The Press-Enterprise reports:

Mike Kendall, vice president of Turner Development Corp., has tried pitching his open restaurant space at Turner Riverwalk across from La Sierra University in Riverside 25 times before and invariably received the same response:

No hard liquor? No thank you.

The Adventist blogosphere is buzzing with news about the Lord Our Righteousness cult.

On Stephen Eyer's Adventist Filmmaker site one of the cult members posted the following:

"Southern Adventist University sponsored a student panel discussion on homosexuality and Christian community. The event took place on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 in Lynn Wood Hall.

Student speakers included Matt Burdette, Jeremy Morrell, Shane Akerman, and Raymond Thompson. The event was organized by students with the support of the School of Social Work and Family Studies, History Department, and Campus Ministries.

The views presented do not reflect official views and statements of those of the Seventh-day Adventist Church or Southern Adventist University."

April 17, 2008
Vol. 185, No. 11

GENERAL COMMENTS
I awarded the previous issue a "10" for overall excellence. This issue rates a slightly above average "7". The topics chosen were not the problem; it was the writing. With the exception of Why I Don’t “Abstain”, articles and essays lacked clarity and crispness of expression, an original point of view, and economy of style. And some of the letters got "under my skin".

COVER STORY
Is Church Discipline Still Needed?

The previous post in this series looked at the vivid message of apocalyptic judgment on American slavery in Ellen White’s testimonies about her visions in the 1840s and 1850s. But did slavery primarily provide fodder for a doomsday theology rather than elicit a genuine, costly opposition to the evil?

Words. Almost. Fail. Watch the video first.

Tony Zirkle is a South Bend, Indiana, lawyer and Republican primary candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, District 2. On Sunday, he spoke to a Chicago group celebrating the birthday of Hitler.

This is an excerpt of the sermon that Hollywood Adventist Church Pastor Ryan Bell preached at the SONscreen Film Festival.

The world is languishing for lack of micro stories. . .

For close watchers of the General Conference, it's becoming increasingly clear that Jan Paulsen is working hard to leave a legacy of opening up Seventh-day Adventism