Comments of the Week July 21-28 Welcome to a new feature, where we select the best comments of the week, and invite you to revisit the essays where they were made. —Editors The Great Adventist Mythology From my point of view, I think that all this conspiracies, fantasies, myths, etc., is tremendously dangerous; it is […]
By Lindsey Painter 24 July 2018 “Moderation in all things” is a phrase my mother taught me. And I believe it applies to most things in life. Eating healthy, for example. I believe that most of the food I consume should be healthy, but it’s okay for me to have a chocolate truffle sometimes. There’s […]
By Lindsey Painter | 23 May, 2018 I’m sitting at my desk at work and a song comes on the easy listening station by One Direction. Here are the lyrics for part of the song. Baby you light up my world like nobody else The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed But […]
By Lindsey Painter | 13 April 2018 | In 1976 a terrible earthquake hit Guatemala. Thousands of people died and left thousands of children orphaned. Pastor Ken and Mrs. Alcyon Fleck’s hearts were so moved by the plight of these homeless children. They wanted to do something. Pastor Fleck took an early retirement, and with […]
By Lindsey Painter | 28 February, 2018 | Eight years ago Chris Oberg made Adventist history by becoming the first woman to hold the position of lead pastor of a university church. She has been faithfully serving her church and her community since that time as lead pastor of the La Sierra University Church. “The church […]
By Lindsey Painter | 25 January 2018 | There are stages to social media movements. Remember the Ice Bucket challenge? First it was a new thing, then everyone was doing it, then there was this weird backlash where people complained that the challenge was ineffectual, and it didn’t really raise awareness for ALS and it […]
By Lindsey Painter | 26 December 2017 | Up in the cold wilds of Canada, Pastor Walter Rogers, the Children’s Pastor at Church in the Valley, had an idea. He wanted to have a ministry that reaches community kids. His previous ministry experience was in the inner-city streets of Benton Harbor, Michigan. There, his ministry […]
By Lindsey Painter, 22 November, 2017 Just yards from the border of Mexico, Calexico Mission School is in a unique position to make an impact in the world. Across the border is the Mexican City of Mexicali, the Capitol of Baja, and home to 85% of the students. Calexico Mission School has been serving the […]
