Supreme Court Decision on Church Employment Case

From the North American Religious Liberty Association   Today the Supreme Court decided what is likely the most important religious liberty case to come down in the past two decades. In Hosanna-Tabor Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Court sided unanimously with a church sued for firing an employee on religious [...]

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Eugenie Scott’s Letter of Alarm – “Evolution Under Attack”

A letter of alarm from Eugenie C. Scott, Executive Director for the National Center for Science Education: Believe it or not, the teaching of evolution is under attack. Here we are, eight-six years after the Scopes Trial, in which a Tennessee teacher was convicted for teaching evolution, contrary to state law… Read More (links to [...]

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The Origin of the Sabbath and the 7-Day Week

By Sean Pitman . Many, even among those who call themselves Adventists, question the true origin of the Sabbath and of the 7-day weekly cycle.  Of course, the Bible claims that God instituted both during the Creation Week described in Genesis.  However, critics of the biblical account claim that the seven-day week was actually invented [...]

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Why the Bible?

By Sean Pitman . The Bible makes many extraordinary, even magical, claims about the nature of human history and about the nature of reality in general.  Of course, so do many other fairytale books and well-loved moral fables.  What, if anything, makes the miraculous claims of the Bible any different?  Why should anyone believe in [...]

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Lawrence Geraty, Fritz Guy, and the Framing of Fundamental Belief #6

By Sean Pitman . In 2010 Sergio Silva published an interesting article in the Journal of the Adventist Theological Society entitled, “Development of the Fundamental Beliefs Statement with Particular Reference to the Fundamental Belief #6: Creation.” In this article Silva explains the process of how the current wording of Fundamental Belief #6 of the Seventh-day [...]

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LSU-3 Case Moves Forward in Riverside Court

According to a recent Spectrum article, the court case involving three La Sierra University employees who have filed suit for wrongful termination (Dr. James Beach, Dr. Gary Bradley, and Dr. Jeffry Kaatz) will proceed to trial. In the final analysis, Judge Taylor sided with the defendants’ claim that the plaintiffs did not sufficiently demonstrate the [...]

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If the Creation Account Isn’t True…

Adventist Review By Mark Kellner A recent New York Times op-ed, “The Evangelical Rejection of Reason,”1 would’ve busted a blood-pressure machine had I been connected while reading. According to authors Karl W. Giberson, a “former professor of physics” at Eastern Nazarene College, and Randall J. Stephens, an associate professor of history there, affirmation of what [...]

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Creeds and Fundamental Beliefs

By Sean Pitman: There are many people who think that the “Fundamental Beliefs” of the Seventh-day Adventist Church have turned into a kind of creed or unchangeable set of doctrinal beliefs or Biblical interpretations that supersede the Bible itself in importance and authority.  It has therefore been suggested that the Adventist Church is in danger [...]

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A “Christian Agnostic”?

By Sean Pitman Ervin Taylor, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. He is also a long-time supporter, executive publisher, and contributor to the “progressive” journal Adventist Today and is a fair representative of the face of “progressive” Adventism in general. As an ardent progressive Adventist, he has been a [...]

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