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Apocalyptic—Who Needs It?
2018-04-10-archives.png At the end of his apocalyptic discourse (Matthew 25), Jesus spelled out just what this life is like. Surprisingly, it is not something heroic. It consists of being filled with...
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Lessons from the Life of S.N. Haskell
2018-04-11-bookreview.png This book is a strong warning not to be too quick in assuming that the church of the past—and certainly in the days of the pioneers—was far better than it is today. And a...
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A Dream Deferred: Biblical Futurism and Political Philosophy in Martin Luther...
2018-04-08-news.png As we commemorate and reflect on how 50 years have passed since the moment Dr. King fell victim to government sanctioned murder, I am pulled to remember the man he died as, not the...
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Descending from Glory to Reality: A Reflection on the Trajectory of Martin...
2018-04-08-news.png King chooses to maintain hope. But this is not a hope in naïveté, nor is it an emotional frenzied hope. This is the hope of dogged determination, the hope which fights resignation,...
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The Book of Daniel and the End Time: Towards a Close Reading Approach
2018-04-12-voices.png I suspect that I’m not the only Adventist who expected a slightly different take on “Daniel and the End Time” in this week’s Sabbath School lesson. The Sabbath School lessons for...
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Researcher Interviews Centenarians to Uncover Secrets for Living Longer
rhonda-spencer-hwang_37204526522_o.jpg Rhonda Spencer-Hwang has learned some surprising things from 100-year-olds about resilience factors that have helped them live longer and fuller lives, despite...
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A Committed and Concerned Church Executive Responds to the General...
GCchurchmap.jpg General Conference President Ted Wilson, along with a select few have, without authorization from any governing committee of the church, and absent of any authority aside from...
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Would Christ Be Christian Today?
cross-yoal-desurmont-607349-unsplash.jpg I cannot help but ponder when I read my instruction manual, the Bible, and observe the dichotomy between ideal Christianity and realized Christianity, if these...
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Did David Koresh Die for Our Sins?
2018-04-16-archives.png I suggest that all of us who are or were Adventists recognize the fact that a piece of us is inside that Waco compound. We have all been part of a religious family that has its...
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How to Be In Babylon but Not Of Babylon (Part 3)
bible-aaron-burden-330165-unsplash.jpg The secret to being in Babylon but not of it is about being spiritual. But the word “spiritual” must be understood not according to popular concepts of the word,...
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Kissing Cousins or Kindred Spirits?
2018-04-17-archives.png Make no mistake: when Seventh-day Adventists heard Koresh's impassioned and detailed interpretations of the Apocalypse, we heard our shared history. Many of us were frightened...
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The “Uplifting Jesus” Statement: A Theological Perspective
person-ben-white-292680-unsplash.jpg What an opportunity is lost in this document claiming to uplift Jesus! Why doesn’t it invite the reader to what lies at the heart of the Scriptures—a personal,...
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Our Brothers and Our Sisters
2018-04-19-archives-1.png If some of our people are being conditioned to simply follow "the truth" of Adventism without being given tools for searching out their own truth, is it really surprising that...
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In a Wild Moment, I Imagine…
2018-04-19-archives-2.png Consistent with the rest of the New Testament, readers of Revelation are commanded to leave the matters of revenge and retributive justice in the hands of God and the Lamb. In...
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The Wars Waco Revealed: Reflecting on Waco 25 Years Later
waco-videostill2.PNG Has it really been 25 years? Given all that has taken place since, how do we now reflect on the tragedy? What have we learned? Has anything changed? This past quarter I taught a...
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Ellen White and Social Justice Activism (Part 1)
EGW-April 15 1906-LL Sanitarium-edit.jpg Adventist youth should know that the same issues that are close to their hearts—social justice, equality, individual rights, inclusiveness—were close to Ellen...
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Ellen White and Social Justice Activism (Part 2)
EGW-GC1905-edited.jpg"We need not go to Nazareth, to Capernaum, or to Bethany in order to walk in the steps of Jesus. We shall find His footprints beside the sickbed, in the hovels of poverty, in the...
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One Researcher’s Comments on the Unity Oversight Committee Survey and Findings
unity oversight committee.jpg The General Conference said that the findings of its "Questionnaire on Compliance" represent the profile of global Seventh-day Adventist opinion on the issue of unity and...
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Study Compares Attitudes Toward Women's Ordination and Women in Leadership
2018-04-21-interview.png Loma Linda doctoral graduate Heather Knutson surveyed church members on how they feel about the ordination of women and found a correlation with how they feel about women in...
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Witnessing to Babylon (Part 4)
person-joshua-ness-107133-unsplash.jpg In part four of this series, we’ll explore the application of the Salt and the Light in our daily lives. In part four of this series, we’ll explore the...
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