As the sun gradually sets at an earlier time each day, most U.S. states will “fall back” for the end of this year’s daylight saving time (DST) cycle, rewinding the clock by one hour on November 7 at 2 a.m. The artificial method of maximizing the use of sunlight precipitates a shift in daily sched...
Have you ever been “caught napping”? The expression is more than 400 years old. By Shakespeare’s day, it was being used to refer to someone who should have been ready for a situation but was caught unprepared. In sports, it is associated with embarrassment. Think of the distracted goalie who lets...
Today, Pastor Ted Wilson, president of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church, concludes an evangelistic series with a powerful message of Jesus’ second coming, highlighting the event described in the Bible as literal, visible, audible, glorious, and climactic. Speaking online via Zoom, Pasto...
Uncertainty is a leading multimedia project of the Adventist World Church, born in Europe, expressed in video productions, film, and other digital and print media that have earned great success even in the world of “secular” communication. The Uncertainty Project has had a long process of elab...
When U.S. Democratic leader Franklin D. Roosevelt came to power in March 1933, he offered a “New Deal” to counter the Great Depression (1930–1939). The New Deal was not entirely new. Raymond Moley (a member in Roosevelt’s brains trust) wrote that it “was… a loose collection of many ideas—some new...
Imagine a church elder coming to you after church and admitting that his wife, the director of women’s ministry, was verbally abusing him. There may be many emotions that come to the surface in the space of seconds: confusion, doubt, sadness, anger. When considering the possibility that a friend ...