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Celebrating 70 Years Married, and a Lifetime of Service
2017-05-11 Interview.png Russell and Phyllis Staples look back on long careers spent serving the church in South Africa, Zimbabwe and the US. Russell and Phyllis Staples look back on long careers spent...
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Drop the Mic: Reincarnating the Adventist Faith Part 1
2017-05-12 Todd J. Leonard Part 1.png We can no longer expect people to believe that the Bible is a source of all truth and that we have the best understanding of it. . . . We cannot prove the...
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Why I Am More Spiritual Than Religious
2017-05-15 Voices.png At the end of the day, the church succeeded in telling me who Jesus was and who I should be, but failed to follow its own advice. When I tell other Adventists that I am more...
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New Guide Editor Says Church Must Work Together For Good of Young People
2017-05-16 Interview.png Kathy Beagles Coneff talks about changing the magazine to keep it the same, and the importance of church departments pooling resources, as the church struggles to reach young...
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Drop the Mic: Reincarnating the Adventist Faith Part 2
2017-05-19 Todd J. Leonard Part 2.png Adventists love being right. We love our calling to be truth-tellers and truth-defenders. We have loved the truth, believing our truth would set people free. And...
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Why You're Not a Cultural Adventist (or, "It Was Never About the Fri-Chick")
2017-05-22 Voices.jpg The church isn't a bone for us to fight over. It's a gift of God, and it belongs to him. If you hang around churches long enough, you'll hear the term thrown around. It shows up...
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Nature Identifies Events during the "Gap" in Creation
2017-05-23 Voices - Creation Gap.png For 150 years Protestant churches, including Adventists, have debated the meaning of Genesis 1:1-3 as to whether, the entire planet was formed at Creation Week or...
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Courage to Conquer: New Web Series Created after Pitch Contest Win
2017-05-24 Interview.png Aceia Anderson has created a ten-episode web series about a teen who struggles with bullying, depression, and anxiety. This creative writing major from Florida wanted to show...
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Drop the Mic: Reincarnating the Adventist Faith Part 3
2017-05-26 Todd J. Leonard Part 3.png I’m beginning to have a hunch that we Adventists manufactured a sabbath day divorced from Sabbath. It seems like we wouldn’t need to twist peoples’ arms to rest on...
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Are We Getting in the Way of God's Salvation Story?
2017-05-29 Voices.png Jesus cleanses the temple, but no sooner had he done so than blind people, and paralyzed people, show up at the same temple. But here is the question Matthew dangles before us....
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Andrews University Architecture Students Build Mobile Mission Clinic
outsideview1_small.jpg In an interview with Spectrum, Carey Carscallen, Dean of the School of Architecture & Interior Design at Andrews University, talks about the recently completed Mobile Mission...
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Exchanges Down Under Part 2: Communities of Grace and Celebration
2017-06-05 Exchanges Down Under.png This is something I’m enjoying during this time at Avondale. There’s a strong culture of celebrating each other’s work outside the classroom: supporting it,...
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Drop the Mic: Reincarnating the Adventist Faith Part 4
2017-06-05 Todd J. Leonard Part 4.png If Adventist pastors and evangelists could only change one thing about their message, I would ask them to do this: whether you believe the atonement process is...
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The Eleventh –ism Begins with the Letter T
2017-06-07 Eleventh -ism by Sigve Tonstad.png I am quite sure that the woman who lay exposed in the operating room at the Loma Linda University Medical Center forty years ago did not subscribe to an...
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The View from a Seven-Year-Old Churchgoer
2017-06-07 Interview with 7-year old.png Juliana Payne attends the Niles Westside Seventh-day Adventist Church, just south of Berrien Springs, Michigan. She talked to us about Sabbath School, science...
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New Film Tells the Story of the Whitecoats―Adventist Soldiers in Biodefense
2017-06-13 Interview_v3.png Randall Larsen talks about his documentary Operation Whitecoat, remembering a U.S. Army program during the Cold War that used more than 2,300 non-combatant Adventist...
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Drop the Mic: Reincarnating the Adventist Faith Part 5
2017-06-14 DropTheMic5.png If our beastly evangelism is increasingly ineffective in bringing people to an Adventist congregation and our emphasis on an imminent second advent has been more effective at...
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God’s Last Choice: Overcoming Ellen White’s Gender and Women in Ministry...
2017-06-14 EGW by Kevin M. Burton Part 1.png There was a time in which local churches were governed congregationally and in which a local conference, a union, or the General Conference had no...
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God’s Last Choice: Overcoming Ellen White’s Gender and Women in Ministry...
2017-06-15 EGW by Kevin M. Burton Part 2.png The Seventh-day Adventist Church was one of the denominations that began to translate itself into a big business in the early twentieth-century. A...
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Surprises and Elephants
2017-06-20 Michael Pearson.png Fragments and Impressions from the London Unity Talks Fragments and Impressions from the London Unity TalksThe Day BeforeVery dubious about attending.What’s the point?...
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