by Christopher C. Thompson  |  16 August 2019  |   I was serving as the interim pastor of a small church in Georgia not too long ago. On a Sunday morning the church leaders and I sat together to discuss the business of the church. It’s a small rural church, but given the trend of current […]

by David Geelan  |  15 August 2019 Eppur si muove, which translates as “And yet it moves,” is a phrase purportedly muttered by Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) as he was led away from his trial by the Inquisition for heliocentrism—the belief that the sun, not the Earth, is the center of the solar system. Galileo was […]

by Lindsey Painter  |  13 August 2019  | In the last two weeks there have occurred three of the latest mass shootings in America. The worst word in that sentence is “latest.”  One of them happened at a place I was planning to be. I have the Gilroy Garlic Festival on my calendar, and I […]

Richard W. Coffen  |  12 August 2019  | Slogans and mottos influence us all, and most glom onto our brain cells. Can you name the product that the following slogan promotes? “When you care enough to send the very best.” Yes, Hallmark Cards. I always look for a Hallmark card because . . . you […]

by Reinder Bruinsma  |  9 August 2019  | A few days ago a professor I know who has an educational background in law and theology started a discussion on a Facebook group for pastors that I follow regularly, about the question of how pastors in their preaching might address some of the moral dilemmas that […]

by Richard W. Coffen  |  9 August 2019  | Devotees of various historic religions have supposed that certain gods have descended to the underworld (the realm of the dead; compare the Hebrew she’ol) but then later reappeared. Popular Myths Historical documents support such myths, although some controversy exists as to whether such fabled ancient experiences […]

by Debbie Hooper Cosier On April 28, 1996—my 30th birthday—I was watching television as details emerged about a massacre in Port Arthur, Australia’s historic penal colony in Tasmania. My first son was due in a few weeks. The shooter, Martin Byrant, was only a year younger than me. On that day he killed 35 people […]

by Kris Coffin Stevenson  |  5 August 2019  | I leaned forward and listened in rapt attention as my colleague described the ministry outreach of a local nondenominational congregation. They had adopted their entire city block and made it their ministry to care for everyone within it, including redoing the sidewalks and fixing homes and […]

by Edward Reifsnyder  |  2 August 2019  |   In yoga, there is a position named Warrior 2. It looks like this: The pose suggests kinetic energy and directionality. The body appears to be moving forward, but from the strong, stabilizing base of the rear foot. The eyes are looking over the front hand into the […]

By Loren Seibold  |  29 July 2019  | Every time I attend a meeting where General Conference (GC) leaders speak, I am told that Ellen White said that the General Conference in session is God’s highest authority on earth. You would be astonished at the number of times in a GC executive committee meeting listeners […]

(Third of a three-part series on DNA, God’s Language.) (Part 1 is here.)   (Part 2 is here.) by Jack Hoehn | July 7, 2019 He said to me, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true… I am the Α and the Ω [the A and the Z], the beginning and the end […]