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Views: Church Politics

Written By: Michael Nixon

July 28, 2016

Racism in America: Are We Ready to Talk?
On July 8th, an Adventist publication asked me to write an opinion piece exploring how we as Adventists should respond in the wake of the police-...
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Written By: Bryant Rodriguez

July 21, 2016

Why It Isn't Enough to Quote...
Like many people in the United States, I woke up shocked to discover #Brexit had gone from clever hashtag to reality one month ago. On the morning of...
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Written By: Loren Seibold

July 21, 2016

The Missing Prophetic Gift
From the time I first heard the then-newly-popular explanation of spiritual gifts back in the 80’s, I’ve had my reservations about it. It just seemed...
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Written By: Ben McArthur

July 20, 2016

Prophetess of Health: A Fortieth-...
What do you consider the most significant book ever written regarding Adventism? Possibilities are many. Perhaps the 1950s Questions on Doctrine (to...
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Written By: Jared Wright

July 07, 2016

White Adventist America End Your Silence
It is time for white Adventists in America to speak out. Continued silence in the face of avalanching injustice is complicity. It is violence. It is...
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Written By: Wendy Trim

July 01, 2016

Community Outreach
Over the last week I’ve been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to travel in the footsteps of Paul through Turkey and Greece – beginning in...
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Written By: Juan O. Perla

June 29, 2016

Viewpoint: LGBT Adventists Can Find...
This is a shortened version of an article written for the current issue of Spectrum (Spring 2016).
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Written By: James Coffin

June 24, 2016

Will Faith Leaders Push LGBT Solidarity...
My favorite Hemingway vignette:
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Written By: Jason Hines

June 23, 2016

Why Have a Church?
Some of the weird, angering, funny things that have happened to me religiously have led me to ask the question, “Why do people even have a church?”...
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Written By: Charles Scriven

June 10, 2016

Could We Try Servant Leadership?
Perhaps not. But Jesus distinguished between between those who “lord it over” others and those who truly serve (Matthew 20 and parallels), and today...
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