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.

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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 [...]

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)

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 [...]

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In 2005 Adventist Peace Fellowship published The Peacemaking Remnant, a collection of essays and historical documents addressing Adventist thought and theology as relating to peace, broadly defined.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 these [...]

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, and [...]

Adv Review: Young Adult Ministry

The cover story of the May 21, 2009 edition of the Adventist Review is important for everyone, but the article is focused on one demographic — “What Jesus Said about Young Adult Ministry” (G Hopkins, D McBride, S Tyner, R Drumm, & W Kannenberg). Excerpt:
In no uncertain terms Jesus asserted that His people, the righteous, [...]

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 [...]

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 given the [...]

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 [...]