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Perspective: How Deep Is Skin?
skin.png I am praying that our church has good answers to these questions. I know that there are several Dominican and Hatian (and other) Seventh-day Adventist members here in the states that are...
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In Memory of Norway’s First Woman Seventh-day Adventist Pastor
WomanPastor.png In was evident from the very beginning of her pastoral work that Jenny was pure grace. I say this advisedly, fully aware of the theological prestige of the word ‘grace.’ In 1978 heaven...
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Introducing: Best of Spectrum Comments, June 18-25, 2015
BestOfComments.png In order to highlight the great feedback we often receive as comments to the articles on the Spectrum Website, the editorial team introduces what will be a regular Friday feature:...
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Spectrum Summer Reading Group Gets Unclean
Unclean.png Richard Beck asks us to imagine spitting into a Dixie cup…and then drinking its contents. Disgusting, right? Although this seems like the natural reaction to have, it’s actually rather odd,...
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Ellen White: A Subject for Adventist Scholarship
Branson_Adventist_Scholarship.png Most Seventh-day Adventists know that for some time we have been able to make Ellen G. White say almost anything we want. Her authority is universally recognized in...
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Wesleyans Aren't Fundamentalists...Are Adventists?
SquarePeg.png It is sad, given our Wesleyan heritage, that we have adopted the strategy of fundamentalism from the Calvinist denominations and not a Wesleyan approach that values how our theology and...
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Perspective: Even The General Conference in Session Doesn't Believe all 28...
GeneralConferenceInSession.jpg Do you have to believe all 28 Fundamental Beliefs in order to be an Adventist? This is a common question pastors are asked. If you were to talk to most Adventists, they...
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Viewpoint: African and Latin-American Adventism--An Occasion Lost on the...
GlobalSouth.jpg A meaningful leadership of the worldwide Adventist community now and in the future can't be characterized purely by strength in numbers but rather by the humble, empathic and...
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General Conference Reflections: The Realities We’re Forgetting
Reflections.jpg With all the reports of the quarrels about voting procedures and mechanisms, qualified leaders and rules of order, better wordings and loaded phrases, and with the discouraged reactions...
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Summer Reading Group: "Darwin and Disgust"
Baby.png What is more enervating, more lukewarm, more insipidly Laodicean, than a people that collectively buries its theological talents in sands of nostalgia, imagining that the Master will one day...
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Church: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Stay_Go.png I sat there hearing people’s strong resistance against women in ministry, even people who had taught some church school classes when I was growing up…I’ll be honest: it hurt. I felt like a...
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Half-Discipleship: General Conference Adventism’s Truncated Bible
Pulpit_General Conference.jpg f today’s General Conference Adventism (as I will call it) concerns itself at all with discipleship, it is, at most, half-discipleship. The 12 preachers who spoke in the...
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Viewpoint: The Adventist Church Needed James Standish's Ostensibly...
Standish.jpg James Standish, the Editor of the South Pacific Division's official paper, The Record, has written a throw-caution-to-the-wind, nothing-left-to-lose editorial lamenting what he saw taking...
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An Alphabetized Bibliography for the Adventist Hermeneutics Discussion
Bible.jpg This bibliography on biblical hermeneutics provides a thorough list of significant Adventist contributions to the study of studying Scripture. At the 60th General Conference Session in San...
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The Time Has Come for Restructuring the Adventist Church
ThePlanet.png We should aim at building relatively independent regional churches: an Adventist Church in Europe, an Adventist Church in North-America, South-America, Africa etc. The time has come....
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My Abusive Spouse
Abusive.png I have an abusive spouse: The Adventist Church. He's charming and influential. People see him as a humanitarian. And while he does so many good things for others, there's another side to...
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Summer Reading Group: “Contamination and Contagion"
Ebola.png We were all scared, the physician told us. But failure was not an option. If we did not prove that a hospital could safely and successfully treat an Ebola patient, we knew that the public...
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A Once and Future Adventism
Branson2.png Roy Branson's optimism in the face of disappointment was tied to the significance of worship and apocalyptic literature. In a 1988 article “Trumpet Blasts and Hosannas: A Once and Future...
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Adventist Postmodernism: Analyzing the Credibility of Fundamental Belief #6
Fundamental.jpg Since the Church is now staking its credibility and relevance in the world on views held by Ellen White 150 years ago, are there any examples of things Ellen White said that are...
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Perspective: Does the General Conference Have Authority?
General_Conference_Authority.jpg The obvious answer to the question is yes. But unfortunately this answer does not address the real issues generally being raised when the question is asked. What is at...
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