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The Question We Should Ask at GC Session But Won’t

3 days ago | spectrummagazine.org | Jared Wright

Views The Adventist Church’s quinquennial General Conference (GC) Session from July 3-12 in St. Louis is fast approaching. The event always draws major member attention, for important reasons. The decisions made there can have a crucial, long-term impacts on the church. This significance can be expressed as questions. Three Suboptimal QuestionsThe question people are most likely to ask is:Who will be the next GC president?
New England Forum Will Host Adventism's Top Ecclesiologist

4 weeks ago | spectrummagazine.org | Jared Wright

News On May 30-31, 2025, the recently-organized New England Adventist Forum chapter will host Tihomir Lazić to discuss Adventism and ecclesiology. The meetings will be held at the Freeport Adventist Church in Maine. Lazić’s theme is “The Nature and Identity of the Church.”Chapter coordinator and Andrews Seminary Professor Emeritus of Church Leadership Skip Bell notes that Lazić is uniquely qualified to address the topic.
In Dependence or Independents? Self-Supporting Ministries Propel GC Agenda

1 month ago | spectrummagazine.org | Jared Wright

Adventists across Brazil and online are questioning the apparent silence and seeming lack of concern from Seventh-day Adventist administrative bodies regarding the Terceiro Anjo (“Third Angels”) camp meeting held in Sumaré City, São Paulo, Brazil, from April 17th to 21st, 2025.
GC Presidential Candidates: Ted Wilson

1 month ago | spectrummagazine.org | Jared Wright

Views Some weeks ago Alexander Carpenter, the executive editor of Spectrum, asked me to write a few short articles about prominent Adventist leaders who might be candidates for the General Conference (GC) presidency at the upcoming St. Louis GC Session. Albeit with considerable reluctance, I agreed, as I concur with Carpenter that the topic deserves special attention for its potential impact on the Adventist denomination.
Why I Am a Hopeful Universalist

2 months ago | spectrummagazine.org | Jared Wright

Randy Fishell | April 6, 2025 | Views 8 min. read Lead-in: A vagabond musician suddenly lit up a darkened bar room. An electrician, a puppeteer, an online clothing seller, and a magazine editor walked into a bar. I bet you think there is a punchline coming. Not this time. Stick with me. Deer Lake Charlie’s Bar & Grill was not on my radar until I…
Viveca Black, a Generous Founding Organizer and Advocate for Adventist Women

2 months ago | spectrummagazine.org | Jared Wright

News Viveca Black died on February 21, 2025, at George Washington University Hospital at the age of 76. She was born on September 6, 1949, in Pueblo, Colorado, to Wilton Whitcomb Black and Esther Lindsio Black. Black learned resilience from her mother who had been a pastor in Sweden. Black spent her childhood assisting her mother, a colporteur, working to sell books door-to-door after school. For one of his Uncle Arthur’s Bedtime Stories, Arthur S.
ADRA Joins Faith Leaders in Prayer Vigil Against Foreign Aid Cuts

2 months ago | spectrummagazine.org | Jared Wright

News On March 12, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) joined dozens of faith-based nonprofits for a prayer vigil in Washington, D.C., speaking out against the current U.S. administration’s sweeping foreign aid cuts. Bread for the World and the Accord Network organized the event at the Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church. The vigil drew prominent organizations that aid vulnerable communities worldwide.
Women's History Month: Celebrating Outstanding Works and Words

Mar 7, 2025 | spectrummagazine.org | Jared Wright

Views As Spectrum celebrates Women’s History Month, we revisit interviews, creative works, and discussions we loved that are both by and featuring Christian women, each with her own unique backgrounds and perspectives. A Christian woman is never just one thing—she contains multitudes—and in all her contradictions—simultaneously a daughter and mother, a pastor and disciple—she is crucial to the spreading of the word.
Adventist Purity Culture and How to Recover from It

Mar 4, 2025 | spectrummagazine.org | Jared Wright

Culture The phrase “purity culture” in the title of Camden Morgante’s new book Recovering from Purity Culture: Dismantle the Myths, Reject Shame-Based Sexuality, and Move Forward in Your Faith is a reference to a mostly 90s phenomenon in whichChristian denominations, especially of the evangelical variety, strongly promoted sexual abstinence before marriage.
Remembering Beverly Beem

Feb 20, 2025 | spectrummagazine.org | Jared Wright

News The following obituary originally appeared in the Walla Walla University’s Westwind. Beverly Grace Beem passed away peacefully in her home on December 9, 2024, at the age of 80. Beverly was born on October 8, 1944, in Little Rock, Arkansas, to Thelma and Kenneth Beem. She graduated from Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1968 and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in 1974. The focus of her dissertation was the devotional poetry of the Renaissance poet George Herbert.