This morning I read the stunning news: Joseph Ratzinger—that is, Pope Benedict XVI—will step down from his position as the Roman Pontiff. At first I didn’t believe it. This is basically unheard of. As the New York Times stated, Benedict is “the first pope to do so in six centuries.”

Introduction

This is the fourth post in a nine-part series for the SPECTRUM Summer Reading Group. The nine posts will be drawn from the chapters of To Change the World by James Hunter. You can find the reading schedule here.

A central part of the Adventist Bible curriculum for high school students is the authority of Scripture. However, one of the areas of weakness in the curriculum is that the course material gives little attention to what the Bible is in more matter-of-fact terms.

Whether or not we can at this point in history refer any longer to America as a “Christian nation” does not change the fact that the myth of America is laden with Judeo-Christian language.

This is the third installment of my seven-part series on my expression of Adventist Christianity: Progressive Orthodoxy. In this post, I will explain Thesis 2 of the 6 I proposed (see first post), and try to demonstrate the significance of the universality of the gospel.

This is the second installment of my seven-part series on my expression of Adventist Christianity: Progressive Orthodoxy. As explained in the first installment, this largely grew from a rejection of conservatism and liberalism. In this post, I will explain Thesis 1 of the 6 I proposed (see first post), and try to demonstrate how it helps us move past the battle between conservatism and liberalism.

This is the first of a seven-part series in which I will discuss the theological underpinnings of an expression of Christianity (and, in it, Adventism) that I call Progressive Orthodoxy.

Charles Scriven has offered his vision for what it means to be an Adventist, and I am feeling rather uncertain about it. In the opening chapter of his book, The Promise of Peace,1 Scriven acknowledges that the place from which he writes is not a neutral one, but that his writing reflects his life story.

This post continues our weekend Student Series: Homosexuality and the Adventist Campus.