My Trip to Waco

“You’ve got to come and hear this guy,” everyone kept saying. That was the invitation I kept receiving one day in church 25 years ago. It was 1987...
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Separate, but United? The Conundrum of...

Where are all of the white students? I wondered, as I looked around the bus that was headed to Oakwood University. It was DEEP (Diversity Education...
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Unionism: A Proposal for Reorganizing...

Our church is facing a structural problem. We had it coming, though. A religious movement with such rapid growth, such as the Seventh-day Adventist...
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Moral Complexity

Adventism has wrestled with the concept of human perfection almost from its beginnings. The subject has always been controversial –is it possible or...
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What Makes Science Valuable? Part 3:...

This is Mailen Kootsey's third installment in the series Brining the Real World to Genesis. You can read the previous installment of WHAT MAKES...
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What Makes Science Valuable? Part 2:...

This is part 2 of Mailen Kootsey's first article in the series Bringing the Real World to Genesis. 
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El literalismo y el relato bíblico del...

Una frase que se lee a menudo en los escritos de los adventistas conservadores es que "la Biblia es su propio intérprete", a veces con una queja de...
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What Makes Science Valuable? Part 1:...

This is the first article in the series Bringing the Real World to Genesis. 
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Bringing the Real World to Genesis: An...

This is an introductory article that inaugurates a series under the umbrella title, “Bringing the Real World to Genesis.” Some will likely object to...
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Literalism and the Biblical Flood Story

A phrase one often reads from conservative Adventists is that “the Bible is its own interpreter”, sometimes with an accompanying complaint that so-...
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