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Views: Church Politics

Written By: Eirikur Ingvarsson

December 18, 2020

Is Innovation Needed? If So, Then Where?
Without new approaches, the church leaders of the future will have neither the ability nor the opportunity to make critical decisions to impact a...
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Written By: Charles Scriven

December 17, 2020

Time to Start Over: The 28 — If Our...
Properly, the energy a religious community puts into thinking about its beliefs is energy toward self-correction. The best religious thinkers see...
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Written By: Thandazani Mhlanga

December 07, 2020

Do You Love People?
Imagine what impact it would have if one of our fundamental statements declared that “As Seventh-day Adventist Christians, we love God and we also...
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Written By: Matthew J. Lucio

November 09, 2020

Baptizing the Beast
When I see that 16 million people left the Adventist Church in the last 50 years, I know it’s not because they suddenly became convicted that Sunday...
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Written By: Admiral Ncube

November 02, 2020

Another Cry for Women and Girls
Religion has become one of the major obstacles to dismantling gender inequality and improving ways in which women are treated.
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Written By: Charles Scriven

October 30, 2020

Time to Start Over: Christ without...
We cannot know Christ unless, like him, we do what we can to be co-sufferers with the suffering. And if the church fails to know Christ, it cannot...
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Written By: Admiral Ncube

October 19, 2020

WANTED: A Relevant and Responsive Church
As long as members cannot be vulnerable or freely ask questions that appear basic but are consequential, they may disembark faster than they came in...
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Written By: Thandazani Mhlanga

October 05, 2020

The Stories We Choose to Tell
Just like the carefully curated stories that our politicians use to sway the multitudes, could it be that there are some Seventh-day Adventist...
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Written By: Admiral Ncube

September 21, 2020

Equality and the Madness of Headship
The definition of headship is provided by men who both have and wield headship. By being self-defining, headship implies that there is no limit to...
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Written By: Christopher C. Thompson

September 18, 2020

Almost Compassionate: A Response to the...
We care about oppression, injustice, suffering and pain, but not enough to take the bull by the horns when it involves issues that are uncomfortable...
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