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A View from the Streets
Streets.png The Harbor of Hope Church in Benton Harbor, Michigan, has just moved into its own building, and celebrated its grand opening Sabbath in the former county health building with a pancake...
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International Day of the Girl Child, GC Annual Council, San Antonio, and...
UN_Women_Girl_Child.jpg What about our decision-making at all levels? Are we aware that gender inequality is an integrated part of the culture in many parts of the world where you will find Seventh-day...
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Summer Reading Group: “God, Nihilism, and Flourishing”
Summer_Reading_Flourish.jpg It is possible for the General Conference president and all the president’s men to lead not by building consensus across differences but by consolidating and expanding their...
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Women Who Minister: The Life of a Commissioned Adventist Chaplain
Chaplain.jpg Perhaps the deepest compliment I have ever received was the moment my young adult daughter said, “Mom, you are doing (as chaplain/pastor) what you were born to do.” The day began as most...
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"Unity in Mission" Will Fail and Here’s Why
Unity_In_Mission.jpg Those who favor the ordination of women in ministry want most of all to be understood as being faithful to Scripture. They have repeatedly studied it from cover to cover, discussed...
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Disappointed by Scripture: October 22, 1844 and the Limits of Biblical...
Tell The World.png The only hope for Adventism is to keep the flame of the Second Coming alive. Every year on October 22nd, Adventists recall the events of 1844, the year when thousands of North...
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Academic Freedom in the Context of Adventist Higher Education
Academic Freedom.png The following in-depth look at academic freedom from one of Washington Adventist University's top academics was originally initiated for publication in Adventist Review. The...
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How Tell the World, the Biggest Adventist Movie Ever, Got Made
IMG_3823.JPG Chester Stanley, former president of the Australian Union Conference, talks about why he wanted to make the film and how it all started. Shot in a pioneer village with a cast of nearly a...
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Viewpoint: Make 2017 the Adventist Year of Conscience and Religious Freedom
Luther.jpg Adventist members should focus their efforts on educating themselves in the Scriptures on matters of conscience and to achieving a Spirit-led unity and re-formation. Five hundred years ago,...
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Spencerville Sabbath Worship and the Unity Discussions: Two Different Planets
IMG_2888.JPG When times arise where there is an overreach or a power play by one or a few people, our organizational structure will allow us to just say “no.” I believe we are at just such a point in...
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Don't Miss It: Hacksaw Ridge Producer Explains Why Not
image3.JPG Hacksaw Ridge, the much-anticipated Hollywood film starring Andrew Garfield as famous Adventist soldier Desmond Doss, comes out this weekend. In an exclusive interview with Spectrum,...
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Dare to Be a Desmond
Dare_To_Be_Desmond.jpg Being a remnant people means far more than just the people who keep the Sabbath. It means we are to be a people of the Great Commandment to love all people, friend or foe. The...
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Young Adventist Voices: Election Day in the USA
Voices.png The series highlights the voices of Adventist students, scholars, musicians and others highlighting the intersections of faith, history and politics. In an experimental series for Spectrum...
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Promoting Women's Rights
SylviaHordosch_October2016__LB_9420_1.jpg Sylvia Hordosch tries to reconcile her work for the United Nations pushing for gender equality and her heritage in the Adventist church where women are still...
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Do You See Me?
Do_You_See_Me.jpg How do I raise my daughter in America? How do I raise her as an Adventist? These are real questions. My two-year-old daughter interrupts me from my keening at the computer to say,...
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Adventist Chaplain Terry Rice Waits “Indefinitely” for Church Endorsement
210603_10150554403265714_2368909_o.jpg Terry Rice, hospice chaplain in Walla Walla, Washington, finds his career on hold because the Adventist church has so far refused to acknowledge his calling...
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The Judicial Dilemma: How the Church Works – And How It Gets Worked
Judicial_Dilemma.jpg Unions, to whom administration of the selection of individuals for ordination is assigned, see themselves doing so in harmony with the fifteen criteria in the ordination policy, as...
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New Film Follows Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Final Chapter
CTP_MG_7924-2.jpg Gary Blount, psychiatrist-turned-producer, has created a remarkable new film about the last days of theologian and dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer in a Nazi concentration camp. Gary...
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Giving Thanks
Thank you.jpg A pause for gratitude and the expressing of thanks. It's Thanksgiving in the United States today, my third as the Spectrum Website's managing editor, and I want to share my thanks...
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New Andrews President Andrea Luxton Considers the Big Picture
image.jpg In this wide-ranging interview, experienced educator and administrator Andrea Luxton tells Spectrum what it is like to sit in the president's chair at Andrews University. In this wide-ranging...
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