Roland R. Hegstad

WHAT is the condition of the Adventist home that we should speak of its revival?

First the good news: Our youth are currently more audacious in witness than they have been in many years. They don't hide their Bibles under their coats.…

A professional man in your church comes to you and says he has been attending meetings of a charismatic group. He likes the warmth of the fellowship and wonders why Adventists, who emphasize the gift of prophecy, are strangely silent on tongues.…

IN RECENT times the world has witnessed instance after instance of mind manipulation, most notably in the staged trials of political prisoners. What it has not been aware of, however, is the degree to which more subtle forms of mind manipulation…

Devils working miracles are speaking to Christendom today with new and compelling power: signs, wonders, healings, and tongues, experienced by participants in the charismatic movement and claimed to be of God, may be utter fraud. The neo-Pentecostal…

Since 1967 the charismatic movement, with its speaking in tongues and ministry of miracles, has been penetrating Roman Catholicism. It is today crossing denominational and social barriers. Is this neo-Pentecostalism, which has sprung so quickly…

I WANT to talk to you about the charismatic movement or neo-Pentecostalism, as it is also called. A movement that is bringing the so-called baptism of the Holy Spirit with all its concomitants, speaking in tongues and healings into the main…

Encouragement for Spanish Catholics

Anyone having a biography of Lyman Beecher, the great champion of the church in New England, can do a good turn by sending it to Catholic Church authorities in Spain. Seems the Spanish hierarchy…

No room in the school

In Guilderland High School, in upper New York State, some 60 non-school groups have used school facilities, among them a local choir, music groups, private dance companies, unions, the United States Air Force,…

America—a Christian nation again! Families going to church on Sunday. Children praying together to start the school day. Mothers nursing children instead of aborting them. No more yellow-front bookstores or X-rated movies to corrupt…

It is to be expected, I suppose, that a nation that separates church and state in its Constitution will experience a few controversies when visited by a Pontiff who unites church and state in his person. At least three widely publicized…

The candidates and the first Amendment

If the presidential candidates were rated on their support of First Amendment rights, who would come out on top? Probably President Carter, with John Anderson in second place and Ronald Reagan…

Voice backs Reagan

Christian Voice, a multimillion-dollar political action lobby of evangelical Christians, is backing Ronald Reagan for President, says the organization's legislative director.

"We are mailing several million…

Prayer rugs?

The North Carolina Department of Corrections now allows Moslem inmates of State prisons to buy prayer rugs as "approved religious items." The State's Inmate Grievance Commission had ruled that the prayer rugs are necessary…

Prelude to the banquet

A charismatic priest from Little Falls, New York, John Bertolucci, says he regrets bitterly that all Christians "at present cannot practice inter-Communion. I long for that day," he says, "when we can all…

Let me tell you about Washington, D.C.

It's the one city in the country where your best friend will stab you in the back with your knife and then report you to the police for carrying a concealed weapon. That's politics!"

This…

Dear Editor:

I read with interest R. R. Hegstad's "Down the Road to a Christian Republic" (MINISTRY, December, 1979). There was a point in it, however, that alarmed me. I refer to the use of Ellen G. White's letter 44…

Khomeini-like

If you want to really insult a person or organization and are tired of the tried and true but also trite and blue (as in old cheese), here's a new pejorative for you: Khomeini-like. Credit the Couple to Couple League,…

The Christian Voice

Gary L. Jarmin, legislative director of the Christian Voice lobby, rejected criticism of the organization's Index a rating of Representatives and Senators on a variety of issues.

Said Mr. Jarmin: "Christian…

Pat Robertson: the Christian and politics

Pat Robertson, president of the Christian Broadcasting Network, is a staunch conservative. In his newsletter he has opposed such things as the Panama Canal treaties, recognition of Red…

Vote on Sunday?

Should National Election Day be changed from Tuesday to Sunday? U.S. Rep. Mario Biaggi (D-N.Y.) believes so. He has introduced a voting bill that would require all general elections to be held on Sunday, and all…

Seventh-day Adventists In Russia

In December, 1977,1 visited with E. A. Tarasov, Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs in the Soviet Union. Our one-hour conversation ranged over many areas of religious…

Peace words flew like doves through the crisp air of mid-February Moscow. In Russian, English, French, Bulgarian, German, Japanese, Arabic, Pashto, and a dozen languages even the official translators couldn't handle. One engaging delegate…

She looked like a veteran teacher--no-nonsense eyes, graying hair pulled into an unpretentious bun, tiny age lines between a thin nose and thinner lips. But I learned that she lacked enough confidence to teach a Sabbath school class. She…

A shy little man, dressed neatly in a tan sport jacket and jeans, walked into church unnoticed and slipped into a seat.

He liked the sermon, the first he had ever heard in an Adventist church. After the service, he waited in the line…

Why does a word that ^ ym / points upward send so many Christians plunging downward? Why the squabbles over issues of alleged "conservatism" or "liberalism"? Is it possible for us to avoid theological paranoia and…