Bonhoeffer, AR-15s, and Adventist Ethics—Part II
In Part I of this series, I proposed the Christian ethic of gun ownership that I want to outline. This ethic juxtaposes the historical Adventist ethic of conscientious objection with the ethics of...
View Article'Healing the Gospel'—A Review
A fresh wind is blowing through evangelical circles. This coming September the Adventist Forum will present their annual conference in Chattanooga, Tennessee, near Southern Adventist University. One of...
View ArticlePoint/Counterpoint Discussion Space Regarding Bonds, Liberty, and Adventist...
As part of a simultaneously published point/counterpoint series, and in an effort to facilitate fairness and understanding in conversation, all comments reading these two articles, Point: Bonds,...
View ArticleCounterpoint: Bonds, Liberty, and Adventist Education
La Sierra University is a place, as its website states, “Where Academic Investigation, Christian Faith and Service to Others Unite,” and where academic topics are investigated and Christian faith is a...
View ArticlePoint: Bonds, Liberty, and Adventist Education
In 2008, La Sierra University agreed to participate in a newly available tax-exempt municipal bond program. Like other bonds, it is funded by other organizations or individuals, and it is the...
View ArticleThree Angles News—Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
1. Ted Wilson thanks the president of Indonesia for his support of religious liberty. 2. Inter-American Division inaugurates 25 new churches in the Dominican Republic.3. The Adventist Hospital Cebu is...
View ArticleVote Postponed on La Sierra Bylaw Changes
While the members of the La Sierra University Constituency gathered today at Westlake Village, California, the home of the Pacific Union Conference office, no vote was taken on the proposed changes to...
View ArticleCarnival and Chaos: Reflections on Adventists Doing the Harlem Shake
Spectrum recently posted a series of videos by Adventist college students participating in the viral video craze known as the “Harlem Shake,” encouraging readers to vote on which school “does it the...
View ArticleSabbath Sermon: Diversity—Friend or Foe? by Larry Geraty
—Lawrence T. Geraty, Ph.D., served as the second president of La Sierra University and is a past president of American Schools of Oriental Research. He completed his undergraduate education at Pacific...
View ArticleInternational Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition—Report One
The International Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition is being held February 24-26, at Loma Linda University. A special pre-conference session happened Saturday evening that featured Roy Branson,...
View ArticleInternational Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition—Report Two
Today we started the scientific sessions of the sixth International Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition with an interesting keynote speaker, David Jacobs, Ph.D., the Mayo Professor of Public Health at the...
View ArticleSociopolitical Issues Facing the Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church has come to express its assessments of different social issues, including political questions, through official statements, as often from the General Conference as from...
View ArticleNAD Leader: We Need More Female Pastors
In an article titled, "WANTED! More Female Pastors — Essential for the Harvest," the Secretary of the North American Division, G. Alexander Bryant, writes the following:The North American Division...
View ArticleInternational Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition—Report Three
This morning, the plenary speaker was Claus Leitzmann from Germany—his title was “Vegetarian Diets: Past Present and Future.” He did a nice timeline on vegetarians in history. The first documented...
View ArticleInternational Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition—Final Report
This last morning of the congress was devoted to the issue of the environment and how diet choices can impact greenhouse gases, fossil fuel use, water use and efficiency of energy use. The Chair of...
View ArticleAnother Perspective on "Religious Freedom in America"
On January 17, the Adventist Review published an article by Nicholas Miller titled, "Religious Freedom in America." Although touted as focusing on religious liberty, much of the article is written with...
View ArticleShielding Southern
I am gay. That statement echoed in waves of unrelenting despair inside my head as I finally allowed my thoughts to string the words together. For over two years I had completely ignored my attractions,...
View ArticleThree Angles News—Friday, March 1, 2013
1. 'Western Wedding University': Where Students Go to Marry.2. How I Became An Adventist Ally3. ‘Gospel music in own dialect wins back lost souls’ in Solomon Islands.
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