International Business Times Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Relationship to "The Community"== The nature of the connection between ''IBT'' and The Community, a Christian sect led by [[David Jang]], is disputed; ''IBT'' states that many reports about its connections to The Community are false or exaggerated.<ref name=Dooley /> Davis and Uzac both have ties to [[Olivet University]], an evangelical institution founded by Jang. Graduates of Olivet are known to work at Newsweek Media Group, which has donated money to Olivet. Davis was formerly on faculty at Olivet, where his wife serves as university president. Uzac has served on the Olivet [[board of trustees]]; his wife has worked as [[press secretary]] for the [[World Evangelical Alliance]], of which Olivet is a member. Davis has personally endorsed the view that [[homosexuality]] can be caused by childhood [[sexual abuse]] and cured by [[conversion therapy|therapy]], although he declines to elaborate on his [[homosexuality and religion|religious views]] regarding homosexuality, stating that he separates his work from his faith.<ref name=guardian_unconventional>{{cite news |last1=Swaine |first1=Jon |title=Faith and a media icon: Newsweek's unconventional new owners |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/mar/28/newsweek-new-owners-background |access-date=December 21, 2016 |work=The Guardian |date=March 28, 2014}}</ref> ''[[Christianity Today]]'' claimed in 2012 that it had obtained an email in which Davis stated that he could not join a certain Jang-affiliated organization because his "commission is inherently covert". Davis denied the claim.<ref name=guardian_unconventional /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page