When an epidemic arises, groups do not just work to address the containment of the epidemic, trying to treat those who can be saved and providing hospice care for those who will die. When a disease ravages through a community, it is a given that there will be groups working towards the annihilation of the root of the problem, the pathogen that is causing the deaths. Maybe during some far-off century, people would leave the epidemic to the whims of precarious gods. But now, it would be considered irresponsible for the root of the problem to remain ignored.

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

Good friend of the Spectrum Blog, Pastor Ryan Bell gets a nice write-up in the current Adventist Review. (h/t Jeff's Justice Journal)