Why not a statement of beliefs?

By Andrew Hanson

Ellen White's Contribution to Adventist Doctrine, by Kwabena Donkor, an Associate director of the Biblical Research Institute, is an authoritative, eye-opening must read. (Adventist World, NAD Edition, March 2009) His words suggest a way for the Adventist Church to examine, review, and/or update existing beliefs in a way that would reflect the biblical scholarship that has taken place since our founders, working from the King James Bible, established Adventist theology back in the last decades of the 19th century.

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Worship with Jews and Muslims

by Marcel Schwantes

A pastor who used word "glocal" to describe his church's approach to missions has led his Texas congregation to visit new territories: the synagogue and mosque down the street. By worshiping in three services, leaders of each congregation got to know one another, become friends, and to highlight the differences and similarities among their religions.

The basis of coming together, said megachurch pastor Bob Roberts, is not to minimize Christian beliefs but to hold onto and make clear our beliefs. Also, he adds, it's to say that the best of our beliefs calls us to get along with one another.

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Only the Curious

The following quotes have made me more thoughtful, and, it is hoped, a little wiser.  
Andy Hanson


Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.  
Eugene S. Wilson 

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