Intellectual Override—A Necessary Danger
By James Coffin
I grew up near an Amish community. You know, those people who shun cars in favor of horses and buggies. Who don’t use electricity and other such modern conveniences.…
(December 29, 2006)

Mary's Song
By Leo Ranzolin, Jr.
Now as I look at that picture of the nativity scene,… I see a vulnerable baby who is God incarnate. But I also see a woman who has a remarkable faithfulness, a profound insight into the plan of salvation, and perhaps… "a rebel, a revolutionary, a social protestor."
(December 21, 2006)

Et Lux Perpetua
A Christmas Memoir
By Nancy Lecourt
The whole Bible affirms that our God is a God of light: a burning bush and a pillar of fire and tongues of flame. Jesus, the Light of the World. And so we hang our Christmas lights, because we know that when we find ourselves in the valley of the shadow of death, we may turn to him for light and life.
(December 14, 2006)

Three Tragedies
By James Coffin
Mrs. White’s response was to shake her head in wonder and say, "Why don’t people use common sense? Why don’t they know that we are to be governed by the places we are located?"
(December 7, 2006)

Understanding Scripture
By Daniel Reynaud
When I was a kid, Sabbath conversations were often quite involved theological arguments, many of them not so much conversations as ritualized role-plays, with standardized for-and-against arguments. In hindsight, they were mainly of the "how-many-angels-on-a-pinhead" variety.
(November 30, 2006)

The Sanctuary Doctrine Misinterpreted
By Roy Gane
I have never seen so many errors of fact and distortions on the sanctuary concentrated in such a small space as I found in Ted Noel’s two-part series, "The Investigative Judgment Revisited"…
(November 23, 2006)

Why Should Our Kids Be Adventist?
By Charles Scriven
Not long ago, I heard my son say at a memorial service how his grandmother had once offended her Adventist teachers by showing up with her hair cut…short!
(November 9, 2006—reprinted from the fall 2005 issue of Spectrum magazine)

The Day Adventists Became Christians
By Loren Dickinson
The story I tell is not well know to Adventists. It goes back fully a half century, for one thing.…
(November 2, 2006)

AAW Honors Seven Adventist Women
By Carmen Seibold
"Our women amazed us" (Luke 24:22), is the surprised admission of an apostle describing the women who met the resurrected Christ. And our women continue to be amazing.…
(October 26, 2006)

The Investigative Judgment Revisited—Part 2
By Ted Noel
The common idea that the sanctuary required cleansing on the Day of Atonement is based on a misunderstanding of the nature of the sacrificial system.…
(October 26, 2006)

The Investigative Judgment Revisited—Part 1
By Ted Noel
On October 22, 1844, nothing happened. Or at least, so it seemed.…
(October 19, 2006)

Opportunity Lost: Why Adams Should Have Been Review Editor
By Andy Nash
I was proud to work in the company of Roy Adams, and I always pictured him succeeding the equally graceful William Johnsson as editor-in-chief.
(October 13, 2006)

A Nature Walk through Revelation
By Bonnie Dwyer
When you step outside at midnight and the temperature is still in the 90s, you don’t need Al Gore to tell you about global warming.…
(October 6, 2006—reprinted from the summer 2006 issue of Spectrum magazine)

The Adventist Message and the Book of Daniel
By Carlos Espinosa
Historical evidence does not support the assertion of most traditional Adventist writers that no other world empire would exist after Rome until the second coming.
(September 29, 2006)

I’ve Walked Where Dinosaurs Walked!
By Larry R. Evans
As I begin writing this report, I am returning from the geo(geological)science conference/field trip held in Colorado.…
(September 22, 2006)

How (If You Don’t Mind the Bother) to Read the Bible
By Charles Scriven
The Bible is to be read for renewal: you look for perspective on life—your own life, and on how to live it.
(September 15, 2006—reprinted from the summer 2006 issue of Spectrum magazine)

What Difference Does the Gospel Make?
By Daniel Reynaud
One of the basic principles of the gospel is not just a legal and technical change in our standing with God, but also a very real and practical difference in how we actually live.…
(September 8, 2006)

On Who Gets to Wear the Label SDA
By Bob Rigsby
Would it really be wise to make the tie between name and beliefs so close that to know one was an Adventist would be to know everything about the way that person thinks?
(August 31, 2006)

Does It Have to Be Alright?
By Simon Houstoun
When we arrived, we were told by a harassed-looking policeman that there was a "dead kid over there," and he pointed to an incongruous blue child seat, its back to us, upright on the road.…
(August 25, 2006)

Where Was Jesus on the Day of Pentecost?
By Roy Olson
Christ was sitting at the right hand of his Father pouring out the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost about A.D. 31, long before 1844.
(August 18, 2006)

Do We Really Sell Only to Ourselves?
By Norma K. Bork
Talk about being lonely in a crowd! Oh, I was certainly happy, but just a tad lonely as well.…
(August 11, 2006)

Church as a Scientific Experiment
By Charles Scriven
When you consider how much of establishment science leans toward sheer determinism—physics explains everything; free will is a fantasy—a science-sympathetic reflection on the human soul, from a Christian, surely meets a need.
(August 4, 2006—reprinted from the winter 2006 issue of Spectrum magazine)

The A.T.S. Throws a Great Party
By Robert M. Johnston
The nice tote bag issued to participants in the Second International Bible Conference (July 7–17, 2006) indicated that the gathering was sponsored jointly by the Adventist Theological Society (ATS), the Biblical Research Institute (BRI), and the Horn Archaeological Museum.…
(July 27, 2006)

Pursuing Sin Within the Fraternity of the Forgiving
By James Coffin
Recently, I preached a sermon about one of my all-time favorite biblical passages—the story of the woman caught in adultery (John 7:53–8:11)
(July 21, 2006)

Thoughts After the Andrews March Madness
By Bonnie Dwyer
When church officials who sit on many boards view the colleges as serving only the corporate purposes in their corner of the Church, they betray the concept of trusteeship.
(July 7, 2006—reprinted from the spring 2006 issue of Spectrum magazine)

The Gospel as the Eschaton and the Investigative Judgment
By Thomas J. Zwemer
A reader responds to an editorial by William G. Johnsson in Adventist World.
(June 29, 2006)

Snakebite Cure, Or, A Skit on Applied Religion
By Daniel Reynaud
A bare stage save for cross with brass snake on it upstage left. All entries/exits from upstage right. Enter MAN, obviously distressed, holding right arm.…
(June 23, 2006)

The Rest of the Story—Well Almost
By James Coffin
It’s one thing to face persecution for your beliefs. It’s quite another to have someone else suffer for your beliefs—especially your child.
(June 14, 2006)

Christ the Light of the World: A Conversation with Myself
By Julius Nam
We must not only be open to the possibility of Christ at work in every culture and religion, but we must also actively seek out and learn from diverse manifestations of the Word of Christ in the world today.…
(June 6, 2006; reprinted from the fall 2005 issue of Spectrum magazine)

Standing on Holy Ground
By Rosalie Hunt Mellor
There is a scene in Kenneth Grahame’s book, The Wind in the Willows, that takes it above and beyond a pleasant tale. Rat and Mole have joined in the search for Portly, the missing baby otter.…
(May 31, 2006)

What Do Adventists and Muslims Really Share?
By Børge Schantz
In substance, Muslim interpretation of some of these "common" points is completely contrary to Christian teaching.…
(May 24, 2006)

New Directions in Adventist—Muslim Relations
Spectrum interviews Jerald Whitehouse.
(May 17, 2006)

The Politics of Forgiveness
By Sasha Ross
I have found that by asking for and granting forgiveness we see more than the wrongdoing.
(May 1, 2006)

Science, Religion, and Intelligent Design
By Bob Rigsby
It seems contradictory and disingenuous to say that intelligent design is not science,…only to turn around and embrace the ultimate encroachment on science by making evolution a tool of God.
(May 3, 2006)

My Firm Foundation—Part Two
The Lifestyle of the Forgiven
By Thomas J. Zwemer
The duty of a Christian is to live the lifestyle of the forgiven; or as Martin Luther would put it—live a life of active righteousness.
(March 22, 2006)

My Firm Foundation—Part One
The Claims of Christianity
By Thomas J. Zwemer
Since Christianity is the ultimate union of theology and religion, we need to know the claims of Christianity and the essential duties or behaviors of Christians.
(March 15, 2006)

Adventist Eschatology and Assisted Suicide for the Dying
By Scott A. LeMert
We have explored conception, birth, infancy, adolescence, adulthood, and aging. But we usually stop short of discussing "the final journey."
(March 8, 2006—reprinted from the spring 2005 issue of Spectrum magazine)

Keep On Keeping On!
A Response to "Growing Old Adventist," by Richard Rice
By Felix Lorenz Jr.
Richard Rice has my respect and admiration, BUT…
(March 1, 2006)

"I Have Given You an Example…"
By James Coffin
When our congregation recently celebrated communion, the ritual footwashing (described in John 13 and practiced by Seventh-day Adventists) came after rather than before the bread and grape juice.…
(February 22, 2006)

Kindness Takes a Bow
By Bonnie Dwyer
There was one boy who brought dead silence to a Maryland classroom when he asked, "Who cares about some dumb —— country in Africa?"
(February 16, 2006)

Growing Old Adventist
By Richard Rice
Getting old is never easy, but for Seventh-day Adventists it brings special challenges. One is the fact that since we are living so much longer than everyone else (see the latest National Geographic, for example), we are getting older longer than every one else.…
(February 10, 2006)

Good Religion, Bad Science
By Andrew Hoehn
Although believing in intelligent design is in no way harmful to the average individual, the danger of intelligent design comes when it is held as pure science; for than religion disguised as science can be taught in public schools.
(February 3, 2006)

Jesus and the Ice Pick
By Marco Belmonte
Lying there in a pool of blood, back and blue from head to toe, I had become a poster child for drug addiction. Broken, useless, hopeless, and spiritually choking on my own sickness, I wanted to die.
(January 27, 2006)

On Getting What We "Deserve"
By Bob Rigsby
The will of God is clear—and demonstrated in Christ; we already are family, and this is—and has always been—God’s stance toward us.
(January 20, 2006)

To Submit
By David Hamstra
Do I feel that being submissive is a good thing? Well, not always, but the Holy Spirit still has a few things to teach me, and the Church is a great classroom.
(January 12, 2006)

Twenty-Five Years Later
Sydney, Australia, Forum Revisits Glacier View Conference
By Trevor Lloyd
On October 22, 2005, Sydney Adventist Forum met…to look back on Desmond Ford’s historic Forum presentation at Angwin, California,…and the subsequent Sanctuary Review Committee (SRC) meetings at Glacier View.…
(January 5, 2006)

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