Features
Two Significant General Conference Sessions: 1990 and 2000
by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 28 September 2018 | I was surprised in 1990 when The Christian Century, a magazine that has as its primary audience the mainline Protestant denominations in the USA (Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Evangelical Lutherans, the Reformed Church, etc.) asked me to write an account of the Adventist General Conference Session that […]
The Urbanization of the Adventist Mission: Interview with Skip Bell
By Jeff Boyd, 27 September 2018 | Dr. Skip Bell is professor of leadership in the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan. The recent Urban Mission and Ministry Congress drew more than 500 Adventist pastors, missionaries and denominational administrators. Jeff Boyd, a contributing editor for Adventist Today, covered the event for us and conducted […]
The Power of Proximity
by S.M. Chen | 24 September 2018 | “I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see.” —‘Amazing Grace’ by John Newton (1725-1807) In early morn I approach the multilevel parking structure adjacent to my workplace. I turn off the FM classical musical station, lower the driver side window and […]
Autumn
by Carolyn Shultz | 24 September 2018 | The trees go gaudy into that good night. Like rivals at a costume ball, They flaunt their reds and golds Till. . . Drunk with beauty We can bear to watch them die. Carolyn Shultz is Professor Emerita of English at Walla Walla University, where she taught […]
Do Adventists Understand Urban Ministries?
by Zach Payne | 21 September 2018 | The lights were dimmed and the room was packed—standing room only—as I sneaked into the auditorium of the Howard Performing Arts Center. It was the first night of the Urban Mission and Ministries Congress and Elder Dan Jackson was fielding questions. I heard a voice from somewhere […]
Dr. Ron Numbers on Writing Prophetess of Health
Adventist Today editor Loren Seibold talked with Dr. Ron Numbers, whose article on once-Adventist, later media and sports mogul, John Fetzer will appear in the autumn edition of Adventist Today magazine. You have a distinguished pedigree with the Seventh-day Adventist church. According to family lore my great-grandmother, Mary Anne Dicky Branson, then living in southern […]