Spectrum Magazine

Table of Contents
vol. 31, no. 3, summer 2003

The Bible and Poetry
God Created Me
By Richard Rice
The first word of Christian faith is an affirmation of God’s creative work.

God’s Justice in the Book of Job
By Jean Sheldon
In the book of Job, divine power is not questioned, but divine justice is.

The Gospel Explained Through Poetry
By Ray Dabrowski
Zita Kirsnauskaite’s poetry moves through despair to the garden of hope, and has caught the imagination of Lithuanian artists and critics.

The Natural World
Protection Island Eucharist
By James L. Hayward
Blimp-bodied June beetles zoom erratically above the marram grass. Here and there on the ground, pairs clasp, bump, and grind toward genetic redemption.

For the Beauty of the Earth: An Adventist Theology of Ecology
By Warren C. Trenchard

Tracing Adventist writings on ecology provides the basis for a proposal to develop an Adventist theology of the earth with five basic affirmations and two symbols.

Live and Let Live: An Interview with Stephen R. L. Clark
By Gary Chartier
Talking environmental philosophy with a vegetarian conservative defender of the interests of the nonhuman world.

Women and the Church
Women's Leadership in the Church: Lessons from Church Planters
By Doug Tilstra
Recalling specifically how God has used women in a significant way to build the Church, and asking how it can be so again.

The Long and Winding Road for Adventist Women's Ordination: Thirty-five Years and Counting
By Kit Watts
There were high hopes for Adventist women after the Camp Mohaven meeting in September 1973. A tour of the events before and after shows why the issue has not been resolved.

Contextualization and Women in the Church
By Doug Matacio
If contextualization is the way to position the Church for the future, perhaps the place to begin is in the treatment of women.

Reflections on She Who Is
By Heather Isaacs
We speak about the need to be born again, but never about the womb of God.

What’s Love Got To Do with It?
By Adam Andreassen
God’s love story is based in equality.

Book Review
Art, Tea, and Religion:
A Review of Crossroads: Art and Religion in American Life, edited by Alberta Arthurs and Glenn Wallach
By John Hoyt
Does the Artist have a duty to depict positive images?

Editorials
It’s About Time
By Bonnie Dwyer

Roger Williams:
Now More Than Ever!

By David R. Larson

Poetry
Lines From the Verse
By Zita Kirsnauskaite
 
 

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