The Bible can drive you crazy. Or it can take a tradition that drives you crazy, and open a door to deeper understanding. Consider these quotations from the New Testament:

Four Pacific Union College (PUC) students died in a vehicle accident on Deer Park Road late Saturday night. The Napa County Sheriff’s Department identified the victims as Boaz Pak, 20, Luke Nishikawa, 22, Simon Son, 19, and Chong Shin, 20.

The accident took place at about 11:45 p.m. on November 15. According to police reports, the four victims were in a Honda Civic driving down the hill on Deer Park Road when it collided with an oncoming vehicle at Sanitarium Road junction. The men were pronounced dead at the scene.

This interview with Joel Klimkewicz, an Adventist Marine who fought through a court martial for the right to be a non-combatant, was originally posted on David Hamstra's blog apokalupto. It is reprinted here with permission.

Joel Klimkewicz is a colleague of mine at the Adventist Theological Seminary, with whom I have enjoyed several classes. It wasn't until a few weeks ago that I realized that he is the former US Marine who had received media coverage (Adventist links are the only ones still up.) a couple years ago for spending time in the brig on account of his non-combatant convictions.

Sometimes things are different from what we think they are. This is so about a judgment of the California Supreme Court in August of this year. The case began several years ago when Guadalupe T. Benitez sued her doctors in the San Diego area who had been treating her infertility.

Seventh-day Adventists tend to think of the biblical sanctuary/temple primarily as a place for dealing with sin and atonement. But its primary function was to make God's presence accessible within human space and time (Exod. 25:8; compare Heb. 4:14–16), given the constraint that his presence was like a nuclear force that would consume faulty people unless they were shielded (Exod. 33:20).

The Honorable Lady Justice Mary Ang’awa, judge in the High Court of Kenya, was honored as Woman of the Year at the Association of Adventist Women’s Conference, October 11, 2008.

The standing of women and children in society has always been important to Judge Ang’awa. In the 1990s, she established the SINAGA Center, a charity to empower children through literacy, numeracy, home-management and market-oriented skills. Twenty-five hundred children have undergone training in this program.

Why did the Israelites offer millions of sacrificial victims in order to find forgiveness? How did the blood that was shed and applied to the sanctuary on a daily and yearly basis glorify God? With limited space to deal with this enormous topic, I have decided to devote it to one aspect—sacrificial blood.

On Friday evening, October 3, 2008, members and friends of the Central Florida Chapter of Adventist Forum gathered in the fellowship room of the Florida Hospital Seventh-day Adventist Church to hear Dr. George Babcock give a presentation on Adventist education.

Dr. Babcock is a highly respected educator of some 48 years' service experience in the Seventh-day Adventist Church both in North America and elsewhere in the world.