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Written By: Jason Hines

September 24, 2020

Congratulations
Congratulations to the Conservative evangelical movement. You did it. The nation is about to become more of the Christian nation you want it to be....
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Written By: Matthew Quartey

September 17, 2020

Universal Sunday Laws and Adventist...
Sunday Laws, if implemented as we conceptualize them, cast Seventh-day Adventists in the good-guy role. But what we wish for should not blind us to...
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Written By: Hanz Gutierrez

September 10, 2020

Chaos, Nature and God in the Time of...
Lucretius’ poem “De rerum natura” remains helpful today because it reminds us that religions of any kind are not above critical assessment. They...
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Written By: Courtney Ray

September 03, 2020

Do I Matter to You?
Black lives matter too. It’s not sufficient to merely declare that “all lives matter” because the “all” in “liberty and justice for all” excluded...
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Written By: Jason Hines

August 27, 2020

A Baffling Inconsistency
Some pastors and leaders know there are people in their churches who falsely believe that police brutality against Black people in this country is...
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Written By: Matthew Quartey

August 20, 2020

When We Ignore Suicide We Share the...
Adventist messaging regarding suicide bears reexamination. We continue to promote heaven, a place “accessible” only after death, but reproach those...
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Written By: Hanz Gutierrez

August 13, 2020

Institutions, Contingency and Decay In...
There is no true life without the possibility of some “black swan” (negative) or serendipitous (positive) components. Without them life becomes an...
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Written By: Courtney Ray

August 06, 2020

What if Jesus was Black?
Our society is conditioned to view Whiteness as the default and everything else as “other.” This tendency even invades Christianity itself.
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Written By: Rich Hannon

July 30, 2020

Learning From Dead People
For most of my adult life I’ve been a readaholic. And it has changed me in ways I cannot fully calculate. But I think much of my reading habit has...
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Written By: Jason Hines

July 23, 2020

One Ask Behind
Racism and White supremacy are the original sins of our nation. And much like original sin, they continue to infect and affect us, even though many...
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