Ex-Gay No Way Affects Religion Today

By Crystal D. Cheatham Crystal Cheatham is a 2009 graduate from Andrews University. You might recognize her from the stage of Pioneer Memorial Church where she has provided vocal praise as both a song leader and a choir member. As evidence of her deep roots in Adventist culture and leadership, her uncle Charles Cheatham resides [...]

Faith beyond Borders — Adv Today Review

My review of Faith beyond Borders is now posted at Adventist Today. Though this statement does not appear in said review: I loved this book. Read it, yo. Art Gish, a life-long peace activist who died this past summer, once quipped, “Anyone can be a young radical. Where are the old radicals?”[1] Now well beyond [...]

Extremely Unsustainable and Incredibly Cruel: Jonathan Safran Foer vs. the Meat Industry

Note: I grew up vegetarian. You, assuming you are an Adventist of some sort, may have as well. I can’t say I ever quite knew why I was vegetarian as a child, except that it was supposed to be healthier than an omnivorous lifestyle, and I knew that that was the way Seventh-day Adventists (good [...]

Adv Today: A Just Forgiveness

My review of A Just Forgiveness is now up at Adventist Today. Here’s the first paragraph: Aquinas and Augustine developed the philosophical foundation for just war.[i] Glen Stassen promoted just peacemaking.[ii] Gerald Schlabach argued for just policing.[iii] Now, Everett Worthington Jr. attempts to build a framework for just forgiveness by asking, “How can Christians forgive [...]

AToday: Make Poverty Personal

Shameless self-promotion: My latest book review is up at Adventist Today–Make Poverty Personal. I believe this is an important book, so I hope you’ll check out the review.

Adv Today: Reviews

Adventist Today has had two reviews recently that may be of interest to you. Film Review: Food, Inc. (Reviewed by Tompaul Wheeler) Book Review: Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claiborne & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. (Reviewed by Jeff Boyd–me)

The Peacemaking Remnant

In 2005 Adventist Peace Fellowship published The Peacemaking Remnant, a collection of essays and historical documents addressing Adventist thought and theology as relating to peace, broadly defined. Contributors include Charles Bradford, Ryan Bell, Charles Scriven, and Douglas Morgan, among others. Rather than write a standard book review, I’ve decided to share a few quotes. If [...]

Adv Today: I Am Not A Social Activist

I recently wrote a review of Ron Sider’s, I Am Not a Social Activist, for Adventist Today. Here’s an excerpt: What do you call someone who advocates for gender equality, environmental conservation and economic justice? Sider’s answer: not a social activist but a disciple of Jesus. That is, given one qualification: “Jesus’ gospel–his death, resurrection, [...]

Surprised by Hope (N. T. Wright)

Doug Morgan, an Adventist Activism contributor, has just finished a ten-part review/conversation on N. T. Wright’s book, Surprised by Hope at his primary blog, Adventist Peace Messenger. In the final installment, Morgan writes: Throughout Surprised by Hope, N.T. Wright’s purpose has been to heal a “long-term schizophrenia” in the church, and I suppose that one [...]

Adventist Today Comment – G. Knight

Adventist Today is offering three perspectives on George Knight’s book, The Apocalyptic Vision and the Neutering of Adventism. Here is the comment I left on Tompaul Wheeler’s review regarding Knight’s view that the church needs to focus more on apocalyptics and less on community service: I’m surprised Knight felt the need to address social action [...]