Reviewed by Tompaul Wheeler

Recent postings on the blogs have played over and around the literal creation story found in Genesis implying that there is a need to scrub the way biology and science is taught at Adventist higher education institutions.  In this case, the perpetrator most widely

By John McLarty 

John McLarty is a Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) minister currently serving as the pastor of two churches in the Washington Conference of SDAs and past editor of Adventist Today. 

Faith Communities Today (FACT) is the public dissemination effort of a group of researchers and religious leaders who were responsible for, in 2000, the largest survey ever of congregations. It is the most inclusive, with Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish, Islamic and other religious groups representing 95 percent of all worshippers in America.

A coalition of fundamentalist Adventists are conducting a carefully orchestrated assault on selected La Sierra University (LSU) science faculty and administrators. At the same time, we should quickly note that many conservative Adventist scientists have refused to become a party to this unprovoked assault. They are to be commended.

Reviewed by Clifford Goldstein 

The new Spring 2009 print issue has just been delivered to subscribers. It features the cover story "What is an Adventist?" Four views provided by Charles Scriven, Larry Kirkpatrick, Sari Fordham and Larry Christoffell help define the church's role in "finishing the work." Below is a preview of Scriven's article from p. 9.