June 18, 1998 Cutting Edge BackBack HomeHome WhyWhy DavidDavid andand MarianMarian LewisLewis saidsaid goodbyegoodbye toto AtlanticAtlantic StarrStarr andand OilOil ofof OlayOlay ChrisChris Blake:Blake: AnotherAnother ClothesClothes CallCall TheThe ChristianChristian inin anan AgeAge ofof TalkTalk ShowsShows LETTERS Adventist Higher Education Having left a generous industry about the newly established Women’s I loved Ginger Ketting’s “A College salary and retirement to teach electri- Resource Center at La Sierra Professor Shares Her cal engineering, I am now happily part University (see “Kit Watts: What’s Heart,” in the April of the lowest-paid engineering faculty She Doing Now?” Apr. 16 Cutting 16 Cutting Edge in North America. The happy part is Edge Conversations). Some projects Edition. I have that our students gather here to learn reported as fact are actually still in attended an Ad- engineering together with Adventist process—including a resource library, ventist college for Christian principles. I did not come worship materials, and liturgies three of the past four here either to quietly observe or to designed for women. Since this is a years, and during contribute to a decline of Christian donation-based ministry and I’m a that time I have visited with students standards. Why have the editors of the half-time director, it will take time to from almost every Adventist college or Review thrown me into a barrel of turn plans into reality. university in North America. Ella and I ran out of time It’s amazing to see the dis- Don’t Forget . and space to explore it, but crepancy between college my work at the Southeastern students’ opinion of their The deadline for our Fresh Voices contest is approaching. California Conference is also professors and outsiders’ If you’re an Adventist age 35 or younger, we welcome a cutting-edge experience! opinions of these same teach- your essay (1,700 words or fewer) about one of the For example, SECC has: ers. My professors do such a church’s 27 fundamental beliefs—what it’s all about, what ■ One of the first and wonderful job of relating to it means to you personally, and how it’s made a difference largest education and endow- Gen Xers and are unrecog- in your life or the life of someone you know. ment funds to provide a new nized for it. The Adventist We’ll award three prizes—a grand prize of $700 and two source of income to church professors at our schools runner-up prizes of $500 each. (Other articles accepted will schools. come closer to consistently merit an honorarium according to our regular rates.) ■ A project to enhance accepting students for who Send your essay (on paper and on a three-and-a-half-inch the skills and spiritual leader- they are than does any other disk, if possible) by July 31 to AnchorPoints Contest, ship of pastors ministering to branch of the church. It can’t Adventist Review, 12501 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, baby boomers. be a coincidence that the MD 20904-6600. (Call 301-680-6560 for details.) ■ A successful Generation ones who relate best to our X congregation in Escondido generation are the ones who that is poised to become a spend the most time with us. apples in which we must surely expect training center for others. a few to be rotten? ■ More than a dozen women pas- —Adam Andreassen Stories that name neither the tors, who make up 10 percent of our SOUTHWESTERN ADVENTIST accused nor the accusers bring all of pastoral workers. UNIVERSITY us under suspicion. ■ Tremendous ethnic diversity in our congregations, represented in —Carlton Cross administration. Ginger Ketting’s “A College Professor WALLA WALLA COLLEGE ■ A newly appointed assistant to Shares Her Heart” inspired and encour- COLLEGE PLACE, WASHINGTON the president for women pastors, aged me. The anonymous sidebar Halcyon Wilson. (“When a Teacher Lets You Down”) and accompanying editorial notes let More From Kit Watts —Kit Watts me down lower than I had been lifted. I enjoyed talking to Ella Rydzewski RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA 2 (818) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 18, 1998 Mixed Message What Would Jesus Do? I have some mixed feelings about rec- Chris Blake’s “Beyond WWJD” ommending a book that has erroneous (Leaving the Comfort Zone, Apr. 16) information as to our beliefs (see struck me as contrived, cutesy, and Lyndon K. McDowell’s review of unreasonably critical, and I think it Patrick Glynn’s God: The Evidence. The would be very offensive to our evangel- COVER STORY Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a ical brothers and sisters in Christ as Postsecular World, Apr. 16). We should well as to many Adventists. 8 Always . and Forever They traded in their glamorous not be offering a mixed message as did While I may be wrong, I think lifestyle for the applause of heaven. the people of old. that most Adventists and virtually BY ANDY NASH all evangelical Christians believe —Bob Roe ardently that the highest calling we VIA E-MAIL have is to try to “do what Jesus ARTICLES would do.” Would Blake take issue with Thomas à Kempis, who long 14 Standing Firm Home School/Church School ago wrote the classic Imitation of What happens when your role I read with interest Deirdre Martin’s Christ? models disappoint? BY ANDRA ARMSTRONG response to the letter in the April 16 WWJD in no way precludes our X-Change (“One Size Does Not Fit individuality. When I sing that moving 22 Watch the Music All”) regarding home-schooled chil- little chorus “To be like Jesus, to be The importance of reading off the dren and their denied request to put like Jesus,” I am not thinking about same page. information about their activities in cloning Him in the literal sense of BY SARAH E. COLEMAN the local church school paper. wearing long hair and no wristwatch, Apparently there is much confu- but about living by the principles that 24 On the Level What’s the most efficient way to sion about the role of the church governed His life. For Blake to infer spread the gospel? school in the home-school arena. that WWJD is “Christian rhetoric BY STEVE DIVNICK Some home-school parents expect the filled with shallow optimism and easy church school to provide them with piety” fills me with righteous indigna- textbooks; others want their children tion. Taken seriously, the WWJD slo- DEPARTMENTS included in field trips and other gan can form the bedrock of a Christ- 2 Letters school-sponsored activities, such as centered life full of realistic optimism. gymnastics or music classes. The basic Because He was victorious over sin, I 7 Give & Take idea among many home-school par- too, in Christ, can conquer sin. 13 Leaving the Comfort Zone ents is that the church school should 17 Book Mark provide all these services to children —Warren S. Ashworth, PROFESSOR 18 World News & Perspectives who attend the church. That is an ADVENTIST STUDIES AND MISSION incorrect assumption. PACIFIC UNION COLLEGE 29 The X-Change Children whose families pay tuition 31 Reflections to the church school are afforded the privilege of field trips, quality text- During our family worship tonight we books, and specialty teachers for music found Chris Blake guilty of mocking EDITORIALS or gymnastics. The school newsletter is the stuff of our life. His penalty is to in this same category. The church wear a WWJD baseball cap and watch 5 The Christian in an Age school should not be obligated to pro- all 10 of the Veggie Tales videos back- of Talk Shows vide services to students who do not to-back while playing Script-tionary 6 Our Church Paper pay for them. and sucking on a Testamint! HOTOGRAPHY A better answer might have been to P see if the church newsletter would — Ron, Jo Ann, Kristy, and NEXT WEEK OKERUD include information about the home- Kelly Vozar T school group or suggest that the home- FREDERICKTOWN, OHIO Courting Trouble AMILLE school groups get together and produce Can “taking it to court” be reconciled C their own newsletter. with “turning the other cheek”? BY PHOTO —Maureen Wisener VER O NATIONAL CITY, CALIFORNIA C ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 18, 1998 (819) 3 TRAN SDATELET IIWALK AD 2/3rd vert 2c “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. God The Adventist Review (ISSN 0161-1119), published since still works 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 40 times a year each Thursday except the first Thursday of each month by the Review and Herald® Publishing Association. Periodicals postage paid at Hagerstown, MD 21740. Copyright © 1998, miracles! General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Publishing Board: Robert S. Folkenberg, chair; Phil Follett, vice- chair; Lowell Cooper; William G. Johnsson; A. C. McClure; Dorothy Watts; Ted N. C. 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