Volume 48, Issue 4

Editorial
2 2020: More Beautiful and More Terrible | BY BONNIE DWYER
3 Searching for Shalom in Alabama | BY CARMEN LAU

Bible Lessons
5 A Text of Tyrants: Fresh Thinking on Romans 13:1–7 | BY WILLIAM G. JOHNSSON

Church in the Time of Coronavirus
13 Time to Start Over: First, Face Delusion | BY CHARLES SCRIVEN
16 WANTED: A Relevant and Responsive Church | BY ADMIRAL NCUBE
19 Is Innovation Needed? If So, Then Where? | BY EIRIKUR INGVARSSON

Education in the time of COVID
23 Adventist Schools, COVID-19, and the Big Government Bailout: Is the Funding in Jeopardy? | BY ALVA JAMES-JOHNSON, JOEL GUERRA, AND PAOLA MORA ZEPEDA
34 F is for Forest: A New Kind of Kindergarten | BY HALLIE ANDERSON
37 California Preparatory College Gains Regional Accreditation after Thirteen Years | BY NANCY HOYT LECOURT

Lessons from Recent Church History
41 “Going Public” and Its Consequences: New Sources and Forty Years Give Perspective on the Glacier View “Trial” of Desmond Ford | BY GILBERT M. VALENTINE
64 The Adventist Church and Its LGBT Members | BY RONALD LAWSON

Book Reviews
98 When Scripture Meets Life: Book Review of UnClobber: Rethinking Our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality | BY CHRIS BLAKE

Endings
A Prayer of Thanks for Community | FROM CORRYMEELA, A PEACE CENTER IN NORTHERN IRELAND