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Relationship at a Distance (TDTCTW 11)
Adventist Studies - Seg 06 Set 2021 13:54:13 EDT - 4
September 11 was a day when it seemed as if everyone in the world was either in New York or trying to reach someone there. On that day, checking your e mail became a matter of life and death for many. By 8:45 AM on that day Ron Bruno was si...
Steps to Authenticity (TDTCTW 10)
Adventist Studies - Dom 05 Set 2021 08:57:31 EDT - 5
In the previous blog I shared my personal “jihad”, the struggle to be real. I promised to share some steps that have helped me greatly along the way. 1) First, accept by God’s grace that you are significant and valuable in...
My Own Personal Jihad (TDTCTW 9)
Adventist Studies - Sáb 04 Set 2021 08:54:27 EDT - 7
Some thirty years ago I was visiting the Riverside Church in the Upper West Side of Manhattan one Sunday with a couple of friends. Riverside Church, along the Hudson River, has one of the five largest classical organs in the world. Being an...
A Challenge to My Fellow Christians (TDTCTW 8)
Adventist Studies - Qui 02 Set 2021 15:42:54 EDT - 4
The climax of the Bible’s big picture is found in the last part, the New Testament. The Old Testament prophets pointed forward to a future major act of God. In that act God would send a Messiah to right the wrongs in this world. The O...
The Terrorist Within (TDTCTW 7)
Adventist Studies - Qua 01 Set 2021 16:52:55 EDT - 4
All that week in Holland I spent every available moment watching the updates on CNN. The next afternoon I went for a long walk to clear my head. I crossed a bridge over a set of locks on the nearby canal, watching as a houseboat was lowered...
Where I Was on September 11, 2001 (TDTCTW 6)
Adventist Studies - Ter 31 Ago 2021 16:50:04 EDT - 3
I landed at Schiphol Aiport in Amsterdam early on the morning of September 11. It was a beautiful sunny day and I quickly hooked up with the driver who was to take me to a conference a couple of hours drive away. The countryside was flat as...
The Role of Faith and Religion in Surviving the Pandemic
Adventist Studies - Dom 29 Ago 2021 14:56:04 EDT - 3
I am interrupting the series on September 11, 2001 to share a summary of some new information on staying healthy during the pandemic. You may remember that some time ago I reported that employees of Loma Linda University Health seemed to be...
A Friendly Suggestion to Muslims Today (TDTCTW 5)
Adventist Studies - Qui 26 Ago 2021 09:11:40 EDT - 4
In reflecting on the previous two blogs, I would like to offer a word of counsel and encouragement to Muslim thinkers today, but before I do I want to make it clear that I am not blaming Islam for all the world’s troubles. While Islam...
The Qur’an and the Bible (TDTCTW 4)
Adventist Studies - Qua 25 Ago 2021 09:12:44 EDT - 1
Both the Bible and the Qur’an are books of divine revelation. Between them they communicate the will of God for about half the world’s population. Abraham and Moses are central figures in both books. The Qur’an even has po...
Anatomy of a Terrorist
Adventist Studies - Ter 24 Ago 2021 13:07:22 EDT - 4
“Except for the place where they died, Bill Feehan and Mohamed Atta would seem to have had absolutely nothing in common. . . . As a lifelong firefighter who rose to become first deputy commissioner of the New York City Fire Department...
Life Sketch of Arthur Nelson Patrick
Adventist Studies - Seg 25 Mar 2013 19:28:23 EDT - 5
Life Sketch of Arthur Nelson Patrick Feb 23, 1934 – March 8, 2013 The youngest child of Bertha Emma (nee Pocock) and William Nelson Patrick, Arthur was one of over 1000 babies delivered in the Cooranbong area by his aunt, Nurse Annie ...
Post 100, AUSTRALASIAN SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS AND 1980: Toward an Historical Perspective and the Normalisation of Relationships
Adventist Studies - Sáb 02 Mar 2013 12:31:32 EST - 3
Since I first met Desmond Ford early in 1950, and he recommended me for acceptance as an Andrews University student in 1967, and called me as a member of his Department of Theology staff in 1973, we were comparatively close associates durin...
Post 99, Arthur Patrick and Angus McPhee on Revelation
Adventist Studies - Ter 26 Fev 2013 17:50:27 EST - 20
It is not an easy task to enthuse people to read or study again Revelation when many might say they have suffered “Revelation fatigue” but one can only try. Dr Patrick does not appear to fall into the group of the “fatigued;” for ov...
Post 98, Ellen White’s inspiration, in view of her use of the writings of John Milton
Adventist Studies - Ter 26 Fev 2013 13:21:24 EST - 8
This paper is more fully entitled “The similarity between certain of Ellen White’s writings and John Milton’s epic poem ‘Paradise Lost’,” by Angus McPhee, Tuesday, February 19, 2013. Angus McPhee has been by my f...
Post 97, Fresh light on William Miller and his Bible study
Adventist Studies - Qui 31 Jan 2013 02:00:44 EST - 5
Exactly forty years ago I was standing in the library of Aurora College (Illinois, USA) with Dr Moses Crouse, then the leading historian of the Advent Christian Church. We were discussing the original letters and other handwritten documents...
Post 96, God, Christian Worldviews and Adventist Thought
Adventist Studies - Dom 27 Jan 2013 19:12:27 EST - 4
Dr William Shippen gave Jonathan Edwards (1703 1758) the controversial smallpox inoculation that ended his effervescent life. Later, Shippen who would be a representative at the Continental Congress. He also attended the untimely death of E...
Post 95, Andrews University After 36 Years
Adventist Studies - Sex 25 Jan 2013 15:35:56 EST - 5
This short reflection was published five years ago in Andrews University Focus. It is more or less the story of how I started to engage with Adventist Studies. Early in December 1957, three wise men from North America arrived on the campus...
Post 94, Adventist Studies Since 1986: Fractious Adolescent or Maturing Adult?[1]
Adventist Studies - Qui 24 Jan 2013 19:52:06 EST - 2
Jesus left behind him thinkers not memorizers, disciples not reciters, people not parrots (Dominie Crossan). The insights provided by Christ’s teaching are capable of almost infinite elaborations and explorations. The Christian matrices ...
Post 93, Third in the Series: “Called at the Blackbutt Tree”
Adventist Studies - Qua 23 Jan 2013 16:41:48 EST - 4
This piece, also written as an assignment for Mike Jones’ class in 1972, reflects on an experience in the Bellangry State Forest during 1949. I advise the previous two posts should be read before this one. The giant tree crackled, teete...
Post 92, Another Narrative Illustrating How Their World-view Influences the Way Adventists Tell Their Personal Stories: “Does the Mountain Understand?”
Adventist Studies - Ter 22 Jan 2013 14:09:30 EST - 4
This piece, also written for a Mike Jones’ class assignment at Andrews University (Berrien Springs, Michigan, USA) in 1972, reflects on my experiences during 1949 in the Bellangry Sate Forest, northwest of Wauchope, NSW, Australia. It wou...
Post 91, Narratives Suggesting An Adventist Worldview: Number One, “The Angel’s Push”
Adventist Studies - Seg 21 Jan 2013 04:37:35 EST - 9
The following incident happened in the early 1940s on our family’s Pappinbarra Junction farm in New South Wales, Australia. I wrote this script in 1972 as an assignment for a Mike Jones writing class at Andrews University (Michigan, U...
Post 90, Living with cancer as an Adventist: My first nineteen years
Adventist Studies - Qua 09 Jan 2013 01:20:17 EST - 5
The pathology report, dated 17 March 1994, is before me as I write. Stark words like “tumour” and “carcinoma” convinced me then that the message the symptoms suggested was real. In fact, I had high grade (grade 3 of 3) cancer. With ...
Post 89, Reviewing Adventism in 2012, with help from ADVENTIST TODAY
Adventist Studies - Sáb 29 Dez 2012 17:52:52 EST - 5
Hearty thanks and warm regards to the thousands of people who have logged on to this little website during 2012. It seems appropriate to offer a few comments about the old year, as it becomes history. Seventh day Adventists, more than mo...
Post 88, Alexander the Great and Adventist Biblical Interpretation
Adventist Studies - Qua 19 Dez 2012 20:09:08 EST - 16
Yesterday Joan and I, in company with a small group of friends, travelled 125 kilometres South to view a remarkable exhibition of some 400 artifacts that are currently on display at the Australian Museum. Alexander the Great is the focus of...
Post 87, A Christmas Thought by Dr Norman Young
Adventist Studies - Seg 17 Dez 2012 20:44:11 EST - 4
So it’s Christmas again, and that surely is a fitting time to think about the birth of Jesus. The words of the messenger Gabriel to Mary are quite staggering really, especially when one considers her lowly estate: “And now, you will con...