tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7191398669848616692024-03-18T20:26:09.359-07:00Adventist PerspectiveUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1028125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719139866984861669.post-948682038140449542012-12-20T17:05:00.000-08:002012-12-20T17:05:00.811-08:00 GOODBYE<br />
This is the last edition of <i>Adventist Perspective</i>. It’s been an interesting adventure. However, I’m tired of reviewing Adventist periodicals on a regular basis. If you enjoyed the cartoons, 521 of them remain. The <i>Perspective Magazine</i> contains, among other things, an unpublished book by Sakae Kubo and Jane Spear’s stories of a childhood spent as the daughter of missionary parents in Ethiopia before WWII.<br />
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I will continue as moderator of <i><a href="http://reinventingsdawheel.blogspot.com/">Reinventing the Adventist Wheel</a></i> and blog at <i><a href="http://www.atoday.org/article/1266/blogs/hanson-andy">Adventist Today</a></i>.<br />
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<i>Adventist Perspective</i> is a window into my world. I hope you consider me a humorist and loyal critic rather than a blasphemer. I’ve tried to be honest about who I am and what I believe. That isn’t always easy to think through much less put into words, but it’s the challenge I leave with you.<br />
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As a going away present, I’ve included Christmas cartoons along with others that I like for personal reasons. They include my all-time favorite Noah’s Ark sendup.<br />
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Love and best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year!<br />
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Andy<br />
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October-December, 2012<br />
Vol. 20, No. 5<br />
<a href="http://www.atoday.org/">WWW.ATODAY.ORG</a><br />
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<b>GENERAL COMMENTS</b><br />
J. David Newman’s editorial, WHY THE CHURCH NEEDS <i>ADVENTIST TODAY</i> AND OTHER NEWS SERVICES, makes a strong case for the “need for dissenting voices” when it comes to Adventist dogma.<br />
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LETTERS to Adventist Today are few and far between, according to AT editors. And Ariel A. Roth is to be congratulated in taking the time to write a lengthy response to “A Quantum Paradox of Time and Providence: Death Before Sin and Man’s Fall” by Darrel Lindensmith (September-October 2012). Unfortunately, his attempt to mix Biblical allusions with scientific evidence fails to support his conclusion.<br />
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<i>One does not have to give up scientific integrity in order to believe in the biblical account of beginnings. There is significant data from nature that is hard to explain without the context of creation and the Flood.</i><br />
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AESTHETIS AND INTELLIGENT DESIGN by Bernard Brandstater fails to make the case that <i>beauty is the signature of God, his unique identifier</i>. An Ebola virus is “beautiful,” as is the mushroom cloud produced by a hydrogen bomb.<br />
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It is always enlightening to read the transcript of a speech that has a direct influence on Adventist church policy. SCRIPTURE, POLICY, AND UNITY is Randy Roberts’ brilliant argument for women’s ordination delivered on Aug. 19, 2012, the day the Pacific Union Conference constituency decided, by a vote of 79 percent to 21 percent, to ordain candidates to the pastoral ministry without regard to gender.<br />
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I authored an article in this issue. IS PROTECTING THE DENOMINATION’S NAME IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO SEND PEOPLE TO JAIL? My personal answer is a resounding “No”!<br />
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There is one piece of information that came to light after the publication date that I would like to include here. Walter “Chick” McGill was almost murdered while in jail because a number of violent inmates assumed he was a child molester because he could not provide a document explaining the reason for his incarceration. He remained in danger until newspaper stories proved his explanation. I had no idea that my press alert may have saved his life.<br />
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Unfortunately, the Adventist Church continues to litigate this case. As Luke Chartier told me, “They don’t seem to be satisfied with a beating; they want a crucifixion.”<br />
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HOW HISTORICAL DIVERSITY DIVIDES US by Albert C. Koppel documents the fact that <i>failure to believe any or all of the 28 Fundamental beliefs can arguably be said not to be a test of one’s fellowship</i>.<br />
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<i>The world has changed a great deal since Civil War times, and “present truth” will certainly call for some adaptations in the way we allocate funds and articulate the tests of fellowship. But if we mismanage this process, we could find ourselves trying to fence up to 50 percent of our current membership out of Adventism, even as we make the path into Adventism too narrow.</i><br />
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CHRIST IN US by Don Watson is a devotional piece that concludes: <i>Jesus explained the simple one-step process to receive the Holy Spirit. “If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him! ” (Luke 11:13, NIV)</i><br />
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THE 1901 GENERAL CONFERENCE—THE REST OF THE STORY by Alden Thompson has gone a long way to further my respect for the man. He has the audacity to quote Ellen White giving the brethren a tongue-lashing. Her words made it clear that she was not in awe of church authorities when they overstepped their authority.<br />
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<i>“At times, when a small group of men entrusted with the general management of the work have, in the name of the General Conference, sought to carry out unwise plans and to restrict God’s work, I have said that I could no longer regard the voice of the General Conference, represented by these few men, as the voice of God…”</i><br />
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Thompson concludes: <i>Our task today is to do all in our power to ensure that the General Conference Session is “representative.” When it is, it deserves the confidence of the church.</i><br />
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In his own inimitable way, ADVENTIST MAN tackles the do’s and don’ts of ingesting meat substitutes and diluted coffee. Take his timeless advice and you will never again be “Bewildered at The ABC.”<br />
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November 8, 15, 22<br />
Vol. 189, Numbers 31, 32, 33<br />
<a href="http://www.adventistreview.org/index.php?issue=2012-1531">http://www.adventistreview.org/index.php?issue=2012-1531</a><br />
<a href="http://www.adventistreview.org/index.php?issue=2012-1532">http://www.adventistreview.org/index.php?issue=2012-1532</a><br />
<a href="http://www.adventistreview.org/index.php?issue=2012-1533">http://www.adventistreview.org/index.php?issue=2012-1533</a><br />
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<i>NOTE TO READERS:</i><br />
<i>WORLD NEWS AND PERSPECTIVES is an important section of each magazine. I don’t usually report on its contents because it is available at the online address I provide with every review.</i><br />
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When I tried to work up the enthusiasm to review single issues, I couldn’t. Perhaps I’m becoming jaded or bored, but I felt overwhelmed by devotional pieces that seemed to smother my desire to be a better Adventist. Consequently, this is a Review trifecta in which I give props to those writers that engaged me intellectually.<br />
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In the November 8 Review I learned that the ADVENTIST CHURCH MEMBERSHIP IS GROWING OUTSIDE OF NORTH AMERICA, EUROPE AND SOON OVERSEAS TITHE WILL ECLIPSE GIVING FROM NORTH AMERICA. The reporter was Edwin Manuel Garcia from the <i>Adventist News Network</i>.<br />
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<i>Tithe that originates in the North American Division has long provided most of the Seventh-day Adventist world budget, but a dramatic membership surge in Africa, Asia, and Latin America is reversing that decades-old trend.</i><br />
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<i>If the religious landscape continues its rapid population shift, funding provided by countries in the so-called Global South will likely overtake the amount given by the Global North within five years.</i><br />
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<i>In 1960 the Adventist Church sent out 490 long-term missionaries, and about 90 percent of them originated from North America, Europe, and Australia, known as the Global North. But in 2010 the Global North’s share of missionaries dropped to 54 percent, because of an increase in missionaries sent from the Southern Asia-Pacific Division, South American Division, and Inter-American Division.</i><br />
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<i>In 1960 the church in the Global South had a membership of 675,000, or 54 percent of world membership. A half century later, by 2010, membership in the Global South had climbed to 16 million, or 91.5 percent of world membership.</i><br />
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LETTER TO A MISSIONARY DENTIST by Doyle Nick in the November 15 Review was a gem. It’s a MUST READ for potential mission dentists. The following is a sample of the advice offered.<br />
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<i>Identify as quickly as you can the features of your adopted culture that are superior; there will be several. Embrace them, incorporating them permanently into your personal and family culture. This will enrich your life, make it possible for you to better appreciate your adopted home, and allow you to work on equal footing with those around you…</i><br />
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<i>You must care for your practice and your profession. In some parts of the world, church leaders have considered dental clinics to be little more than a source of cash, and some clinics have been destroyed because all resources were drained, starving the business and depleting professional effectiveness. Educate those around you and resist this. Your practice must have modern equipment, current materials, and cutting-edge techniques. Anything less misrepresents our mission and our God. Likewise, be sure that you invest adequate time and money into your own professional development, knowledge, and skill. Take care of the staff members on your dental team, and be sure that while they are held accountable, they are also secure, well trained, and respected.</i><br />
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STRANDED! by Brittany Harwood provided the following arresting quote.<br />
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<i>Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno wrote, “Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not God Himself.”</i><br />
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The November 22 Issue included medical advice from my favorite duo of docs, Allan R. Handysides and Peter N. Landless. As usual, they provide invaluable information about common medical conditions. For PSORIASIS sufferers, this is a MUST READ.<br />
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November, 2012<br />
Vol. 8, No. 11<br />
<a href="http://www.adventistworld.org/">http://www.adventistworld.org/</a><br />
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<i>Adventist World is free online. For that reason, I only review or comment on articles that I believe to be of special interest. Online readers can now read the entire print edition. Just click on the cover in the bottom left of the home page, and every page of the entire magazine is yours! Editors, way to go!</i><br />
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<b>GENERAL COMMENTS</b><br />
Check out World on line by clicking on the cover in the bottom left of the home page. It’s magical! High-resolution computer screens produce every page in vibrant, high definition color as you turn the pages in the virtual magazine.<br />
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This issue is an enjoyable read. Articles as written so the reader can determine his/her interest level in the first or second paragraph. However, if you are indecisive about taking the time to read the entire piece, check out the last paragraph.<br />
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Don’t miss 100 YEARS OF GIVING by Gina Wahlen, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE by Handysides and Landless, and TRANSLATOR OF THE WORD. <i>Mikhail Kulakov, Jr., leads a team of scholars in translating a new version of the Bible into modern Russian.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719139866984861669.post-24295416868373164772012-11-29T17:00:00.000-08:002012-11-29T17:00:02.101-08:00Never Mind<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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According to independent research, this is a singularly ineffective form of evangelism.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719139866984861669.post-24087781873272086702012-11-22T17:05:00.000-08:002012-11-29T23:47:59.817-08:00Reviewing the Adventist ReviewOctober 25, 2012<br />
Vol. 189, No. 30<br />
<a href="http://www.adventistreview.org/index.php?issue=2012-1530">http://www.adventistreview.org/index.php?issue=2012-1530</a><br />
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<i>NOTE TO READERS:</i><br />
<i>WORLD NEWS AND PERSPECTIVES is an important section of each magazine. I don’t usually report on its contents because it is available at the online address I provide with every review.</i><br />
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DIVERSITY IN THE CHURCH: WHAT WE ARE DOING TO EMBRACE IT featuring red, black, green, blue, and yellow M&M’s is the promise on the cover page.<br />
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Five diversity issues were discussed at the October 31 Diversity Celebration Summit at Silver Spring: gender, disability, age, race, and culture. Ann Roda, Richard Mouzon, Andrew W. Kerbs, Calvin Rock, and Jimmy Shwe presented the issues and, with the exception of Ann Roda (gender diversity), provided the context in which it was discussed.<br />
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There was no mention of when the findings of this conference would be reported or the weight given to their recommendations. For these reasons, I smell a PR stunt rather than a serious attempt to discover the advantages and problems inherent in an increasingly diverse membership. I hope I’m wrong.<br />
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It’s too bad than Kimberly Luste Maran felt the need to counsel Jessica how to dress when “checking out” Adventist churches in her area, so that she would experience A GOOD VISIT.<br />
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It continues to be unfortunate that there is no middle ground in the creation issue. Uncertainty is not an Adventist option. Delbert W. Baker makes that crystal clear in ORIGINS: BELIEFS HAVE IMPLICATIONS, PART 2. <i>Creation truth is interrelated with salvation truth.</i><br />
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Deleise Cole-Wilson is a theologian that certainly doesn’t speak for me in her essay, and our ideas about God would make it impossible for us to be TOGETHER PERFECT! <i>In our lives we know how much we each deserve death for all of the things we constantly do wrong. If we had been around when bears ate people for being disobedient or disrespectful, many of us would not be here.</i><br />
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I emailed Andrew McChesney regarding his inability to “witness” to a Russian government official when Andrew asked him, WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING? And the man replied, “I’m reading a book called <i>About Prayer</i>.” Our correspondence follows:<br />
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Andy Hanson<br />
<i>Upon reflection, did it occur to you that it was the government official that brought God into the conversation? Were you so busy thinking about how you could "witness" that you missed the fact that the official might have been witnessing to you? God is at work in the world.</i><br />
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Clifford Goldstein has written his first play. <i>Shadow Men: A Play (Warburton, Victoria: Signs Publishing Company, 2012), 108 pages, A$14.95</i>. The setting is Death Row. Chantal Klingbeil gives it a positive review.<br />
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There is a MUST READ article in this issue. MISSION FOCUSED LEARNING by Richard H. Hart provides an outstanding blueprint for effective teaching and learning in today’s world.<br />
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<i>With the information explosion now all around us, this paradigm is fundamentally changing. Educators are being urged to create “learning environments” in which students can explore in their own way, at their own speed, driven by their own desire to learn and understand. To be effective, these learning environments require careful planning and orchestrating. Ultimately they will build the foundation for lifelong learning—an approach to education that becomes a pattern for life. It recognizes the broad spectrum of learning styles that we all have and lets students develop and maximize their own pathway to discovery and understanding.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719139866984861669.post-66461693365675661382012-11-22T17:00:00.000-08:002012-11-22T17:00:00.404-08:00Leadership 101<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Vol. 189, No.29<br />
<a href="http://www.adventistreview.org/index.php?issue=2012-1529">http://www.adventistreview.org/index.php?issue=2012-1529</a><br />
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<i>NOTE TO READERS:</i><br />
<i>WORLD NEWS AND PERSPECTIVES is an important section of each magazine. I don’t usually report on its contents because it is available at the online address I provide with every review.</i><br />
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<b>GENERAL COMMENTS</b><br />
This issue leaves the reader with a positive feeling that there will be greater honesty and generosity in the way we as Adventists conduct ourselves.<br />
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Bill Knott begins things with his editorial, HOLY CONVERSATIONS.<br />
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<i>The way forward for an Advent people too easily divided by our differences in culture, language, history, and opinion is also inescapably dialogical, even when good dialogue requires the services of a translator or a mediator. A candid self-examination reminds me that not every preference of mine should be doctrine for my sister. Some ideas, however much I like them, are not central to the faith of Jesus. They must correctly be identified as in the negotiable margins that allow two different individuals to hold a civil conversation, talk about their common truths, and even agree to respectfully differ when necessary. Any faith community in which every opinion is sacralized ceases to be holy—or wholly Christ’s.</i><br />
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On the next page, Sandra Blackmer echoes Knott’s concerns.<br />
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<i>We each choose how to respond to less-than-ideal circumstances, to criticism, to controversy. We determine whether to become defensive, to lash back, to make excuses, or to try to see the situation from the other person’s perspective and ask ourselves if there’s something we can do to improve things.</i><br />
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Joanne Davis, speaking at the GLOBAL MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS SUMMIT, argued:<br />
<i>Now is the time to make every change necessary to reach the world</i>. And Greg Dunn echoed the refrain: <i>“If ever there was a time to break out of the mold and to step up our game, it is now.”</i><br />
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Education, not doctrine, is celebrated with the LAUNCH OF THE CHURCH’S FIFTH MEDICAL SCHOOL IN PERU.<br />
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Clearly Cedric Vine was LISTENING TO THE SPIRIT when he wrote the following:<br />
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Honesty and humility triumph as Cliff describes the death of his parents in a DEATH IN THE FAMILY.<br />
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<i>My father died this summer. He shot his wife in the head, crawled into bed next to her, put the gun in his mouth, and shot himself. He was 86, almost blind, had leukemia, emphysema (the man had smoked for 72 years), and such terrible shakes that he could barely put food in his mouth. (He had joked with his brother-in-law a few weeks before their deaths, “If I don’t do this soon, I’m going to miss.”) His wife of 34 years had, among other things, kidney failure, severe osteoporosis, and spinal cancer. Life had become miserable, even worse…</i><br />
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RESPONDING TO THE CALL OF MINISTRY by Ashley Batiste. It is a MUST READ account of Christian service that is the definition of worldwide Gospel Ministry. The National Association for the Prevention of Starvation (NAPS) <i>ministry doesn't stop at responding to national disasters. Instead, it goes beyond to bringing hope, love, and support to remote, less-known places.</i><br />
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Andy Nash asks an important question in MAX LUCADO’S CONFESSION: <i>Would my own church leaders feel safe being this honest with their congregations—with their colleagues? Or is this honesty only for someone else?</i><br />
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It pains me to report that there is a canker in the rose of this excellent, generously Christian issue. THE INCOMPLETE GOSPEL by Andrew W. Kerbs discounts the life and teachings of Christ and is shockingly parochial. His argument: <i>Without the fuller understanding of the work accomplished in the sanctuary, what happened at Calvary would be little more than a moving story of another murdered prophet.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719139866984861669.post-12776441709506170132012-11-15T17:00:00.000-08:002012-11-15T17:00:06.255-08:00It’s just a “colorful opinion.”<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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October 11, 2012<br />
Vol. 189, No.28<br />
<a href="http://www.adventistreview.org/index.php?issue=2012-1526">http://www.adventistreview.org/index.php?issue=2012-1526</a><br />
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<i>NOTE TO READERS:</i><br />
<i>WORLD
NEWS AND PERSPECTIVES is an important section of each magazine. I don’t
usually report on its contents because it is available at the online
address I provide with every review.</i><br />
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is a fascinating juxtaposition of theological differences in the
editorials that appear across from each other on pages 6 and 7. On page
6, Mark Kellner argues that LOVE ISN’T ALL YOU NEED. On page 7, Stephen
Chavez opines that EVEN OUR ADVERSARIES will know that we are followers
of Christ <i>by the way we love and serve each other</i>.<br />
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This theological difference of opinion raises an important question. <b>Are
Adventists Seventh-day Adventist Christians or Christian Seventh-day
Adventists? In other words, which is more important, being a Seventh-day
Adventist or being a Christian?</b> How important is our trademarked “brand” of Christianity when it comes to issues of community welfare and self-renouncing love?<br />
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When FLORIDA ADVENTST HOSPITAL’S COLLEGE BECAME THE NEWEST DENOMINATIONAL UNIVERSITY,<i>
university officials said that they added the word “Adventist” to
enhance the school’s reputation as one with a Christian mission</i>. One
has to wonder about the efficacy of this “official” reasoning given
that the Adventist hospitals in Florida, part of the Adventist Health
System, face an impending federal lawsuit contending that<i> routine
billing fraud occurred in the emergency departments from 2001 to 2008
and possibly longer…This new allegation "fits like a glove” with the
original complaint…filed in July 2010, claiming that Florida Hospital
used improper coding from 1995 to 2009 to overbill Medicare, Medicaid
and Tricare, all federal government payers, for radiology services. The
suit also alleges that the hospital routinely overbilled for a drug —
octreotide — used to enhance MRI scans by billing for larger doses than
were actually administered. It also alleges that bills were issued for
computer-aided-detection analyses that were never performed</i>. Orlando Sentinel, Wed. Oct. 17, 2012<br />
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In THE GIRL WITH DIRTY BLOND HAIR, Jimmy Phillips puts “Christian” before “Seventh-day Adventist.”<i>
I don’t know about you, but my ultimate goal is not to further a
political agenda. My mission is not just to win friends, but to win
people for the kingdom. Lately I’ve realized that criticizing others and
creating controversy—even when I’m technically right—doesn’t work
toward that end.</i><br />
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“TRUST IS THE FOUNDATION OF UNITY”
is clearly a “Seventh-day Adventist” before “Christian” piece. Bill
Knott’s interview with Artur Stele, along with an historical review of
Adventist policy regarding the ordination of women, is informative but
nowhere in the four-page spread do the words “Christ” or “Christian”
appear. “God” is also a nonexistent word.<br />
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Lael Caeser’s
“FIGURING OUT CHRISTIAN” is a poorly written, jingoistic definition of
“Christian” that seems to place “Christian” before “Seventh-day
Adventist,” but his willingness to lump people living in regions of the
United States and members of other faiths as somehow inferior of
character and intellect, challenges the usual definition of the word.<br />
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<i>"Christian”
is not so because sociologists apply it as a label. Nor is it so
because interviewees so self-identify. Jesus, recorded and reported in
the Word, Jesus, reproduced in the witness of word and life among His
followers—that is Christian. “Christian” has no further need of
definition.</i><br />
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<i>Against today’s cringing apology for the weakness of the gospel
before New York’s materialism, or California’s narcissism, or India’s
mysticism, or Tibet’s Buddhism, Aristides contends that there is no way
of missing the gospel’s power.</i><br />
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PROVIDENCE by Dixil
Rodriquez is a magical story of faith restored in an embittered old
woman. It’s definitely in the “Christian” before “Seventh-day Adventist”
category.<br />
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Sandra Blakmer’s BULLYING IN ADVENTIST
SCHOOLS? is clearly a “Christian” before “Seventh-day Adventist”
interview with Debra Pershing, and a MUST READ for everyone working with
young people in Adventist schools.<br />
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The INBOX features
letters to the editor regarding Herbert Blomstedt’s essay on appropriate
church music “Present Truth in Music" (July 12, 2012) and Andy Nash’s
“The Missing Story in ‘Seventh-Gay Adventists,’ ” (July 19, 2012). The
Review is to be congratulated for encouraging a dialog on these
controversial issues.<br />
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<b>Finally, a personal suggestion</b>.
The Review’s paid readership averaged 22,600 for the past 12 months.
(p. 25) This is the “flagship journal” for 1.1 million Adventist members
in the North American Division. This means that less than 3% of NAD
members subscribe. The question is, “Why?” Editors, researching this
question might prove instructive.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719139866984861669.post-86617144732598612432012-11-08T17:00:00.000-08:002012-11-08T17:00:01.826-08:00Situational Evangelism<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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October, 2012<br />
Vol. 8, No. 10<br />
<a href="http://www.adventistworld.org/">http://www.adventistworld.org/</a><br />
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<i>Adventist World is free online. For that reason, I only review or comment on articles that I believe to be of special interest. Online readers can now read the entire print edition. Just click on the cover in the bottom left of the home page, and every page of the entire magazine is yours! Editors, way to go!</i><br />
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<b>GENERAL COMMENTS</b><br />
I’m confused! A United Nation’s representative reports that CONGOLESE ADVENTIST REFUGEES ARE STREAMING INTO RWANDA, but many are refusing transport on Saturday! What are these members being taught about Sabbath keeping?<br />
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Ted N. C. Wilson will contest to the bitter end the right of individual Divisions to ordain women. And he may stake his presidency on his conviction that all the Divisions of the church must agree to ordain women before official church policy can be changed. To that end, Wilson is advancing what he calls “Following the Biblical Way.” WORKING THROUGH OUR DIFFERENCES is an administrative, tour-de-force designed to give him the ability to call the shots as the President of the Executive Committee that meets between General Conference sessions.<br />
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Docs Handysides and Landless demystify PARKINSON’S DISEASE.<br />
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Unfortunately, THE POWERFUL BREATH, Frank M. Hasel’s riff on Fundamental Doctrine #5, is cliché riddled, poorly written, and more confusing than enlightening.<br />
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FOR PEOPLE BY PEOPLE: A VISION FOR MEDICAL EVANGELISM reported by Chantal and Gerald Kingbeil is a MUST READ for anyone interested an evangelistic project that showcases Adventist community outreach at its very best.<br />
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Nathan Gordon Thomas is interested in obscure church history. PART II: MICHAEL BELINA CZECHOWSKI chronicles the European saga of this American born evangelist that preached The Three Angel’s Message in the 1860’s after he lost the official sponsorship of the church.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719139866984861669.post-7588318752013451802012-11-01T17:00:00.000-07:002012-11-01T17:00:07.540-07:00Telling Power to Truth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Summer, 2012<br />
Volume 40, Issue 3<br />
<a href="http://spectrummagazine.org/">http://spectrummagazine.org/</a><br />
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<b>GENERAL COMMENTS</b><br />
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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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<i> a vertical exchange with the true God [that] is mirrored in the horizontal exchange of their (?) true sexuality.</i><br />
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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.<br />
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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.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0