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 [...]

SDA Articles

It’s been quite a while since I put together a reading list. Here it is: Volunteers in Action: Mike Kontes (Maranatha video, N.D.) A Cinderella Story (NAPS, N.D.) Washington Church Reaches Out to Migrant Farm Workers & Immigrants (Adv Today, 21 Apr 2012) Adventist Students Protest Chinese Industrial Development in the Solomon Islands (Adv Today, [...]

The (New) Sanctuary Movement: A Brief Introduction for Adventist Activists

Adventists tend to be proud of their distinctive “sanctuary” doctrine and its theological significance. In short, the sanctuary is understood as where God’s presence dwells and relates with His creatures. While the sanctuary was vital to the development of the Sabbatarian Adventist movement and then Seventh-day Adventist denomination, Adventism has not been involved in the [...]

SDA Potpourri

Faith in the Public Sector? Young Adventist Professionals Speak Out (NARLA) Valley View University’s green campus [video] (ANN, 24 Feb 2012) Dangerous Redefinition: Candidates Recast Role of Religion in American Life (Jason Hines, Religious Liberty.TV, 24 Feb 2012) When Women Break the Bread of Life (Donna J. Haerich, Spectrum, 23 Feb 2012) A House Divided [...]

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 [...]

Sahlin: Obama and Adventism

Monte Sahlin wrote a piece on President Obama’s Adventist influence, an article that I believe first appeared on the Adventist Today website. Benjamin Baker has subsequently posted it on Black SDA History. Excerpts: No president of the United States since Warren G. Harding has a closer family connection to the Seventh-day Adventist Church than Barack [...]

PICO – Prophetic Clergy Call to Action

Adventist Pastor Ryan Bell co-authored this PICO statement–A Prophetic Clergy Call to Action. Exerpts: As faith leaders from many religious traditions, we believe that the public debate about economic recovery is not simply about differing political visions, but about competing moral and spiritual values that have profound consequences for our people. We pledge to teach, [...]

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 Political Animal

The Care and Feeding of the (American) Political Animal (Stephen Foster, Adv Today, 5 Aug 2011) Where religious interest groups have the most influence is where they find the greatest number of adherents to the ‘principles’ and policies for which they advocate. Put another way, politicians will advocate for principles and policies that are most [...]

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 [...]