My Historical Thought Experiment

A thought experiment poses a hypothetical scenario, often physically impossible or at least highly improbable. It attempts to set up conditions that...
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Circling the Mountain – a Critique

The March 2008 issue of Adventist World (NAD Edition) contains an article titled We have Circled This Mountain Long Enough, by Ron Clouzet, director...
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Open Theism and the Nelson Pike Argument

In November ’07 the old Spectrum blog site posted an article by David Larson titled Richard Rice Discusses Open Theism, to which there was extensive...
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Is it ever acceptable to say “I want to die?" How much loss to our physical capabilities could we absorb before the loss also absorbs our humanity?...
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Deconstructing My Bucket List

The currently popular movie The Bucket List stars Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as improbable ‘buddies’ who meet while in cancer treatment, then...
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The Road to Clarity: Seventh-day...

From September 1998 until May 2000, Eva Keller lived in northeastern Madagascar to study the Adventist Church, or more accurately, the ordinary...
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Revisioning Adventism

In the current issue (Fall 2007) of Spectrum magazine Chuck Scriven reports on the Adventist Forum Conference in an editorial titled “Who Will...
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Epistemology Stress – Mormon Style

I live in Salt Lake City, which provides a front-row seat for religious issues affecting the LDS subculture. Recently there has been intense...
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The GC's stained-glass ceiling

Imagine a Black youngster approaching their Adventist-worker parents with these questions: “Dad/Mom, are all positions in the church open, or are...
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Why Adams Should Have Been Review Editor

The Adventist Review and the Adventist World have a new editor, Bill Knott. Over at the Spectrum web site, Andy Nash writes: Although I personally...
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