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The Ordeal of the Adventist Scientist: An Interview with Alvin Kwiram
TheOrdeal.jpg The mindset behind the present effort fails, unfortunately, to adapt to changing reality in much the same way that dogmatic thinkers have exhibited mental rigor mortis repeatedly in the...
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Perspective: The Wise Men from the East
Pilmoor.JPG So what would do we say to the 'men from the east'? I would remind them that those with real mission mindedness are people who value hope more than fear. Indeed I would point out that power...
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World Authority on Laughter Talks Us Through the Research
Screen Shot 2015-08-09 at 10.28.31 PM.png Dr. Lee Berk, associate professor at Loma Linda University and pioneer in mirthful or happy laughter research, explains why happiness is not ethereal. Dr. Lee...
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The Closing of the Adventist Mind Revisited, and Confirmed
Closed.jpg The President and his men have used the official publications, the 3ABN TV network, personal websites etc. to promote and enforce a very conservative agenda that leaves very little room for...
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Summer Reading Group: Purity, Moral Reasoning, Shame and Guilt
Washing_Hands.jpg There is, of course, nothing inherently wrong with employing purity metaphors as one way to illustrate facets of salvation or sexuality. The issue is that the metaphor, which...
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Best Comments of the Week August 10-14, 2015
BestOfComments.png In order to highlight the best comments posted on the Spectrum Website, editors select comments that exemplify respectful discourse and that further the conversations that begin with...
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Why Hermeneutics is Our Biggest Problem
IMG_4314.JPG NSD Ministerial Secretary David Ripley explains why different methodologies for studying the Bible mean that church members arrive at vastly different conclusions regarding the ordination...
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A Message to the North Pacific Union as they Discuss Ordination Today
NorthPacificUnion.png Seventh-day Adventist organization is not a hierarchy, with authority flowing from “corporate" (the GC) to the “subsidiaries" (Unions). We are a system of overlapping...
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Best of Spectrum Comments - August 16, 2015
Best_of_Comments_logo.png n order to highlight the great feedback we often receive as comments to the articles on the Spectrum Website, the editorial team has introduced the Friday feature, The Best of...
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AUC Reopens This Week — Q&A with New President
image4 (13).JPG In an exclusive interview, new Atlantic Union College president Avis Hendrickson talks about the college's comeback and her goals for the future. Dr. Avis Hendrickson, the new president...
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Summer Reading Group: "Love and Boundaries"
Boundaries.png I believe much of Beck's trouble is in his wide application of disgust psychology to various issues of church practice and community. He conflates disgust with sacrifice, holiness,...
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Singer Jennifer Knapp Shares Her Story of Being Christian and Queer
Screen Shot 2015-08-26 at 9.49.48 PM.png Ahead of headlining at Spectrum's UltraViolet Arts Festival September 12 and 13, award-winning recording artist Jennifer Knapp shares a little bit about her...
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Viewpoint: The Real Threat to Adventism is Biblical Literalism
ISIS.png I venture that most of us view slavery, particularly sexual slavery, as unquestionably a moral evil. And yet, we find ancient Israel, the LORD’s chosen people, being given instructions on how...
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Summer Reading Group: Monsters and Scapegoats
Eyes.png The ugly, sneering villain commits an act of violence that disgusts us as we watch the beginning of a movie. Our reaction to him is deep seated and almost instantaneous. This person deserves...
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Why Sabbath Was Such A Fitting Topic for Oliver Sacks' Final Essay
Oliver Sacks_.jpg Reading Oliver Sacks’ final message to the world—an essay in the New York Times on Sabbath—felt similar in a lot of ways to the discovery of a previously unknown relative. A few years...
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Perspective: Equality, Totalitarianism, and God's Divine Order
Authorized.png Until the church is willing to engage in a critical encounter with its own, more or less hidden, philosophical-theological presuppositions, and prejudices, debates like these will be...
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Best of Comments for the Week of August 30
Best_of_Comments_logo.png In order to highlight the great feedback we receive as comments to the articles on the Spectrum Website, the editorial team has introduced the Friday feature, The Best of the...
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"Super Exhilarating:" Aaron Beaumont Reflects on the Life of a Musician
Beaumont.png Ahead of his gig at the Spectrum UltraViolet Arts Festival, composer and musician Aaron Beaumont talks about his social justice musical Behind Closed Doors, his musical webcast project...
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Painting for Understanding: Mindy Bielas Inspired by the Old Testament
FullSizeRender.jpg Attendees of the Spectrum UltraViolet Arts Festival this weekend will see Mindy Bielas' paintings of biblical women; in this interview, she talks about how she uses her art in her...
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The Closing of the Adventist Mind: Three Reasons and Two Solutions
chained.png Culture being something that is deeply attached to the human psyche, it follows that converting to a new faith does not necessarily remove all the trace of the culture into which one is...
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