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.

Spring, 2008
Volume 36, Issue 2

GENERAL COMMENTS
This is an excellent issue. The Ages of Adventism by Bull and Lockhart and The Point of the Spear by Benjamin McArthur are MUST READS. The film, The Power of Forgiveness is a MUST SEE. How Birding Became Almost Cool by Hayward and McClelland is beautifully written and magnificently illustrated. Even if you’re not a member of the birding community, this article is a rare treat.

EDITORIALS
Naming Names
by Bonnie Dwyer

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

June 12, 2008
Vol. 185, No. 16

GENERAL COMMENTS
This is an outstanding issue! When you finish reading it, give it to a friend.

COVER STORY
Against the Wind by Lillian R. Guild
Christine was born in India and became an Adventist when she married and moved to Singapore. Not content to keep to herself the joys she'd found in Jesus, she became the catalyst for outreach efforts in her hometown in India. Now retired and living in Southern California, she continues to give Bible studies and teaches a Sabbath school class.

ARTICLES
To Be Like Trees by Norman L. Mitchell

May 22, 2008
Vol. 185, No. 15

GENERAL COMMENTS
Wow! There are letters to the editors referencing the last edition of the Review! And no issue is included later that April 10! I knew you guys and gals could do it! Now if only the Review didn’t appear in my mailbox two issues at a time! Ah well, progress is progress. (By the way, this issue rates about a 7 on a 10 point scale.)

COVER STORY
Life in the Lions’ Den
by John Graz

I have never read anything in an official church publication that has made me more angry than Cliff Goldstein’s piece, in the April 24 Adventist Review.

He bases his essay, "Justice From the Dust," on the following “test” found in Numbers 5 (NIV).

May 2008 | NAD edition

GENERAL COMMENTS

May 15, 2008
Vol. 185, No. 14

GENERAL COMMENTS
This edition of the Review has a great deal to recommend it. However, it has earned my lifetime award for including the ugliest illustration ever. This drawing introduces an otherwise excellent article, And to All—A Good Night, and may well have driven its author, Victor M. Parachin, to take those sleeping pills he believes should be taken only as a last resort.

COVER STORY