JUNE 2021: CAN WE TRUST OUR LEADERS? + BOYS WILL BE MEN + VACCINATED YET? SO WHAT? + VIRTUAL GRIEF + HOMELESS RELIGIONconn mor wrasrane FEATURES 48 CAN WE TRUST OUR LEADERS? | silt xnoTT Who will teach us how to follow? 21 BREACH REPAIRERS: AS YAHWEH WOULD HAVE IT | TR«voR Kinitock Mind and mend the gap! 24 EXEMPLARY LEADERSHIP? | penis Fortin George Butler learned well. And now we learn from him, 26 WHOM ARE YOU GOING TO TRUST? | JOAN FRANCIS Your life depends on whom you choose. JuNe 20211 apveNnist aeview 1“This is the exciting and just work of God’s church PRR er Teta stirs CTs ee eee een cia ecaght ce ee eee | goodness to a world sorely in need of light.” 28 THEJOURNEY AROUND EDOM — 40 VACCINATED YET? SO WHAT? 54 DEVELOPING MINDS anp THLEN 6. WHITE WILLIE AND ELAINE OLIVER SOULS WITH Music Itcould have been so much Faith matters. So does SANDRA BLACKMER (ae attitude Social change in musica 32 COVID-19 AND THE 44 VIRTUAL GRIEF Les “WORSHIP CROWD"? ROBERT EDWARDS 59 WHO STOPPED THE Rain? BRAD THORP The weight of honoring those MARLAN KNITTEL Is our freedom to worship who have died, in silence Dare to ask for that miracle threatened? 46 HOMELESS RELIGION 60 AYEAR OF TEACHING, A 36 SHOULD | OR SHOULDN'T I? JENIFER A. DALEY YEAR OF LEARNING, A YEAR PETER N. LANDLESS Taking a second look at the OF STRANGE LIVING Timeis up fora decision ona “least of these” WILONA KARIMABaADI yearlong question. 50, THE DEAD ARE REALLY DEAD Rising to the challenges, DONNY CHRISSUTIANTO * _ Revisiting a fundamental 664 THAT DEVICEIN YOUR HAND me doctrine \WILONA KARIMABADI Virtual access with physical Jt land mines Cc fom lw INE & Tia = 2D) Ee [EDITOR TAL NEWS|OPINION 5 BILL KNOTT » Adventist Organizations Join ee Forces to Assist Pandemic- hn ravaged India, Brazil 6 LETTERS » Elections Bring Leadership Changes eee for the North American Division so VOKES outs 31 THE LIFE OF FAITH » Adventist Education Helps Students Join and Remain in the Church, Studies Show aaieers TH EDS ory » Leaders Elect Church President eee for the South American Division ” thos nunesel, » In St. Vincent, Adventists Feed Hundreds After Volcano Eruption * ~-EGWHITE RESOURCE CENTER sore f= | gn NK tet ve a eshi at See Ser Cee coer eel reatheday Adventists thefutce and imminent climax of Goes station altation po sm on earth is strongly elated tothe p ofthe Bible’ teaching on tht question batdly popula or accepted sro the weld rine requires trom the Chistian ce tion Milertes, and S ye atthe chutes current positon. {THE CHRISTIAN CONNECTION “The Christian Connection was one ofthe fest uniquely"American* Cristian gous to emerge the United tates The poupemeed inthe fist decade ofthe nineteenth entry fiom three different directions. 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