March

Jeffrey O. Brown

The popularity of the British prime minister was gravely jeopardized by the statement “Christmas is canceled.”1 The persistence of the COVID-19 virus was strengthened by the presence of a new variant. But would Christmas really be canceled? Or could it be that the heart of Christmas—to share with someone you love and help someone in need—might actually be given a chance to shine?The popularity of any pastor or church administrator would be severely jeopardized… Continue reading...

Jasper Ivan Iturriaga

Exhausted from a series of preaching, I retreated to the silence of my hotel room. As I crashed into bed, I looked back to how I got here—preaching in a country more than five thousand miles from home. For the past several months, I had thrown myself into a never-ending cycle of jumping from one country to another, to a point where my life fit into a suitcase. My identity was now synonymous with travel, photography, filming, and preaching. Fatigue would occasionally… Continue reading...

Lawrence Downing

Robert Alter’s three-volume set of The Hebrew Bible and commentary may well take its place as one of the more original and unique contributions to the study of the Hebrew Bible in the English language. Alter’s numerous scholarly publications and translations of individual Hebrew Bible books are evidence of his significant contributions to biblical studies. The Hebrew Bible translation, his magnum opus of 3,500 pages, is the result of more than two and half decades… Continue reading...

Jared Wood shows a young patron some of the exhibit materials. Photo: Southwestern Adventist University. Adventist professors’ cutting-edge paper—20 years of researchKeene, Texas, United StatesEvery summer, Jared Wood, director of the Dinosaur Science Museum at Southwestern Adventist University (SWAU), and Arthur Chadwick, director of the Dinosaur Excavation Project at SWAU, along with Keith Snyder, chair of the biology department at Southern Adventist University,… Continue reading...

Matt Mason

Hospice to me is something special because it allows me to gain peace as I start to prepare to pass into eternity.” This statement was shared by a 59-year-old inmate. Serving 72 years for double murder, he had recently been admitted to the hospice unit. One in every five prisoners in the United States has tested positive for the coronavirus, more than four times the rate of the general population1 Numerous health issues that had worsened over the last few years… Continue reading...