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Staffreports The Right Reverend Barry Beisner, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California, will be ordaining deacon intern Kathryn Wallace to the Sa- cred Order of Deacons on Saturday, June 14 at Trinity Cathedral in Sacramento. Wallace has served the congregation of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Red Bluff since August 2013 as deacon intern, focusing her energies on facilitating ser- vice and care in the com- munity beyond the doors of the church. Her work within the St. Peter's congregation has in- cluded leadership in Morn- ing Prayer, preaching and diaconal responsibilities. Along with priests and bish- ops, the role of deacon is one of the three offices to which people can be ordained in the Episcopal Church. In 2011, Wallace enrolled in the School of Deacons, located at the Church Di- vinity School of the Pacific campus in Berkeley. This custom tailored program meets the needs of working adults preparing for service in several Episcopal dio- ceses. The Church Divinity School of the Pacific is the only Episcopal seminary on the West Coast. St. Peter's Episcopal Church is at 510 Jefferson St., on the corner of Jefferson and Elm streets. For more in- formation, call 527-5205 or send an email to stpeters@ sbcglobal.net. Visit www. saintpetersepiscopal.org. ST.PETER'S Bishop to ordain Episcopal deacon COURTESYPHOTO Kathryn Wallace By James Wilson The tag line for the new Captain America film is, "In heroes we trust." That supposedly clever play on the national motto, "In God we trust," is pathetic. Heroes — both real and of the comic book variety — are of great cultural value. Real heroes are models and God-sends for each of us. Yet gods they are not and messiahs they are not. Heroes are rare and wonderful, but there is one Messiah. Even so, God the Son is always looking for heroes who will acknowledge Him before men so He can ac- knowledge them before the Father. He has inspired a great model of what He seeks in the recently re- leased film, God's Not Dead. The plot line offers a uni- versity course in Philoso- phy. The professor begins the first day of class with an arrogant declaration that there is no God and only a fool would think otherwise. He passes out a sheet of pa- per to every student and demands that they write, "God is dead," and sign their names — in order to save the time in which they might debate the question. One student says he cannot sign it; he believes Jesus is His Lord and he will not dishonor this Lord. The pro- fessor challenges the stu- dent to defend God's exis- tence in three twenty-min- ute segments over the next couple of weeks and flunk the class if he fails. The stu- dent — reluctantly — ac- cepts the challenge. When the professor later con- fronts the student privately he admits that he hates the God who did not heal his mother of cancer and prom- ises to destroy the student's career in retaliation for dar- ing to take on the professor. There have been many complaints about this film and its al- leged lack of real- ism from many sec- ular quarters. They are straw men and should be disman- tled one at a time — hopefully with- out spoiling the sur- prises in the film for those who have not yet seen it. Atheists say real atheists do not deny God's existence because they hate Him; they simply do not believe He ex- ists. While I don't presume to speak for all who deny God, I know too many athe- ists just like the professor to accept this as anything but self-justification. Politi- cally correct zealots project anti Islamic bias because a Muslim girl is brutalized by her father when he discov- ers her secret faith in Jesus. Again, I know former Mus- lims of both genders who face death if their fami- lies should discover their whereabouts. And the real grief of the Muslim father discounts the view Muslims are presented as unfeeling brutes in this movie. Amateur psychiatrists will ridicule the demen- tia patient who gains her faculties just long enough to speak eloquently to her wayward son about God's love don't know many de- mentia patients; such things do happen and I have seen them. Conserva- tives who think business ty- ros like the Dean Cain char- acter are not that crass are obviously unfamiliar with the muck at the top of many pyramids. Progressives who claim students have rights to free speech on campus and professors would not hold students hostage to pet issues should review the dozens of cases cited at the end of the film — these are just pending cases of the Al- liance Defending Freedom, one of many non-profit le- gal foundations who de- fend the First Amendment as their principal activity — or they could check in with me. I experienced this kind of discrimination — bully- ing — at San Diego State more than forty years ago and it is much more preva- lent today. Anyone who finds the moment-of-death conver- sion to faith in one of the atheist characters non- credible should check in with me — or any Bible be- liever who has tended many people at this moment. And some of the pious among us should get comfy with the reality these people really do go to heaven — what- ever they have done on this planet. Only one aspect of the film struck me as unrealis- tic. When the student puts his proof to the test of de- mocracy — per agreement with the prof — every stu- dent in class stands to af- firm their conviction de- spite the possible conse- quences to their class grade. The truth is most American Christians lack the courage to make such a gesture, and there are real consequences for cowardice. Jesus says He will acknowledge before His Father those who acknowl- edge Him before men; those who deny Him will be de- nied per Matthew 10:32- 3. But the consequence of courage is joy and peace in this life and an incompara- ble retirement plan. God already sent the only Messiah we need. But He is looking for heroes and our culture needs the kind de- picted in God's Not Dead. James Wilson is the au- thor of Living As Ambas- sadors of Relationships and The Holy Spirit and the End Times — available at local bookstores or by e- mailing him at praynorth- state@charter.net. GODTALK Heroes and messiahs: In whom we trust is no laughing matter Jim Wilson TehamaCountyChurchDirectory RedBluff.... ABUNDANTLIFEFELLOWSHIP 21080LutherRd.•528-2499 Pastor J.E. 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