Serving the local church as senior pastor is not a small undertaking. Regardless of your education or the years of experience you may have, the job is still tough to manage. The senior pastor of the local church is one person, no matter how large the staff he or she may supervise. Rarely is there a person that can walk into their first-time pastoral experience and hit a home run at first bat. Often the opposite is true. First time pastor’s make plenty of their own mistakes. Often, they hav...

This issue, we have yet again managed to pull together an amazing lineup, kicking off with originals from N.M. Cedeño (thanks to Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken), Ron Miller (another Velda story!), Maureen Bowden, Conleth Thornbury, and Michael Randle, plus a new solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles. As if that’s not enough, we have a classic mystery novel from The Mystery of Voodoo Manor, a classic science fiction novel from Explorers Into Infinity, and classic no...

During the 1950s, Michael Randle helped pioneer a new form of direct action against nuclear war, based on the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. At the forefront of the British campaign, he worked closely with Peace News editor Hugh Brock (1914–1985) and other distinguished ‘anti-nuclear pacifists’ such as Pat Arrowsmith, April Carter, and Ian Dixon, serving as chairman of the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War (1958-1961) and secretary of the Committee of 100 (1960-1961). In 1966, he h...