Reviewing Spectrum

Summer, 2012
Volume 40, Issue 3
http://spectrummagazine.org/

GENERAL COMMENTS
I’m tired of listening to defenders of women’s ordination, LGBT rights, and higher criticism, ruthlessly parse biblical texts and explain historical perspectives. If you aren’t, then this issue might be a page-turner. For me, getting through it was a chore.

There were two articles that justified time spent: LOOKING FOR LESSONS IN THE ADRA LEADERSHIP CHANGE by Alltia Byrd and “WE WISH TO INFORM YOU”: BAPTISM AND GENOCIDE IN RWANDA by Andrew Howe.

On the other hand, Ivan T. Blazen’s BIBLICAL TEXTS AND HOMOSEXUAL PRACTICES was eight excruciating pages of muddy homiletics, punctuated by Greek vocabulary, references to anal sex, and mention of a vertical exchange with the true God [that] is mirrored in the horizontal exchange of their (?) true sexuality.

Don’t judge philosophical discourse by Abi Koukhan’s ELLEN WHITE AND THE LOVE OF WISDOM or LEGITIMIZATION, ARTICULATION, AND CRITIQUE: ADVENTISM AND THE THREE MODES OF PHILOSOPHY by Zane Yi.

As long as I’m at it, I’ll mention an ongoing pet peeve. Comments following blog articles, such as ADVENTISM AND THE INTERSEX PROBLEM by Rich Hannon, are set in such tiny font size that they are almost unreadable.