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German Pastor Explains Why He Turned In His Credentials
brass.png Pastor Stephan G. Brass, pastor in a three-church district in the Southern German Union, has asked for commissioned credentials, in solidarity with Adventist women pastors. He talked to...
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Perspective: The Church as God's Answer to the ISIS Crisis
Church_ISIS.jpg Just as light pushes away the darkness, so the truth about God and his Kingdom is the story that can counteract ISIS narrative. In the end, before the coming of Jesus there will be two...
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Adventist Hospitals Work to Influence National Healthcare Policy
Wonha Kim + GRW Advocacy.jpg Adventist healthcare providers around the country have joined forces to talk to Washington's lawmakers about transforming healthcare and a focus on prevention. Loma Linda's...
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Even at the Door?
Horsemen.png Adventists have been making assertions about being in the last days for a very long time. But are the reasons given persuasive – based on world conditions? President Ted Wilson, in his...
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Comfort Ye My People: Handel's Messiah Performed on Skid Row
Skid Row Messiah.png The recent Street Symphony performance of Handel’s Messiah took place at Skid Row’s Midnight Mission and featured musicians from the LA Phil and other local orchestras plus chorus...
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Reminiscing with the Curator of Christmas Stories
CSM-130928-Stairs2-2134793.jpg Christmas in My Heart Book 24 is out this year in time for Christmas. Joe Wheeler talked to Spectrum about how the series began and why he still isn't tired of Christmas....
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Perspective: We Need More Visionaries Like Joe, Bob and Charlie
Visionary_Leadership.png What will heal this chasm between visionaries and the structure and the idea police? I do not have all the answers but I would like to offer a few suggestions.This morning I...
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Sin's Creation: Powerful Non-Creation
Sin.s_Creation.png Sin is not a condition identifiable in DNA, except for its effects. Its evil traits are devastatingly etched into the human mind and passed down through the generations. While most...
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Perspective: Can History Be Hopeful?
History_Hopeful.png Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of the highly-acclaimed exploration of American race relations, "Between the World and Me," doesn’t find hope in history. In fact, said Coates in a December...
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Perspective: The Different "Seas" of Evangelism and Academia
Evangelism_Academia.png Backing up a preacher’s authority in a public meeting by declaring “the Bible says” cannot impress secular hearers. They don’t care what the Bible says. They are neither angry...
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Desmond Ford's New Book Recalls Conflict Over Sanctuary Doctrine, Dismissal...
Investigative_Judgement_Desmond_Ford.png The book is both a biographical retrospective and a cautionary tale about wresting theological agency from theologians and vesting it in administrators. Former...
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Twenty Years of Minutes: Proceedings of the General Conference of Seventh-day...
MinervaJaneChapman.png“RESOLVED, That the highest authority under God among Seventh-day Adventists is found in the will of the body of that people, as expressed in the decisions of the General...
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Martin King's Letter to White Clergy - A Message for All Ages
King.jpg Though addressing circumstances present in the American South of the 1960's, King's letter could just as easily have been written to the white church of today. It is Martin Luther King, Jr....
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Twenty Years of Minutes: Proceedings of the General Conference of Seventh-day...
Ordination_Resolved.jpg The 1881 action shows that women’s ministerial ordination was, in fact, discussed at a GC session and referred to the GC Committee; I have found no record of this action being...
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Twenty Years of Minutes: Proceedings of the General Conference of...
General_Conference_History.png The minutes reveal many changes in the GC during its first 20 years, as it responded to a changing world and changing church. Can the 20 years after San Antonio bring as...
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Viewpoint: Could Ted Cruz Have Gotten This Far Without His Wife Heidi?
Heidi Nelson Cruz.png Heidi Cruz, the daughter of Seventh-day Adventist missionaries and Harvard Business School graduate, is a managing director at Goldman Sachs, on leave during her husband’s...
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Paul and His Opinions
Paul_Opinions.jpg Paul’s daring proposal for reform in the Corinthian church would shock many if given today. However, it might also provide an important framework for addressing the church’s current...
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Intervening from New York to Save Lives
DSC_0058.JPG Former pastor and Adventist Church member Paul Mikov describes his roles as UN liaison for NGOs World Vision, and now CMMB, working to improve the lives of vulnerable people around the...
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The Missiological Influence of Gottfried Oosterwal
Oosterwal.png Oosterwal’s missiological influence in the light of subsequent developments in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. A memorial tribute based on personal experience, given at the Pioneer...
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The Road through the Void
ThroughTheVoid.png The current issue of the Spectrum Journal, which has recently begun dropping in mailboxes, offers several articles on Adventism and Atheism—the intersections of faith and doubt. What...
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