Adventists in Politics: Healers of the Nations?

The Center for Christian Bioethics at Loma Linda University is hosting an event featuring five Adventists in politics. From the description it looks like significant questions could be in play, though 90 minutes seems too short to cover multiple perspective to much depth: “Adventists in the United States have not sought public office as often [...]

Andrews Univ: Summit on Social Consciousness

Summit on Social Consciousness: Lessons from Rwanda (April 11-14, 2012) This past weekend, Andrews University hosted Carl Wilkens at the Summit on Social Consciousness.[i] Wilkens, who worked for ADRA at the time and is now the co-founder of World Outside My Shoes, was the only U.S. citizen who remained in Rwanda during the 100-day genocide [...]

SDA Potpourri

Here is a bit of reading for your Sabbath: One in Christ – Petition Virginia Seventh-day Adventists Reach Across Globe to Help Kenya’s Children (Rebecca Jackson, Adv Review) College Remembers Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy (Giovanni Hashimoto, PUC, 13 Jan 2012) U.S. Supreme Court ruling is First Amendment defense, Adventist legal counselors say (ANN, 13 [...]

Close the SOA/WHINSEC

Reflections on the Vigil to Close the SOA November 18-20, 2011 “It’s a beautiful day. Sky falls, you feel like it’s a beautiful day. Don’t let it get away.” Our wake-up call was the sound of U2’s “Beautiful Day” pumping through the bus’s speakers. Despite being groggy from the over-night bus ride from Ann Arbor [...]

We Are 99%

Editor’s Note: When the Tea Party movement was gaining steam, I asked for reflections by any SDA participants. I didn’t get any takers. When the Occupy Wall Street movement started to take off, I again called for writers. Here, Giovanni Hashimoto shares his views and experiences: We Are 99%: Why We Should All Wish for [...]

School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC)

For those going to Georgia to attend the vigil and rally to close SOA/WHINSEC, it’s time to be planning. The nonviolent event is from November 18 to 20. SOA Watch reports: Since 1946, the SOA has trained over 64,000 Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation [...]

Spectrum: Faith and Advocacy

Ryan Bell reviews Miroslav Volf’s A Public Faith for Spectrum. In his latest volume, Yale Divinity School theologian Miroslav Volf puts his finger on one of the most relevant and hotly contested subjects in our world today—the role of faith in public life. [complete article] And two classic Spectrum posts: Adventist Advocates in the Public [...]

The Limits of Christian Ethics

Most of my ethical engagement and writing is church-oriented. My personal focus is on how church members can care for other members and also how congregations can serve the communities in which they are located. But is this the limit of Christian ethical engagement in society? If we move beyond these confines to some degree [...]

Senate Chaplain Black on Debt

Senate chaplain implores God to help in debt crisis (David Fahrenthold, Washington Post, 7 July 2011) As the Senate has mired itself in bickering and deadlock this week, there has been at least one voice of the panic rising in the country around Washington. It’s been the deep, solemn voice of the Senate’s chaplain, retired [...]

Cindy Tutsch on Immigration & Healthcare

In her Adventist Today blog, Cindy Tutsch comments on important social issues. For example: Unless you’re Native American, you or your not-so-distant ancestors immigrated to the United States. But now some of you want to close or drastically tighten our borders? [COMPLETE BLOG]