July, 2008
Vol. 4, No. 1

GENERAL COMMENTS
Adventist World has a gorgeous website. Navigation is instantaneous; the contents page is even easier to read than the hard copy; and typeface, layout, and graphics are computer friendly.

Due to recent low ratings, the 3ABN board recently voted 1-to-0 to approve a lineup of new prime time shows. At the eight o'clock p.m. slot, 3ABN will hook up with Kinship International to sponsor a new program entitled "Queer Eye for the GC Guy."

According to star and veteran Adventist producer, Klaus Etted, five people will roam the three floors of the Silver Spring General Conference complex randomly pulling out employees for a quick outfit makeover. "The time of the end is near for dull gray slacks, navy blazers, and flower ties," he promises.

Recently several bloggers and regulars here at Spectrum have been interviewed for a new Adventist television series called intersections.

From the Global Internet Evangelism Network forum in Denver, CO.

In a pretty impressive effort to spur innovation among Seventh-day Adventist technologists, TAGnet.org has offered a series of financial awards for innovative, executable ideas in three categories.

I'm sitting here in Sabbath School with a bunch of church leaders. Since this is a world forum on the internet and Adventist mission there are several folks on their laptops and new iPhones. Being able to blog in Sabbath School? Count me in!

General Conference Vice-president Lowell Cooper will be giving the sermon. Since my parents never let me read Guide or Insight during the sermon, I will be powering down soon. His sermon title is: Media Convergence and Impact on the Life and Mission of the Church.

June 26, 2008
Vol. 185, No. 18

GENERAL COMMENTS
Editors, writers need your help in producing final copy. Less than acceptable writing mars a number of what should have been excellent pieces in this issue. The cover story is the most egregious example; but On Temporary Assignment, Ask the Doctors, Not a Spectator Sport and the adaptation of the story in KidsView, Every Last Drop, needed final editing before they appeared in print.

MUST READS: Running from Death by Wilona Karimabadi, With the Times by Kimberly Luste Maran, and Control Freak by Clifford Goldstein

COVER STORY

June 19, 2008
Vol. 185, No. 17

GENERAL COMMENTS
Two essays are MUST READS: Stephen Chavez’ editorial, Going Against the Flow, and Rick Labate’s, What Is a Church Congregation?

COVER STORY
Still “People of the Book”? by Mark A. Kellner

Today's Washington Post prints an obit on Adventist editor, Kenneth H. Wood.

Kenneth H. Wood, 90, an influential former editor of Adventist Review, a national publication of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and a longtime elder of the church, died May 25 of congestive heart failure at a ManorCare nursing facility in Potomac. He lived in Silver Spring.