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COVID-19 Can Affect the Way Your Heart Beats: Look out for These Signs
December 16, 2021

COVID-19 Can Affect the Way Your Heart Beats: Look out for These Signs

Nearly two years since the COVID-19 pandemic settled in the United States, the medical community continues to analyze its impacts on various bodily organs, notably the heart. As such investigations ensue, one fact is becoming increasingly clear: the virus does affect the heart and especially its ...

What in the Word: Love
December 16, 2021

What in the Word: Love

“Love” is a word we often hear about at church and experience deeply in our families. My most overwhelming experience of love was at the birth of my son and then my daughter. It was a sense of deep emotion, warmth in my heart, and passionate commitment to nurture, care for, and cherish, together ...

Sixtieth Anniversary of the High School Hostel
December 16, 2021

Sixtieth Anniversary of the High School Hostel

The year 2021 marks the 60th anniversary of the commencement of what officially became known as the “High School Hostel” on the Avondale University campus at Cooranbong, New South Wales. 4 It was to become a home for many high-school-age students whose parents were serving the church as missiona...

The Organizational Fakery of Our Grief
December 16, 2021

The Organizational Fakery of Our Grief

In Max Porter’s novella, Grief is the Thing with Feathers , its central character, an unnamed widower and father, speaks about the grief of losing his young wife. He says, ‘I sat alone in the living room wondering what to do. Shuffling around, waiting for the shock to give way, waiting for any k...