Des Ford has died and I weep. I weep for Des, my friend and brother in Christ. I weep for my church — the Adventist church — with which no reconciliation came about.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Venezuela is saddened by the loss of one of its members in La Gran Sabana, in the southeastern part of the country that shares borders with Brazil and Guyana....

How widespread today is anxiety about the so-called end-time events? Or have people just pushed them aside to replace them with more pressing concerns?

Trudy J. Morgan-Cole talks about her newest novel — a book that follows five friends who attend an Adventist high school and then scatter to very different places. “I’d...