This issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Angela Mills and Anthony Dean, will include articles on the following topics: Approach to acute abdominal pain;Evaluation of abdominal pain in older adults; Evaluation of abdominal pain in the pediatric population; Imaging and laboratory testing in acute abdominal pain;Esophageal and gastric emergencies; and Anorectal emergencies and foreign bodies in the gastrointestinal tract.

A Bible study group comes across a word that has caused a stir among believers for decades. Yet the leader of the study wants to have an honest discussion about its meaning and why it matters. He thinks he is inclined to believe in it but wants to investigate it with someone who has embraced it. The word? Election. Join Pastor John Martin as he has a dialogue with this new inquirer and friend that approaches the subject without heavy theological jargon but with reason, logic, and scriptural support.

A Bible study group comes across a word that has caused a stir among believers for decades. Yet the leader of the study wants to have an honest discussion about its meaning and why it matters. He thinks he is inclined to believe in it but wants to investigate it with someone who has embraced it. The word? Election. Join Pastor John Martin as he has a dialogue with this new inquirer and friend that approaches the subject without heavy theological jargon but with reason, logic, and scriptural support.