A few years ago, my dad announced that he had discovered a family relative that none of us knew, living in Pennsylvania. He made contact on Facebook...
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In 2011 I wrote an article entitled “The Closing of the Adventist Mind” (title borrowed from Professor Allan Bloom’s book and adapted) that Spectrum...
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24-year-old hip-hop musician Akande Jarumi did not have a typical, North American Adventist upbringing. Because he grew up in a military family, his...
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This is the first post in a ten-part series for Spectrum’s 2015 Summer Reading Group. Each post will be drawn from chapters of the book Unclean by...
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I was disappointed, as many Spectrum readers probably were, at the results of the 2015 General Conference vote on women's ordination and the...
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Have you ever been there,
at the crossroads of life?
Looking both ways
but not knowing which is right.
Staring into the distance, trying to see...
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Torrential rainfall, stifling heat, spectacular lightning, and a lone rose blooming in the backyard all served to remind me this week of the beauty...
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GOD BLESS MOMS
This day is for the special people who help to raise us all
Who clean our peanut butter off the floor and spaghetti off the wall
The...
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