justice
18 June 2008
Peace in an Age of Empire
There's a good piece by Pastor Ryan Bell over at the new Religious Liberty blog. It was started by Michael D. Peabody, esq, and already has some interesting content.
Ryan writes:
Renee Battle-Brooks is chief of the Child Abuse and Sexual Assault Unit at the Prince George's County (Maryland) State's Attorney's Office. She spoke candidly to Spectrum about the tough cases she deals with every day and how frustrating the job can be. But she sees that believing in people empowers them, and she keeps on fighting.
Question: How long have you been in your job and what led up to it? How did you pick this area of work?
( April 14th, 2008 )
The students of PUC continue to roll out informative conversations on contemporary issues. Here theology major Jillian Spencer talks with pastor Norma Osborn, one of the first ordained female pastors in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. (10 min.) They discuss Norma's early hesitation, being commissioned-ordained and a Christocentric argument for local, not global, social change.
11 February 2008
Video | Three Adventists Address Immigration, Change, Race
Betty Cooney, Communication Director for Southeastern California Conference, talks on this video about her desire for change. These three clips are part of a Trans-European Division push into employing new media to spark fresh conversations. I believe that these have been created by graduates of Southern Adventist University's Film program.
31 January 2008
Souplantation and Sabbath Justice
To eat out or not to eat out? On Sabbath. For many Adventists, it isn’t even a question.
We don’t go out to eat on Sabbath primarily because of an admonition by Ellen White that we ought to leave business plans and transactions aside on the Sabbath (see Patriarchs and Prophets, 307). Buying food on the Sabbath has traditionally been lumped together with business plans and transactions, and so by extension, Adventists typically avoid eating out on Sabbath.
24 January 2008
Mutiny of the Remnant
A couple of readers have sent over (h/t Bob) this Vanity Fair (Jan. 2008) article on rape and child molestation among the Adventists on Pitcairn Island. It raises issues of culture, ethics, gender and human sexuality. Warning: this will not be Mission Spotlight-esque.
16 January 2008
2nd. Update: Seventh-day Adventists Shut Out of NV Primary
January 16 Update:
Good to see Adventism's religious liberty defenders on the case.
James Stanish, Esq., director of the NAD's North America Religious Liberty Association (NARLA) responds in an email to the Spectrum Blog: "It is a very real strike at the heart of what Democracy should be all about."
14 December 2007
French Diary: A Book or the Street
When I decided to study for a semester in France, I was determined to avoid anything American in search of full cultural immersion. For this reason, I chose to live with a French family while I studied at the language institute on the campus of the University of Paul Valéry, a French public university. Yet I hadn't expected my experience to be so authentic that I would be directly affected by radical shifts taking place in contemporary French politics and society.
11 December 2007
A new justice in town for Sabbath
On Saturday:
8 December 2007
Spectrum Blog Liturgy: Justice for all
Happy Sabbath!
The second week of Advent. The service today centers on the prophetic idea of justice and what distracts humanity from community.
Opening Prayer
A Ceremony of Carols (op. 28) is a piece by Benjamin Britten
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