Modern medicine is all about control. But this ambivalent relationship of medicine with control is at the core of both the incredible progress of today’s medicine, and its limitations.

There was no one there to say a few words / over the place you finally found rest. / Here is the elegy I wish your mother had heard. / It might have helped her know someone else cared.

If (pastorally sensitive) deconstruction of Adventist fundamentalism has value, so too, perhaps, does reconstruction of Adventist life and conviction.

In this week’s Adventist news round-up, news from Haiti, Ghana, and North Carolina.