Three Angles News - New Details on Church's Cyber Theft Case
1. New details reveal the method by which the SDA church became the victim of cyber theft, resulting in the loss of $500,000. During four weeks last year, a church employee's Gmail was hacked, falsely...
View ArticleBringing the Real World to Genesis - 'Sciences of Satanic Origin': Adventist...
Up to this point in the series, "Bringing the Real World to Genesis,” we have been reviewing some of the scientific data that leads to conclusions about which there is largely a scientific consensus,...
View ArticleChurch Adopts Guidelines for Responding to Alternative Sexual Practices
The discussion which resulted in the passage this afternoon of GC Document 125-14G, "Guidelines for the Seventh-day Adventist In Responding to Homosexual and Other Alternative Sexual Practices,"...
View ArticleAdventists In The Military: The Death of a Peace Church?
This presentation concludes the Advent Movement series at the Azure Hills Church in Grand Terrace, CA. Ron Osborn considers Adventists’ changing attitudes on military involvement.The Azure Hills Church...
View ArticleGeneral Conference Decides Not to Release "The Record Keeper"
Spectrum was sent the following news release this afternoon, a few minutes before the official release time of 2pm EST.Seventh-day Adventist world church leadership today announced their decision to...
View ArticleSabbath at the Spectrum Café: Potluck Wisdom
I’ve always enjoyed potlucks. Whatever the occasion, it’s fun to try new dishes, and taste the answers to questions like, what is in that unusual casserole? What is the filling in that pie covered with...
View ArticleArt and Biblical Interpretation: The Concocted Furor Over Noah
I’m a little amused, but mostly annoyed, at the hyperventilating retorts to Darren Aronofsky’s adaptation of the biblical story of Noah. Most of the assaults on the movie are being reported as coming...
View ArticleThe Record Keeper's Makers Express Disappointment at Its Cancellation
Many people have expressed disappointment that The Record Keeper has been cancelled, including its creators.On Friday, the General Conference announced that it had decided not to release the web series...
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Tensions between Secularization and Sectarianism in Adventist Higher Education
My son Bruce, a journalist for the newspaper Good Times in Santa Cruz, was assigned to write a story about the possible effects of climate change on the Bristle Cone Pines in the White Mountains of...
View ArticleLove Actually: Andrews' Student Movement Editorial
An editorial published last Wednesday by Melodie Roschman, editor of Andrews University's student newspaper, has been shared and re-shared in the days since. In it, Roschman traces how her...
View ArticleViewpoint: Should Our Practices Go Beyond What the Bible Permits?
In my recent essay discussing homosexuality, I indicated that two crucial questions had to be answered before we can come to any conclusions. The first question had to do with what the Bible says about...
View ArticleCaring for Words Book Club: Love the Long Sentence
The Spectrum blog book club is discussing Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies (Eerdmans 2009), by Marilyn McEntyre, professor of medical humanities at UC Davis and the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical...
View ArticleUpdate: Spectrum Global Community Campaign
For several months, a banner at the top of our web page has invited readers to join our Global Community Campaign. Many of you have, and on behalf of the Spectrum Board of Directors, I want to say...
View ArticleThree Angles News - Mission Pilot Dies in Plane Crash
1. Long-serving mission pilot Bob Roberts died when his plane crashed shortly after takeoff in Papua Province, Indonesia, on April 9. One passenger, Danis Kobak, also died, but five other passengers...
View ArticleThe Self-Murdering Church
Suzanne Ocsai spent about a year researching and writing a book on the first ten years of GYC, the youth-led Adventist movement and yearly conference, generally seen as particularly conservative. When...
View Article20 Years Ago: Remembering Rwanda's Sabbath Massacre
On April 12, 1994, thousands of Tutsi refugees sought safety in the Adventist church in Mugonero, in the Rwandan countryside. And on April 16 - this day 20 years ago - they were killed. It seemed...
View ArticleWhy I No Longer Believe in Last Generation Theology
Growing up in the Adventist church, I was exposed to a brand of Adventism promoting what has been identified as Last Generation Theology (LGT). We were taught that those in the church who disagreed...
View ArticleTheology of The Record Keeper Disputed
Today, the General Conference's Biblical Research Institute released a list it called "Theological Problems with The Record Keeper." The BRI enumerated what it believes to be inaccuracies under three...
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Death of a Branch Davidian Friend and Other Memories
Twenty-one years ago, on April 19, 1993, 76 religious extremists from a Seventh-day Adventist offshoot group known as the Branch Davidians died in the conflagration that ensued when U.S. Government law...
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