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 […]

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 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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

by Edwin Torkelsen  |  28 February 2018  |   It is always interesting to read the General Conference Executive Committee Newsletter (ECN). Since it was launched in January 2017 most issues have contained articles that defend and promote the present GC administration’s views of church authority, their interpretations of GC session votes and unity. The purpose […]

by S.M. Chen  |  12 February 2018  |   “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” —John Emerich Edward Dalbey-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834-1902) Before Watergate, there were the Pentagon Papers. And who knows? Had it not been for the Pentagon Papers, perhaps there would have been no Watergate, in which case Richard Nixon may not […]

Introducing Dr. Sakae Kubo’s The Parables of Jesus: Spiritual Stories for Today’s Readers Why do stories told two thousand years ago matter today? How can we, as modern readers, understand the true meaning of Jesus’ parables? In this slim volume, Sakae Kubo combines his knowledge of Biblical languages with context from the original settings in […]