Volume 37, Issue 3, Summer 2009
Editorials
2 What Makes a Hero? | BY BONNIE DWYER
3 Down with Bloviation (Up with Bearing Witness) | BY CHARLES SCRIVEN
Feedback
5 Letters | PADEN, SCOFIELD, NEALL
Noteworthy
6 Health Care Reform 2009—Issues and Actors | BY LARRY A. MITCHEL
7 Adventist Church Moves to Strengthen Partnerships with Health Organizations | BY ANSEL OLIVER/ ADVENTIST NEWS NETWORK
Bible and Ecology
10 “Proclaim Liberty” or “Submit to Authority”? The Biblical Basis for Civic and Ecological Activism among Adventist Christians | BY DAVID J. B. TRIM
16 “Swine of the Times”: Ecumenism, Ecology, and Ethics in the Era of Factory Farming | BY SIGVE K. TONSTAD
Heroes and Pioneers
23 Unsung Heroes | BY RACHEL DAVIES
28 Something You Do | RACHEL DAVIES INTERVIEWS KAREN HANSON KOTSKE
31 “They Preach a Political Gospel”: The Prophetic Witness of Washington D.C.’s Earliest Seventh-day Adventists | BY DOUGLAS MORGAN
36 Fifty Years Selling Choplets | ALITA BYRD INTERVIEWS ALLAN BULLER Faith, Science, and Change
44 Why Mathematics, Science, and Humanities (including Religion) Don’t Have a Quarrel | BY SHANDELLE M. HENSON
50 Change, Scripture, and Science: Good News for Adventist Thinking in the Twenty-first Century | BY FRITZ GUY
Book Reviews
56 Mapping the Christian Experience | A REVIEW BY KEN CURTIS
59 Peace in the Middle East: Will It Ever Be Achieved? | A REVIEW BY DAVID A. PENDLETON
Poetry Slam
cover Do We Ever? | BY BRITTNEY MOURER
A State of Silence | BY EMILY H. HICKERSON
Goodwill, or How to Pretend You Never Followed that Fad | BY KATIE PAUL