Perspective: What Twitter Can Teach the...

On its surface, Twitter is a social networking service not all that dissimilar to its cousin Facebook. Users write and read messages called “tweets”...
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Perspective: #YesAllWomen (Adventists...

In May 2014, Elliot Rodger, son of director Peter Rodger, went on a shooting rampage against sorority girls.  In his YouTube video preceding the...
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Viewpoint: Science or Scripture? A...

I am not a scientist or a theologian, so for the last few years I have been doing a lot of careful listening.  What I have noted regarding the debate...
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An Open Letter to the LGBT Community...

Dear LGBT Friend,
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Christian Attitudes Toward Sex and...

As any visitor to the Spectrum blog will recognize, the treatment of homosexuals and women by Seventh-day Adventists and other Christians has ignited...
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Death of a Branch Davidian Friend and...

Twenty-one years ago, on April 19, 1993, 76 religious extremists from a Seventh-day Adventist offshoot group known as the Branch Davidians died in...
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My Brief, Abortive Pastoral Career

When I was eight, sitting in church during the sermon one Sabbath, I had an epiphany (although at the time I spelled it “Wow”). I looked up from my...
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The Need to be Right

I’ve been an Adventist most of my life and the years are adding up. In that lengthy exposure to the SDA subculture there are many things I like and...
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Sources of Variation in Biology Part 3...

This is the final installment in a three-part subseries in our "Bringing the Real World to Genesis" series, curated by Jan M. Long. These three...
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Sources of Variation in Biology Part 2...

This is the second installment in a three-part subseries in our "Bringing the Real World to Genesis" series, curated by Jan M. Long. These three...
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