Tiny Hands Intl

I recently spoke at Union College about putting God’s love on display in our beautiful but hurting world. At the beginning of the talk, I asked two questions. One was: What kind of painful experience would make you no longer believe that a good and loving God exists or is listening to your prayers? What [...]

Economic Justice

Bryan Bissell shares these thoughts and resources: Most people know intuitively that large income gaps are very harmful to everyone. This is explicitly what the Bible’s Jubilee economic principles were designed to prevent. Now we have conclusive evidence that proves it. If you haven’t watched any of my other links, watch this one. http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/ [...]

Food: Diet, Production, Health & the Environment

My wife and I watched Forks Over Knives recently, and I found the argumentation for a whole-food, plant-based diet compelling though obviously not exactly novel. Some elements are similar to this TED Talk on longevity by Dan Buettner, though FOK’s support of a vegan diet is more intense than the Blue Zone descriptions. How central [...]

Walla Walla University – Peace Weekend

WWU is soon to host its first annual Peacemaking Weekend (Apr 15-17). Speakers will present on conflict over natural resources, just war theory, and the Adventist peace heritage. A panel discussion, a  performance by the Steel Drum Band, and a viewing of “The Conscientious Objector” will round out the weekend’s events. Learn more on Walla [...]

Early Church

Two quotes to think about followed by reflection from Alan Kreider: “We do not preach great things, but we live them.” — Minucius Felix (late 2nd or early 3rd century CE; Roman Christian apologist) “Why do we not observe that it is their [the Christians'] benevolence to strangers, their care for the graves of the [...]

Adventist Articles of Interest

A few more posts that caught my attention: 1) Pastor Jeff Gang advocating with CARE to support women in development (The Suburban Pastor, 11 Mar 2011). 2) Living on “Living Wage” (Trish Tickle, Adv Today, 16 Mar 2011) So how should this [living wage discussion] affect us as Adventist Christians? First and foremost, it should [...]

SDA Potpourri

To finish 2010, here’s a list of Adventist news pieces, sermons, musings and conversations: Ryan Bell on “Killing the DREAM: Still No Room at the Inn” (Peace Messenger, 21 Dec 2010) Receiving Christmas (Nathan Brown, AToday, 21 Dec 2010) Christmas Wishes for the Adventist Church (Ron Osborn, Spectrum, 19 Dec 2010) Conservative Argues Jesus Was [...]

Boulder (CO) & Project 5:2

Boulder SDA Church & Social Justice Kevin Bowen and I recently had a conversation via Skype regarding social justice. Kevin is a pastor at the Boulder SDA Church (CO), and he wanted to include portions of our conversation for a sermon to be preached there (Project 5:2). He warned me about some of the questions, [...]

Faith for Justice

Here is Faith for Justice’s most recent video (look for SDA Pastor, Jeff Gang): And the original: I first saw the original video at Spectrum. NOTE: www.socialjusticechristian.com now jumps to www.faithforjustice.org.

Social Justice Christian

In response to Ryan Bell’s article and video about Social Justice Christians at Spectrum (and now on Huffington Post), I left the following comment: – – – – – Leaving the details aside, what level of agreement about the following statements do we have. I presume support will drop the further down the list we [...]