2 November 2022 | The following four ATSS presentations are now available for your viewing. Heidi Campbell | 15 October 2022 Who do you think Mary Magdalene was? A woman with a scandalous past? The sister of Lazarus and Martha? First witness to the resurrection? A rich heiress? An evangelist and miracle worker? Heidi Olson […]
26 October 2022 | Do you have family members, friends, neighbors, or co-workers who deny, or don’t know, or don’t seem to care, if God exists? How do you maintain and grow your own faith and spiritual life in a culture that actively promotes unbelief? Do you ever find it difficult to connect with God […]
19 October 2022 | We are discussing this essay by Carsten Thomsen for this week. Please click here to read it. The following paragraphs are the background to the piece you’ll be reading and discussing this week, called “Ten Celebrations of Adventist Theology.” I’m probably a lifelong rebel. Always exploring, examining from different angles. As […]
12 October 2022 | Who do you think Mary Magdalene was? A woman with a scandalous past? The sister of Lazarus and Martha? First witness to the Resurrection? A rich heiress? An evangelist and miracle worker? Heidi Olson Campbell explores how the Reformation shifted the image of who Mary Magdalene was. Protestant reformers claimed great […]
5 October 2022 | According to the postmodern philosophers the ‘grand stories’ of the past are no longer valid. Could it, however, be that the ‘great controversy’ theme offers, in fact, a ‘grand story’ that can still appeal to people today? Can we read the apocalyptic books of the Bible in such a way that […]
28 September 2022 | Brent A. Strawn, in his book The Old Testament Is Dying, draws an analogy between the contemporary Christian church’s competence in reading the Old Testament and the ability to speak a language fluently. Acknowledging the limitations of any analogy, he argues that the church is losing its ability to understand the […]
21 September 2022 | Humans need a purpose for which to live, and religion addresses this existential need more adequately than any other discipline. Religion functions at the affective level, where we really live; its content may sometimes be fuzzy and even wrong, but that’s secondary. Teacher: James W. Walters is professor emeritus of ethics […]
15 September 2022 | by Sigve Tonstad What Did Job Say at the End of His Ordeal—and What Did It Mean? The Book of Job is a book of revelations. The frame story and the poetic sections have many unexpected twists, but none greater than the ending. How can God say that Job has said […]
7 September 2022 | by Raj Attiken The following incidents, as reported by news media, have at least one feature in common: they all involve some question of freedom of conscience or religious liberty: Twenty-three Amish families in Minnesota lived in homes without running water or a modern sewage system because of their religious practice […]
29 August 2022 | Everything we do in congregational worship is a communal embodiment of what we believe, and a rehearsal of who we are becoming. Christian worship not only communicates meaning but facilitates meeting—an encounter with the Divine and one another. Our discussion will consider central priorities for worship planning and leading that can help us design […]
8/22/2022 | All during the 1960s unprecedented waves of turbulent social change had washed over North America and rippled around the world. The waves surged through Adventism, too. New theological ideas such as the new views on the heavenly sanctuary taught by Edward Heppenstall and the new approach to teaching the New Testament that included […]
24 Aug 2022 | Everything we do in congregational worship is a communal embodiment of what we believe, and a rehearsal of who we are becoming. Christian worship not only communicates meaning but facilitates meeting—an encounter with the Divine and one another. Our discussion will consider central priorities for worship planning and leading that can […]