Designed for Seventh-day Adventist university students and young professionals, College and University Dialogue is published by the Committee on Adventist Ministry to College and University Students (AMiCUS) in cooperation with the 13 world divisions of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and in partnership with Public Campus Ministries (PCM). Volume 32, Number 1 (2020) is now available online. In their guest editorial titled Adventists and Military Service, Mario Ceballos and Gary Councell state that in order to “make a decision that applies to life today, one must consider the issue from the entirety of Scripture and review God’s leading in history.” Additional articles include:
Sharing the Gospel in a Postmodern World: Challenges and Opportunities by Félix Cortez
“Humility in sharing the truth requires a personal testimony that is genuine and authentic. Sharing what has worked for you has an incredible power, but it requires that people see that it has really worked for you.”
I Never Thought It Could Happen to Me… Emily’s Journey Through Depression by Torben Bergland
“Depression may touch anyone. With proper interventions, its grip can be loosened.”
Chocolate as Part of a Healthful Diet: Insights That Might Surprise You by John Ashton
“Cocoa seems to deliver the highest levels of the very antioxidants that seem to help our body burn off excess fat and maintain a healthy fat to muscle ratio.”
What Will We Take to Heaven: Temperament, Character, or Personality? by O. Javier Mamani-Benito
“God does not ask us to improve ourselves, but to be reborn. Only then will we be able to develop a character in the image of God. Transformed character is the only treasure we can take to heaven.”
Waldensian Zeal in Public Campus Ministry: An interview with Dale Sherman and Barnabas Hope by Dialogue
“In this interview, Dialogue speaks with the former and present Public Campus Ministry (PCM) and Waldensian Student coordinators for the Middle East and North Africa region. The conversation took place at a time when the baton of leadership had just been passed between the two.”
Reaching out to University students in Mongolia by Richard Sabuin
“Mongolia is exceptionally rich with resources of young people, especially college and university students. Adventists do not have their own university in the country, but [Public Campus Ministry] is active and fully devoted to ministering to the spiritual needs of the country’s college and university students.”
Understanding My Sikh Friends by Clifmond Shameerudeen
“The goal of a Sikh believer is inward transformation―namely, to resist selfish and worldly pursuits through praying, working, serving, and almsgiving.”
David Meyer: Dialogue with an Adventist Academic Ophthalmologist from South Africa by Charlene Reinecke
“Like all practitioners of medicine, ophthalmic surgeons, too, have to be committed to their profession and need to have a love and a passion for those who come under their care.”
This issue is also available in Spanish, French and Portuguese.
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