BeforeThink

Month: November, 2011

Time Tested Beauty Tips

by Sam Levenson (A favorite poem of Audrey Hepburn) For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone… People, [...]

How to Survive a Church Split Part 1

If you’ve been a part of the Korean Adventist community long enough, you are bound to have been a part of or have heard of a church split.  No, I’m not referring to a church plant where a smaller church is intentionally created.  If you are privileged, you have witnessed just one.  If you are [...]

Book Review: On This Day in Christian History

After giving an account of the Mujahadeen destruction of Afghanistan’s National Museum, Robert J. Morgan writes in his preface, “With no history, there is no heritage.  And with no heritage from the past, there is no legacy for the future.”  Christianity faces similar threats if the wisdom, lessons, mistakes, and other treasures from church history [...]