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Tyndale House Publishers has released Les Misérables: An Engaging Visual Journey, the second in the Visual Journey series that began with Hinds’ Feet in High Places: An Engaging Visual Journey in fall 2017. The inaugural book has sold over 50,000 copies, selling more copies in the last year than in its first year, according to the publisher. Les Misérables: An Engaging Visual Journey, abridged by Jim and Terri Kraus, is Victor Hugo’s story of compassion, forgiveness, justice, and the will to survive amid the French Revolution. This special edition includes French-inspired watercolor p...

Thoughts on Adventist Higher Education — Part 1 Written by:  The most important question Adventist Higher Education can ask is, “What should be our primary definition of success?”[1] Everything depends on the answer. There are many different responses that Adventist colleges and universities could give: Enrollment Percent who get jobs in their major after graduation Percent who go on to get advanced degrees Student/teacher ratios Number of scholarships and subsidies provided Number of professors with doctorates Amount of research being done Unfortunately, none of these provides an ade...

What does the Bible say about hate? Hate is the sinful opposition to that love. It is the driving force behind much of the wicked action people take.

For Charles Spurgeon, the celebrated 19th-century preacher, depression was more than just circumstantial. When he spoke of it in his sermons and lectures, his examples, which were often rooted in his own experience, included a significant form of depression: the kind that comes without cause. In one sermon, he said, You may be surrounded with all the comforts of life and yet be in wretchedness more gloomy than death if the spirits are depressed. You may have no outward cause whatever for sorrow and yet if the mind is dejected, the brightest sunshine will not relieve your gloom. … There are ...

Heather L. Hart Out of Place: Christian community in 1 Peter and James The green outline of his face was a caricature, the name inaccurate. Yet, we didn’t think twice about our school mascot, we were the “Indians.” We cheered his image at games and emblazoned his likeness on yearbooks. It was years later before I heard an Indigenous American Christian speak about her heartbreak at this type of appropriation of tribal culture. I was left reconsidering my perspective and my assumptions. How does our Christian community live as God’s people when we are often either blind to appropriation...