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The Adventist Podcast: Muhammad Ali Among the Adventists
Adventist_Podcast_Ali.jpg The life of Muhammad Ali among the Adventists in Berrien Springs with Alisa Williams and Tom Kimmel; Brenton Reading on Greg Boyd and non-violent atonement. Welcome to...
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Greg Boyd Talks God's Non-violence, Theology and Evangelical Christianity
GregBoyd.jpg Dr. Greg Boyd is the keynote speaker for the upcoming Adventist Forum Conference in Silver Spring, Maryland titled Non-violence and the Atonement. In this Q & A with Adventist Forum...
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"19 Years Smarter:" Retiring Southern President Reflects on What He's Learned
Gordon.jpg Gordon Bietz, retiring president of Southern Adventist University, looks back on disappointments and triumphs from his two decades on campus in this exclusive interview. He also looks ahead...
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The Adventist Podcast: Pulse Massacre Orlando
Massacre_Pulse.jpg Welcome to the seventh episode of The Adventist Podcast. This one focuses on the tragedy at the Pulse club in Orlando. Jim Coffin, executive director of the Interfaith Council of...
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Radical Rest: Marx and the Political Implications of the Sabbath
Radical_Rest.jpg If, as numerous theologians have argued, sin extends far beyond personal piety and is indicative of the powerful and unjust political systems that dominate creaturely life on Earth,...
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"I'm On Your Side," Trump Tells Fawning Evangelicals
Trump_Side.jpg“I’m so on your side, I’m a tremendous believer, and we’re gonna straighten it out,” Trump said. On Tuesday, in a typical, stream-of-consciousness, rant about his self-perceived...
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Will Faith Leaders Push LGBT Solidarity Now that Adrenaline Has Stopped?
Candles.jpg Faith leaders should show commitment to the LGBT community every day. My favorite Hemingway vignette:While the bombardment was knocking the trench to pieces at Fossalta, he lay very flat...
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The Adventist Podcast: Prohibition and Jazz
Adventist_Podcast_edited-1.jpg This episode of the Adventist Podcast explores the Adventist connections to the Prohibition movement and the contemporary jazz music of Eric Essix. This episode of the...
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22 Years Fusing Education and Faith: Andrews' Departing President Looks Back
34-final-convocation-20150827_0548_bt.jpg Niels-Erik Andreasen took the president's chair at Andrews University in 1994, and in the subsequent decades worked to elevate the "life of the mind" and show...
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The Reformation and the Remnant: The Reformers Speak to Today’s Church
Reformation_Remnant.jpg Miller would strike some readers as quite nearly fundamentalist himself, yet he is clearly hoping to pry the church away from sheer rigidity and thoughtlessness so that it can...
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The Virtue of Moderate Thought: A Review of Miller's "The Reformation and the...
Review.jpg Miller expressly urges resistance to gravitation toward the poles of liberalism and fundamentalism. This urging is articulated in every chapter of the book and constitutes the book’s overall...
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Perspective: How a California Law Would Pit LGBT Rights Against Religious...
California_Capitol.jpg The article is not intended to address the correctness of the religious belief, but rather to address it in the larger context of the right of religious institutions to freely...
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Adventist History Spotlight: Anna Knight and the “Free State of Jones”
Anna Knight nursing grad 1.jpg Historian Victoria Bynum contends that Anna Knight’s conversion to Adventism made her a more effective liberating influence in her Mississippi community than her father,...
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Viewpoint: LGBT Adventists Can Find Hope in the Adventist Civil Rights Movement
Civil_Rights.jpg Despite the church’s continued resistance to LGBT equality, a new wave of students is breathing life into the type of activism last seen at the height of the Adventist civil rights...
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North American Division Leaders Speak Out on Shooting Deaths of Alton...
Sterling_Castile.jpg This week has been an extremely difficult week as we wrestle with the senseless loss of life. It is past time for our society to engage in open, honest, civil, and constructive...
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Looking After Adventist Students in Europe
unnamed.jpg Oxford academic Tihomir Lazić talks about his work for Newbold College and the Trans-European Division finding ways to engage students across Europe in the life of the Adventist church....
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Summer Reading Group: Flourishing
Summer_Reading_Flourish.jpg This year’s Spectrum Summer Reading Group will focus on the nature of human flourishing. What does this look like? Is it possible? Can it be measured? Is there some...
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First Person: We Stand for Justice, Love and Salt
NAD_March.png There was one sentence that resonated with me during the “We Stand for All” rally last weekend. “The church is called to demonstrate love.” I was proud to identify myself as an Adventist...
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Opening the Christian Imagination: Yale Theologian Talks About Her Beliefs
IMG_20160119_102605.jpg La Sierra University graduate Linn Tonstad has gone on to teach eschatology, queer theology and more at Yale University. She spoke to Spectrum about her Adventist upbringing,...
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VIDEO: How Long Can We Say The Second Coming is 'Soon'?
Guy.jpg Professor Fritz Guy made a presentation and led a discussion on "The Second Coming: How Long Can We Keep Saying 'Soon?'" at the Roy Branson Sabbath School in Loma Linda, California, on July 16,...
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