Thursday, September 15, 2011

Reviewing the Adventist Review

Vol. 188, No. 23
August 18, 2011

GENERAL COMMENTS
This issue’s cover, GOD’S PSYCHOLOGY: HEALTH FOR BODY, MIND, AND SOUL, was a profound disappointment! The official psychological information provided was little more than sermonizing! Only a 350 word piece by Jill Carlson, THE STIGMA OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND ITS TREATMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF A CHRISTIAN BELIEF SYSTEM, (which wasn’t even cited on the Feature Page) provided helpful clinical information!

If you’re busy, this is the issue to skip. If World News interests you, it’s available online.

Vol. 188, No. 24
August 25, 2011

GENERAL COMMENTS
I had trouble concen-trating on this review when I read that ADRA GIVES $1 MILLION TO MARANATHA. According to Ted Wilson, “this move symbolizes cooperation between the world church and lay ministries”. In this Haiti project, Maranatha is in partnership with Missionary Ventures International, another Christian NGO. http://www.mvi.org/

ADRA's BOARD IS A GLOVE IN TED WILSON'S FUNDAMENTALIST HAND!
ADRA's credibility as a nonsectarian relief organization should now be called into question. It should now be assumed that direct contributions to ADRA will be directed to SDA lay ministries like Maranantha!

THE RELUCTANT SCHOOLTEACHER, by Stanley D. Hickerson is a MUST READ. Alma McKibbin didn't want to be a schoolteacher. But she was the first person to create a school curriculum for Adventist elementary students.

RECOMMENDED READING
Drs. Landless and Handysides weigh in on the good and the bad about tea and coffee drinking in TEA AND COFFEE REVISITED.

In HEALTHY HEARTS, Molly Geddis introduces us to a community-based health outreach that yields church-based results.

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