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Volume 51, Issue 3-4

Volume 51 Issue 3 December 31, 2023

Editorials
2 Institutional Fragility Starts at the Top | BY ALEXANDER CARPENTER
3 Don’t Throw the Second Stone | BY CARMEN LAU
5 Waterskiing Across Paul’s Letters | BY JOHN BRUNT
9 Back to the Future: Don McAdams Reopens an Old Question | BY JONATHAN BUTLER

A Pause for Poetry
21 Shapers and Makers | BY MARYE TRIM
22 Indiana Intersections | BY PHILLIP WHIDDEN
23 What’s In Here Out There: What is Conscious When I’m Unconscious? | BY A. JOSEF GREIG
28 Poetry | BY ANDREWS UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Book Excerpts and Reviews
36 “Nuteena” and “Beet Roll”: Excerpts from Stillwater | BY DARCIE FRIESEN HOSSACK
49 Coming of Age in an Adventist Commune: A Review of Stillwater | BY TRUDY J. MORGAN-COLE
52 Let the Reader Understand: A Review of Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says About the End | BY JOHN R. JONES
58 The Phoenix Manuscript: A Review of Hiram Edson: The Man and the Myth | BY DONALD E. CASEBOLT

The Adventist Future
63 God Created Canaries AND Ostriches: A Rebooted (2.0) Adventism Celebrates Both | BY JIM WALTERS

AFRICANS ON AFRICAN ADVENTISM
73 Decolonizing African Adventism: A Call to Critical Examination and Distinction of the Biblical, Cultural, and Preferential | BY JEANNE MOGUSU
79 Nigerian Adventism: History and Promise | BY CHIGEMEZI NNADOZIE WOGU
87 Can Adventism Be Authentically African? | BY ADMIRAL NCUBE

ENVIRONMENTS: NATURALLY INTELLIGENT AND ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT
95 The Land of Theology Against the Theology of the Land: How the US Adventist Culture Shaped the South American Church | BY ANDRÉ KANASIRO
104 Climate Action or Climate Apathy? | BY LARS G. GUSTAVSSON
107 Rethinking Adventist Education for the Age of AI | BY ANTHONY BOSMAN

INSTITUTIONS VS. INDIVIDUALS?
115 From Eight Simple Remedies to Complex Medical Therapies: The Evolution of Adventist Health Services | BY RICHARD HART
120 The Imperial Church: From Movement to Corporation—and Back? | BY EDWIN TORKELSEN
132 Pastor’s Kid | BY MELODIE ROSCHMAN

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