Toward a Factual Concept of Inspiration

It is past time to move beyond weak defenses of Ellen White’s inspiration toward a factual concept. If church leaders insist on an irrational concept...
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Official Adventist Allegorists

While many proponents of the General Conference’s so-called Adventist hermeneutic publish pages of historical references and grammatical observations...
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Do We “Really” Support Religious...

Using state funding for religious schools and same-sex marriage as examples, these remarks by the president of the International Religious Liberty...
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A Letter to Walla Walla University...

In this letter to school leadership, an alum finds their knee-jerk reaction to anonymous, non-scholarly, and unprofessional criticism troubling. 
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Global University Science Ranking...

Unlike ranked religious schools, the Adventist absence may be due to clergy-dominated boards who misunderstand the application of the scientific...
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For Brazilian Administrators, Church...

This first installment of a new monthly series from Brazil focuses on the ideological and political advocacy of prominent church influencers.
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The Necessity of Submissional Equality

This week's commentary outlines why the principle of divinely inspired submissional equality must start immediately and extend all the way to the top...
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Discouragement and Optimism for Our...

In the face of polarization and divisiveness, I hope the church will find creative ways to deal with its diversity, utilizing dialogue, love, and...
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Dead to the Holy Spirit

The big problem at the church’s hierarchical top is not biblical literalism, not hostility to scholarship, not laziness of mind, but fearful contempt...
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Finley’s “Speaking Up” about LGBTQ...

The General Conference has a history of supporting forms of conversion therapy that goes back decades, in spite of documented harm. 
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