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Disk Cloning Software Evaluation*
No full textA comprehensive analysis of the performance levels of Microsoft Intune, Acronis True Image, and Clonezilla Live. The goal of this project is to find the ideal software solution that will be implemented in the Information Technology department at Southern Adventist University
Bob Hirschi Living Memoirs Interview
Full text linkBob served as a student missionary in Nicaragua nearly five decades ago, where he worked as a maintenance man, driver, and mechanic for a clinic-based mission. His experience introduced him to medical work, challenged his faith, and sparked a deeper relationship with God. Bob was later asked to return to the mission and embraced Christianity alongside his Catholic wife. Over the years, he remained involved with the mission, eventually serving as a board member. Bob emphasizes living out faith through actions and sees missionary service as a powerful way to grow spiritually and connect with others.
*Content Warning: This interview includes references to emotionally intense experiences related to medical and life events. Discretion is advised.
Nicaragua is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. It features diverse geography, including lakes, volcanoes, and both Pacific and Caribbean coastlines. The country has a rich cultural heritage shaped by indigenous roots and Spanish colonial history. Nicaragua\u27s economy relies on agriculture, mining, and tourism, though it has faced political instability and natural disasters. Its capital and largest city is Managua.
Parker, F.D., Nietschmann, B., Arguello, R., Orozco, M.S., Walker, T.W. (2025, April 26). Nicaragua. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/place/Nicaragua
Views expressed do not represent Southern Adventist University or McKee Library but are the personal opinions of the interviewed individual
Explicit Curricular Instruction Needed: Merging Adventist Christian Worldview with Critical Thinking Skills in Adventist Tertiary Institutions
Full text linkFrom the founding of the first tertiary institution in 1874, Seventh-day Adventist administrators and educators have grappled with the tension between faith and learning, a duality implicit in the sacred/secular curricula split in Seventh-day Adventist tertiary institutions today. This duality fails to represent the Seventh-day Adventist holistic life-view. The Higher Education Biblical Foundation Course Design Model developed by Cynthia Gettys and Elaine Plemons and published by The Center for Teaching Excellence at Southern Adventist University is a curriculum design model that can help mitigate this sacred/secular dichotomy and make scripture central to each course offered at Adventist colleges and universities. The Gettys/Plemons Course Design Model would be strengthened by incorporating the critical thinking framework developed by the late Dr. Richard Paul and Dr. Linda Elder available from the Foundation for Critical Thinking. The Paul/Elder Critical Thinking Framework is an integrated, systematic, and universal approach to the analysis and evaluation of criteria-based reasoning built upon three conceptual sets which together provide the most robust and integrated model of critical thinking currently available. Applying the Gettys/Plemons Course Design Model to each course offered can benefit Seventh-Day Adventist tertiary institutions by unifying the curricula on the Adventist Christian Worldview. Applying the Paul/Elder Critical Thinking Framework can benefit Seventh-Day Adventist tertiary institutions by providing explicit instruction for criteria-based thinking with a shared simple language across the spectrum of disciplines. Ellen G. White (1873) says that “[t]he truths of the divine word can be best appreciated by an intellectual Christian. Christ can be better glorified by those who serve him intelligently. The great object of education is to enable us to bring into use the powers which God has given us, in such a manner as will best represent the religion of the Bible and promote the glory of God” (p. 23). Merging the Gettys/Plemons Course Design Model with the Paul/Elder Critical Thinking Framework will help facilitate the Adventist ideals of making scripture the foundation and context of education while also developing students who are thinkers rather than reflectors of others’ thoughts
LifeLines Spring 2025
Full text linkThe Spring 2025 issue of Lifelines contains articles on an alumni spotlight, department happenings, and biology and allied health graduates
The Business of Business: A Biblical Approach to the Purpose of the Firm
Full text linkThe debate on the purpose of the business corporation has been raging for more than a century. Inspired by capitalistic thinking, economists, corporate managers and investors have mostly maintained that the predominant goal for corporations is to maximize shareholder wealth. In contrast, society has argued that the corporation also has a social responsibility as a legal entity and community member.
The legal precedent set in 1919 with Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. is that “a business corporation is organized and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders”. The oft quoted argument of Milton Friedman (1970) that the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits, supports the materialistic philosophical purpose of business. This materialistic philosophy became the basis of finance textbooks, and the framework within which much management education is done.
More recently, we saw a shift toward a humanistic philosophical approach to the purpose of business. An announcement in August 2019 by the Business Roundtable organization stated that business was refocusing the purpose of the corporation away from the primacy of shareholder wealth maximization to a commitment to benefit all stakeholders – employees, customers, suppliers, shareholders, communities. This statement ignited a debate between the traditional materialistic approach and a humanistic approach with the latter aligning with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Both these approaches avoid the Biblical reality and purpose of every human entity on earth. A study of the creation week shows that humanity, created in God’s image, is endowed with abilities and responsibilities to exercise dominion over a perfectly created but incomplete world. Humanity’s purpose, as expressed in the cultural commission, is to bring glory to God through the development and maintenance (Genesis 2:15) of the earth, its resources, and its living creatures.
Unfortunately, the entry of sin and the consequences of the fall had a negative impact on humanity’s motives and intellect resulting in developments that harm people and the environment. The fall also negatively impacted the four primary relationships humanity experienced at creation – relationships between God and humankind, with our individual self, with others, and with the rest of creation.
By God’s grace humanity is redeemed from sin through Jesus Christ and thereby reconciliation with all things can be achieved (Colossians 1:19-20). In addition, redeemed humanity is given an active role to fulfill by becoming active messengers/ambassadors of God (1 Corinthians 5:18-20) in reconciling the world with God. This new role is the gospel commission (Matthew 28:19-20).
Thus, fulfilling the cultural and gospel commissions within the context of the great command (Matthew 22:38) is the Biblical purpose of every human person and entity – government agencies, business firms, civic organizations, religious communities.
How are Christian business practitioners to fulfill in love the cultural and gospel commissions in a broken and sin-scarred world? Begin with the reframing of the mind (Romans 12:2) in viewing the business’ purpose in society, and the way it interacts with its stakeholders. Views of success, of customers, of employees, of ownership, of money and profits, and of ethics are discussed within the Biblical cultural and gospel commission framework
Biblical Themes in Spanish Instruction
Full text linkThis paper seeks to answer the question, when teaching Spanish, does one have to be in a certain venue to be able to share God and the Bible? Through exploration of legends, myths, traditions, Spanish proverbs, and names of geographical locations, as well as personal experiences, the question is answered, elucidating the fact that the sharing of God’s Word is not dependent upon the venue, it is centered in a sense of intentionality in seeking opportunities appropriate to the setting and the occasion. In a spiritual and physical sense, Psalm 19:1 (KJV) defines the world around us when David declares: “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.” The same notion can be applied to the secular and temporal world around us, in that God’s influence and His presence are manifested in multiple ways; it is a matter of seeking those avenues, and then calling upon God for wisdom
Southern Accent September 2024 - April 2025
Full text linkSouthern Adventist University\u27s newspaper, Southern Accent, for the 2024-2025 academic year.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/southern_accent/1106/thumbnail.jp
From Darkness to Light
Full text linkA light has dawned. Not a flicker. Not a passing spotlight. A new beginning. A new day
Library Lens September 2025
Full text linkThe September 2025 edition of Library Lens includes information on digital newspaper access, information literacy modules, Libby account updates, and Hispanic Heritage Month
Wondrous Creations II
No full textInsects mounted and preserved inside a wooden frame displayed on the Main Floor of McKee Library during the Winter 2025 semester.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/flizardexhibit/1001/thumbnail.jp