A Policy to Allow Discrimination

Equality is firmly established as part of the Fundamental Beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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Viewpoint: How to Ruin a Good Story

Stories depend for their effect on suspension of disbelief. A story is a conspiracy between storyteller and the audience. The best way of ruining a...
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Is God in Control? Yes, and Also ...

I rarely critique colleagues' sermons. And this evaluation will be de-identified. I hope it is instructional for us all, including any tempted to...
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Schisms Then and Now

I was just a teenager when the North American Division, in league with the General Conference, produced a book titled Issues: The Seventh-day...
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Singular Thanks

In the movie Men in Black, Agent Kay (Tommy Lee Jones) tells Agent Jay (Will Smith), “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals,...
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The Adventist Vote: Findings from the...

Adventism presents a challenge to modern culture in the earth’s last days and faces a challenge in its witness on today’s vital social and political...
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Toward an Adventist Theology of Health...

The category of Lifestyle presupposes at least six important components: continuity, perspective, proactivity, totality, renewability, and...
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Do You See Me?

My two-year-old daughter interrupts me from my keening at the computer to say, "Please read me a book." She has selected Rotten Island by William...
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Editorial: The Desolation of the...

On Tuesday, November 8, 2016, the United States of America selected as its next president a man who repeatedly, deliberately and unapologetically...
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Young Adventists Speak: Pacific Union...

Continuing our Young Adventists Speak series Pacific Union College students discuss the US election, who they are voting for, and what issues matter...
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