Clik here to view.
Surprised by Hope III
hope.jpg As he continues, in Chapter 4, his analysis of the basis of Christian hope in the New Testament witness to the resurrection of Jesus, N.T. Wright makes a point that came as a surprise to me:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Surprised by Hope IV
6a00d8341e3ff253ef011278dc463128a4-800wi.jpg Near the beginning of their remarkably successful evangelistic campaign in Washington, D.C. during the summer of 1902, Lewis C. Sheafe and his associate,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Surprised by Hope V
Charles Fitch (1805-1844).gif"He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead." N.T. Wright's task, throughout Surprised by Hope but most specifically in the chapters for this week (7,8...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Surprised by Hope - VI
assault.jpg Why is it, I have sometimes wondered, that, as Adventists understand it, the unrighteous must be roused from their graves at the end of the millennium, only to meet an already-decided fate...
View ArticleSurprised by Hope - VII
One of the most powerful ways that N.T. Wright helps us as Adventists see more deeply into the riches of our heritage is through a re-framing of the questions guiding inquiry about the Christian hope....
View ArticleSurprised by Hope VIII
"Sex matters enormously, but global justice matters far, far more. The present system of global debt is the real immoral scandal, the dirty little secret - or rather the dirty enormous secret - of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Surprised by Hope - IX
180px-Archbishop-Tutu-medium.jpg Wrigh comments on John 21 in the course of showing that the thrust of the resurrection narratives in the four gospels is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Surprised by Hope - X (Conclusion)
tomwright2.jpg N.T. Wright's purpose has been to heal a "long-term schizophrenia" in the church, and I suppose that one reason I find the book so appealing is that I struggle with a form of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Historic Adventist Peace Witness Amidst War Fever
1231.JPG Elaboration of patriotic rituals in various public school districts around the nation was one manifestation of the fervor for glorification of country and war with a divine aura. "Never have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Barry Bussey’s Critical Question
arts-graphics-2008_1184255a.jpg it struck me that Bussey, with calm resolve, is pressing us toward the critical question that underlies all the others: Is our loyalty with the Messiah and Lord who told...
View ArticleClik here to view.
God’s Hand in Emancipation
LCS_seated_OUA_gs_cr.jpg Its liberating potential drew Lewis Sheafe to Adventism. Just six months before, hardly anyone in the nation’s capital would have recognized his name. Now, on January 1, 1903,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
National Unity Under God: Ben Carson’s Manifesto
Screen Shot 2014-06-16 at 10.39.45 PM.png"The faith that forms the identity at the heart of Dr. Carson’s agenda is a civil religion that re-defines the God of the Bible as the patron deity of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Unidad nacional bajo la autoridad de Dios: el manifiesto de Ben Carson
Ben Carson Book.jpg Unidad nacional bajo la autoridad de Dios: el manifiesto de Ben Carson Reseña de One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America’s Future [Una nación: Qué podemos hacer todos para...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Perspective: Can History Be Hopeful?
History_Hopeful.png Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of the highly-acclaimed exploration of American race relations, "Between the World and Me," doesn’t find hope in history. In fact, said Coates in a December...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Adventist History Spotlight: Anna Knight and the “Free State of Jones”
Anna Knight nursing grad 1.jpg Historian Victoria Bynum contends that Anna Knight’s conversion to Adventism made her a more effective liberating influence in her Mississippi community than her father,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
George Knight’s Reformation Tract
2017-10-03 Book Review.png A Review of George R. Knight’s book "Adventist Authority Wars, Ordination, and the Roman Catholic Temptation" (Westlake Village, CA: Oak and Acorn Publishing, 2017). A Review...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Adventism and America's Original Sin (Part 1)
2017-11-30-voices.png After months of delay, William Henry Branson, world president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, decided he could wait no longer. It was time for action. Five months had passed,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Adventism and America's Original Sin (Part 2)
2018-1-10-voices.png It is difficult to imagine Adventism finding a more winsome and well-positioned ambassador to black Washington than James H. Howard. During an era in which race relations worsened...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Situating Adventist History Conference Report Day 2
2018-1-11-news.png The Situating Adventist History conference is jointly sponsored by the General Conference Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research (ASTR), the Association of Seventh-day...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Emperors of Wellness: The Kellogg Brothers
2018-03-21-bookreview.png"The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek" is a wonderful read. Author Howard Markel tells the story of John Harvey Kellogg and Will Keith Kellogg who “were...
View Article
