How to Live to 100
Popular social media site BuzzFeed has posted a two-minute video featuring brief interviews with active Loma Linda, California senior citizens. "Age ain't nothing but a number." Almost 250,000 people...
View ArticleViewpoint: The “Biblical Qualifications View” in the TOSC’s Final Report
Last week the Theology of Ordination Study Committee put together its final report to be presented to the General Conference Executive Committee, then Annual Council. The committee’s report included...
View ArticleBringing the Real World to Genesis: Some Concluding Thoughts that Motivated...
Over the past many months through this series we have examined the scientific method and considered significant pieces of data that would seem to either shed light on our interpretations of Genesis, or...
View ArticleOn the Seventh Day
In November 2009, the Spectrum blog published a multi-part poem by Andrews University emeritus professor A. Josef Greig, called Day Break on the Jabbok. Today, we are publishing an addendum to that...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the GC Officers Concerning Ordination
The last 20 years of discussion and debate concerning ordination have been a time of deep spiritual reflection and maturing conviction for me. This period started when I was in full-time Adventist...
View ArticlePublishing Houses Restructuring Plan Fleshed Out
More details about the restructuring plan of the North American Adventist publishing houses have been set out in a Memorandum of Understanding between the General Conference and the North American...
View ArticleViewpoint: Headship of Adam or Headship of One (Adam + Eve)?
The "headship principle" has been much discussed as the Adventist Church considers the ordination of women. In a 76-page paper for TOSC titled Evaluation of the Arguments Used by Those Opposing the...
View ArticleConstituents Vote for Restructuring of Publishing Houses
The Review and Herald and the Pacific Press publishing houses have approved the biggest restructuring in Adventist publishing’s 153-year history, embracing a plan that Adventist leaders hope will...
View ArticleThree Angles News - Adventist Health System Says It Paid Some Doctors Illegally
1. Adventist Health System, which owns Florida Hospital, acknowledged in financial documents that its pay arrangements with some doctors broke federal law. The Stark Law prohibits doctors and hospitals...
View ArticleAltruistic Giving is Smart Giving
First, the good news: As you can see in the ad on this page, we have surpassed our goal in the Global Community Campaign. Thank you so much for your support. I thought about your gifts to Spectrum when...
View ArticleJune TOSC Papers Posted
The papers from the latest Theology of Ordination Study Committee meeting, held the first week of June, have now been published on the Adventist Archives website. The papers on the site include...
View ArticleGo to Campmeeting Online
It's campmeeting season, but these days, you don't have to pitch your tent. You don't even have to get in your car. Now maybe watchng a service isn't the same as being a part of it, but you can attend...
View ArticleMaking History: A Review of Ellen Harmon White: American Prophet
A major new book on Ellen G. White was reviewed by Harvard religious history professor David Holland and Denis Fortin in the latest issue of the Spectrum journal, Volume 42, Issue 2, Spring 2014. We...
View ArticleOctober Annual Council Next Step for TOSC Findings
After three years of intensive meetings, the Theology of Ordination Study Committee (TOSC) Chair Artur Stele presented the committee’s report to the General Conference Administrative Committee (ADCOM)...
View ArticleCritical Blog Posts, Pushing Women's Ordination Gets Mormons Excommunicated
The Mormon church has excommunicated the founder of a prominent women's group called Ordain Women, finding her guilty of apostasy (defined as "repeated and public advocacy of positions that oppose...
View ArticleThree Angles News - Adventist and Catholic Health Systems to Partner
1. The Catholic Alexian Brothers Health System and Adventist Midwest Health have signed a letter of intent to form a partnership. Both healthcare company CEOs said that “under their nonbinding...
View ArticleSamuel Koranteng-Pipim Re-baptized
Samuel Koranteng-Pipim was re-baptized last Friday, June 20, at the Columbus Ghanaian Seventh-day Adventist Church in Columbus, Ohio, three years after his ministry for the church was terminated.Pipim,...
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