Dark Chocolate Pomegranate Bark and More: Chef Cory Gheen Talks about His...
2017-12-6-interviews.png Loma Linda's "Live It: In the Kitchen," a series of short cooking videos, has garnered lots of hits from people looking to eat more healthfully. Chef Cory Gheen talks about how...
View ArticleBook Review: Canonical Theology: The Biblical Canon, Sola Scriptura, and...
2017-12-11 Book Review.png The complex subject of what constitutes the Canon has been debated since the early centuries of the Christian era. Today, the debate takes on a scope unparalleled in...
View ArticleNew Worship Album Captures DNA of Florida Hospital Church
2017-12-12-interview.png Minister of Music Richard Hickam talks about the forthcoming album his church has produced, showcasing the diversity of the congregation. "We didn't just try to make an album;...
View ArticleServanthood: Our Christian Calling
philipbaptizesethiopian.jpg No ministry is higher or more prestigious than another. At the foot of the cross, where we all take our various mantles of servant leadership, the ground is level. We love...
View Article#MeToo: Busting Seven Myths about Clergy Sexual Misconduct
mihai-surdu-415698.jpg As pastors, let’s take the momentum of the #MeToo campaign to heart, and let this be a reminder that our role as pastors also makes us vulnerable to the temptation to hurt...
View ArticleThe No-Longer Neglected Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity
autrinityproject.jpg The Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary on the campus of Andrews University has publicly rended its garments, in the paradoxically understated way careful scholars do, by...
View ArticleLonging for God: An Interview with Dr. Frank Hasel
2017-12-15-bookinterview.png Dale E. Galusha, president of Pacific Press Publishing Association, interviews author Dr. Frank Hasel about his new book, "Longing for God." At the General Conference...
View ArticleSabbath in Malta
2017-12-18-malta1.jpg Claude Lombart shares his experience visiting the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Malta. “Christianity has almost 2000 years of history in Malta. According to tradition, it was...
View ArticleBook Review: Stories from Sunnyside
2017-12-19-bookreview.png Drawing from primary source material, including the personal correspondence, manuscripts, and other materials that Ellen White wrote during her nine-year stay in Australia,...
View ArticleMonument to Upper Columbia Veterans A Long Time Coming
IMG_9255.JPG Michael Walter, class of 1966, who served in the military for 30 years, was behind the new Upper Columbia Vietnam (War) Era Servicemen Monument, recently dedicated on the academy's campus....
View ArticleNamed and Known, Known and Loved
2017-12-24-voices.png 2017…it’s a year for celebrating, remembering. Perhaps the most important thing for us to remember is that we are, I am, loved by God. To know ourselves loved by God. All the rest...
View ArticleThe Books of 2017
2017-12-31-books.png It was a good year for Adventist authors. An Adventist nutritionist won a prestigious “Best in the World” award for her cookbook and another author saw his books banned by a...
View ArticleMake an Impact on Independent Adventist Journalism in 2018
dec31-pexels-photo-342248.jpeg It’s New Year’s Eve and I want to remind you that today is your last chance to support Spectrum before the end of the 2017 calendar year. We thank you for joining us in...
View ArticleOur First Work
newyear-annie-spratt-178364.jpg The Bible reminds us that spiritual revival is not something we muscle up on our own. It is the unique work of the Holy Spirit and will come only in answer to earnest...
View ArticleBook Review: Forbearance: A Theological Ethic for a Disagreeable Church
2018-1-2-bookreview.png If Christians were determined to make forbearance with one another their hallmark, despite their deep differences in social and political agendas, perhaps the prayer of Jesus,...
View ArticleGuns in Church?
gun.jpeg In the latest edition of the Spectrum journal, linguistics professor Terese Thonus writes a personal article about her fear of guns in churches, and her campaign to convince her local...
View ArticleIntegrity in Scriptural Interpretation: An Interview with Edward W. H. Vick
bible-rod-long-355994.jpg Within Adventism, no topic matters more than the one Edward W. H. Vick addressed in his 2011 book, "From Inspiration to Understanding: Reading the Bible Seriously and...
View ArticleBook Review: The Science of Virtue
2018-1-8-bookreview.png The Christian church has had a tense relationship with science for centuries (to put it mildly), but McMinn’s intriguing look at positive psychology is an effort to reinforce...
View ArticleWhat Norms or Values Define Excellent Philosophy of Religion?
person-eric-patnoudes-46029.jpg We can find the perfect fine-tuning argument in cosmology or irreducible complexity in biology, but, at the end of the day, why and how will this knowledge contribute to...
View Article#ButNow
person-frank-mckenna-269323.jpg In the brokenhearted, openhearted mess of our barely audible “me too’s,” we acknowledge more than just our pain. We recognize the goodness, faithfulness, and tenderness...
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