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Prophetess of Health: A Fortieth-anniversary Retrospective
Prophetess_Health.jpg White has been so central to Adventist self-understanding that any perceived diminution of her status could only be viewed as a threat. Resistance to Numbers—or any individual who...
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Why It Isn't Enough to Quote Scripture
Asscherick.png Is it too much to ask the Adventist community—whose growth numbers and tithe totals we non-white members pad—to consider us important enough to defend us? Like many people in the United...
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Summer Reading Group: “Globalization and the Challenge of Religions”
Summer_Reading_Flourish.jpg Market globalization promises that commodities and wealth would make us happy, but no matter how much wealth we acquire, we are never satisfied. Human desire is insatiable,...
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Worthington Comes Back to the Adventists
Worthington.png Don Otis, founder of Heritage Health Food, has bought Worthington's frozen food line back from the Kellogg Company, as well as acquiring the Cedar Lake food company, and is working to...
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Racism in America: Are We Ready to Talk?
NAD_March_Washington.png We should also admit that Christ's command for us to love our neighbor as ourselves - a love equal to the amount that we love God - should motivate us to speak out for those...
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Perspective: Trump and Clinton on Religious Minorities
Trump_Clinton.jpg It is no exaggeration to say that Donald Trump’s road the Republican nomination was paved with the denigration of religious minorities. If Trump’s rhetoric proves a portent of things...
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Summer Reading Group: “Religions and the Challenge of Globalization”
Summer_Reading_Flourish.jpg Despite predictions that modernity would extinguish religion, the same religious spark that facilitated our ancestors search for meaning as it comforted and structured their...
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Looking Back at Adventist Connections with the Political Elite in China
Ruth pic.jpg Historian Ruth Crocombe talks about her research into the relationships Adventist missionaries had with Chiang Kai-shek and his family in the early 1900s, the sex scandal that sent Harry...
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What The World Needs Now: History's Surprising Parallels
Punch.jpg An old-fashioned diagnosis and an old-fashioned cure for strangely familiar social ills. Might these ideas usefully inform attitudes today? New diseases. Strange weather. Abroad, shifting...
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Trust is Vital: Loma Linda Board Chair Speaks on Leadership
Lowell C Cooper(1).jpg Lowell Cooper, long-time General Conference vice president, shares insights about governance, leadership and our changing church from his years of accrued wisdom. In this...
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Summer Reading Group: “Mindsets of Respect, Regimes of Respect”
Summer_Reading_Flourish.jpg From the very first chapter, I wondered whether Volf’s focus on the “major” religions to the exclusion of “local” and indigenous religions would be a disadvantage to him....
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Online Group Mobilizes Young Adventists for Social Justice
IMG_1652.jpg Tiffany Llewellyn, an Adventist social worker from New York, has tapped into the frustration many young black Adventists are feeling this summer, and is harnessing it to create a vibrant...
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The Adventist Podcast: Greg Boyd
Adventist_Podcast_Greg_Boyd.jpg In this 20 min. interview, 2016 Adventist Forum conference keynote speaker Greg Boyd discusses the Christus Victor theory of atonement, violence, open theism, systematic...
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Facing Doubt: A Review
Bruinsma_Facing_Doubt.jpg The most important part, Bruinsma’s answers to and suggestions for dealing with doubt are both tried and tested and innovative. "I know that the Adventist faith community is...
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Former Review Editor Writes About a Radical Jesus
William_Johnsson.png William Johnsson, editor of the Adventist Review for more than two decades, is one of the speakers at the upcoming Spectrum conference. He talked to us about his book on Jesus’...
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"On The Margins": Reinder Bruinsma’s Facing Doubt
On_The_Margins.jpg Facing Doubt was written, ostensibly at least, to help Adventists “on the margins” not to jump ship. That’s fine, except that, given his views on what the church should be—in...
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Summer Reading Group: “Conflict, Violence, and Reconciliation”
Summer_Reading_Flourish.jpg Research shows that group identity based on a common focus on the sacred can make people kinder to each other, both within the group and without it. Secular identity does...
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Making Sense of a Vengeful God
Shelden.png PUC theology professor Jean Sheldon offers a preview of her presentation at the upcoming Adventist Forum conference: two different models of atonement explain why the Old Testament God of...
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Perspective: It's Not Discrimination if the Church Does It
Beltsville_Adventist.jpg The District Court noted in its ruling in Curl that a religious employer only needed to prove two elements to demonstrate that it has a ministerial exception. First – the...
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the One project: Why I'm Mad
theOneproject.jpg There's a sickness in my beloved church. We've permitted extreme views to take control, views that play on fear, that weave conspiracy scenarios around End-time events and unsettle...
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