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Perspective: Clarifying "Understanding Ice Core Science"
Ice Core Science.png Our clarification brings critical facts about ice cores into focus. In Greenland and Antarctica great ice sheets are present and cores have been removed in sections, which...
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Summer Reading Group: Contempt and Heresy
Heretic.png We really want to believe ourselves to be good people at the core. We want to believe that the values enshrined in our constitution, espoused in our religious tradition, and proclaimed on...
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Reflections on San Antonio by a Woman Pastor Two Months Later
Alamodome.jpg I sat in my black pencil skirt, pink lace blouse, blue-black suit jacket, and let the tears run down my face unchecked. I could hear behind me the cheers and “amens” and “hallelujahs”...
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Priesthood of SOME Believers: An Adventist Woman Pastor Speaks Out
Priesthood.jpg How much abuse should I take, and for how long will the church batter me for being a woman called by God to serve him? Perhaps I should leave all together. This is what I think as...
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The True Story of a Girl Born in the 20th Century, but Raised in the 19th
Rachel_Williams_Smith.jpg Chair of Andrews' communication department, Rachel Williams-Smith, talks about growing up off the grid, and why she remains an Adventist today. Chair of Andrews University's...
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Summer Reading Group: Hospitality and Embrace
Exclusion.png There’s something in our brains that causes us, particularly when we’re in a space we call our own, to respond less to those who we don’t quickly consider as also having ownership. This...
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Viewpoint: Antichrist Fever - The Pope in the US
PopeFrancis.jpg For conservative Adventists, the implications of the auspicious visit are unequivocal: This is a clear fulfillment of the prophecy Revelation 13. The beast of the earth (America) is...
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Ice Core Editorial Authors Reply to Respondents
ice_science.png On September 11, Spectrum published "Perspective: Clarifying 'Understanding Ice Core Science,'" in which D. Stuart Letham and Col J. Gibson provided a robust critique of an article in...
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Viewpoint: A Time to Mourn - The Death of the General Conference
RIP_GC.jpg In 1966, the late, great folk-singer Phil Ochs joined Allen Ginsberg in famously declaring the Vietnam War over. His pronouncement occurred nearly three years before Nixon got around to...
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Tell the World Coming to a Screen Near You
KyleonSet.jpg Filmmaker Kyle Portbury talks about the new church-sponsored feature film he directed about the early Adventists, shot on location in a pioneer village in Ottawa, Canada.Filmmaker Kyle...
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Perspective: Overlapping Webs of Complex Relationships
Family_Reunion.png With the controversial actions taken at the recent General Conference session, this facet of family life becomes apparent, too. Some are so discouraged by the vote on women’s...
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Perspective: An Organ Performance Too Contentious for Adventist Review
Joy-Leilani-Garbutt.jpg Pope Francis’ recent visit to the United States, his first since becoming pope, provided an opportunity of a lifetime for one Seventh-day Adventist musician, but the story...
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Summer Reading Group: Body and Death
death.jpg I get frustrated as my middle-aged self (an embodied self) requires more time, adaptation, and attentiveness. I want to plan my schedule, my adventures, my future, as if there will be no end...
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Viewpoint: The Challenge of Ellen White's Ongoing Spiritual Authority
DelegatesNO.jpg Can we square Ellen White’s illustrious ministry with the General Conference action barring all other women from full participation in the church? Reflecting on the July 8 General...
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Southern Union President's Council Votes to Uphold Ordination Protest
SouthernUnion.jpg On September 27, 2015, the Southern Union’s President’s Council voted to approve the appeal of two local pastors, Pastor Furman Fordham II and Pastor Kymone Hinds, who are protesting...
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An Open Letter to Ben Carson from a Fellow Adventist: Stop the Islamophobia
Carson.jpg Your singling out of a marginalized faith community is ironic, perhaps hypocritical, on many levels. As a lifelong Seventh-day Adventist, I am well aware (and assume you are, too) of the...
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NAD Communicators to Strike Up a Conversation at Convention
Dan Weber at SAC 2014.jpg Dan Weber, director of communication for the North American Division, gives us the lowdown on the Society of Adventist Communicators' annual convention next weekend, following...
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Summer Reading Group: Sex and Privy
Bodies.png Fear, guilt, and shame all flow from an under-examined, unchallenged sense of corporeal inferiority. Not all of us aspire to be angels; some of us are satisfied with bearing the impress and...
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Discussion of Young Earth Creationism vs. Old Earth Young Life Creationism
Earth.jpg Spectrum published articles by D. Stuart Letham and Col J. Gibson on ice cores and the lessons they might hold. We wish to respond to the original authors and to their discussants with...
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Viewpoint: Adventist Seminary Has Trouble Getting Facts Straight in...
Cruz.png In an attempt to respond to the cultural conversation on the LGBT community, the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary on the campus of Andrews University published a 21-page document...
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