by Stephen Ferguson | 08 July 2018 | The world is abuzz with Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a new TV series that adapts the 1985 book of the same name by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. The series is now in its second season, and received an impossible 100% score on review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. […]
Category: Reviews
Adventist Denominations: The Larger Picture
by Monte Sahlin | 6 July 2018 | Handbook of Denominations in the United States, 14th Edition by Roger E. Olson, Frank S. Mead, Samuel S. Hill and Craig D. Atwood (2018, Abingdon Press). The 14th edition of the Handbook of Denominations in the United States came off the press in recent weeks. This is […]
RBG: A Film Review
by S.M. Chen | 4 July 2018 | “No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.” —Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948) – lawyer, politician, founder of Pakistan RBG are the initials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A 97 minute documentary has been made of her life and career. Why should I view […]
Film Review: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
by S.M. Chen | 22 June 2018 | “Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children – these are the only investments that never fail.” —Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) – American writer, naturalist Not many films garner a 99% ranking at Rotten Tomatoes, a film website (but one of many). Here’s one that did. […]
In Search of the Ideal Family
By Loren Seibold | 28 May 2018 | Hope for Today’s Families, by Willie and Elaine Oliver. Review & Herald Publishing Association, 2018. 96 pages Hope for Today’s Families is pretty much the kind of book I would have tried to write had I been asked to write a Missionary Book of the Year about […]
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Guiding Families of LGBT+ Loved Ones
Guiding Families of LGBT+ Loved Ones, Adventist Edition. Posture Shift Books/Lead Them Home, 2006-2018. Available from North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, 9705 Patuxent Woods Drive, Columbia, MD 21046. Reviewed by Dave Ferguson A new 71-page booklet from the NAD titled Guiding Families of LGBT+ Loved Ones provides the most compassionate response to LGBT+ Adventists ever […]
Film Review: Loving Vincent
Reviewed by S.M. Chen | 13 May 2018 | It seems a truism that society often does not recognize the truly gifted: the revolutionaries, the visionaries, the geniuses. It is only after they are gone that they are appreciated. So it was with Vincent van Gogh who, during his relatively short life, sold only 1 […]
New Book Reviews Debate on Investigative Judgment Doctrine since Glacier View
A new book looks carefully at the scholarship and discussion on the traditional Adventist teaching of an investigative judgment in heaven beginning in 1844. The author, Roy Ingram, is a loyal Seventh-day Adventist who believes that God raised up the Adventist movement to take the everlasting gospel to all the world. The book summarizes the […]
Paul—Apostle of Christ
Paul—Apostle of Christ Film review by Jiggs Gallagher | 2 April 2018 | A new Hollywood film, “Paul, Apostle of Christ,” has been released in selected theaters across the nation. It was produced by Affirm Films, one of several in a new wave of faith-based filmmakers intent on marketing to religiously motivated moviegoers looking for […]
Nuevo libro en español sobre la ordenación de mujeres
Apartadas para el Ministerio: Perspectivas bíblicas sobre la ordenación , Redactores: Daniel A. Mora y Miguel Ángel Nuñéz, Lima, Perú: Fortaleza Ediciones, 474 páginas. Reseña por Eric Richter | 30 marzo 2018 | La década de 1970 vio el nacimiento del debate moderno sobre la ordenación de la mujer en la Iglesia Adventista del Séptimo Día. […]
New Latin-American Book on Women’s Ordination
Apartadas para el Ministerio: Perspectivas bíblicas sobre la ordenación (Set Apart for Ministry: Biblical Perspectives on Ordination), Edited by Daniel A. Mora and Miguel Ángel Nuñéz, Lima, Perú: Fortaleza Ediciones [Fortress Editions], 474 pages. Reviewed by Eric Richter | 30 March 2018 | The modern debate on women’s ordination in the Seventh-day Adventist Church began in the […]
Book Review: Census
by S.M. Chen | 23 March 2018 | Census, by Jesse Ball. Harper Collins, 2017. 260 pages. “And He walks with me, and He talks with me…” ~“In the Garden”, by C. Austin Miles, 1912 Close to 50,000 books are published each year. There is no […]