Constructing Adv. Theology

A couple items today from the Constructing Adventist Theology blog:

Jared Wright on Progressive Adventism (short video; last minute directly relates to activism)

Sabbath Prayer (Walter Rauschenbusch)

Marriage, Homosexuality, and the Church Conference

Marriage, Homosexuality, and the Church Conference recently concluded at Andrews University. For those who could not attend, here are a number of posts by David Hamstra on Apokalupto:

Reflictions On The Homosexuality Conference
Interview: Nicholas Miller
Top Five: Things I Learned At The Homosexuality Conference
Blogging the Homosexuality Conference [this has extensive links to coverage on other blogs and [...]

Spectrum: Walter Wink Video

Spectrum posted a presentation by Walter Wink on 2 November 2009 — Walter Wink: Nonviolence for the Violent (Alexander Carpenter).
In the comments section, I listed this article by Wink: http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/7227. Greg added, “I’d like to put in a good word also for Wink’s award-winning trilogy on ‘The Powers,’ especially the first, and thinnest, volume.”

Web Roundup

SDA Articles/Posts
ONE Sabbath Campaign (Doug Morgan, Peace Messenger, 19 Sep 09)
The ONE Sabbath campaign launched on September 16 with the purpose of mobilizing people of faith to address the issue of extreme poverty and preventable diseases.  Find out more from the clip below and at www.ONE.org/ONESabbath.
T.R.M. Howard – Adventist Physician and Civil Rights Activist (Doug [...]

Facebook: A Conversation on Discipleship

Here’s a Facebook conversation from the weekend:
Jeff: On Luke 14:25 “…whereas modern churchmanship tries to make membership attractive to the great number, Jesus was here moving away from the crowd…. [T]o be a disciple is to share in that style of life of which the cross is the culmination.” J Yoder, The Politics of Jesus, [...]

Spectrum: Renewing the Adventist Social Vision

Christian opposition to social injustice is not optional. Indeed, so important is the work of fighting oppression and seeking justice, that God finds worship and sacrifice unaccompanied by such work to be an abomination. — Gerald Winslow
To read more of this reprinted article (Renewing the Adventist Social Vision, Spectrum), click here.

Still Waters

Once a month my wife and I join a Sabbath worship service at Still Waters. In May I was invited to lead the non-traditional gathering, and I chose the theme of knowing God.
After a short introduction of the topic, our friend from NC, Travis, read a series of short vignettes taken from three books written [...]

Adv Today: Humility

Nathan Brown contemplates meekness and humility in our work for the world (May 7, 2009, Adventist Today):
To be truly meek risks being ripped-off, overridden and ignored, not because meekness is weakness but because history has been dominated by the presupposition that might is right. Accordingly, this beatitude looks to the future–an inheritance. It seems Jesus [...]

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 reason I [...]

Preface 2 – Success & Motivation

My second introductory thought centers on the words of Jesus: “The poor you will always have with you…” (Matthew 26:11).
Reciting this verse is becoming a common response when people learn that I’m interested in working for a better world. Even some of my friends dismiss the idea of this blog because these problems will never [...]