Volume 41, Issue 2, Spring 2013

Editorials
2 At the Intersection of What If and What Is | BY BONNIE DWYER
3 Why Spectrum Matters: And how you respond matters, too | BY CHARLES SCRIVEN
Feedback
5 Sabbath with Spectrum | JULI MILLER Noteworthy
6 Notes in Play When Considering Calculare Caelo | BY JOHN MCDOWELL Bible: Why Tell Stories?
9 Why Tell Stories? | BY RAEWYN HANKINS WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY GERRY CHUDLEIGH
Adventist Identity
16 Toward Oneness and Freedom: The Road from ‘Babylon’ to General Conference Organization | BY DOUGLAS MORGAN
27 Questioning Beliefs: African Church Members Surveyed | AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. ELIZABETH ROLE BY ALITA BYRD
32 Adventist Identity in a Postmodern World | BY REINDER BRUINSMA 45 Because It’s All About Us | BY LOREN SEIBOLD
Women’s Ordination Conversation
52 The State of the Ordination Conversation | BY BONNIE DWYER
54 Perspectives on Ordination: Divergent Views in the Spirit of Unity | BY GARY BURNS AND C. RAYMOND HOLMES
59 Biblical Reconciliation Teachings Applied to the Women’s Ordination Conflict | BY BRUCE BOYD
Religious Liberty and Same-Sex Marriage
69 Disestablishing the Family: The Adventist Case for Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage | BY JUAN O. PERLA
72 The Supreme Court, Same-Sex Marriage, and Religious Liberty | BY ALEXANDER CARPENTER, JASON HINES, MICHAEL PEABODY, AND JUAN O. PERLA
Poem
back cover Running in God’s House | BY LAINEY S. CRONK