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Views: Church Politics

Written By: Charles Scriven

October 21, 2021

Time to Start Over: The Quest for...
Many challenges confront Christianity. The most dangerous, perhaps, is fundamentalism.
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Written By: Matthew J. Korpman

October 08, 2021

When Religious Liberty Becomes...
"The need to ensure public health matters more than the protest of some individual defending their autonomy. We live in community, not simply as...
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Written By: Helen Pearson

September 25, 2021

Clerical Error: Clericalism, Leadership...
When Bonnie Dwyer invited me to reflect on Reinder Bruinsma’s Spectrum account of the conflict between the TED (Trans-European Division) and the...
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Written By: Charles Scriven

June 26, 2021

Time to Start Over: Is There Dawn After...
Over several months, I have been offering occasional essays under the title, “Time to Start Over.” Here is my last, and I want first of all to say...
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Written By: Matthew J. Lucio

June 06, 2021

Does Adventism Have Anything...
Our obliviousness to the ultimate questions being asked by our present culture is why I question whether Adventism has anything interesting to say.
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Written By: Admiral Ncube

May 10, 2021

Toward a Post-COVID Church — Part 2
The future of Adventism lies in a local church that is unshackled from institutional chains characterized by rigidity at the expense of practicality...
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Written By: Bryan Ness

May 04, 2021

Paul on Same-Sex Sexual Relationships...
What is the context of Paul’s words in Romans 1? What issue is Paul addressing and what was Paul’s understanding of committed, monogamous same-sex...
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Written By: Admiral Ncube

May 03, 2021

Toward a Post-COVID Church — Part 1
There is a deconstruction taking place among many in Adventism, a questioning of one’s religious experience in search of meaning, authenticity, and...
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Written By: Bonnie Dwyer

April 09, 2021

Editorial: Adventist Political Season...
With the recent announcement of his plan to retire, General Conference Secretary G. T. Ng re-opened the political season in the world church.
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Written By: Charles Scriven

April 07, 2021

Time to Start Over: How to Reconstruct...
If (pastorally sensitive) deconstruction of Adventist fundamentalism has value, so too, perhaps, does reconstruction of Adventist life and conviction...
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