April

Ivan L. Williams

Looking out of my home office window, I often see red-tailed hawks swooping down from the huge 300-hundred-foot-tall electrical towers to the field below. I watch them catch rodents or snakes for a meal. They look down intensely while perching or flying. They peer down eagerly for movement of any kind. They swoop down purposefully for a successful mission.Such an operation requires keen eyesight and unblurred vision. If the hawk cannot hunt, it won’t eat. If the… Continue reading...

Joanne Cortes

COVID-19 has impacted practically every church around the world. In this book, The Post-Quarantine Church, Thom Rainer looks at what our church may look like after the pandemic. He offers six urgent challenges and opportunities that may help a church to determine the kind of future it will have. The first challenge Rainer suggests is that the church should gather differently and better, find innovative ways to use the church facility, and be ready to think of… Continue reading...

Photo: Jean Pierre Niptik Prime minister opens Vanuatu Adventists’ 24th quinquennial sessionPort Vila, VanuatuVanuatu’s prime minister, Bob Loughman, congratulated the regional Seventh-day Adventist Church for training up national leaders in his opening address at Vanuatu Mission’s 24th quinquennial session in the capital city of Port Vila on January 20, 2021. Newly appointed Vanuatu Mission (VM) president Charlie Jimmy presented Loughman with two books—a family… Continue reading...

Igor Lorencin

Webster’s Dictionary defines a conspiracy theory as “a theory that explains an event or set of circumstances as the result of a secret plot by usually powerful conspirators.”1 These theories promote some secret knowledge; tend to blind people with half-truths, that is, unconfirmed information that no one can prove; and lead one to look for someone else to blame.Should a Christian use or advocate conspiracy theories, half-truths, or unconfirmed information? The… Continue reading...