall become miserable. You should make effort to prevent this. Then the spirit world will not be able to accuse you.

The time has come. Hence I will give advice and say everything. The Word has already been declared throughout the world. Those who have a true mind to guide the world will certainly come to study the Unification Principle.

A substance that can bring Satan to natural submission must remain. It will not end until they surrender naturally on their own volition. That is why they must be educated. I have been to every single valley, gorge and dangerous place in the world.

The 1,200 who took part in the world tour would know. People thought that the Unification Church would disappear but now there is not a single person who does not know the Rev. Moon in this world. They are trying to understand my philosophy. They will find out that the Unification Church is rooted in Asia and in Korea and come here.

They should know that I speak on behalf of their ancestors and nation, and that they should align themselves in the right direction and follow me. That is how they can connect with Heaven.

The True Parent is saying these words in a place representing the world; thus you must obey these words and strengthen your resolve.

Who would have known that I had the authority to give orders to the saints in the spirit world? How could I not come forth when the five great saints had already made a resolution and declared it? If I didn't I would be violating the heavenly law. I have prayed for the Unification Church thousands of years from now.

Hyun-jin will leave tomorrow. He is going to hold a rally with the inter-religious ministers. First generation members should not prevent the second generation members from doing their job. You must support them. If the people here can unite with me we can save this nation.

What palace is this? It is the Cheon Il Guk palace. Could I have made this without knowing about Cheon Il Guk? There is a seed. God is not dead.

Do you know how much hardships I went through in order to build that peace foundation? I had to do all sorts of things. I worked my way up, from the position of servants of servants. That is why nobody can oppose me.

How many volumes of that book do we have? (We are printing out 3,000) Don't give them out for free. Sell it. Later one it will cost ten times the initial price. If there is anyone in the Unification Church who does not have this book, he should not be treated as a member.

The following is a summary of what Hyun-jin nim said that day:

True Parents have been victorious throughout the years leading up to 2006. On that foundation, God's providence has begun anew in the year 2007. What is most important is in aligning ourselves to God's providence and to His will.

Like True Parents, who lived solely for the purpose of fulfilling God's will, blessed families must become the owners of Heaven's providence. Blessed families should, in particular, become the owners of the Family Pledges which encapsulates God's will.

How will you proceed from now?

We must lead our lives centering on God's providence. To do so we must understand how True Parents led providence until now, and think about what kind of world they are trying to create.

The Abel UN providence plays a crucial role in moving this world. I have called together the Christian ministers who had taken True Parents' peace message in the recent world tours. I will be leaving for America tomorrow to meet them. Heaven has prepared everything. True Parents live according to the program set by Heaven. Many people are concerned whether peace can come to the Middle East, and long for inter-religious conflict to end. That is exactly what True Parents is doing now. Their efforts have deeply touched the hearts of many Christians and Islamic leaders. 

77. Be responsible for building a palace

Sun Myung Moon and Hyun Jin Moon
January 10, 2007
Hoon Dok Hae and the 41st Anniversary of the Founding of World CARP
Cheon Jeong Gung Museum
Translation by Kunduk Koh of unofficial notes taken by the Unification Church History Compilation Committee

True Parents entered the room a little before 5:00 AM with Hyun-jin nim, Hyung-jin nim, Jun-sook nim, Yeon-ah nim. Immediately after entering the room, True Parents and Hyun-jin nim lighted the candles on the celebration cake for the 41st anniversary of the founding of World CARP. The participants sang a congratulatory song as True Parents and Hyun-jin nim cut the cake.

Flowers were presented to True Parents by CARP representatives and W-CARP Korea President Yoo Kyung-deuk offered a gift to True Parents.

Father asked what the average age was of the Hoon Dok Hae participants. President Yoo answered that it was 30, and that most of the participants were CARP leaders and STF members.

Here is a summary of what Father said that day:

We are at an opportune moment. You should be responsible for building a palace. There isn't any need for me to help. Jesus was something of a fugitive during his thirties. I suppose you all are not fugitives, is this correct?

Have you all received the blessing?

(Indicating the participants) These people must be placed at the head. If 1/5 of the human population can consist of children of ambassadors for peace then it will be all over. The father shall become the son; the grandfather the grandchild; and the elder brother the young brother. The world must be turned upside-down.

Once you are in the spirit world, do you think you will all go to one place or to different places? (All participants answer: to one place.) If you wish to go to the same place, you must have a common something that will enable you all to go to the same place. Heaven is vast; there is no knowing where you will end up.

Your body must follow and live according to your conscience's command.

(Referring to the significance and rituals of the Blessing) It is the fragrance of the Unification Church. Without it (the Blessing) the world will perish. What do I get from going through all this hardship? The fruit of my labors continues to grow and get better. Where did the palace come from? Did we do it because we had money and a budget?

Wouldn't you be busy if you had to travel across national borders? You would be busy for sure. I've done things in an instant what would usually take thousands of years. I held 113 rallies in Washington in a year.

We should have faith in Heaven and create the heavenly kingdom. We must naturally sacrifice, invest our time and effort.

What will you do with these people (referring to the CARP leaders and STF members)?

How great would it be if I were about your age? I would have gone to ten nations in a single day.

At 7:20 AM Father instructs Hyun-jin nim to say some words of encouragement to the CARP leaders and to sing for them.

Here is a summary of what Hyun-jin nim said that day:

CARP leaders should be grateful to be here in Cheon Jeong Gung and meet True Parents. They should resolve to make a new beginning and work hard to restore the nation. Now is the time of harvest, to reap the fruits of True Parents' labors. If we fail to harvest the good crops at this time we would ruin our farming work in the next year as well.

True Parents have blessed the young leaders of YFWP and CARP and the second generation members. As Father has said, we should find and appoint even children in kindergarten as ambassadors for peace and expand this initiative. The first, second, third and even fourth generation members of the Unification Church should follow the tradition shown by the three generations of the True Family who went on the world tour centering on True Parents. You should become as one centering on God's will, and on true love, true life, and true lineage to create on great family.

To this Father added:

The ambassador for peace concept which I initiated is very important. You must understand the fact that the invisible God has been working centering on such an idea. If we have text material we should educate babies and children in kindergarten. If we can do that, this tradition will go on for eternity. We must expel Satan from babies. We must eliminate Satan's shadow and have noon-time settlement. You are like an army.

If the Unification Church can become a protective fence for all four generations of a family, wouldn't a baby ambassador for peace grow up to become a kindergarten ambassador for peace, and after going through elementary school, middle and high school, college, obtain his masters and doctorate degree, ultimately become a king of peace? This must be brought together beyond religions and nations. It must continue for three, four and even seven generations. Then anything will be possible in this world. You must come together as one in this way.

Then you will naturally become a victor.

Hyun-jin nim sings "If I can dream" saying:

God's will must unfold centering on the true lineage. This dream is important. 

76. Can The Washington Times Survive?

George Archibald
December 21, 2006

The Washington Times gets picked up every day on C-SPAN, and by other major news organizations when it scores a big hit.

But for a paper that only has a daily circulation of just 90,000 with inflated numbers, can that marvelous respectability continue?

The paper for years has been a beacon for both conservative and liberal readers for its own take on the news of the day and the direction of our culture.

Conservatives love it, liberals may hate it, but as President Bill Clinton told me personally when I was still a reporter for The Times, "I read you every day to see what you're saying about me." That was respect from a man who hated The Washington Times, but he said he felt he had to read The Washington Times every day to find out what the other side was thinking and doing.

But can that conservative-liberal, love-hate scenario that once made the low-circulation Washington Times work as a pacesetting newspaper continue?

Can The Washington Times survive and continue to be a beacon of the conservative view of America, its politics and culture, that all can look to with respect for a complete daily report from its own perspective?

I doubt it, because of a festering internal civil war within the company, featuring ideological and abusive micro-management by senior TWT editors, backed by the founder's top corporate manager at The Washington Times Corp., that has driven out the newspaper's best people over the past five years, and continues to drive people out.

The latest brain-drain victim in late December 2006, just before Christmas, was Washington Times Corp. Vice President Jonathan Slevin, executive assistant to company CEO Douglas M. Joo. Slevin told inquiring news organizations that he left voluntarily -- but I'm told confidentially by several of Slevin's close co-workers that he felt forced to leave after months of extremely intolerant abuse and rejection of him by Joo.

Slevin, according to people who know him best, just gave up and refused to continue accepting a paycheck from a company for whom he had worked for a quarter century because its current CEO, Joo, was a tyrannical maniac who listened to nobody except a coterie of arse-kissers who weren't helping better the perpetually money-losing situation of the company.

I have known Jonathan Slevin for more than a quarter century, but he understandably did not want to talk to me about this situation for a publicly posted piece.

Let me just say as a person who has dealt with Slevin over many years in different situations, some of them quite complex, involving difficult personalities and circumstances, that Jonathan Slevin is one of the finest, nicest, most erudite, capable, calm, kind, sensitive, and fair individuals I have ever dealt with, ever. He always gave his all to his employer and the job at hand.

For Jonathan Slevin to leave his post at The Washington Times executive offices abruptly, without a thank-you normally accorded to any longtime employee right down to the switchboard -- albeit nicely saying he was leaving to finish a book -- tells all who know Jonathan that something was terribly wrong in the way he departed or was forced out. Everybody who knows Jonathan Slevin knows what I am saying is correct. This man is a saintly man, and I know in my heart that he has been wronged. So herein lies the greater story.

As the first reporter hired at The Washington Times outside the founding group, and a 21-year veteran who received four Pulitzer Prize nominations from the newspaper for investigative reporting, I found from talking to people at all levels of the company after I left in September 2005 that the newspaper now has just a small cadre of reliable, experienced reporting talent. There has been a huge exodus of capable reporters and editors on all desks and at all levels over the past several years. Why?

The Washington Times can no longer claim to be the premiere conservative pacesetting newspaper in the Nation's Capital, which it was in the 1980s and 1990s, because it is no longer breaking big exclusives and blockbuster stories that overcome its puny circulation, despite its claimed access to powers in the Bush administration and on Capitol Hill.

The Wall Street Journal, which has both excellent editorial and news pages and a seasoned feisty staff in Washington that dwarfs the news and opinion product of The Washington Times every day. So does National Review magazine online, the weekly Human Events tabloid, rigidly ideologically conservative but factually dependable for breaking out important domestic and foreign news stories for readers across the country, and liberal media outlets – The Washington Post, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times.

Broadcast competition such as Fox News on the conservative side, CNN on the liberal side, and BBC, NPR, and PBS on the middle-left of the ideological spectrum also are constantly beating the socks off The Washington Times, both on the news side and in their editorial opinion offerings. Why?

Because The Washington Times no longer has a feisty newsroom. Its editorial page section is turgid and boring, and no one is picking up their stuff. The newspaper has become irrelevant.

The Washington Times' small but feisty Commentary section run by veteran editor and Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Lou Forbes continues to be the best newspaper opinion section in the country for its variety of opinion, writers who are on top of national and world stories, and originality in presenting best current views of all sorts, mainly libertarian.

But The Washington Times Commentary section is an oasis in a desert of mediocrity.

The Washington Times editorial page and op-ed page run by Tony Blankley, former press secretary to Newt Gingrich when he was House speaker, is lame beyond belief. Its regular contributors are boring and unimaginative, so why read them?

According to my daily conversations and emails with friends and former colleagues at The Washington Times, the newsroom at 3600 New York Avenue, N.E., in Washington, D.C. is in a morale slump that is so low that, as a recently retired 21-year veteran of the newspaper's national news staff and author of the newspaper's 20-year corporate anniversary coffee-table book in 2002, I cannot think of a worse period in the TWT newsroom's history since the paper's founding in May 1982 in terms of low reporter and editor morale and low productivity when it comes to really important breaking news scoops.

There are still some terrific reporters at The Times, despite the departure of some of its best talent over the past decade:

• Joyce Price is a steady national reporter who continues to produce good, complete stories on a continuing basis despite fragile health,

• Bill Gertz continues as perhaps the country's best national security reporter, along with Rowan Scarborough, terrific Pentagon reporter.

• Charles Hurt and Amy Fagan are younger very reliable and prolific Capitol Hill reporters.

But national editor Ken Hanner is just a glorified administrative secretary who does the daily news tout. He edits no stories and couldn't write his way out of a paper bag. His news judgment is on a par with a first-year college journalism student.

On the paper's metro desk, Arlo Wagner, the TWT dean of reporters who's been there from Day One, continues to prove that experience and energy count. But former metro editor Carleton Bryant -- bumped up to assistant managing editor to succeed departed AME Ken McIntyre, who recently fled after many years to join the Heritage Foundation -- is another glorified desk-jockey with little reporting expertise or news judgment.

Bryant, recently moved up the editorial ladder, succeeded McIntyre only because over the years he's been a good arse-kisser of Wesley Pruden Jr., TWT editor-in-chief, and Francis B. Coombs Jr., TWT managing editor.

There's also an unfolding scandal involving a chief photo department editor who apparently has an eye for young women photographers and, according to filed complaints, made sexual overtures to photographers as they applied and sought employment at The Washington Times. Complaints were lodged and went nowhere, upper management knew, some photo department employees left in disgust because nothing was done.

This is a bubble about to burst.

The rest of the newsroom, except foreign editor David Jones (a liberal from Canada), the fairest and best editor at The Times in the view of many, is full of anemic old reporters who no longer break exclusives and inexperienced, young new hires who couldn't find their way to a copy of the federal budget.

Scoops are almost a non-item at The Washington Times these days, throughout 2006 in particular – except the recent couple of great front-page stories by national religion writer Julia Duin about the exodus of conservative Episcopal parishes from the national U.S. Episcopal church because of the ordination of practicing homosexual Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire and the New Age mumbo-jumbo being spouted by the church's first woman national bishop, the Right Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori. (Conflict note: I am a lifelong Anglican and was confirmed in the Episcopal Church in 1957.)

The TWT business side has been a disaster for years, moribund advertising, circulation well under 100,000 daily – constantly less than the first day of publication almost 25 years ago – and a yearly money-loser despite more than $3-billion of cash infused by founder Sun Myung Moon, the controversial Korean religious evangelist and leader of the worldwide Unification Church, who also controls a huge global fishing production, mining, and manufacturing business empire.

So what is the main cause of the dramatic decline of the influence and respect for The Washington Times? Mainly its top management: Washington Times Corp. CEO Dong Moon Joo (who anglicized his first name to Douglas) and the paper's two top editors -- Wesley Pruden, scheduled to retire in five months, and Fran Coombs managing editor, who Pruden publicly announced in a TV interview would succeed him. (Don't hold your breath on that. I am told the owners don't want Coombs, so he should start circulating his resumé.)

Pruden is an unreconstructed Confederate from Little Rock, Arkansas, who still believes the South and slavery were right and President Abraham Lincoln was wrong in going against the Confederate rebellion to emancipate the slaves and save the union.

Pruden's father was a Baptist minister and chaplain for the White Citizens Council in Arkansas' worst KKK days of lynching and anti-black hatred -- not that the sins of the father are the sins of the son. But Pruden Jr. was there as a student when Central High School in Little Rock was forcibly integrated by order of the federal court and U.S. Marshals, and he is not recorded then or anywhere since as cheering that outcome.

Pruden is not a religious man or regular church member himself, has been unmarried all his life except a brief period in his young adulthood, and he hates feminists and homosexuals.

He left The Dow Jones National Observer under a cloud of accusations of manufactured quotes in stories before he came to The Washington Times as a political reporter shortly after its founding, as recently reported in a large investigative story in The Nation magazine by reporter Max Blumenthal.

Along with Coombs, who is the daily hands-on editor at the newsroom at 3600 New York Avenue, N.E., until night editors take over around 6 p.m., Pruden micro-manages the paper's news and opinion content mainly from home via computer. Pruden comes to 4 p.m. editor news conferences, slipping in and out reclusively, but few reporters in the newsroom know him or have even met him personally.

Coombs has run the paper since Pruden became editor-in-chief and elevated him to managing editor following Coomb's quick rise from national editor, when he was my boss and supervised some of our big investigative hits in the 1980s and 1990s that brought me four Pulitzer Prize nominations with Coombs' blessing. (Another conflict note, as Coombs always gave me positive yearly evaluation reports.)

However, as reported factually by The Nation's cover piece in its October 9 edition, Coombs is a raging racist who despises blacks, Jews, and Hispanic immigrants, and looks down on women (unless they are white and have nice tits and well-shaped body).

From 18 years experience working with this man as a close editor, I can say categorically that Coombs is a micro-manager, has a very bad temper, abuses employees, and looks down on women (except if he sees one he says has "nice tits" or "nice body," or"nice ass" or who he would like to have sex with, which he often voiced in my persence, including about a particular higher female editor who was his superior.)

Coombs very often voiced dislike for blacks, Jews, Hispanics, privately in his office with me alone, sometimes in the newsroom around the national desk, and always when he got drunk at parties at his home where he drank liquor and smoked marijuana.

At one party at his home after he had consumed copious amounts of liquor and smoked marijuana, Coombs passed out on the outside deck of his home and had to be physically carried to bed by those remaining at the party and his wife, Marian.

Pruden has supported Coombs' management style, his prejudices, and abuse of employees that has led to the brain-drain of reporters and editors over the past decade and current newsroom morale decline that, according to my frequent discussions with reporters, editors, and production personnel at The Times I would describe as bottom-of-the-barrel.

There is a corporate struggle under way between Washington Times Corp. CEO Dong Moon {Douglas) Joo, who is the Reverend Moon's Korean translator in many venues and has been his go-fer for many years, and the reverend's youngest son, Preston Moon, an MBA graduate of Harvard, who has been anointed by his father as corporate successor.

[Preston Moon is Hyun Jin Moon -- he is not Rev. Moon's youngest son.]

Many sources tell me that Preston Moon wants to move The Times into profitability as quickly as possible, after decades of red ink, and boost the paper's sagging advertising, circulation, and editorial staff in order to move the paper back into possible profitability, prestige, and a pacesetting position again.

But the cabal of Dong Moon Joo, Wesley Pruden, and Fran Coombs have apparently blocked Preston Moon to this point, according to my sources, and it is questionable whether the younger Moon has the cajonés to finish what he started several months ago as he asserted his executive role as CEO of News World Communications, The Times parent company.

Preston Moon started the ball rolling in early 2006 to oust Joo as CEO of The Washington Times Corp., force Pruden's retirement no later that the 25th anniversary of The Washington Times on May 17, 2007, and hire a successor to Pruden as TWT editor-in-chief other than Fran Coombs.

There is a News World Communications selection committee in place, appointed by Preston Moon, that includes Arnaud deBorchgrave, former editor-in-chief of The Washington Times, currently editor-at-large for TWT and United Press International, Wesley Pruden, and others.

The most recent indication of Preston Moon's possible weakness was the recent forcible exit of Jonathan Slevin as Joo's executive assistant at The Times.

Slevin was chief aide to The Times' actual founding executive, Bo Hi Pak and first chief editor James Whelan. Slevin, whose younger brother, Peter Slevin, is a reporter for The Washington Post, is a veteran journalist who left The Times for awhile and returned in Sptember 2005 to become Joo's top assistant after Joo's former assistant, Tom McDevitt, another veteran Moon devotee, left.

But things went awry when Pruden and Coombs mounted an internal campaign to sabotage the company's successful restart of its Insight Magazine as an online news and opinion website.

Pruden and Coombs convinced Joo that the Insight launch was a mistake that would hurt The Washington Times newspaper, while Slevin and Robert Morton, another Moon loyalist who has run the highly successful Washington Times weekly edition for many years and was Insight's publisher, resisted the anti-Insight Joo-Pruden-Coombs assault.

The internal civil war resulted in Morton's resignation as publisher of Insight last summer and Slevin's exit last week as Joo's executive assistant and as a vice president of The Washington Times, listed on the masthead,

There was no public announcement or going-away party. Slevin's name was just abruptly removed from the masthead, although he told me personally by email that he left voluntarily because he wanted to finish a novel he's been writing for some time and may return to The Washington Times after the book is finished.

But people at the paper know what's really going on. They say, accurately, that Joo has a horrible tyrannical temper, woefully abuses employees, and everyone (except Pruden and Coombs, who are similarly maniacal) who work closely with Joo are afraid of him, and many, especially on the business side of the paper, actually express hatred of Joo.

Pruden and Coombs have coopted Joo and the Koreans by telling them, and convincing them, that they have President George W. Bush and his administration in their pocket.

Joo and the Koreans like that purported respectability at the White House, have fallen for the Pruden-Coombs line (which is a lie), and Preston Moon has been coopted by the Pruden-Coombs strategy to stave off his efforts to assert control of the newspaper and maintain their own control of the newspaper despite ownership efforts to chart a different direction.

It is an unfolding story that bears watching. One wonders why all the so-called media watchdogs in the media are not following this story and have not reported it fully to the American public. Why are they asleep at the switch? There was the lengthy Nation magazine investigative piece in October 2006, and the web site Fishbowldc.com has published a number of takes on the unfolding saga, but the media-watchers in the big news organizations continue to turn a blind eye and sit on their hands as one of the biggest media stories continues right under their noses.

The Washington Times was a feisty, dynamic, pacesetting newspaper in the 1980s and 1990s. It is going down the tubes under the current regime. Maybe the dominant liberal media elite want that to happen and the mainstream media are giving the Joo-Pruden-Coombs cabal a pass regarding the reported racism and other employee discrimination reported by The Nation in its October 9 cover story. (www.thenation.com/doc/20061009/washington_times)

For myself, having spent 21 enjoyable and very challenging years as a top reporter for The Washington Times, I love the paper's people who made it a great newspaper over the years – many of whom have left, such as White House reporter Bill Sammon who recently quit to go to The Washington Examiner and remains a frequent voice on Fox TV News Channel.

I hate to see TWT go down the tubes. So in that sense, I consider myself biased in favor of The Times' success and against the people who it appears are bringing it down. So I'm not against The Times – far from it.

I am sad that, over the years, many highly compensated executives on both the editorial and business side of The Washington Times have taken advantage of huge compensation packages they were given, but did not do their best to move the product and the company forward. Starting with Jim Whelan, the first editor-in-chief, and the slew of advertising and circulation chiefs who failed to build the paper but took huge amounts of money.

And on the editorial side, a few selfish, maniacal, highly-compensated leaders of the paper have been allowed to rape it and practically destroy it, by using it as their own ideological play-pen while driving out good talent and micro-managing good editors and reporters to the point they could not provide their best creative product, despite the billions poured into the company by the founder, who's a little crazy himself – but aren't we all?

75. World CARP 40th Anniversary Celebration

Hyun Jin Moon
October 21, 2006
General Assembly and Award Ceremony
Sun Moon University, Korea
Keynote Speech of World CARP President
Unofficial notes by Mark Bramwell

If we look at who the CARP Presidents were in the past, we realize that the most important elders were the presidents. They are the root of the Unification Movement. (Former CARP Presidents of Europe, for example, include 36 Couples, such as Rev. Young Hwi Kim (one of the first 3 Couples), Reverend Chung-Goo Park, Rev. Byung Wooh Kim). Looking at all these major leaders, I think that God must have truly blessed CARP.

Looking at where we stand now in providential history, we observe that there are many similarities to the year 1945. In 1945 there was a completely new start to God's providence. (After the victory of the Abel camp in WW II, the Christian nation of America stood as the uncontested superpower, prepared by God to bring the message of the True Parents to every corner of the globe and bring about the eternal Peace Kingdom. Today, a parallel situation exists once more.)

The dream that drove God's will and Providence was the same dream as at the beginning: to create the True Family. True Parents teaching has always been:

1. to live for the sake of others
2. to create the four position foundation.

These two purposes are the core of True Parents' message, that is, to build a world of peace centering on the True Family.

Why should we build the ideal family? Because through the family, true love, true life and true lineage can come to exist. You feel love through your partner. Families include older people. However, God does not look at physical age, rather at the spirit and shimjung. (Hyun Jin Nim often mentions that the youngest person he knows is True Father.)

The judge of your life will be your conscience. Restoration has been so difficult because you have to get rid of all the baggage of history before you can unlock the door of your conscience. Will accusation unlock the door? The only way is through cham sarang (true love).

Jesus taught this essence. Does the indemnity course originally have anything to do with God? How do we unlock the door to the conscience? First by unlocking the door to the heart. Therefore, to become the True Adam, True Father first had to walk the path of true love in the fallen world.

The year 2006 is the 6th year of Cheon Il Guk. Creation was created in 6 days. In the same way, the world is to be recreated in 6 years. With the birth of Adam and Eve's grandchildren, the ideal of God would have been realized. 2007 should be the year of God's settlement. The vertical axial line should be settled.

In order for true love, true life and true lineage to be established, there has to be three generations. This family represents the Tree of Life. (The Tree of Life has been the central goal of humanity throughout history. The root of the Tree of Life symbolizes God, the trunk is the True Parents and the branches are the True Children. At the same time, the root represents the True Parents, the trunk the True Children and the branches the True Grandchildren, depending on whether we consider it from the vertical or the horizontal perspective. The fruit that the tree bears represent the multiplication of this family and at the same time the gifts of God to humanity through the True Family.) The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil represents the potential for love to develop into true love or into fallen love.

Absolute love, faith and obedience -- these are what the parents have practiced, starting with God. So not only the children practice this. Centering on these three, God and the True Parents have raised each and everyone of us. The filial son would return all of this to the parents. A central theme of True Father in his Hon Dok Hae speeches is the theme of parent and child, the vertical axis. The horizontal axis is the love between man and woman. The love act between man and woman is so important because it confers upon humanity the creative act through the creation of new human beings. Thus parents creating true children is the most perfect image of God. The Fall is the antithesis of this: false love substantiated false life, which substantiated false lineage.

The Tree of Life represents the three-generational family. For the sake of restoring this, three generations of True Family united around the common purpose of bringing God's love and truth to the world and conducted the three world speech tours.

This is the age in which we all need to become teenagers again. How do you want to go to heaven, as a teenager or an old decrepit person full of depression? The most beautiful woman is a woman whose heart, shimjung and spirit are young.

Rather than living for the church, live for a dream, which is: Build God's Kingdom of Peace, God's worldwide family, on earth centering on the True Family. Your eternal mission is to create one family of God.

Our whole movement needs a revival and to have the Dream. Get rid of the baggage! The world is changing in such a way that tremendous blessing can come upon our movement. We need a new vision and spirit that can unite us. This vision is the one of True Family.

God lost the positions of Kingship, Parent and Elder Son. In the first family there was murder in the second generation -- the beginning of all human conflict we see today. The Cain-Abel conflict was the product of the Fall when two owners came to exist. The war against terror is a conflict among the Abrahamic faiths. Yet neither Christianity nor Islam would have come to exist if Jesus had been accepted. Religious leaders and academics know that the only one doing real interfaith work is True Father. Interfaith is something natural to the CARP movement. Even though possessing the root of God, fallen humanity has lived in the home of the enemy and so does not know its parents. So God has used religion to help mankind to reconnect. Center your investment in the Unification Church on a higher vision, then we will be able to connect religions and realize the world family. This is the age of interfaith.

The current explosion of nuclear bombs by North Korea has again brought Korea to the center of the world stage -- interestingly after the completion of the True Family's world tours. It has also brought the Pacific nations and the USA as well as the United Nations onto the scene. The resolution of the conflict on the Korean peninsula cannot be accomplished by Korea alone -- the conflict can only be solved internationally.

The youth component will drive the engine of change on the world stage, which is now prepared for this movement. Why is a youth base so important and why does it have to be connected to UPF? It is like four people in a bean-sack -- all have to jump at the same time if they want to move and arrive at their destination. We all have to move in one direction in unity and consistency.

Once a CARP member, you are always a CARP member -- you can't get away! Those who do not like nature are not true church members. Nature did not fall. Those who love nature and creation connect to God and have their spiritual senses opened. I befriend people who love nature and creation. Those who love creation are never atheists. The natural world is very vertical. For example, horses find their pecking order automatically. The only way to control an animal is through your true subjectivity. They do not recognize a subjectivity that someone tries to achieve through beating, rather through your aura and the way you carry yourself. Animals use body language to show subjectivity and objectivity. Horses look at you and weigh you up.

I sometimes take the leaders to learn horse riding at a ranch. Once, a very large CARP center leader was trembling with fear as he mounted a horse. Because he was shaking, this had the effect of spurring the horse on. The more he trembled, the more the horse was spurred on until it eventually began to gallop! As the horse began to gallop, the center leader became tense with fear. Now, a horse is urged to gallop even faster when the person riding it tenses himself. Well, you can imagine how funny that scene was. Because the person riding the horse could not control himself, he could not control the horse. Those people who can master themselves can therefore deal more successfully with the creation. Horse riding is very good Divine Principle education. On another occasion when I was training some leaders at a ranch, while my back was turned to help someone, a horse actually lay down and fell asleep with a CARP leader still on his back! That is the first time in thirty years I have witnessed such a phenomenon.

Obviously, the horse thought he was the subject and not the man on his back.

The feeling I get in nature is that it is yearning for a true subject who can take dominion over it. True Father has said to me, "You should take leaders hunting." However, they all found excuses not to go hunting. Even though your physical body is tired, if you are focused God blesses that tired individual. While hunting, you are deprived physically, mentally and emotionally, but this becomes a condition for your blessing. You become connected to the eternal forces and you are blessed by nature.

The Providence will move whether you are go with it or not, so you have to be one with it and ride it. You have to know the way God's Providence is moving, then match with it. Then tremendous blessing will be given. A new chapter in history is now opening up and young people will open up the age of Cheon Il Guk. Be the people who create the axial line of God, True Parents and True Family with purity of spirit and heart, then a new age can dawn! You can be part of it. A truly young person is not affected by physical age.

Award ceremony

Example text on the plaque awarded to former CARP Presidents of Korea, Japan, USA and Europe:

World CARP Meritorious Service Award

W-CARP Europe 5th Former President Rev. Mark St. John Bramwell

In commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of W-CARP, this award is presented to Rev. Mark St. John Bramwell in recognition of his devotion and leadership in restoring campuses and raising providential leaders during his tenure as president (1997-2002). The gratitude within us toward all our colleagues, leaders and frontline members, who took part in True Parents' majestic sacrificial course, will forever remain.

Thus, on behalf of all CARP members, I proudly present this award to Rev. Mark St. John Bramwell.

October 21, 6th year of Cheon Il Guk

Hyun Jin Moon
International President
W-CARP 

74. Youth Federation For World Peace Address

Hyun Jin Moon
October 2006

We are gathered here in Korea due to the fact that my father started the Youth Federation for World Peace twelve years ago. This is a crucial era, when the world is embroiled in tremendous conflict. We are at a historical inflection point that will determine the course humanity will go. In which direction should we go? What vision do we have? These are the fundamental questions that young people, especially must ask because they will inherit this twenty-first century world. When we look at the world today; who is it that is fighting and shedding blood in the war against terror? It is kids from the ages of eighteen or twenty-one.

Also, who has the biggest stake in the future? Most people who reach their thirties are starting their families. As a young parent looking into the eyes of your children, what legacy do you envision leaving behind for them? While you are still young, what will you fight for? What will you live for? What will you die for? What legacy will you leave behind? These are the fundamental questions that should be stirring in your hearts as you start your own family and enter into the age of maturity and settlement beyond the years of your twenties when you could focus more on yourself.

What about when you enter your forties and you reflect back on your life? Already half of my life has past. How have I lived my life and what am I going to do with the precious remaining half? As I look to the future and, also, into the eyes of my growing children, I ask myself, "What am I going to leave behind for them?" This should be the common question asked and answered collectively by the young people of the world. It has to be the mission of the Youth Federation to raise young people. The fundamental question is, "What world -- centered upon what vision and what dream -- will you create?"

As we enter this historical inflection point of the twenty-first century, a time that has begun with tremendous difficulty, tremendous violence, and tremendous conflict, we can say that the world is more dangerous today than it was during the cold war twenty or fifty years ago. At least then you had two superpowers that were run by rational secular governments that thought a nuclear catastrophe was unthinkable. What kind of world do we live in today? Hatred is emboldened by religious faith. Tensions arise based upon national, ethnic and religious ties that divide, shatter, and scatter humanity into fractionalized groups. With the possibility of nuclear proliferation, some states consider selling nuclear weapons to fundamentalist states that are driven by religious fervor and conviction to do the most horrendous or horrific acts.

The call for a world where we rise above national, ethnic and religious divisions, that has been made through my parents' world tours, is the pertinent message for this age. It is the significant vision for this age. [Applause] This message calls out to the conscientious citizens among humankind who recognize that God is the one divine parent. If we do not rise to this call, if we are idle in this age of tremendous travail and tremendous conflict -- this time that is more dangerous than any before -- then we stand negligent in front of history and our future generations. [Applause] We have to rise together as one, centered on the vision of peace, by creating one worldwide family that transcends the barriers of race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, and so forth. Aju! Aju! [Applause]

The world says that the cold war finished with the collapse of the Berlin Wall, but it has not yet ended here on the Korean Peninsula. The world says that this is a time when brothers come together as one, but that is not the case here on the Korean Peninsula. The world says that we are building a safer world, but this is not happening for the sons and daughters, families, mothers and fathers, and citizens of the nation of Korea and North Korea. The conflict that pervaded the world, this nation, culminating in the cold war, has not been resolved on the Korean Peninsula.

How can we build a bridge to peace in this nation? Through military power? Through economic power? Through political negotiation or diplomacy? Or do we have to plead to a more fundamental essence to bring these two nations together? We're of the same root. We're of the same lineage. We speak the same language. Even though one might be called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and the other might be called the Republic of Korea, beyond the political pretensions or economic pretensions, fundamentally; the citizens of these two nations are the same. We have to find that core once again, the core that brings us together as one, as one nation, starting with the idea of one family. We are one family. We are a family without a parent. We are a family without a root. We are a family without an identity. We are two siblings fighting with each other without any sense of identity or core. We need to make that root. Where can we find that root?

I have had the chance to meet many high-level people and many distinguished Korean leaders, but there is only one Korean person I know who has the worldwide foundation that straddles the political, economic and religious spheres, and who can move in the halls of the Capitol and the White House. There is only one Korean I know who also has the capacity to be able to genuinely move the hearts of those in power, even in North Korea, despite our ideological differences. On an interpersonal level, however, no one that has met my father ever said that he was insincere. I have had the chance to meet many leaders who say, "You know, I might not agree with your father on this point or that point, but among all the men that I've met he is the biggest, in terms of his spirituality. Because, regardless of how much I might disagree, he still loves me and I can feel that. Because of this, if there were only one person that I could trust in this world, it would be Rev. Moon." [Applause]

The amazing thing is that not only Christian ministers feel that. The ministers that had originally united with my father's vision went to Palestine for peace initiatives and service projects and worked with the Jewish and Muslim leaders. They became brothers in arms, brothers in a cause to build peace in the region and attributed this bringing together of the brothers of Abraham to the work of my father, Rev. Sun Myung Moon. [Applause]

One of my many responsibilities is as acting chairman of News World Communications at the Washington Times. I am not boasting when I say that the State Department recognizes the efforts of our movement in the region of Palestine. Among the religious communities, they realize that the only one that truly has spearheaded the interfaith movement in its truest form is Rev. Sun Myung Moon. [Applause]

73. Creating a Model of Youthful Passion

Hyun Jin Moon
October 2006
STF International Assembly
Seoul, Korea

As my father's son, I know my father well, and he doesn't really care it your brain is smart. He cares more about the heart. Some negative people may say that he is a brainwasher, but more than a champion brainwasher, he is a champion heart washer. If my parents are champion heart washers, then I am also champion heart washer. There are many young people gathered here today. And even though I have come as the SIT founder and asked what the meaning of the Special Task Force is, and there are blank faces, that's okay; just the fact that you are here and you are in the Special Task Force and you are working hard is very good. This is the power of true love.

The reason I came to the back is to see if there are young people back here. I want to see if there are young people here or just old people. Let's see ... Because if you are not a young person, you will not understand the meaning. the power, the passion, the hope and the dream of this place!

I had some time to visit some small churches after I came to Japan. I was curious as to how our members were doing there, but the impressive thing was the elder members; the spirit of the members changed from fatigued, old members to young members with strength and power, all of a sudden. You are all around nineteen-teenagers I know. But I asked them how old they are and they responded, "'teenagers!" So I told them that if you are all teenagers, you should all go to STF.

The funny thing is that the reason my voice is hoarse is because they were so excited that I had to speak over them. They said, "Ahh... This is holy baptism!" .Although they were in their forties and fifties, they went crazy, so I had to speak very loud. Think about it. When those who had come to observe saw this, what did they think? "The Unification Church is so crazy!" A little old lady would push others just to come to the front and call me elder brother. How crazy is that? When God sees something like that, how does He feel? I'm sure He feels good. Jesus said it like this: if you want to go to heaven, you have to be as a child...

How old are the kids gathered here today? Thirteen to sixteen years old? Then you should go to Junior STF. You must challenge that and make it. The reason young people are good is because they can dream big. So don't think you cannot do it. Think, "I can do it." Mindset is very important.

So if you want to test for STF, you have to run and study the Principle and many other things, right? Is it difficult? You must make effort in order to get in, right? As a person gets bigger, he or she has growing pains. When your bones grow bigger, does it hurt or not? When you exercise, trying to build muscles, does it hurt or not? If you want to grow, everything goes through a challenge. You need challenge; that's why having a standard is important. It you have a high standard; people aspire to reach that standard and raise their own standard. So you need to have hope and confidence behind it all. You must dream big. Even if you fail the STF test, will you keep on trying? Can you do that?

When I think about character, when a person always has it easy, the character becomes like a paper towel, but if you go through a lot of challenges, you become strong. That is why young people need more challenges. Should I raise the standard of STF? Should I raise it or lower it? When I raise the standard, it is because I trust you. If I lower the standard, it means that I don't have that trust.

When we look at the history of humanity; how many times did people make mistakes? Because God had absolute love, absolute faith and absolute obedience, His hope toward humanity did not vanish. He has always believed that even the worst person could be His true child. How high was His standard? When God looks at you, do you think His dream for you is big or small? Would it be the biggest or the smallest? Then who makes it small? Usually it is the individual that makes it small, or at times the parents make the dream small. When I started the STF program, parents thought that fund raising and witnessing would be too difficult for their child. The mind of a parent who thinks like that has been blocked already. Does that child have hope? The funny thing is, through the STF participants, parents became our friends because they see the 180 degree change in their own children. Although the child was at a lower level, they came back with a standard that the parents didn't believe was possible. The parents were surprised that a child who had had a difficult time even taking care of himself could take care of others and become a team leader.

So it is not God who sets a low standard, but you, because individually, you cannot open up your mind. If you want to he liberated, you must open your mind centered on love, then there is hope. From a loving parent's perspective, a newborn baby has all the hopes and dreams of the parent. And as the baby grows, the parent will think that the baby can even become the president or a saint. Aren't there such big dreams for the child? The funny thing is that the parents of even the worst criminal say that their child is a good child. That is the parental heart. God is the root of all creation. How can we understand Gods mind? When God looks at you, do you think He has lots of hope, or little hope? Do you think my dream is big or small?