Twenty-Six Years under Wilson...

The gospel advances an innate egalitarian ethic in which inherited rights take a back seat to individual rights. Ted Wilson and his father seem to...
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Two Chronicles of Kings

The lesson treats the stories of David and Jehoshaphat as simple instructional lessons on obeying God for personal betterment—Sabbath school...
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Tupananchiskama: An Eschatology of Death

There is no word in the Peruvian Quechua language for goodbye. The word “tupananchiskama” literally means “until life makes us meet again.”
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More Stories, Fewer Prooftexts, on...

Stewardship is an important and multifaceted theological concept that deserves more than prooftexts and estate planning tips—Sabbath school...
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Coveting Truth? Look Beyond This Lesson

Things like selfishness, unrestrained capitalism, and entitlement contribute in complex ways to what is oversimplified as the deadly sin of avarice—...
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False (Gender) Ideals

This week's lesson is mostly a harmless mélange of common-sense advice, but it also contains some troublingly outdated gender ideals—Sabbath school...
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On the Least: Singular and the Systemic

The Adult Bible Study Guide this week speaks to the humanitarian issues of our day but misses a chance to address systemic change—Sabbath school...
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Heavenly Treasures, Little Earthly Good

A step away from loans and credit cards to look at five biblical character sketches on the theme of laying up treasure in heaven—Sabbath school...
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A Peruvian "Pachamama"...

Pachamama represents the earth. Not just geological earth or nature but everything as a whole. It can correct our eschatology by rebalancing time and...
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Should Adventism Dangle on Cliff’s...

A response to Clifford Goldstein’s recent critique of a Spectrum article in the Adventist Review on the reading of Revelation 13 and the role of...
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