Spectrum Online Featured Columns, 2005

Some of the People, Some of the Time
By James Coffin
Early in life, I discovered that conservative Adventists have a range of qualms about Christmas.
(December 23, 2005)

The Sacrament of Abortion
By Regis Nicoll
For the Christian, then, the abortion issue boils down to that of personhood. If life in utero is not human, then no justification for abortion is necessary; if it is human, then no justification is adequate.
(December 6, 2005)

Huge Puppies on the World Wide Web
(Welcome to Spectrum’s Archives)
By Leigh Johnsen
Amaze friends, infuriate adversaries, stimulate discussions—a storehouse of analysis and commentary is only a few clicks away, begging—pleading—to be read.
(November 24, 2005)

A Different Church for a Different World
By James Coffin
The world certainly is changing. And if the church—the Seventh-day Adventist Church included—doesn’t seek to change so it can more effectively minister to the different world that’s emerging, it will find itself speaking to fewer and fewer people.
(November 17, 2005)

Footy Match
By Daniel Reynaud
Behold, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a football match, the Saints versus the Demons. The captain of the Saints is God, and the opposing captain is Satan.
(November 10, 2005)

A Report on the General Conference Annual Council, October 7–13, 2005
By Larry R. Evans
Well over two hundred delegates attended this year’s Annual Council. Of special interest was the sharp increase in the number of women who attended—from twenty-four during the past quinquennium to forty-two the next.…
(November 2, 2005)

Gentlemen Lite
By Scott Moncrieff
What is a gentleman? In the Victorian era, the term was associated with owning inherited property and being of upper-class birth.…
(October 28, 2005)

The Church Growth Dilemma
By Curtis Hall
Meeting the community’s needs takes more than an occasional church-held program of community interest.
(October 20, 2005)

Confronting Economic Slavery
By Keith Augustus Burton
A nation that claims to be governed by Judeo-Christian principles should understand that debt relief is based on the biblical concept of Jubilee.…
(October 12, 2005)

Radical Love
By Susan Peabody
As if things were not difficult enough, Christ gives us another task. He makes it clear that we are to love our neighbor as we love ourselves, even if that neighbor is from an undesirable country…
(October 6, 2005)

Governments, Churches, Individuals Can Help Make Poverty History
By Wendi Rogers/ANN
In a "Call to Partnership"…a group of religious leaders called on Christian denominations and entities, government leaders and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to reduce global poverty.…
(September 28, 2005)

Abandon All Thoughts of the Ordinary!
By Charles Scriven
Is God on the way out? In the West, it may look that way. But at the October 6–8 annual conference of the Association of Adventist Forums, you’ll find out it isn’t so.
(September 21, 2005)

Generation Y Saving the World
By Bonnie Dwyer
Why is community service growing so rapidly among the young? Is it simply because their high schools require it, or because it looks good on a college application?
(September 14, 2005)

Total Surrender, Spirituality, and "Hedges"
By Patrick Travis
To hasten Christ’s second coming, what "hedges" have we Adventist made?
(September 8, 2005)

A "Sistah’s" Guide to Opera
By Nancy Lecourt
When Angela Brown begins to sing on Sunday afternoon, the audience is stunned.
(August 31, 2005)

German, Austrian Churches Apologize for Holocaust Actions
By Mark A. Kellner/ANN Staff
Seventh-day Adventist church leaders in Germany and Austria have released a declaration saying they "deeply regret" any participation in or support of Nazi activities during the war.…
(Hannover, Germany, August 16, 2005)

Dad’s Finest Hour
By James Coffin
It was a bittersweet experience to watch Dad wrestling with a world that he could no longer control and that he had to admit was more complex than he had at first realized.
(August 18, 2005)

T.H.E. Journal
By Scott Moncrieff
Have any of you sensed that I have just a teensy-weensy problem with the idea that technology is going to save education?…
(August 10, 3005)

Using Chisels as Screwdrivers: A Proposal for Adventist Media
By Daniel Reynaud
If even Adventist audiences react badly to a lot of Adventist media, imagine the response of non-Adventists.…
(August 3, 2005)

News Update, Lake Region Herald News
By Gary Burns, Lake Region Herald News
The Lake Region Conference held a special constituency session on Sunday, July 24, 2005, in Berrien Springs, Michigan.…
(July 25, 2005)

Federal Probe Rocks Seventh-day Adventist Church
By Carol Draeger, South Bend Tribune
Lake Region Conference accused of financial irregularities, immigration violations.…
(July 25, 2005)

What Kinship Really Means
By Carrol Grady
The first thing I always notice at Kinship Kampmeeting is the warm atmosphere of acceptance and caring, and the welcoming smiles and hugs for old friends and newcomers alike.…
(July 20, 2005)

The Greatest Show on Earth
By Richard Rice
It is too soon to assess the legacy of John Paul II, of course, but it will not be easy to do. He changed the papacy in some interesting ways, and the papacy no doubt changed him.
(July 13, 2005)


Attorneys Meet, Advocate Human Rights
By Roy Branson
The largest number of Adventist attorneys and judges to gather at any General Conference Session attended a luncheon on the topic "Advocating Human Rights," sponsored by the Columbia Union College’s Center for Law and Public Policy.…
(July 10, 2005)

More than the Other Half: Passionate Meetings Refresh Women’s Ministry
By Kristel Tonstad and Raewyn Hankins
Applause erupted following Simmons talk, when attendees learned that two more women had been elected to key leadership roles in the General Conference: Rosa Banks was named associate secretary to the General Conference and Daisy Orion was selected to be associate treasurer.…
(July 8, 2005)

They Shoot Movies, Too, Don’t They?
By Alexander Carpenter
"God needs you—the Seventh-day Adventist Church needs you—I need you," pleaded North American Division president Don Schneider while standing onstage at the close of the first show of the SONscreen 2005 Worldwide Film Festival Showcase.…
(July 7, 2005)

Tuesday Higher Education Luncheon
By Charles Scriven
Among the numerous side meetings in St. Louis was a luncheon for college presidents from around the world. North America’s Association of Adventist Colleges and Universities sponsored the event, and on Tuesday, July 5, some fifty-two college administrators showed up.…
(July 7, 2005)

Steps Backward for Women and a New Belief
By Alexander Carpenter
Out of the blue, a young conference president from the West-Central Africa Division began to speak in opposition to the elevation of Dr. Ella Simmons to the vice presidency. But the chairman quickly cut him off.…
(July 5, 2005)

Woman Elected to Church Vice Presidency
And Other Surprises from the Nominating Committee
By Bonnie Dwyer
Ella Simmons, an African-American woman and the former provost of La Sierra University, was nominated and elected to be a vice president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church on Sunday. She is the first woman to be elected to a vice-presidential position within the General Conference.…
(July 4, 2005)

St. Louis and the Cardinals
By Leigh Johnsen
I’m not thinking about baseball, although St. Louis does have a fine baseball team named the Cardinals.…
(July 3, 2005)

Paulsen Reelected: Conversations Sure to Follow

By Bonnie Dwyer
Jan Paulsen, president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists since 1999 was reelected to the position during the Church’s business session in St. Louis on Friday afternoon.…
(July 1, 2005)

Business Opens (for Reorganization)

By Alexander Carpenter
"Now open for business" intoned Lowell Cooper, Thursday’s chairman of the 2005 General Conference’s official session.…
(July 1, 2005)

Curses vs. Blessings

By Bev Beem and Bonnie Dwyer
God sets a choice before human beings between blessings and curses, and asks us to choose life, Phyllis Trible told the Association of Adventist Women on Tuesday.
(June 30, 2005)

Countering the Culture
By Bonnie Dwyer
In the 1850s, women in the newly formed companies of Sabbath Advent believers countered contemporary culture through active involvement in the preaching ministry.…
(June 29, 2005)


The Dangers of Talking about Sex
By Ezrela Cheah
Many mysteries remain at this beachfront Adventist school
(June 15, 2005—from the spring 2005 issue of Spectrum magazine)

The Gospel—Good News or Bad?
By Louis Venden
From Spectrum’s archives, autumn 1972. Requires installation of Adobe Acrobat version 6.0 or higher, which can be downloaded for free. Click here for other classic Spectrum articles from the past.
(June 2, 2005)

Getting God on the Right Track
By James Coffin
Whose evil causes the greatest overall suffering in the world? The capital crimes of a few? Or the accumulated "peccadilloes" of the multitude?
(May 25, 2005)

My Years with John Harvey Kellogg
By Alonzo L. Baker
From Spectrum’s archives, autumn 1972. Requires installation of Adobe Acrobat version 6.0 or higher, which can be downloaded for free. Click here for other classic Spectrum articles from the past.
(May 18, 2005)

Should We Say, "Father, DON’T Forgive Them"?
By James Coffin
Is there not a time to rage against evil and evildoers?
(May 12, 2005)

God, the Master Quilter
By Carol J. Grady
One day, the pleasant pattern of my life was interrupted and strange new colors and designs were introduced that seemed jarringly opposed to the original pattern.
(May 5, 2005)

What Is the Good News?
By A. Graham Maxwell
From Spectrum’s archives, summer 1971. Requires installation of Adobe Acrobat version 6.0 or higher, which can be downloaded for free. Click here for other classic Spectrum articles from the past.
(April 27, 2005)

Why I Believe in God
By Scott Moncrieff
Jesus, to my eyes, does not at all seem to be a literary character in the sense that Ulysses is, nor explainable as a historical human.
(April 20, 2005)

"Next Adventism" Subject of Lecture, Discussion at Columbia Union College
Mark Kellner/ANN
Future prospects for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in what is called the "global South" may be very good, said Philip Jenkins, author and distinguished professor of religion and history at Pennsylvania State University.
(April 12, 2005)

Adventist Marine, Jailed Over Non-Combatant Request, Released From Brig Early
Mark Kellner/ANN
Klimkewicz’s attorneys will seek to overturn the Marine Corps’ court-martial verdict, clearing the young man’s name and permanent record.
(April 5, 2005)

A Reader Responds to
God, the Bible and Forced Wealth Redistribution

By Ed Dickerson
Compelled charity is not charity at all, nor is forced righteousness in any way righteous.
(March 30, 2005)

God, the Bible, and Forced Wealth Redistribution
By James Coffin
Compulsory help for the disadvantaged has been around for a long time and has been advocated by some highly esteemed spiritual figures. God, for example.
(March 23, 2005)

Whosoever Shall Be Ashamed
By Mark J. Cimino
That polished and distinguished professor had an answer for everything she offered, and he couched his answers to make her look foolish to the largely unsympathetic classmates around her.
(March 16, 2005)

Iraq: Baghdad Truck Bomb Damages Adventist Church
Alex Elmadjian/ANN
A suicide truck bomb, which rocked the center of Baghdad, March 9, broke the two remaining stained glass windows of the Baghdad Seventh-day Adventist Church.
(March 9, 2005)

Chrisianity at Bay
By Ron Corson
How does the Seventh-day Adventists nineteenth-century view of end-time persecution relate to the current anti-Christian attitude evident in Europe and gaining momentum in the United States?
(March 2, 2005)

Giving the Heart Expression
By Daniel Reynaud
The "I’m-always-happy-because-I’m-a-Christian" is really one of the unhealthiest people on the planet, and one of the worst advertisements for Christianity.
(February 23, 2005)

In Memory of Madelynn Haldeman
By Ivan T. Blazen
The first sentence of her talk was, "If Jesus were alive today, it would be Seventh-day Adventists who would crucify him!"
(February 21, 2005)

Sad Insights into the Cost of War
By James Coffin
Jesus, in Luke 14:28, says that before we engage in an enterprise we need to count the cost, lest it actually be more expensive than anticipated.
(February 16, 2005)

"Say It Like It Is"
A Homily on the Life of Madelynn Jones Haldeman, La Sierra University Church, February 4, 2005
By Chris Oberg
The Greek II students were all men, and I understand the form of address they received daily was "Chickapoos."
(February 9, 2005)

In Memory of Madelynn Jones Haldeman
(1926–2005)

A Profoundly Honest Colleague
By John R. Jones
Madelynn made an enduring impact on Adventist laypeople’s understandings of God, forgiveness, and grace.
(February 2, 2005)

A Prophetic Voice
By Chris Oberg
She taught thousands of students over the years, often being challenged by the young men in her classes.
(February 2, 2005)

Sudan: ADRA Appeals for Release of Abducted Workers
By Tereza Byrne/ADRA/ANN
ADRA’s office in Khartoum is working closely with the United Nations to secure the release of its workers.
(January 25, 2005)

Adventist Imprisoned for Refusing to Bear Arms
By Mitchell A. Tyner
As he studied, Klimkewicz felt that he had to be a conscientious objector, and applied to the Marine Corps for that status.
(January 12, 2005)

Angels, Ice, and Magic
By Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson
For a minute or two, he has, perhaps not the swanlike grace of Michelle Kwan, but indeed her spirit and her joy.
(January 5, 2005)

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