This guy is funny

Lately, though, Mr. Havens has been contemplating steps that would take him away from Brown and campus ministry. After a chaste romance - "I didn't kiss her until I asked her to marry me," he said - he recently became engaged to a missionary colleague, Liz Chalmers. He has been thinking about how to support the children they hope to have.

And he has been considering the example of his future father-in-law, Daniel Chalmers, a Baptist missionary to the Philippines who ended up building power plants there and making a small fortune. Mr. Chalmers has been a steady donor to Christian causes, and he bought a plot of land in Oregon, where he plans to build a retreat center.

"God has always used wealthy people to help the church," Mr. Havens said. He pointed out that in the Bible, rich believers helped support the apostles, just as donors to the Christian Union are investing strategically in the Ivy League today.

With those examples and his own father in mind, Mr. Havens chose medicine over campus ministry. He scored well on his medical school entrance exams and, after another year at Brown, he will head to St. Louis University School of Medicine. At the Christian Union conference in April, he was pleased to hear doctors talk about praying with their patients and traveling as medical missionaries.

From the same Times article as below. I wanted to quote more of this guy. A few remarks/questions:

1) I hope Havens and Chalmers do not have many children. They are serious nutjobs, and they, no doubt, will groom their children into nutjobs. Unfortunately, they probably do not believe in birth-control, so it would not surprise me to see the future Mrs. Havens giving birth to 5-10 kids.

2) A chaste romance? WTF? Sounds crazy.

3) Would you want your doctor to believe in faith-healing? Would you want your doctor to believe in creationism or intelligent design? Me neither.