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Ordaining Women: Why “The Survey” Won’t Help Elder Wilson's Efforts to End It
TedWilson2.jpg No matter how well “The Survey” is done, I anticipate that General Conference President Elder Ted N.C. Wilson will eventually conclude that it did not help him in his campaign to stop...
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The British Connection
2018-03-14-archives.png Why were one-third of the people in the Waco siege from England, and how did they get there? Editor’s Note: This year marks the 25thanniversary of the Waco Siege that occurred...
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“Lessons from Mayo Clinic” Author Talks About the Book’s Legacy
2018-03-15-interview.png Kent Seltman, retired director of marketing for the Mayo Clinic and co-author of the business classic “Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic,” travels around the world lecturing...
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Love Is Enough — Sermon by Dr. Olive J. Hemmings
2018-03-07-OliveHemmings.PNG Read Dr. Olive Hemmings' ground-breaking sermon "Love Is Enough." This sermon was originally preached at Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church on February 24, 2018. Watch the...
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The End of the One Project
2018-03-19-1project1.jpg The One project concluded last month with final gatherings in Sydney and San Diego. Beginning with a small group of pastors and chaplains in a hotel room in Denver in late...
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Expression Through Living Art
2018-03-20-interview.png Artist Kiyomi Fukui is the daughter of a Japanese Adventist pastor, graduate of La Sierra University, and a resident of Long Beach, California. She talks to Spectrum about how...
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Role Determined or Role Determining?
2018-03-21-voices.png I am not decrying the relevance of studying the Bible from the SDA perspective nor rejecting the Spirit of Prophecy. It is important that we know and understand what our Church...
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Emperors of Wellness: The Kellogg Brothers
2018-03-21-bookreview.png"The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek" is a wonderful read. Author Howard Markel tells the story of John Harvey Kellogg and Will Keith Kellogg who “were...
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No Taxation without Representation
joakim-honkasalo-587350-unsplash.jpg What we see in this form of tabulation of the survey results is that not all votes are equal. First, in choosing to whom the survey would be sent, half of the GC...
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The Old Testament: Gruesome Tales or Stories with Deeper Meaning?
person-priscilla-du-preez-318414-unsplash.jpg Maybe the Bible is not a book about how we should live, but rather a story of how God has acted down through history...Our focus on what is “in it for me”...
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You Could Cut the Tension with a Knife: Reflections on the 2017 Annual Council
2018-03-26-gcac17-nad-danweber.jpg What we see is an unflinching drive to inflict punishment for "non-compliance"; a pietistic stubbornness that does not back down for the sake of peace. And as this...
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Compliance or Conscience? Charting Our Discord about Ordaining Women
glenn-carstens-peters-190592-unsplash.jpg Although we often say that we can understand in two ways the discord regarding the ordination of women that exists among those of us who are Seventh-day...
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One of David’s Mighty Men
2018-03-28-archives.png In this article that first appeared in the May 1993 edition of Spectrum, Kendra Haloviak Valentine interviewed Norman Martin, M.D., about his brother, Wayne—a Harvard-educated...
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Book Review: The Crucifixion of the Warrior God
2018-03-30-bookreview.png What is to be done with certain parts of the Bible? As a pastor and theologian, Greg Boyd meets this moment in history with a project to create continuity between the...
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Yes He is Risen but…
2018-03-30-voices.png Easter Sabbath is a treasure not to be treated lightly. It teaches us to wait…and wonder. It teaches us that, in the spiritual life, things often move more slowly than we would...
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Andrews Grad Describes Discovering New Bird Species
photo.jpg Andre Moncrieff, who graduated from Andrews University in 2014 and is now a PhD student at Louisiana State University, was part of a team that discovered and named the Cordillera Azul Antbird...
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A Quiet Witness
2018-04-03-Samantha Grady-NAD.jpg Adventist teen and shooting survivor, Samantha Grady, decided not to participate in the March for Our Lives demonstrations. Instead, Grady traveled to Georgia with...
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Futuristic Highs at Mt. Carmel
2018-04-04-archives.png The Waco tragedy should be a warning to the church, since we have other futuristic interpreters and groups circulating on the periphery of Adventism. Editor’s Note: This year...
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Adventist-Owned Juice Bar Opening Soon in Utah
Screen Shot 2018-04-07 at 23.48.15.png Pastor Ryan Hablitzel is gearing up to open Press Together, owned by the Nevada-Utah Conference, as a ministry offering raw organic cold-pressed juice — and...
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Fundamentalism Is a Disease, a Demonic Perversion
2018-04-08-archives.png If I am a fundamentalist I take my convictions to be non-negotiable. I reject challenges to my belief before I have considered them. I deny my fallibility and my need to grow....
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