Spectrum Magazine
vol. 33, no. 3, summer 2005

Noteworthy
Holy Discontent at Willow Creek
A "Sistah’s" Guide to Opera

The Bible
Picturing Christ: Incarnation and Iconography
By Cynthia Westerbeck
Should we make Jesus in our image?

Issues in the Adventist Church
Things Fall Apart
By Bonnie Dwyer and Alexander Carpenter
The people of the Lake Region Conference discover the power of the constituents in the wake of leadership changes.

Seventh-day Adventist Church Gets New Fundamental Belief—The First in a Quarter Century
By Lawrence T. Geraty
How a committee of two thousand moved the Church forward.

Dropouts: Missional Challenge for a Maturing Church
By Monte Sahlin
Why are so many of us leaving the family?

The Parallel Society
By Tim Puko
At what cost does the Church eschew the urban lifestyle?

Culture and Adventism: Europe and the United States as a Case Study
By Reinder Bruinsma
History and culture are not to be denied in the life of the Church.

The Back Story on the General Conference
Present Tense Behind the General Conference Platform
By Chris Blake
Is the Hope Channel focusing on us?

Who Said What: Speeches Heard at the General Conference Session
Compiled by Alexander Carpenter
How does the Church score when it comes to interacting with society?

Breaking the Glass Ceiling
Lisa Beardsley Interviews Ella Simmons
Catching up with the woman who took the General Conference Session by surprise.

Issues in Global Christianity
Who Sets the Agenda for the World Church?
A Conversation with Lamin Sanneh
How faith may help dissolve barriers between and among us.

Living Through the Greatest Religious Change in History
By Philip Jenkins
The most important issue now may be the contrast between where the money and the people are.

The Best of the Adventist Literary Journals
Before I Left for College
By Elisabeth Jane Catalano

Call Me Ishmael (and other excuses)
By Mindy Mills

Lonely
By Larry Tatiana Baxter

Guardian
By Carol June Hooker

"Discrimaniggawhitegurl"
By Katie J. Roddy

Rattlesnakes Fear the Rabbits
By Kyle Lemmon

the opiate
By Ishmael Facundo

Book Reviews
Five on Nature
By James L. Hayward
What’s on the nightstand of a biologist?

Letters
Abimael Acosta, Dennis W. McOmber, Jim Benko, Steve Pawluk, Dave Reynolds

Editorials
The Coded Talk of Friendship
By Bonnie Dwyer

A Symphony of Girlfriends
By Charles Scriven

Poetry
The Pilgrim
By Lindsey Bauer