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End-Time Events and the Last Generation: An Interview with Dr. George Knight
2018-06-08-bookinterview.png Dr. George Knight, well-known historian, theologian, educator, speaker, and writer has recently released "End-Time Events and the Last Generation: The Explosive 1950s."...
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Preparing or Preparedness?
roadsigns-lachlan-donald-90605-unsplash.jpg Focusing on predictions that indicate the proximity of an event with the intent of preparing for it does not produce the expected result. . . . What if the...
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Soccer, Eschatology, and the Kingdom – A Theological Reading of 2018 FIFA...
14_Presentation10.png Adventist Eschatology has become very predictable. And a clear expression of this is incarnated in the 4th International Bible Conference on Eschatology, organized by BRI...
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Suffer the Children
hermes-rivera-285867-unsplash.jpg There are a few moral precepts that one should be able to affirm without agonizing over. Standing against slavery, the rape and abuse of women, and the abuse of...
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A Tragic Flaw in “An Invitation to Uplift Jesus”
person-joshua-earle-63441-unsplash.jpg This GC statement gives us a Jesus who conforms to our doctrines; it does not give us teachings that conform to Jesus...Yes the One Project teaches Jesus, and yes...
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The Surprise Invitation to Sing For Royalty
2018-06-25-paullee-royalwedding-interview.PNG For Paul Lee, assistant to the president for the South England Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the invitation to sing at a royal wedding was a...
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What Can I Do?
2018-06-25-voices.png There is a time to be quietly in prayer and a time to follow God’s promptings to action. Silence must never give consent to evil. God’s people are called to reflect Jesus’ light...
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The Blessings of Fog and Uncertainty: The Joy of Exploring the Unknown
person-jakub-kriz-414659-unsplash.jpg The Bible is not a cookbook. It invites us to explore the mind of God, joining him on a journey of adventures and discoveries. We are pilgrims searching for gems...
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New Book Tells About Desmond Doss's Early Years
2018-06-27-bookinterview.png Hacksaw Ridge co-producer Steve Longi is publishing a book that tells the story of what happened to Desmond Doss before he got to that ridge. From history buffs who want to...
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Adventist Pioneers and the Problem of Policy Non-Compliance
church-sergio-souza-540298-unsplash.jpg A review of our Church’s historical views about the use of policy to achieve compliance is instructive. Perhaps the spirit of the pioneers might yet still be...
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Book Review: Protest and Progress
2018-06-28-bookreview.png Through a brief but thorough historical examination of Black Seventh-day Adventist protest movements of the twentieth century, Calvin B. Rock echoes the desire of Black...
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Southern Alum Creates Dream Magazine
2018-07-05-interviews.png Editor Emily Long dreamed of creating an Adventist youth culture magazine when she was a teen, 17 years ago. Now she is publishing 71.5, a platform for Adventist young people...
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Creating Better Faith-Based Children's Stories
daneen_akers.jpg Daneen Akers is behind a new illustrated book featuring profiles of 50 Holy Troublemakers & Unconventional Saints, from St. Francis of Assisi to Rabbi Regina Jonas. In this...
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A “Functional” Analysis of Adventist Ministry
people-rosie-fraser-592594-unsplash.jpg When looked at closely from a functional perspective of what ministers do and from the perspective of what the Church Manual already allows it would seem that...
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Summer Reading Group: Stand Out of Our Light
2018-07-13 Summer Reading Group.png The 2018 Spectrum Summer Reading Group will be discussing "Stand out of our Light" by James Williams. “The gate to salvation is narrow, and closing quickly” (xii)....
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The Use of Pillory and the Seventh-day Adventist Church
2018-07-23-voices.png As a Church, do we find it acceptable to be associated with reintroducing a form of punishment that has been abolished by democratic governments? Do we find that Jesus used such a...
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The King Is In Residence: An Interview with Dr. Charles E. Bradford
2018-07-26-bookinterview.png Dr. Charles E. Bradford, the first president of the North American Division, has drawn on his decades of leadership experience to write his latest book. He expresses...
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Summer Reading Group: Information Abundance & Attention Scarcity
2018-07-27 Summer Reading Group.png This is the second post of Spectrum’s 2018 Summer Reading Group. Each post will be drawn from chapters of the book "Stand out of our Light" by James Williams. This...
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What is the Mission of the Church?
cross-jacob-meyer-32136-unsplash.jpg In this brief essay I would like to contribute to the resolution of the Church's impasse through an exploration of that on which all the participants in these...
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When Might “Non-Compliance” Be a Good Thing?
church-farago-tudor-andrei-277076-unsplash.jpg“Non-compliance” may not always be a bad thing if we would be instructed by our own history. Wise leaders who are able to recognize this find ways to help...
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