by Tyler Kraft  |  3 July 2020  |   Growing up, I wanted to play in the National Basketball Association. Unfortunately a lack of height, athleticism, and general basketball skill conspired to rob me of my dream. Thankfully God provided me with a new dream when He called me to ministry, where those things don’t matter […]

by Dorcas Daboni  |  2 July 2020  |   I looked in the mirror. A strange-looking creature looked back at me.  It had on a yellow gown that covered every inch of its body. Gloves on its hands and goggles over its eyes. A shower cap sort of thing on its head, and a shield over […]

by Ron Preast  |  1 July 2020  | To say our world has changed in recent months is a profound understatement. I don’t believe any of us could have imagined a time when the world would practically shut down. Businesses are closing, millions have applied for unemployment and even churches cannot hold their regular services.  […]

Why are white people like me kept uncomfortably guilty by the jealousy of God. Why must we bear our fathers’ sins? by Jack Hoehn  |  26 June 2020  | I don’t own one of those idiotic KKK headdresses. I have no Confederate flag. My ancestors never kept slaves. Some of my best friends are black. […]

by Timothy Ruybalid  |  26 June 2020   | I imagined the other day that Dr. Sandra Roberts, president of Southeastern California Conference, was elected as president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church. I have no idea how this would happen, but perhaps, in my imagined scenario, two conservative factions supported different candidates and split their […]

By Loren Seibold  |  23 June 2020  | This happened many years ago (if it happened at all), long before mobile phones. A youth pastor drives up to a gas station way out in the country, rushes inside, obviously flustered and upset, and asks the clerk, “Did you see a bus filled with young people […]

by David Geelan  |  19 June 2020  | “People say to me, ‘Science doesn’t know everything’. Science knows it doesn’t know everything… otherwise it would stop!” Irish comedian Dara O’Briain joked in one of his shows. Unfortunately, people sometimes either (a) think that science does know everything or (b) think that science thinks it knows […]

by Kris Coffin Stevenson  |  17 June 2020  | My bookcase is attached to the wall with an earthquake strap. I can see the strap poking up above the top of the bookcase. Every time I look at the bookcase, I remind myself to find a decorative item to put on the top to hide […]

By Lindsey Abston Painter  |  12 June 2020  |   When I got divorced I discovered a new community of people: divorced women. In the beginning, I relied heavily on this community for support, for clarity, and for emotional comfort. Now, years later, I still find them to be a deep well of wisdom and friendship.  […]

By Victoria Pendleton  |  12 June 2020  |   A friend of mine tells a story of going to a gallery show of abstract artworks by an artist friend of his. One of the large canvases he found especially striking. It had a white background, and some very flowing, vigorous figures in the foreground that, he […]

by Clyde McCulley  |  9 June 2020  | I am 79 years old, and I have experienced an awakening these past few weeks that has surprised me. I, like millions of others around the world, watched the 8-minute-and-46-second killing of a black man. I watched the other policemen standing by and doing nothing to stop […]