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You will learn to thrive physically, mentally, socially and spiritually. Photo by Todd Gessele in the Maasai Mara in Kenya. VOLUME 194 Each month we’ll feature a reader-submitted photo or painting. Submission guidelines and info can be found at www.adventistreview.org 04/17 NUMBER 04 FEATURES DISCOVER 19 19 BREAKING THE SPELL | SANDRA BLACKMER Christianity’s message to those who believe the dead control their destiny CONNECTC 353 BEYOND SMOKE AND MIRRORS | GERALD A. KLINGBEIL Death may be inevitable, but it’s not final. 3535 ENGAGEE 51 ELEGY | WILONA KARIMABADI AND NICHOLAS LIVANOS How the arts can be used to communicate faith 51 COVER PHOTO © BY HENRY STOBER APRIL 2017 | ADVENTIST REVIEW 1 “Jesus’ lifei and ministry was expansive and inclusive. HHe went out of His way to reach people who didn’t measure up to common perceptions of the orthodoxy of His day.” 59 ARTICLESARTICLE DISCOVERDISCOVER CONNECT ENGAGE 2828 WHEN AWESOME 42 DIDN’T MEAN TO SCARE YOU 56 FEAR NOT WASN’T ENOUGH KIM PECKHAM STEPHEN CHAVEZ ANDREA JAKOBSONS Most of our fears are based Afraid you don’t measure up? TheThe narrow line betweenbetwee fear on fact, aren’t they? 58 PEACE, BE STILL andand worshipworship 46 FACING DOWN FEAR ELLEN G. WHITE 32 WHAT ARE YYOUOU AFRAIAFRAIDD OF? GINGER KETTING-WELLER AND Jesus’ specialty was calming Everyone’sEveryone’s afraidafraid of JIM C. WELLER storms. something.something. Can we be afraid but not 62 A TELEVISION OR fearful? A KEYBOARD? SANDRA BLACKMER A simple choice and the difference it made 42 32 NEWS|OPINIONNEWS|OPINIO » TheThe SaSabbathbbatth aanandd tththee President EDITORIAL » AdventistAdventtisst EducationEEdduuccation Hosts 5 BILL KNOTT PaPan-Africanan-AAffririccaan ConferenceCoC nferen RESTATING THE BRAND DEPARTMENTS » AndrewsAAnnddrreewws UniversityUniversity WorksW to LETTERS FoFosterosttere Racial Reconciliation Reconc 6 67 HOUSE CALL » Norwegian Teachers Emphasize 68 CLOSER LOOK God in the Classroom COLUMNS » Adventist School Among 27 TRANSFORMATION TIPS Mexico City’s Top 20 DELBERT W. BAKER 50 JOURNEYS WITH JESUS » “Evening of Enchantment” JILL MORIKONE Raises More Than $1.1 million 61 CURE FOR THE COMMON LIFE HYVETH WILLIAMS » Missions Projects in Trans- 72 IN OTHER WORDS European Region Showing Results STEPHEN CHAVEZ 2 ADVENTIST REVIEW | APRIL 2017 ADVENTISTREVIEW.ORG TRENDING FOUNDED 1849. 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The ARtv team just filmed a brand new To order, visit adventistreview.org/subscriptions season of Animal Encounters in Costa Rica. or send your name, address, and payment to: Check out behind the scenes production Adventist Review subscription desk, P.O. Box 5353, Nampa, ID 83653-5353 photos on Instagram @artvnow ADDRESS CHANGES AND SUBSCRIPTION QUERIES: adventistreview@pacificpress.com. OR call 1-800-545-2449 APRIL 2017 | ADVENTIST REVIEW 3 EDITORIAL BILL KNOTT “Brand loyalty was the stuff on which my generation cut its teeth.” Restating the Brand t 12 I was all for Ford, NBC, practiced, but we knew instinc- severance. Unwilling, though, to and—though I never drank tively that these regions—such as be the dinosaurs who kept the A it—Coca-Cola. coastal California and interior New movement focused on the past, we Fordliness was next to godli- Guinea—weren’t really, fully sang new worship songs from ness, so far as I knew, since my first Adventist. Some of those places screens; discovered that prayer three cars of memory were a Fair- allowed guitars in worship ser- meeting might, in fact, be all of lane, a Falcon station wagon, and vices. Some even omitted the prayer; and learned to navigate the a wood-paneled Fairlane station Doxology. potluck cards that noted “Vegan,” wagon. And then the world fell apart, or “Vegetarian,” and “Who Knows?” The Huntley-Brinkley Report gave so it seemed, about the time men If only we could interrogate me a soothing, managed version first landed on the moon and those well-intentioned ones who of the turbulent sixties each eve- Watergate became our first—but branded Adventism for us—the ning during supper. When Chet not our last—political soap opera. ones who taught us that the faith and David wished each other a We were suddenly aware of differ- of Jesus was always this, but never gruff “Good night,” it seemed—for ences, major and minor, in what we that; that keeping Sabbath meant a moment—that all might be right once believed to be a unified brand. denying godly pleasure; that only with the world. One could now be an Adventist and what was difficult was good; that And Pepsi was clearly the a Democrat (!); an Adventist and go righteousness might be a gift, but upstart, rival soft drink at a time to the movies; an Adventist and a very rare one—and not for all. If when I was all about tradition. wear a wedding band. Both beards only we might ask them what they Imagine my discomfort when and bell bottoms came to church think of Jesus and His people Dad drove home a Plymouth Fury each Sabbath, and those who now—the world-circling fellow- III from the Chrysler dealership; prized tradition squirmed uncom- ship of colors, languages, and when the channel switched to the fortably as the brand began to lose tribes; the wonderful varieties of ABC Evening News; and when I the clear, sharp edges for which we faithful Adventism that flourish learned that Coke’s original 1886 had so valued it. We spoke to through the Spirit’s gifts; the many recipe included a small amount of friends of a “remnant within the forms of worship now ascending cocaine—eliminated not long after. Remnant.” We wondered softly to to the Father’s throne. Brand loyalty was the stuff on ourselves if 144,000 might, in fact, Our real brand has always which my generation cut its be a real number, and possibly too been—will always be—Christ cru- teeth—just before learning to large. cified and risen, interceding in the brush them with Crest, which, you Our quandaries multiplied as sanctuary, and coming for His peo- remember, more dentists recom- competing Adventist theologies ple; though sometimes we sing mend “than all other toothpastes called us “back” to sanctification another tune. Now is the time to combined.” or “forward” to the cross. We tell the world how great and good That loyalty extended to our learned to parse each sermon, each the gospel is; how love for Jesus “brand” as Seventh-day Adventists.