Aug 29, 2020
Everyday Theology Applications for Questions of the Faith By Pastor Phil Lawton A Christian Response to a Grieving Country In 1969, a woman by the name of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross wrote a book called On Death and Dying. In the book she talked about what she called the stages of grief. She argued that as a terminally ill patient grows closer to death their grief...
Jun 23, 2020
By Katrina Goodrich Tragic circumstances tend to make me introspective. This year there’s been plenty of tragedy to go around the entire world affecting its over 7 billion inhabitants. Life, this year, is turning out quite differently than expected—but maybe the interruption to our regularly scheduled lives can teach us something if we listen. Right now the...
Jun 23, 2020
By Carl Greene Executive Director I was probably 8 years old when I asked my grandfather how he plowed a straight line across the field. The field was covered in sod and had no rows to follow to know a straight path. I was amazed by how he could do this—was it some sort of internal compass that develops when you get old? You probably...
Jun 23, 2020
Andy Samuels Chief Executive Director SDB Missionary Society One of the great joys of my job with the Seventh Day Baptist Missionary Society is the enriching experience of working with, sharing with, ministering with, and communicating with people of a variety of ethnicities from six continents in the world. I also feel especially blessed...
by Kevin Butler Earlier this spring, déjà vu happened all over again. I was asked to be Conference President. This was after I spent a whole year assuring people at the church I serve that the presidency was a “one-and-done” assignment, that NO ONE ever serves for two years, and that by the end of this July my tasks and...
By Sarina Gumness “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two...