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Smoke, Mirrors and Disinformation…

The Compromised Ties of the Apologetics Ministries

 THE SPIRITUAL COUNTERFEITS PROJECT

Part II

Unholy Alliances with the Templeton Foundation

GENE VEITH OF THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION

Recommended by Tal Brook (SCP) and interviewed by Hank Hanegraaff (CRI) is Dr. Gene Edward Veith, a Salvatori Fellow of the Heritage Foundation and Senior Fellow of the Heritage-related Capital Research Center. On the Advisory and Trustee Boards of CRC are representatives from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and its many fronts. Gene Veith is also on the faculty of Concordia University, a member of the Rockefeller-funded Association of Theological Schools (ATS) and World Magazine’s World Journalism Institute (WJI) which is in a partnership the Templeton Foundation through its membership in the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU).

About Gene Edward Veith:

In 1994-1995 Gene Edward Veith was named the Salvatori Fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

[See Watch Unto Prayer report: The Heritage Foundation]

Veith is a Senior Fellow at the Heritage-related Capital Research Center. [below]

Capital Research Center/CRC

Ed. Note: CRC serves as a watchdog of the Left’s Philanthropy

(i.e. monitoring the politically left-leaning orgs and identifying the corporations which fund them).

It may be that one of its missions is strategizing on sources for funding of faith-base welfare [federal funds to churches; churches as social service agencies].

CRC has recently released Patterns of Corporate Philanthropy XIII: A Mandate for Reform

The 2001 edition of Capital Research Center's popular study of corporate giving to nonprofit advocacy groups is available online. In the report Capital Research advises:

“Nearly all of the major corporate donors in America shy away from contributing to faith-based charities. There is no constitutional impediment to their making such a grant…”

The Heritage Foundation, which has a considerable presence on Capital Research Center‘s board of Trustees and Advisory, worked behind the scenes in the formulation of the Charitable Choice section of the 1996 federal Welfare Reform law. Working with Heritage were policy makers from Focus on the Family’s Family Research Council/FRC, Christian Legal Society’s Carl Esbeck working with then Kansas Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Center for Public Justice. (This is based on a conversation with Amy Sherman, who is an advisor at Center for Public Justice, a fellow at Hudson Institute’s Welfare Policy Center and formerly a fellow at Manhattan Institute. Sherman was identifying the “Christians” who worked on the language of the Charitable Choice section of the Welfare Law.) President George W. Bush would later set up the White House Office for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives [2000] headed by John Dilulio who is an Advisor at the Center for Public Justice. Stanley Carlson-Thies joined Dilulio as Associate Director for Law and Policy with the White House’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.

Capital Research Center’s Trustees & Advisory include:

[no longer found unless cached through a Google search.]

Richard V. Allen—CFR/Heritage Foundation/Center for Strategic & Int’l Studies-CSIS/Hoover Institution

     [See: Watch Unto Prayer report: The Hoover Institution]

Daniel J. Popeo—Washington Legal Foundation

Edwin Meese––Council for Nat’l Policy-CNP/Heritage Foundation/Hoover Institution/ Discovery Institute [affiliated with Hudson Institute]

Linda Chavez--Research Fellow at [CIA] Manhattan Institute, 1993-94; has received almost $200,000 in grants from the John M. Olin Foundation

Kenneth Cribb––former Heritage Foundation Trustee; Intercollegiate Studies Institute; Federalist Society

Adam Meyerson––Heritage Foundation

Midge Decter––Council on Foreign Relations-CFR/Heritage Foundation/First Things [John Neuhaus]

Michael Novak– American Enterprise Institute/AEI; Council on Foreign Relations/CFR

Marvin Olasky––World Magazine and World Journalism Institute/WJI [see below]

Larry Arn––Claremont Institute/Hillsdale College president

Michael Horowitz––Hudson Institute [several HI Trustees are globalist CFR members.]

[See Watch Unto Prayer report: The Heritage Foundation]

Kate O’Bierne––National Review [founder William F. Buckley––former CIA, CFR member, founder of Young Americans for Freedom/YAF; Young America’s Foundation/YAF [Reagan Ranch] is spin-off org; both mobilize youth for conservative politics]

                 [See Watch Unto Prayer report: The John Birch Society]

P.J. O’Rourke––CATO Institute [Libertarian org affiliated with Heritage Foundation]

Sally Pipes––Pacific Research Institute [affiliated with Heritage Foundation]

Thomas Winter––Human Events [owner is Thomas L. Phillips who also owns the conservative Regnery Publishing; on Board of Directors of the Claremont Institute with Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson and Larry P. Arnn [President of Hillsdale College]

Robert L. Woodson–– National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise

Editor’s Note: About Edwin Meese III…

Heritage Foundation’s Legal and Judicial Studies

“With the courts increasingly asserting quasi-legislative and even executive authority – not only interpreting, but rewriting law – the checks and balances designed by America’s Founding Fathers have been seriously undermined. The Heritage Foundation’s new Center for Legal and Judicial Studies was established in 2000 to increase the policy-making community’s, and the public’s, understanding of the Constitution and the proper role of the judiciary in society.

“Headed by former Attorney General Edwin Meese III, Heritage’s Ronald Reagan Fellow in Public Policy…”

Meese is found on the boards of numerous Heritage-affiliated legal centers across the U.S. which include the Washington Legal Foundation, Landmark Legal Foundation, Pacific Justice Foundation, Federalist Society…

Edwin Meese is also a Distinguished Visiting Scholar of The Hoover Institution. 

WORLD MAGAZINE’S WORLD JOURNALISM INSTITUTE & GENE VEITH

“The World Journalism Institute is a registered program with the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) in Washington, DC. [See below] The CCCU is an association of 100 member colleges and universities.”

WJI Mission Statement

[Cached]

Ed. Note: The following credits Carl F. H. Henry as the inspiration for WJI. [Henry was formerly on faculty at Fuller Theological Seminary and first editor of the Christianity Today; see report Fuller Seminary]

WJI Mission Statement by Robert Case II, Director of World Journalism Institute:

“Several years ago, Carl F.H. Henry, dean of American evangelical theologians and journalists, wrote an essay entitled, "The Crisis of Word and Truth." I have used that essay as the substance of this short justification for the World Journalism Institute. We have a crisis in our country of language and truth.

“Who trembles when God goes to press?" So asked Dr. Henry of the Evangelical Press Association in 1984. That same year, Henry replied, “Nobody trembles." Today, almost 20 years later, there is not only no trembling, there is no noticing when the Christian journalist goes to press. The World Journalism Institute, along with other quality journalism programs, can challenge this cultural irrelevance.”

See Modern Bible Versions, Christian Publishers, Evangelical Press Association/EPA.

WJI Host Colleges & University: The King's College [Bill Bright & Stanley Oakes], Regent University [Pat Robertson/CNP], The Master's College [John MacArthur]

WJI Faculty

Edited for purposes of this report. Note names, universities and orgs represented.

* denotes membership in the Rockefeller-affiliated Association of Theological Schools/ATS [accrediting agency for seminaries].

Notes on above listing…

Gene Edward Veith is personal friend of Spiritual Counterfeits Project’s Tal Brooke. Brooke recommended World Magazine to his readership.

WJI faculty includes representatives from major news agencies: Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, CNN, Indianapolis Star, ASSIST Communications [Chicago], The Washington Times [Moon-owned], United Press Int’l./UPI [Moon-owned] and the business analysis firm PricewaterhouseCoopers [CFR-related].

The founder of World Magazine and the World Journalism Institute is Joe Belz, CEO of God's World Publications, the founder of God's World News –– weekly papers for children.

Marvin Olasky––WJI faculty member has been credited with the concept of faith-based welfare reform is author of Compassionate Conservatism (2000) …The Tragedy of American Compassion (1992). Olasky is a Senior Fellow at the ecumenical Acton Institute.

World Journalism Institute’s Norman Geisler [Southern Evangelical Seminary], Calvin Beisner and Harold O.J. Brown are Contributing Editors at the Christian Research Institute [Walter Martin/Hank Hanegraaff] for the CRI JOURNAL.

Institute of Journalism (CCCU) ––See Council for Christian Colleges and Universities/CCCU below.

Os Guiness–– framer of the ecumenical Williamsburg Charter & Living With Our Deepest Differences, a curriculum for the public schools written with Ernest Boyer of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching/CFAT. [See: Charter Schools & Character Education]

Covenant Theological Seminary

CTS’s Youth in Ministry Institute (YIMI) is a new program of Covenant Theological Seminary, the seminary of the Presbyterian Church in America.  And we are seriously funded by the Lilly Endowment, a generous group.

Cato Institute––founder David Boaz first emerged on the national scene in the leadership of Young Americans for Freedom/ YAF [founder William F. Buckley––CIA, Yale’s secret society Skull & Bones and the globalist Council on Foreign Relations/CFR]. Boaz was the editor of YAF’s publication New Guard, 1976.

King’s College

Board of Trustees includes: Bill Bright/CNP, Steven Douglass/ Campus Crusade for Christ, John D. Beckett/Intercessors for Christ/CNP, Stanley Oakes/Christian Leadership Ministries/CLM. CLM/Christian Leadership Ministries [an affiliate of Campus Crusade] is the sponsoring org for LeadershipU; mentioned elsewhere in this report.

Steven Douglass heads up Mission America’s prayer initiative Lighthouses of Prayer. Those joining as prayer warriors must sign on to the Lausanne Covenant [1974]. John Stott was the framer of the covenant which calls for Christian Unity over Biblical Doctrine. Stott was the strategist of the World Evangelical Alliance which planned the 1974 Lausanne Consultation [Billy Graham]. Stott is a Christianity Today Contributing Editor

WORLD JOURNALISM INSTITUTE & THE JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION

World Magazine’s World Journalism Institute/WJI is in partnership with…

The Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU)

CCCU wields considerable influence over Christian institutions of higher education. Various CCCU projects and partnerships create an extensive network well worth observing.

The CCCU Advisory Board which is listed at the bottom shows a top-heavy representation from the staff over at Christianity Today and the surprising inclusion of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Gates Foundation is a major donor to the United Nation’s family planning programs/population control [UNFPA/United Nations Population Fund].

Bill & Melinda Gates’ Landmark Gift to Population Control  

“The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the International Planned Parenthood Federation announce $8.9 million grant to improve women's health. A grant of $8,865,000 will go towards improving reproductive health care services to women around the world through International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) programmes, it was announced today. The fund, from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will be spread over five years.” - IPPF Press Release, London, 11 December 2000

CCCU Projects and Initiatives include:

John Templeton Oxford Seminars on Science and Christianity (JTOSSC)

This project is funded by a grant from John Templeton Foundation and reflects the John Templeton Foundation's interest in bringing together the religious and scientific communities in order to establish a scholarly relationship between the natural sciences and religion. The seminar series will complement the current Templeton Science and Religion Course Program through its greater emphasis on the history of the issues involved.

This program exemplifies the mission of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities to advance the cause of Christ-centered higher education and to assist member institutions effectively integrate biblical faith, scholarship and service. In particular, the CCCU seeks to address the contemporary suspicion of science among evangelicals by encouraging among its member colleges a rigorous scholarly study of the relationship between science and religion. CCCU involvement in this project grew out of initial conversations taking place through the invitation of Dr. John Feneley, Principal of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, affiliated with Keble College of the University of Oxford.

JTOSSC Directors & Steering Committee

• Dr. Alister McGrath, project co-director
Biochemist and Reformation Historian
Principal of Wycliffe Hall
University of Oxford
• Dr. John Roche, project co-director
Physicist and Historian of Science
Linacre College
University of Oxford
• Dr. Harold Heie

Mathematician and Chair of the

Faith/Learning/Living Commission of the CCCU,

ex-officio

­­Gordon College

 
Ed. Note: All of the following JTOSSC committee members are John Templeton Foundation trustees or advisors.

Refer to the John Templeton Foundation listing above.

 
~ partial Listing
• Owen Gingerich
• Robert Herrmann
• Nancey Murphy
• Ernan McMullin
• Arthur Peacocke
• Keith Ward

TEMPLETON FOUNDATION–– Trustees & Advisors 

JTOSSC’s QUAERENS Newsletters are edited by Alister McGrath––principal of Wycliffe Hall and Christianity Today, Consulting Editor. See QUAERENS Newsletter/Alister McGrath [scroll to bottom of this web page]

CCCU Off-Campus Study Programs include…

The Oxford Summer Programme (OSP) 

The Oxford Summer Programme (OSP) is a programme of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford… [Alister McGrath, Christianity Today, Consulting Editor is principal at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford]

CMRS/ Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

The common aim of CMRS and the CCCU is to enroll committed Christian students of high academic attainment from all denominational backgrounds, Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox. CMRS seeks to provide a Christian environment for students who wish to acquire a deeper understanding of their historical, religious and cultural traditions. Students from other religious traditions or from none are also welcome here if they respect the CMRS ethos and aims.

CCCU’s Summer Institute of Journalism

The Summer Institute of Journalism takes place at the campus of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., at 329 8th St., NE, and just eight blocks from the Capitol Building…Though the majority of course instruction and daily seminars are held in the Dellenback Center, the building is really just the base of operations…Nearly all of the SIJ budget is funded by a grant from Fieldstead & Co. This grant covers our students' tuition costs, airfare to and from Washington, D.C., books, room, board and all program related supplies. 

Editor’s Note:

Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson is a member of the secret Council for National Policy/CNP. Recall in the report giving an overview of Spiritual Counterfeits Project’s newsletters, SCP mentioned a grant for the SCP ACCESS hotline for cult information. The donor was Fieldstead and Co.:

Spiritual Counterfeits Project Newsletter ~ Vol.13, No. 1, 1988

ACCESS (telephone hotline) [is a] vital element of SCP’s ministry… The basics of the ADP [SCP projects including ACCESS] have been underwritten by a significant grant from Fieldstead and Co…

Editor’s Notes:

Fieldstead & Co. Funding for Faith-Based Legislation

Both the Fieldstead Institute [Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson, CNP] and the Ethics and Public Policy Center [Elliot Abrams, CFR member and former Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom/USCIRF] are credited by Amy Sherman for the funding of her book Restorers of Hope:…church-based ministries that work. The book was a promo for faith-based welfare reform/charitable choice. The federal welfare legislation passed in 1996. Sherman was the change-agent sent by Manhattan Institute and Hudson Institute to various gatherings of networked churches; advising them on compliance for becoming FBOs [faith-based organizations] to the 1996 Charitable Choice––Welfare Reform legislation.

Center for Public Justice

Amy Sherman is on the Advisory Board of the Center for Public Justice with C. Everett Koop [Wheaton College], Ronald Sider [Evangelicals for Social Action], John Dilulio [first Executive Director of Pres. George Bush’s Office for Faith-Based Initiatives], Mark Noll [Wheaton College], Clyde Taylor [Nat’l Assoc. of Evangelicals/NAE’s affiliate EFMA], Dean Trulear [InterVarsity Board of Trustees; Public Private Ventures—recipient of grants from Pew Charitable Trusts].

Center for Public Justice Trustees

Include: Dean Trulear [InterVarsity and Public Private Ventures with John Dilulio], Harold Heie Council for Christian Colleges and Universities/CCCU, Senior Fellow [See below], Julie Peterson—previously worked with Richard Seiple/World Vision Institute for Global Engagement [World Vision - NGO/UN]

Center for Public Justice CIVITAS program

The Pew Charitable Trusts Civitas Program in Faith and Public Affairs, is a program of civic education and leadership development for Christian doctoral students. The program's goal is to help prepare Christian scholars for leadership positions in academic, governmental, and public policy fields. Through a five-week summer institute, a fellowship in a Washington research institution, writing for publication, and a mentoring relationship with Christian scholars, the program encourages doctoral students to pursue responsible Christian scholarship, focusing on the nature of political life, public justice, and the meaning of Christian citizenship. Participating organizations are the American Enterprise Institute, The Brookings Institution, and the Center for Public Justice.

CIVITAS classes are held on the rooftop of CCCU/Council for Christian Colleges and Universities’ headquarters.

Returning to CCCU…

CCCU Volunteer Leaders  

Campus and non-campus volunteers are keys to fulfilling the Council mission. Advisory groups, called Commissions, advise the board and staff and help organize Council conferences and projects.

~ edited for purposes of this report ~

Visit CCCU web page to view the numerous Christian colleges and universities represented at/influenced by CCCU.

CCCU BOARD OF DIRECTORS (…)

Deborah Wilds,

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [funds UNFPA/UN population control; see notation above]

Robert Andringa, CCCU (ex officio) –– formerly executive director for Education Commission of the States/ECS; an organization with corporate interest influencing U.S. federal education policy such as GOALS 2000––the corporate take-over/internationalization of U.S. education.

Jay Kesler, United Christian College Fund (ex officio)––Christianity Today, Board of Directors

SENIOR ADVISORS

Harold Heie, Gordon College–– Heie’s Center for Christian Studies at Gordon College has been the recipient of Pew Charitable Trusts grants; a 1999 grant was for $430,000. (…)

SENIOR FELLOWS

Harold Heie, Gordon College (…)

Distinguished Senior Fellow

Charles Colson, Prison Fellowship/PF –– Christianity Today, Contributing Editor

Colson’s PF-related Wilberforce Forum works as member/in partnership with CCCU.

Nigel M. de S. Cameron–– Wilberforce Forum [fact that Cameron is a CCCU Fellow is mentioned in WF’s bio on Cameron.]; Christianity Today, Contributing Editor, Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity-CBHD, Advisory

Jay Kesler, Taylor University (Chancellor) ––Christianity Today, Board of Directors

UNITED CHRISTIAN COLLEGE FUND TRUSTEES

Trustees, Staff and Consultants

Jay Kesler, Chair, Taylor University (Chancellor)––Christianity Today, Board of Directors

Gloria Gaither, Gaither Music Company

Gene Habecker, American Bible Society; Christianity Today, Board of Directors

Zig Ziglar, author and speaker

Russ G. Mawby, Chairman Emeritus, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Ted Engstrom, President Emeritus, World Vision USA

Robert Andringa, President, CCCU (ex officio)

more Templeton connections…

TAL BROOKE AND PHIL E. JOHNSON

“Phil is also a personal friend and an ally of mine.”