Winton H. Beaven

Would I be out of place to suggest a "religious soap opera"? I do not wish to be misunderstood, but all day long there are ten to twenty million women listening to this type of broadcast, and listening to it because no religious organization…

[Since the news and activities of the 1954 General Conference session were well publicized and re­ported in our various denominational journals last year, this important event is not reviewed in this article.]

The Year of Evanston

For…

This past decade has witnessed a great and noteworthy development—the rediscovery of the preacher. Seminaries are full, theologians are once again great men in the world, and churches are bursting at the seams. With this rediscovery of religion…

Twenty-six terrified children are riding with you this spring as their school bus careens wildly over the steep and winding road near Ironton, Ohio, and you jump as they jump in wide-eyed one's and two's when the bus slows crazily at every…

Above all others, the ministry needs to f\ set the example in Christian teaching and living. The clergy have not es caped the corruptions of the times. We have not always been as careful in our example as we might be, and our parishioners…

In World War I there was a popular song, sung by American doughboys, which had in it these words: "Where do we go from here?" And back came the answer: "Anywhere from Pike's Peak to Jersey City's pier." This was the sardonic expression…

THE GOSPEL commission found in Matthew 28 has always been taken seriously by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Its efforts to evangelize the world, and in particular to make the world aware of the coming of Jesus, as taught in the three angels'…

A FUNNY thing happened on the way to Utopia; somewhere be tween 1950 and 1970 the great American melting pot broke. Whether it was the wars and their residues, the growth of knowledge, the shrinking of the globe, the loss of belief in the…

Society today camouflages, ignores, evades, and denies both the nature and the seriousness of the problems caused by alcohol. Facts are obscured by prejudice and ancient myths. Advocates of total abstinence are often ridiculed. Those favoring…

Many people today are paralyzed by burn out. This phenomenon is especially prevalent among those in the helping professions, which includes Christian ministers.

The dictionary defines burnout as burning "until the fuel is exhausted,…

Stress is a fact of life. You are under stress when you drive to work, when you are late to work, when you receive unexpected company, when you chair a meeting, when your pet dies. Happiness, sadness, pain, trauma,…