Bwana Majwek and the Hospital by the Lake: The Story of Kendu
Kenya’s first Adventist hospital began with a doctor operating on a kitchen table in a mud hut. A century lat…
Articles by Belden
17 published pieces.
God's Physician: Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
After the 1888 General Conference, a famous surgeon became a converted man, and his faith went to work. Throu…
"O Here Is Sister Louise!" A Nurse in the Slums of Chicago
History has kept only her first name. But in 1894 the children of Chicago’s worst streets ran to meet a missi…
Classes in the Dining Room: Dr. Lillis Wood-Starr
A woman doctor began teaching healthful living in a few Adventist homes near Loma Linda. Within months minist…
God Was Training Us: Arthur and Emma Semmens in Australia
Two trained nurses went home to Australia hoping to care for the sick, and were asked to preach as well. What…
Sunday Got the Crowds, Tindall Got the Converts
A former atheist joined health teaching to Bible preaching and took it from city to city. His campaigns showe…
If We Love, We Grieve
Grief is the price of love, and love is worth the risk. Why we must not build walls around our hearts, and ho…
Here and Now Will Do
Our minds can pull us back into old wounds or forward into imagined troubles. Here is why the present moment…
He Would Not Let Me Go
I first sensed God’s call as a little girl in my grandmother’s home. This is the story of a God who kept call…
A Trip to Corinth: Such Were Some of You
Corinth was so famous for sexual sin that the Greeks turned its name into a verb for it. Yet in that very cit…
In the World but Not of the World
Christians live in the same world as everyone else, with the same giants, the same storms and the same bad ne…
The Boy Nobody Had Heard Of
A teenager nobody had heard of was chosen by the church’s most fruitful health evangelist. The line from that…
The Beehive: How One Church Opened San Francisco
Around 1900 one San Francisco church put every member to work healing and helping the city. Ellen White saw i…
Conversion from Atheism
A scientist who wrote papers arguing God was a meaningless concept could not shake the words "Get yourself to…
Out of the Winepress
Gideon was hiding when God called him a mighty man of valour. God sees in you what He will make of you, and H…
The Seven Seals: Who Shall Be Able to Stand?
Revelation’s seven seals trace the conflict around God’s people from the cross to the Second Coming. Then the…
The Seven Churches: Christ at the Door
Revelation’s seven letters end in one place: Christ at the door of the last church, offering to live His own…