How We Relate to Power Is Our Witness

Shifting the Sabbath School lesson’s focus on power “out there” to the power that is always at work in and among us opens up different questions for...
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Follow the Leader?

Is the leadership model exemplified by Ted Wilson one we should be content to follow? I think not.
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When “Time Makes Ancient Good Uncouth”

Failure to learn, grow, and change diminishes Christian credibility in the eyes of onlookers. With the passage of time, certain messages that were...
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Impossibly Thankful

Paul writes: “In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God for you …" But he can’t mean what this statement implies, can he? Everything?
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Ted Wilson’s Gospel Caricature

Throughout history, the Gospel of Christ has been in need of rescue from its purveyors. With tongue in cheek, I offer my portfolio of verbal...
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Is the Adventist Mission Impossible?

In Adventism’s embracing the role of Remnant Church, have we bitten off more than we can chew? Is God truly only on our side, depending on us to “...
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Meeting God in My Neighbor

Our mission to our neighbors is grounded in the reality that all of us live together in God’s neighborhood. We are as likely to discover God in a...
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Compulsive Leadership and a Transparent...

Militancy, if it is to be constructive, must connect with reality through responsibility and foresight. Without these, Adventist leadership risks...
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Embodying Mission in a Local Church

The mission and purpose of the church is to be something more than a spoken message. It is to embody (not just proclaim) the Revelation 7 vision of “...
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Hanz Gutierrez: The Wholistic Herbert...

In his new book, Gutierrez challenges dominant biblical interpretation and culture with his “erotic hermeneutics of the South”—a more flexible,...
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