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Final Reflections from Friedensau: What Have We Learned?

By Thursday lunchtime last week, the 19 men at Friedensau Adventist University had told their stories of the various responses of the Seventh-day Church to the First World War and looked at the effects...

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Caring for Words: Cherish Silence

This is the last installment of our "Caring for Words" book club. Thank you so much to all the writers, discussers, and readers who participated, and may God help us all to be excellent stewards of the...

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Three Angles News - New CEO at Loma Linda

1. An interim CEO has been named for Loma Linda University Medical Center. Kerry Heinrich will oversee the six hospitals that make up the Medical Center while a permanent replacement for Ruthita Fike,...

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Adventism and Fundamentalism Cannot Thrive Together

The founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church wanted the freedom to study the Scriptures for themselves, and to follow the Bible wherever it would lead them.  “Why should we end the reformation with...

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Innovate, Innovate, Innovate: The Review & Herald and the Dilemma of...

Adventist publishing: When the church praises it, it’s a ministry. When the church critiques it, it’s a business.Of course, it’s both. And it needs wholesale reinvention.Here’s the short version: After...

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Ignition! Donor Lights a Big Match

It just became easier for you to help us close the remaining $32,000 gap for us to raise $250,000 for this year’s annual fundraising campaign.Wishing to inspire more financial support for Spectrum, a...

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Sabbath Sermon: Sigve Tonstad, "'Or the Resident Alien in Your Towns':...

2013 Andrews University Music & Worship Conference :: Session Two from NAD Adventist on Vimeo.

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My Church Doesn't Care About Me

There is something frightfully wrong with the Seventh-day Adventist church today — a problem that has pervaded most religious organizations around the world. If not dealt with, it can take away all of...

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Silences in Our Texts: A Response to the Sexual Practices Guideline

Seventh-day Adventists are a textual people.  We grew out of a commitment to ascertain carefully and deeply the text of Scripture and certain authoritative texts.So I take seriously the text of the...

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Report from Union College: Local Literary Wonders

Seven desks drawn into a circle, tea brewing in the background and books pulled out of every backpack. It is my turn to construct the quiz for the week so I hand it out and lean back, leaf through...

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Three Angles News - Adventists Support World No Tobacco Day

1. “Raising Tobacco Taxes” is the motto for this year's World No Tobacco Day, sponsored by the World Health Organization.  The Seventh-day Adventist Church along with other groups will recognize May...

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Bringing the Real World to Genesis: Negotiating the Creation-Evolution Wars

Many readers are likely somewhat familiar with Fritz Guy’s thinking regarding Genesis One, with some of this having been developed in recent years through books and articles available to Spectrum...

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Sabbath Sermon: Sigve Tonstad, "Rites or Rights: Sabbath and Justice in the...

2013 Andrews University Music & Worship Conference :: Session Three from NAD Adventist on Vimeo.Second of a two-part presentation. For the first one, click here.

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Methodist Church May Split Over Sexuality Issues

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is not the only church struggling with issues of sexuality and church doctrine. An article from Religion News Service reports that a group of 80 pastors from the United...

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Jan Paulsen Speaks About Ordination as TOSC Meets for Final Session

This week, the Theology of Ordination Study Committee convenes for its fourth and final meeting to discuss the ordination of women. The study committee will finalize a report to the General Conference,...

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Did Loma Linda University Help Finance "Prophetess of Health?"

During a public discussion on Sabbath, May 30, some may have understood Ronald Numbers to have said that the Loma Linda University Division of Religion helped finance Prophetess of Health:  A Study of...

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Seventh-Gay Adventists on iTunes

For anyone who hasn't yet watched the film Seventh-Gay Adventists, now is your chance. Today the Seventh-Gay Adventists film has made it to iTunes (English-speaking territories) and is available on...

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Large Conversations

Adventism and I have had a rough year. The church where my wife and I have our membership went through that well-worn and painful experience of losing a pastor, experiencing conflict with the...

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Majority of TOSC Backs Women's Ordination

With a new third option being put forward to members of the Theology of Ordination Study Committee at its last meeting this week, the concluding vote taken was a complicated one. In the final vote...

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Sabbath Sermon: Mark Carr, "Should We Not Love Certain People?"

Kettering SDA Church 05-24-14 from Kettering SDA Church on Vimeo.Sermon begins at the 46 minute mark of the video.

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