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Rejecting LGBT Children of God Means Rejecting the Full Body of Christ - An...
Eliel_Cruz.jpg"I emphasize various parts of my identity—like my Christianity, bisexuality, and Puerto Rican heritage—because all of these things together make me, me." Eliel Cruz is a graduate of...
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Over 10,000 Entries Planned for New SDA Encyclopedia
ESDA EDCOM - Jan. 14, 2016.jpg Managing editor Benjamin Baker describes how the new Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists will be researched, written and reviewed before going live online at the next...
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Viewpoint: How Adventist Higher Ed is Like a Trip to the Ice Cream Shop
Gelati.jpg My dish was then handed to me without question. I was happy. My server was happy. But I met quite a few people who weren’t satisfied with the ice cream they chose, and would go back to find...
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Dangling or Not? A Response to Chadwick and Brand
Genome Science.jpg I would disagree that these messages require a belief that the Bible is a scientific textbook. In fact, these messages of hope and love might be significantly undermined by a...
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Viewpoint: Our Son Michael Harvey Must Be Restored
Harvey.jpg The national Seventh-day Adventist Church’s organizational and administrative heads have in the aftermath of Harvey’s interposition wisely insisted that he take some time out for deep...
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Perspective: Ice Ages Research Demolishes Young Earth Creationism
YoungEarthCreationism.jpg According to Scripture and God’s Book of Nature, amplified by modern science, the planet Earth was created eons ago, then 6-10 thousand years BP after a long ice age and when...
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A Review of Chris Meyers'"The Moral Defense of Homosexuality"
MoralDefenseOfHomosexuality.jpg Chris Meyers admits, right in the preface, that he is a “straight man with very little acquaintance with gay people.” This gives him a unique outsider perspective of gay...
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Truth-Telling in Passive-Aggressive Organizations
hand-on-a-bible-1417265.jpg Organizations inherently become self-protective in the name of maintaining authority. The respected Christian author Eugene Peterson writes, "Because leadership is...
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The One Project: You Can’t Stop the Dawn
ONE_Project_Music.JPG With 1,000 faces turned toward the ballroom screen, the video narrator said her last words: “He died…he rose…let that unite us.” With 1,000 faces turned toward the ballroom...
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One Project Day 2: Instead of a Paper People
One_Seattle.jpg If your church puts words on paper ahead of Jesus, it’s “just an empty building filled with paper people.” If your church puts words on paper ahead of Jesus, it’s “just an empty...
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Andrews University Professor Tiffany Summerscales Discusses Her Part in...
tiff_meijer.jpg Tiffany Summerscales is an associate professor in the Physics Department at Andrews University. She is a member of the LIGO collaboration which recently announced the first observation...
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The Cure for Adventist Fundamentalism: Reading the Bible in Context
Bible.jpg Remember when we prided ourselves as being "People of the Book?" implying that we were known to be good students of the Bible. When comparing ourselves to other Christian denominations...
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Q&A With Bruce Banner, Co-Creator of the #SDABlackout Event
SDA_Blackout.jpg In Spectrum's ongoing coverage of the racist social media outburst that began on the Southern Adventist University campus, we speak with a student leader who helped plan a Black...
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Adventist Students Create #LiveToListen Movement to Fight On-campus Racism...
Live_to_Listen.jpg In the wake of escalating racism on Southern's campus, Andrew Ashley helped start a movement to counter racist comments and attitudes. Below, Ashely discusses the movement and how he...
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Viewpoint: Why Trump Is Terrifically Bad for America
Trump.jpg We cannot afford to stand by and hope for the best as we watch Trump take over the leadership of the United States. Since I founded ReligiousLiberty.TV in 2008, we have avoided recommending...
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Perspective: New Government of Andrew Holness and JLP in Jamaica No Strangers...
Andrew_Holness_JLP.jpg Deep and profound is the well of contradictions within biggest-denomination-on-the-island Seventh-day Adventism. After three intense weeks of testy, sometimes low-ball political...
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Ice Age Research Demolishes Young Earth Creationism: Reader Feedback &...
YEC_IceAge.jpg We wish to address two important issues raised by respondents. On February 10, we published a perspectives piece by Col J. Gibson and D. Stuart Letham titled "Ice Ages Research...
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Viewpoint: Why Supreme Court Nominee Merrick Garland Deserves Serious...
obama-gardner.png Garland, currently the chief judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, was confirmed to that court in 1997 with bipartisan Congressional support and...
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Analysis: A Pastor’s Quandary at the Intersection of Faith and State in Jamaica
Quandary.jpg Sorely missing from this painful saga has been transparent conversation, accompanied by prayerful contemplation on what is the right, just and merciful thing to do while still holding...
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Ice Age Research Demolishes Young Earth Creationism: Authors' Second Response
Ice_Age_Research.jpg Our first reply to respondents provoked many more replies from readers with more questions, comments, and suggestions. Hence this second response which, we hope, might satisfy some...
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