Gary Krause

A world-famous classical violinist, Joshua Bell, stood outside L’Enfant Plaza metro station in Washington DC, holding his $3.5 million Stradivarius. It was morning rush hour on a cold winter day in 2007. Three days earlier, Bell had sold…

Nineteen hundred and one. The first year of the twentieth century. In New York City, the Tenement House Law of 1901 culminated years of effort by reformers to turn squalid and dangerous housing to be safer and healthier. The panic of 1901…

Finding the balance between the needs of mission at home and else where has always been difficult. The local church has its own urgent needs to function as an effective witness in the community. And yet again and…

Over the next few years, Adventists will make a special effort to establish congregations in large cities around the world. A Hope for Big Cities offering will be collected in Adventist churches around the world on July 9 to provide…

A young African mother-to-be awaited the arrival of her first child in a public hospital in Arua, Uganda. She had experienced a long, hard labor. Lying on her hospital bed, she could only whisper, amid the contractions,…

On his 90th birthday, Alec Holden went down to his local “bookie” and bet £100 that he would live to 100. Ten years later, he returned to the bookie and col­lected £25,000. The media asked Mr. Holden for the secret of his longevity. I am…