Volume 38, Issue 4, Fall 2010

Editorials
2 After Annual Council | BY BONNIE DWYER
3 Punative Adventism | BY CHARLES SCRIVEN
Feedback
5 Letters | BENNETT, MCMAHON
Noteworthy
7 The Business of Revival | BY BONNIE DWYER
Biblical Studies
10 A Portrait of the Enemy as Mother | BY JUDITH P. NEMBHARD
Race, Rights, & Globalization
16 True Blood: Race, Science, and Early Adventist Amalgamation Theory Revisited | BY RONALD OSBORN
30 Civil Rights: New Studies on Adventism’s Mixed Legacy | BY DOUGLAS MORGAN
40 Status, Trends and Analysis of Seventh-day Adventist Regional Conferences 1950–2009 | BY HENRY E. FELDER
56 Moving on to Maturity: From Culture to Diaspora: The Three Angels’ Message as an Ethical Multicultural Encounter | BY WILLIAM ACKAH
In Search of Scientific Truth
64 What Have Volcanoes and Soils Told Me? | BY GRAHAM WILL
70 Just What is the Seventh-day Adventist Position on When Life Begins? | BY MARK F. CARR
Poetry
cover Psalms: for the Blues II, From In The Sanctuary of a South | BY RAMONA HYMAN