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Award-winning University of Arizona at Flagstaff anthropologist Cathy Small became a college freshman again.

She wanted to know why so many university students don’t enter into discussions, get by with as little homework as possible, never go to the library, eat, sleep, cell phone, or text message in class, don’t visit their professors, cheat on examinations, plagiarize papers, and maybe worst of all, endlessly ask, “Will this be on the test?”

In the current issue (Fall 2007) of Spectrum magazine Chuck Scriven reports on the Adventist Forum Conference in an editorial titled “Who Will Reinvent Adventism”. In his conclusion he writes:

“Let us now lay down the welcome mat for visionaries. Let pastors and older members and church leaders lay it down. Let the welcome extend to every kind and color of Adventist. Let it extend to anyone who cares enough about the Church to venture forth with a fresh idea. Let doctrinal hairsplitting, together with distrust and suspicion, come to a halt.”

As I was reminiscing about an appropriate message for my friends at the beginning of the New Year 2008, the news reached me about the assassination of opposition leader and former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

The tragic news shocked and saddened me immediately for several reasons.