Welcoming Home Young Adults We are young, and we used to be Adventist. Some of us went or still go to college or graduate school; most of us work. Some of us are pierced and tattooed, and many of us carry cell phones and use the Internet daily for information, communication,... Read more
Trolleys, Parades and Candlelight Dinners Ring of Fire, a handbell choir based in Hillsboro, Oregon, and composed of academy-aged youth, traveled to the nation’s capitol to play for three official events during the 55th presidential inauguration on Thursday, January 20, 2005. Their second... Read more
Inaugurations First inaugural parade, from Mount Vernon to New York City — George Washington, 1798First president to be inaugurated at the capitol in Washington D.C. — Thomas Jefferson, 1801First use of floats in an inaugural parade — Martin Van Buren, 1837Firs... Read more
To Be a Light as the Lights Go Out It is early morning, and I am sitting at the kitchen table in the parsonage in Savoonga. This little Eskimo village of 300 lies at the east end of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea about 35 miles off the coast of Siberia.It is still many hours... Read more
To Be a Light as the Lights Go Out It is early morning, and I am sitting at the kitchen table in the parsonage in Savoonga. This little Eskimo village of 300 lies at the east end of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea about 35 miles off the coast of Siberia.It is still many hours... Read more
A Letter to God It all started when I was in the second grade. My teacher told us our town, Raymond, Washington, was so small that almost no one even knew where it was. That piece of information troubled me, and I began to worry about both me and my little town. ... Read more
Inaugurations First inaugural parade, from Mount Vernon to New York City — George Washington, 1798First president to be inaugurated at the capitol in Washington D.C. — Thomas Jefferson, 1801First use of floats in an inaugural parade — Martin Van Buren, 1837Firs... Read more
Don't Change the Channel "Hey, I know what we can do for the July 4 weekend,” my brother Paul spoke with the intensity of the boss on The Apprentice. “Let’s cruise to Knoxville. What do ya say?” Read more
An Affirmation of Creation As a response to the “An Affirmation of Creation—Report,” this document was accepted and voted by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist Church Executive Committee at the Annual Council in Silver Spring, Maryland, October 13, 2004.Whereas... Read more
New Bible Course for Native Americans A new Bible correspondence course designed to reach the Native American population of the United States and Canada has just been completed. Although many Adventist outreach ministries have their own correspondence courses and Bible schools, none o... Read more
A Letter to God It all started when I was in the second grade. My teacher told us our town, Raymond, Washington, was so small that almost no one even knew where it was. That piece of information troubled me, and I began to worry about both me and my little town. ... Read more
