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Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist Forum
Our goal is to foster community through conversation. This podcast is a companion to Spectrum, a journal established to encourage Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the merits of diverse views, and to foster intellectual and cultural growth. For more, go to: https://spectrummagazine.org/
Episodes
- Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist Forum
“Sing Sing” Director on Art and Connection
I talk with Greg Kewdar about his film Sing Sing which will probably be nominated for the Academy Awards. It stars Coleman Domingo plays Divine G, an innocent…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumPulitzer Prize Winner Eliza Griswold’s Study of Radical Christian Community
I interview journalist Eliza Griswold about her just released book, “Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church.” She…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumOn the Road to Camporee With a Conf. President
Erik VanDenburgh, president of the Hawaii conference speaks to me while driving a truck and 26 foot trailer to Gillette, Wyoming, to attend the International…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumTwo Adventists Sue Disney over Religious Liberty
I interviewed Alan Reinach, Esq, president of the Church State Council, the education, advocacy, and legal services ministry of the Pacific Union. He is…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumChriston Arthur, President of La Sierra University
During his first week leading La Sierra University, Christon Arthur, PhD, shared his vision for the progressive Adventist culture of the campus, his Caribbean…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumStefan Höschele: A Study in Ecumenics
For a German perspective on Adventism, I talk with Stefan Höschele, Professor for Systematic Theology and Adventist Studies at Friedensau Adventist University…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumDeveloping Faith in Adventist Schools
In this conversation, Ben Archer, an Adjunct Research Fellow at Avondale University, shares about his recently published research on faith engagement in…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumFloyd of Kinship on LGBTQ Pride and True Conversion
The president of Seventh-day Adventist Kinship International talks about what pride means to him. We discuss how it’s different from the biblical vice of ego…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumPolitician Marianne Thieme on Animals & Adventism
An interview with Marianne Thieme, Dutch political leader, convert to Adventism, and environmental activist. With others, she founded the Party for the Animals…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumHopeful Director Kyle Portbury on Adventist Movies
Filmmaker Kyle Portbury talks about his film, The Hopeful, which tells the early Adventist story for any audience. The film premiered on 900 cinema screens…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumThe Hopeful Director Kyle Portbury
Filmmaker Kyle Portbury talks about his film, The Hopeful, which tells the early Adventist story for any audience. The film premieres on 900 cinema screens…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist Forum“The Story of Moses” Netflix Producer
On March 27, 2024, “Testament: Story of Moses” premiered on Netflix. Spectrum correspondent Kevin McCarty interviews series producer Kelly McPherson about the…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumEric Anderson on Ellen White
Historian and retired university president Eric Anderson discusses next steps after the Ellen White working conference last fall at Pacific Union College. He…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumSex, Love, and Purity Culture Episode 3/3 - Youth Group
This is the third in a three-part series on Sex, Love, and Purity Culture. This episode focuses on next steps in growth and development past Purity Culture…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumSex, Love, and Purity Culture Episode 2/3 - Youth Group
This is the second in a three-part series on Sex, Love, and Purity Culture. This episode focuses on the creation of purity culture as well as the history and…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumSex, Love, and Purity Culture Episode 1/3 - Youth Group
This begins a three-episode conversation about the history, theology, and personal impact of purity culture. Although rooted in socioreligious mores that…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumFrom Uganda to UN Judge
Seventh-day Adventist judge Daniel Nsereko has lived a remarkable life: from humble beginnings in a small rural village in Uganda, to the highest levels of…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumPastor Embraces Community Engagement, Church Grows
Pastor Claval Hunter leads the Berean Transformation Center, a Seventh-day Adventist Church in South Bend, Indiana. He shares how engaging his community on…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumFree Hanz!
I interview Hanz Gutierrez about his retracted theological teaching endorsement by the General Conference’s International Board of Ministerial and Theological…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumFrom Discrimination to Dedication
In the gritty neighbourhoods of Sydney, Australia, Nimrod faced the stark challenges of racial discrimination. Battling racial profiling and mistreatment by…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumBreaking Church Open
Elizabth Pule started her career journey aimed at becoming a lawyer, when an unexpected mission call changed her mind. With support from the Ontario Conference…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumIron Claw Director on Family and the Physical
The Iron Claw (2023) director and writer Sean Durkin talks with Alexander Carpenter about the meaning in his film. In theaters now, the saga of the Von Erich…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumCelebrating Cultural Complexities
Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Alex now serves as Sligo Church’’s senior pastor. He came to understand God from among diversities of cultures around him…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumDisquisitive: Who Gets to Mind God’s Business?
Growing up in Kenya, Jeanne was confused by God’s calling into pastoral ministry, as she never knew women could be any kind of church leader. With time spent…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumGhosts of Cultural Memories
Growing up in Washington State, Anthony saw two very different cultural sides to Adventism. With a move to Seattle so his father could pastor a mainly black…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumDestigmatize: Breaking the Glass Box
Dr. Courtney Ray started her academic career with a double major in theology and psychology, becoming an ordained minister of the Adventist church. She now…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumGreg Hoenes on Racism and Creation Care
Greg Hoenes is a career pastor with more than 25 years of ministry experience in the Central and Southern California Conferences. He became the West Region…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumOn Stan Brock and Free Healthcare
I grew up watching Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom TV shows featuring Stan Brock. In this Adventist Voices conversation I talk with Paul Michael Angell, the…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumDissonance: Addressing Cultural Vertigo
Hailing from Eastern Canada, with time spent as a chaplain in Western Canada. Ben now works as the youth pastor at La Sierra University Church. By being…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumColour Problematic: Finding Peace in Diverseness
Pastor Iki currently serves as the first lead pastor of colour for the La Sierra University Church. With his Tongan background & stories of being an…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumMark Carr on Regional Conferences
Alaska Region Director of Ethics for Providence Health & Services, Mark F. Carr, MDiv, PhD, studied with James Childress, PhD, one of the world’s premier…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumPastor Manuel Arteaga on Hispanic Heritage
Manuel is the founding pastor of Kalēo Adventist Church, a Spanglish congregation in the Glendale, California. He has a degree in Business Administration and…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumJanice De-Whyte on Faith and Failure
Janice De-Whyte reflects on God’s priorities by looking at the failure of the religious community in Bethel. The conversation is based on her chapter in the…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumNovelist Explores Food and Adventism
In the novel, Stillwater, by noted Canadian writer, Darcie Friesen Hossack, sixteen-year-old Lizzy is trapped, caught between her passion for science and the…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumBrian Strayer on Hiram Edson: Man and Myth
Drawing from his research for the first scholarly biography of this Adventist pioneer, historian Brian Strayer details the rise, decline, and mythology of…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumLarry Geraty on Ron Numbers and Fritz Guy
I interview Larry Geraty, president emeritus of La Sierra University, about the passing this week of Ron Numbers, historian of science, and Fritz Guy…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumReligion Reporter Bob Smietana on the Changes Ahead
Bob Smietana has been senior editor of Christianity Today, religion writer at The Tennessean, correspondent for Religion News Service, and contributor to…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumFundamentalism and Race
Michael Campbell discusses the connections between Adventism, fundamentalism, and race. He earned his PhD in Adventist history from Andrews University and…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumHugh Howey on Stories and the Human Condition
I talk with best selling author Hugh Howey about the Silo TV series based on his novel series Wool. We discuss philosophy, apocalypse, and ways that stories…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumRace and Other Creation Myths
Hosts Nathan Brown and Lisa Diller talk with Angela H Li, the Assistant Director of Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries (Pacific Region) for the North American…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumRace and Grace
Kayle de Waal taught New Testament studies at Avondale University College in Australia for many years. Before that de Waal served as a minister in the Kwazulu…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumAdventist Christianity’s catholic vocation
Hosts Nathan Brown and Lisa Clark Diller talk with Maury Jackson about his contribution to the A House on Fire book. Jackson earned his DMin from Claremont…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumAuthor Matthew Vollmer Explores Loss and Adventism
Ted Wilson’s nephew, noted writer Matthew Vollmer, discusses his 2023 book, All of Us Together in the End. In it he explores loss, family, and his own…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumThe Beast of Racism
Along with host Nathan Brown, guest Yi-Shen Ma discusses his chapter, "The Beast and the Matrix of Power" in A House on Fire: How Adventist Faith Responds to…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumPreaching a Black Christ
Guest Matthew Korpman talks with hosts Nathan Brown and Claudia Allen about his chapter in A House on Fire, “Preaching a Black Christ: Doing Black theology…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumA House on Fire 3: Talking About Racism with Claudia Allen
Claudia Allen serves as the Community Outreach Supervisor for the Howard County Office of Human Rights & Equity in Columbia, MD. After earning her BA in…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumA House on Fire 2: Talking about racism with Matthew Burdette
A graduate of La Sierra University, Matthew E. Burdette is a theologian and an editor at Convergent Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. He holds a PhD…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumA House on Fire: Talking racism with Maury Jackson, Nathan Brown, and Lisa Clark Diller
In a collaboration with Spectrum and Adventist Peace Radio, Maury Jackson, DMin, Nathan Brown, and Lisa Clark Diller, PhD, launch a new series about Adventists…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumResearchers Discuss Ex-Adventist Survey
Guest host Jeremy Gray talks with the team conducting research on ex-Adventists. They explore the survey process and preliminary results. Connected to North…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumTraveling with Pope Francis
I talk with Academy Award nominated filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi about his new documentary on Pope Francis. It chronicles the first decade of the pontiff's…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumEllen White on Masturbation and the Pope
Concluding a 5-part series with Don Casebolt on his book Father Miller's Daughter, we discuss Ellen White's statements about the papacy and Casebolt presents…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumUnionization and Loma Linda University Health
Alex Aamodt shares insights from his week of watching the National Labor Relations Board hearing on the unionization efforts at Loma Linda University Health…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumDon McAdams on Ellen White
Don McAdams, PhD, discusses his legendary embargoed paper documenting Ellen White’s literary and narrative dependence on Protestant historians. After 50 years…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumThe Stories Whiteness Tells Itself
Japanese American writer, poet, culture critique, David Mura discusses his new book The Stories Whiteness Tell Itself, published by University of Minnesota…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumTom Dybdahl: On Pursuing Justice
Former Spectrum journalist, Adventist pastor, and then defense attorney, Thomas L. Dybdahl talks about his life and his new book. Published by The New Press…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumCasebolt on Crosier and Crafting the Sanctuary Doctrine
We talk about Millerite O. R. L. Crosier who helped create the Sanctuary Doctrine. He later rejected it, Ellen White, and Adventism. This is part three of this…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumA Spiritual Journey from Kenya to Minnesota
Paul Mugane grew up in Kenya in a family that valued independent thought and Adventist faith. In Minnesota he received his MDiv from an ecumenical seminary and…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumAdventists on Racism
I talk with the editors of A House on Fire: How Adventist Faith Responds to Race and Racism. Signs Publishing book editor Nathan Brown and La Sierra University…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumOn Spiritual Healing with the Wildcat Filmmakers
Filmmakers Trevor Frost and Melissa Lesh talk about their documentary Wildcat, streaming now on Amazon. We discuss their beautiful film, set in the rainforest…
Adventist Voices by Spectrum: The Journal of the Adventist ForumSnow + White: Part 2 on Father Miller’s Daughter
In part two of a series of conversations with Don Casebolt about his new book, Father Miller’s Daughter, we discuss a minor figure with a large influence on…