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Adventism and America's Original Sin (Part 2)
2018-1-10-voices.png It is difficult to imagine Adventism finding a more winsome and well-positioned ambassador to black Washington than James H. Howard. During an era in which race relations worsened...
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A Mission Story from the Middle East
taxi-peter-kasprzyk-111462.jpg An Adventist brother is spreading the Good News of Christ’s love in the Middle East. Neither he, nor the location he’s working in, can be identified due to safety...
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Victim of Pastor Abuse Runs Support Network for Other Victims
Screen Shot 2018-01-12 at 22.02.05.png Samantha Nelson and her husband Steve started The Hope of Survivors in 2002 after suffering abuse at the hands of their Adventist pastor. The support ministry now...
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Why King Was Not an Adventist
2018-1-15-archives.png Adventist views of the church place the movement ahead of the preacher. This view becomes detrimental to the production of great leaders. Adventist ecclesiology has no room for...
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The Adventist History Podcast Teaches Us About Our Tribal Roots
2018-1-22-interview.png Pastor Matthew Lucio is telling the story of the Adventist church in monthly podcast episodes, beginning with William Miller. Forty episodes in, there have been more than 40,000...
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Reading and Misreading the Bible
bible-aaron-burden-143103.jpg Official instincts about proper Bible reading continue to be partly right yet crucially wrong. One problem is that, for lack of willingness to converse—to speak and to...
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Workshop Offers the 96% a Chance to Listen
chris.jpg A Sanctuary for Conversation heads to Glendale, California next week, asking: "No matter our stance on same-sex marriage, how can our behaviors be more like Jesus?" Chris Blake, recently...
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Weinstein, #MeToo, and the Ordination of Women
person-jonatan-becerra-176647.jpg The basic process of honest and mutual listening is a demanding and time-consuming process! But there is a great deal at stake. If those of us who call ourselves...
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Christ and the Conflict of Interpretations: Hermeneutics Transfigured
bible-aaron-burden-181246.jpg The time has come to rediscover Jesus as a teacher of Scripture and to restore His teaching authority in the church that bears His name. Like most Christians, Adventists...
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Book Review: Out of Adventism: A Theologian’s Journey
2018-1-30-bookreview.png In "Out of Adventism," Dr. Jerry Gladson writes with a fierce honesty about his personal and professional anguish, his disappointment with specific persons, and the horror of...
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GC's Special Needs Ministries Focuses on Possibilities
2018-1-30-interview.png Larry Evans, Assistant to the General Conference President for the Deaf and Special Needs Ministries, talks about what has been accomplished and what is still left to do in...
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We Didn't Start the Fire but the Tinder was Ours
2018-1-31-archives.png What should give the greatest pause are the similarities between Koresh and Adventists...Waco was the shadow side of this worldview. Other religious communities have their own...
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The Sundance Film Festival: Feast and Sacrifice
2018-1-26-sundance-pc-alexcarpenter.JPG But as the apostle Paul says, when in Rome...so while hanging out with the Hollywood crowd I’m trying to fit in while shaking off the lightheadedness and...
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The Sundance Film Festival: Faith in Film
stars-jeremy-thomas-99326.jpg Since my first post from last week’s Sundance Film Festival I have found something besides almonds to eat. But man shall not live by bread alone so let me share some of...
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Paradise Lost in Waco
2018-2-5-wacoparamountnetwork.jpg As one might expect, the storyline of Waco, which is based on written accounts and interviews with survivors, gets most of its traction from civil and constitutional...
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The Clearest Mirror: Reflections on Black Adventist History
2018-2-6-car.jpg Black Adventist history is the clearest mirror that the Adventist Church has ever looked into. Those that speak of the “golden days of Adventism” or “the good old days” are ignorant of...
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Loving All the Wrong People: An Exercise in Faith
bus-bailey-hall-447655.jpg As it turns out, being right in a world of sin is not the whole story. We can be right about a day of worship or what happens when you die, only to discover that we have...
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The Making of David Koresh
2018-2-7-archives.png In the beginning, the members of the Seventh-day Adventist congregation in Tyler, Texas were intrigued by the handsome young man who returned to the faith after years of straying...
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The Untold Tale of the Tenth: A Brief History of Adventist Benevolence in...
2018-2-13-voices.png From 1844 to the present, Adventist attitudes toward giving have been shaped by a plethora of articles, tracts, sermons, and Church Manuals, few of them in total agreement on the...
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The Man Whom the King Delighteth to Honor
2018-2-14-voices.png God loves me and blesses me on a daily basis, of this I have no doubt. He also loves you, regardless of who you are and what sexual orientation you possess. It has never been God’s...
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