by Sam Chen | 16 November 2018 | “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), French writer, poet, journalist, pioneering aviator It was still dark when he approached the monolith. He had gazed at it many times, but […]
Category: Reviews
Film Review: Operation Finale
by S.M Chen | 12 September 2018 | “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), quoting 19th century clergyman Theodore Parker Certain events are so horrific, they deserve to be burnished in memory. And resurrected from time to time to remind younger generations. For, as Spanish […]
“My Son, Beloved Stranger” Revisited
by Carrol Grady | 28 August 2018 | Has it really been 30 years since that unforgettable day that divided my life into before and after? That day when I learned one of my three sons was a homosexual? When I felt that my world had fallen apart? My minister husband and I had recently […]
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Film Review: Leave No Trace
by S.M. Chen | 5 August 2018 | In 2004, the “Oregonian” ran a series about a father and daughter who had lived for 4 years in Forest Park, a 5200-acre public municipal park in the Tualatin Mountains west of Portland, OR. 5 years later, author Peter Rock published a novel, My Abandonment, based on […]
Would I Thrive in the Republic of Gilead?
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. […]
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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 […]