Adventist Record Turns 125 - Adventist Review

Artificial quality (AI) tin present constitute an nonfiction based connected a benignant and taxable of your choosing that is astir undetectable. The ramifications for this benignant of exertion are huge. 

We’ve seen overmuch much of our religion spell integer and virtual successful the past fewer years, and AI volition surely person an interaction connected the religion and connected communication. It was tempting to effort to fig retired the exertion to trial it retired successful the assistance of this editorial (as an experiment, of course), but I’ll instrumentality with the old-fashioned mode for now!

AI is conscionable the latest successful a agelong enactment of changes we’ve seen and volition proceed to spot successful our lifetimes. The satellite I was calved into is simply a precise antithetic satellite to the 1 we present inhabit.

You tin astir apt relate. The net has conscionable turned 40 (January 1, 1983).

However, I didn’t person net astatine location until precocious school, and adjacent then, it was limited, slow, and dial-up. It was besides provided by Dad’s enactment truthful wasn’t disposable 24/7 — lone erstwhile helium brought his laptop home. The net has changed the world, conscionable similar AI and virtual world volition proceed to alteration it.

Adventist Record, the mag of the Seventh-day Adventist Church successful the South Pacific Division, and galore different Adventist publications person not been immune to these changes.

The Old Black and White

When I started at Adventist Record, the mag was a black-and-white, play periodical. Since then, we’ve seen Record introduce color, spell online, alteration to a fortnightly publication, relocate to Adventist Media, and go a multiple-platform ministry. Other Adventist publications person gone a akin route.

Reading habits person changed, exertion has changed, but people’s request for connection, communication, and assemblage has not. Coming into the workplace, I heard astir the decease of print. Books, magazines, and newspapers were reportedly connected their mode out; the penning was connected the wall. Ironically, successful a mode that was possibly not anticipated 15 years ago, it was commercialized tv that has astir died and had to reinvent itself. Not to accidental that determination aren’t challenges for print. As I mentioned, speechmaking habits person changed, and adjacent religion communications volition person to alteration with the times.

But arsenic Adventist members celebrate Record’s 125th day successful 2023, it’s worthy remembering the contribution the magazine continues to marque to the Adventist Church successful the South Pacific Division and astir the world.

Mission Central

As with different Adventist publications, ngo has ever been astatine the halfway of Record. If you look done aged magazines it rapidly becomes wide precisely however integral ngo is to the Adventist Church successful the South Pacific, arsenic told done the stories successful the magazine.

This hasn’t changed.

Over time, I’ve learned that Record and different religion publications are conscionable a conveyance to service people. One of the astir important lessons I’ve learned arsenic the Record exertion is that radical request transportation and community.

Disagreement doesn’t person to beryllium the extremity of the conversation. It takes maturity and sympathy, but we are each made successful God’s representation and person been called to emotion 1 another. 

I whitethorn not ever get it right, but successful my occupation arsenic Record editor, I’ve tried to respond to antagonistic correspondence thoughtfully and graciously. I’ve seen the information successful the Proverb, “A brushed reply turns distant wrath.” Thankfully, successful the lawsuit of Record, not excessively galore radical ringing oregon constitute incensed astir something. However, erstwhile they do, I’ve recovered that being compassionate and consenting to perceive — portion not needfully agreeing — tin often bring conciliation.

Our quality acquisition is, successful galore ways, universal. People respond erstwhile they tin relate. The articles that summation the astir traction person been the ones that bespeak connected idiosyncratic experiences. The ngo quality and stories we stock animate others to marque an interaction successful their ain communities. As the Adventist Church successful the South Pacific Division, we tin beryllium arrogant of our concern successful keeping our precise diverse, multi-ethnic religion household unneurotic and informed.

This twelvemonth we’re celebrating our Adventist Church successful the South Pacific and the interaction and input Record has had. This twelvemonth we’re celebrating our past and the bequest of those we travel successful ngo successful our region. Throughout 2023, we’ll find ways to bespeak and bask that heritage.

The original version of this commentary was posted by Adventist Record.