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January 1999 A Tale of Two Teens Adventists and LSD Addiction LETTERS A Heaven for Real People 1999: Columns and Features Heaven will be a real, physical place with real, physi- It’s our 150th anniversary, and along with all the articles and special issues cal people we have planned, you’ll find these regular columns. Don’t miss them. inhabiting it! North American Division Samuele Edition Bacchiocchi’s Dialogues, by Sandra Doran “Heaven in 3- Cityscapes, by Royson D” (Nov. NAD James Edition) was From the Heart, by Robert very profound S. Folkenberg Sandra Doran and deep—yet World Edition Royson James Robert S. Folkenberg so simple, clear, and comprehensive. Faith Alive! by Calvin Rock His reasoning about how God will Bible Questions Answered, by Angel restore this earth to its original phys- Rodriguez ical perfection was so simple that Cutting Edge Edition even a child could understand it. Leaving the Comfort Zone, by Chris Blake The X-Change, by Allan and Deirdre Martin —Helen L. Self AnchorPoints Edition MORGANTON, NORTH CAROLINA Clifford Goldstein, by Clifford Goldstein Calvin Rock Angel On the Home Front, by Leslie Kay Rodríguez It Seems to Me, by R. Lynn Sauls Muslims and Jesus In “Let’s Help His Love Break Also, look for these special features: Through . in Bangladesh” (Global Tuesday’s Child, a full page of family Mission, Nov. NAD Edition) that worship material country is described as “an Islamic Bookmark, a review of books republic [of] some 130 million peo- Cutting Edge Conversations, fast- ple,” which it is. Then of those 130 paced interviews with interesting people million, the writer says, “Most have Cutting Edge Meditations, brief spiri- Chris Blake Allan and Deirdre never heard of Jesus.” tual insights from Adventists of all ages Martin Since in Islam, Jesus—along with Reprints of Ellen G. White articles Abraham, Moses, and others—is con- sidered an important prophet, why Plus: letters, editorials, would the writer say that “most have Give & Take, Reflections, never heard” of Him? and much, much more. Perhaps the writer, instead, Remember, if you should have said, “Most of us have don’t receive the weekly never heard anything we were ever Adventist Review, you’re Clifford R. Lynn Sauls Leslie Kay told about Islam.” missing three quarters Goldstein of the magazine. Call —Harry Allen 1-800-456-3991 to join the whole conversation. NEW YORK, NEW YORK 2 (2) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JANUARY 1999 Hitting Home Forget Lunch The best thing to happen to the The November 19 Cutting Edge Adventist Review is Leslie Kay’s col- arrived at lunchtime. The “I umn, On the Home Front. I find Remember the Sixties” cover caught myself thumbing until I reach her my immediate attention. Flipping open familiar place. She brings a refreshing the cover, I just had to read the letters. COVER STORY and enlightening approach to so many Then of course, Andy Nash (“Bogey topics that affect our everyday lives as Five”) is compulsory reading. (Lunch 8 Cities Under Siege Desperate times call for people who Seventh-day Adventist Christians. A can wait.) Ella Rydzewski (“Health aren’t afraid of a challenge. sincere thanks and God’s blessing to Versus Faith?”) got me with her open- BY RON HALVORSEN, SR. Leslie Kay and her writing ministry. ing sentence, and finally I got to Roy Adams (“I Remember the Sixties”). —Gloria Neidigh What a spectacular example of quin- ARTICLES TILLAMOOK, OREGON tessential Roy at his finest! What an issue! Forget lunch!. 14 A Tale of Two Teens Everyone meant well. Family —Fred R. Thomas BY DONALD R. PIERSON I was frustrated with all the important COURTICE, ONTARIO, CANADA 22 Adventists and LSD things I had to do, and I did not want It’s more pervasive than we to take time to read the Review. There thought. Letters Policy were people to visit, evangelism to BY ROBERT H. GRANGER plan, intercessory prayer to address, a The Review welcomes your letters. Short, sermon to prepare. OK, I thought, I’ll specific letters are the most effective and speed-read it. have the best chance at being published. DEPARTMENTS It is now an hour later. As I lay Letters will be edited for space and clarity 2 Letters the Review aside, there is a warm only. Send correspondence to Letters to the 7 Give & Take feeling in my heart; there are tears in Editor, Adventist Review, 12501 Old my eyes. Ideas I have never consid- Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, MD 20904- 16 Sandra Doran: Dialogues ered have broadened my perspective. 6600; Internet: [email protected] 17 Children’s Corner People I have never met I now feel a CompuServe network: 74617,15. 18 World News & Perspectives love for. There is a new joy in my life in identifying with the great Ad- Note: Occasionally we’ve had some con- 27 Cityscapes ventist family, for we really are a fusion about whether received letters are 28 From the Heart family. I sense God’s presence closer meant for publication. For example, 29 Global Mission to me through this magazine. Thank Bruce N. Cameron’s November NAD You, Lord, for this gift. Edition letter was intended as personal 30 Reflections Renew my subscription! The correspondence and should not have been weekly Adventist Review—an excel- published. (Our apologies to Mr. lent investment. Cameron.) If you send a letter to our EDITORIALS general staff account (see above) and 5 Who Loves the City? —Kelly Schultz don’t want it considered for publication, ALBERTA, CANADA please state “not for publication.” Ideally, 6 Four Questions for Jesus letters intended for publication should be marked “Letters to the Editor.” Thanks OONEY Reading Again M for your cooperation.—Editors. NEXT WEEK Thanks to my daughter in Michigan, AIL I received a gift subscription to the Utopia in the Caribbean? RBIS/G Review. The new format sure is Still trying to create a perfect society in CO great! Leslie Kay’s articles are an imperfect world. BY absolutely hilarious and to the spiri- PHOTO tual point. Thanks for the good pro- duction—I really enjoy it. BACKGROUND —Gordon A. Gilkes, M.D. VER O BLYTHE, CALIFORNIA C ADVENTIST REVIEW, JANUARY 1999 (3) 3 “Behold, I come quickly . .” Our mission is to uplift Jesus Christ through stories of His matchless love, news of His present workings, help for knowing Him better, and hope in His soon return. The Adventist Review (ISSN 0161-1119), published since 1849, is the general paper of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is published by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and is printed by the Review and Herald® Publishing Association, 55 West Oak Ridge Drive, Hagerstown, Maryland 21740. Standard postage paid at Hagerstown. 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Bible texts credited to NRSV are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used by permission. Bible texts credited to RSV are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1946, 1952, 1971, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used by permission. PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. Vol. 176, No. 1 4 (4) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JANUARY 1999 EDITORIAL Who Loves the City? WILLIAM G.