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The Openness Of Richard Rice, Part 1

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In this first conversation in a multi part series, I interview Richard Rice, PhD, about his biography and extensive bibliography. We discuss Dr. Rice’s early life, what he learned in graduate school at the University of Chicago, and the early 1980s controversy around the publication of “The Openness of God.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

New Adventist Creatives: Darcie Denton

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A BFA graduate of Southern Adventist University, Darcie Denton is a 25 year old artist from the Chattanooga area who has had three solo shows and exhibited various works throughou

Should Adventists Go Public With Politics? Alexander Carpenter & Dan Weber Debate

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Daniel Weber was the Communication Director of the Seventh day Adventist Church in North America and is now chair of the Dept. of Visual Art, Communication and Design at Andrews Un

Reporting On 3Abn With Alva James-Johnson

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Hot off the co publication of our article with the Miami Herald on 3ABN, its author, Alva James Johnson, an award winning journalist, talks behind the scenes on the story as well a

An Adventist Teacher Finds Spirituality Beyond Grief And Dogma

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Retired teacher Janice Jensen, a longtime supporter of Spectrum (Advisory Council), recently published a memoir about losing her nine year old son to drowning and how that changed

“Sing Sing” Director On Art And Connection

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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 man incarcerated at t

Zane Yi On Philosophy And Adventism

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A founder of the Society of Adventist Philosphers, Zane Yi talks about his early Adventist life and what book of the Bible sparked his interest in the contemplative life. Dr. Yi te

Who Is Conrad Egyir?

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He just earned his MFA from the prestigious Cranbrook Academy of Art and now opened a major solo show at the Jessica Silverman gallery in San Francisco. Conrad Egyir might be the h

The Sabbath School Quarterly With Nathan Brown

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Nathan Brown is a writer and book editor at Signs Publishing Company, based near Melbourne, Australia. He has collaborated with the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) o

The Fourth Of July, Ellen White, And Social Justice

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This week I talk with Stephen Allred who's been on an interesting Adventist journey. A graduate of the self supporting Heartland College, he then got his M.Div. from Andrews Univer

Summer Reading With Spectrum's Alisa Williams

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She probably reads more books than you. In this Adventist Voices episode, managing editor Alisa Williams talks about how she reads about one hundred books a year. She also shares t

Spectrum Conference Speaker Gerald Winslow On Identity

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The Friday night speaker for our 2019 conference coming up on Labor Day weekend, Gerald Winslow, PhD, the director of the Center for Christian Bioethics at Loma Linda University, t

Shooting The Breeze: Favorite Books And Film

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This week I talk with someone I've been shooting the breeze with for several decades: Ronald Osborn, Associate Professor of Ethics and Philosophy at La Sierra University. We talk a

She Lives Her Worth

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During the week Daniela Jean works in risk management for the city of North Miami; on the weekends she leads a young adult pop up night for her local Adventist community that inclu

Ryan Becker, Kevin Christenson And The Scratch

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This week I had a good chat with Ryan Becker and Kevin Christenson, two media savvy Adventists who care about their community. In addition to learning more about their current Kick

Road To The Gc (Part 1)

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This week we kick off a new series focused on the next General Conference Session. My guests are Bonnie Dwyer, editor of Spectrum and Raymond Dabrowski, longtime director of commun

Journal-Ism: Bonnie Dwyer And Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson

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In this week's episode of Adventist Voices, Alexander Carpenter talks with both Bonnie Dwyer and Sharon Fujimoto Johnson about SPECTRUM: The Journal of the Adventist Forum. We disc

Jason Hines On Racism And Reconciliation

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In this episode of Adventist Voices, I ask Adventist Forum boardmember Jason Hines about his recent column for Spectrum "Liberation and Reconciliation. We discuss Black Liberation

Intra-Racial Conflict & The Black Community

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Guests: Claudia Marion Allen: Doctoral Student at University of Maryland; Content Manager for Message Magazine Datrean Pileggi: Neuro physiologist, scholar, professor. This episode

Identity For Adventists With Michael Nixon

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Our Adventist Voice this week is the prophetic Michael Nixon, Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion at Andrews University. We discuss race, Adventist identity, his work with T

Humans Of Adventism

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In this episode of Adventist Voices I talk with Kaleb Eisele. We discuss how he founded Humans of Adventism ( ), what he's learned about empathy and

Girl Meets Church - Discussions On Religion, Justice, Culture & Intersectionali-T

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Episode 1: This episode explores the intersection of religion and politics, the Christian responsibility to engage community and civic engagement and personal development to sustai

Confessions Of An Adventist Boy

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In this first episode of Spectrum’s new podcast, “Adventist Voices,” Adventist Forum board member Alexander Carpenter talks with Jennifer Allen, author of the book Confession

Adventist Forum Board Chair Carmen Lau

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In this week’s Adventist Voices conversation, Alexander Carpenter talks with newly elected Adventist Forum (publisher of Spectrum) board chair Carmen Lau. After being a stay at h

Wolfwalker's Tomm Moore

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Bonnie Dwyer, Spectrum's editor, and I interview Oscar nominated filmmaker Tomm Moore, director of The Secret of the Kells (2009) about his new animated movie, Wolfwalkers availabl

William Miller's Influence On Ellen White

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For this week: I kick off a new Adventist Voices series with Donald Casebolt about his brand new book, Father Miller’s Daughter (2022). He talks about his extensive research show

What Is Family? Pride Edition

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Happy Pride month everyone, today, I have Chaplain and Spiritual Care Provider Roxan Del Valle. In honor of pride month, I want to talk about what is family. There is often controv

What Happened At Annual Council?

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From Silver Spring, Bonnie Dwyer, editor of Spectrum, and I recap the four days of Annual Council 2021, the General Conf. executive committee meetings. We discuss various reports,

Weird Adventist Stories

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Alisa Williams and Julius Nam join me to each tell and discuss stories from the less well history of Adventism. Alisa shares a story of a planted letter at the Ellen White Estate v

Valentine On Siegfried Horn

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In our third conversation on the three main figures in Gil Valentine's Ostriches and Canaries: Coping with Change in Adventist 1966 1979, we focus on Siegfried H. Horn, influentia

Vaccine Mandates, Alaska, Catholic Ethics

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I talk with bioethicist Mark Carr about the social responsibility of vaccines, his spiritual connection to Alaska, and what it’s like working for a Catholic healthcare system as

Trudy Morgan-Cole On History And Fiction

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Put a log on the fire and sip a hot beverage as you listen to prolific writer Trudy Morgan Cole discuss her novels about characters from the Bible and her more recent works of hist

Transcendence | The Story Of Ari Bates

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This week on Imago Gei, Kendra Arsenault interviews Ari Bates, a transgender woman currently studying and employed at Southern Adventist University. After publicly coming out as tr

Trans-Woman | Struggle And Triumph

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On this episode of Imago Gei, Randi Robertson discusses her journey as a trans woman married to her college sweetheart and working as an Air Force pilot for 22 years as well as an

Tom Stone’s Deuteronomy Project

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I interview Tom Stone about his new book, In the Shadow of the Pyramids: A Reflective Commentary on the Narrative of Deuteronomy, published by Westbow Press, a subsidiary of Thomas

The Year In Adventism With Bonnie Dwyer

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In our final podcast in 2019, Bonnie Dwyer, the editor of Spectrum, and Alexander Carpenter reflect on the year in Adventism including Annual Council and recent scholarly work on t

The Writing Life: Ron Osborn

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Prolific author Dr. Ron Osborn talks about current issues in Adventism, reads aloud from his book Death Before the Fall, and opens up about his experience with writer's block.See o

The Theodicy Of Richard Rice

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Concluding our tripartite conversation through Dr. Richard Rice’s intellectual and publishing history, in this third episode we discuss his 2014 book Suffering and the Search for

The State Of The Undead

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I interview Edson Oda, the Japanese Brazilian writer and director of the profound film, Nine Days. The story centers on a man, played by Winston Duke (Black Panther), who interview

The Right Girls Documentary

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This documentary, The Right Girls (2020), is about transgender women from Central America traveling in a caravan to the US border I talk with co producer Amador Jaojoco about how d

The Pryde | Lgbtq Senior Housing Project

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Gretchen Van Ness, Civil Rights Attorney and Executive Director at LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc., discusses how the LGBTQ affordable senior housing project took flight and why LGBTQ se

The Power Of Personal Story And Counternarrative In Reflective Theology

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On this LGBTQ Podcast, Dr. Melodie Roschman discusses her dissertation, "Identity, Counternarrative, and Community in Progressive Christian Women's Memoir," with Kendra Arsenault o

The Openness Of Richard Rice, Part 1

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In this first conversation in a multi part series, I interview Richard Rice, PhD, about his biography and extensive bibliography. We discuss Dr. Rice’s early life, what he learne

The Life And Ideas Of Charles Scriven: Part 1

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In this first of several Legend of Adventism conversations, I talk with Charles Scriven, PhD, about his biography while we also discuss his recent Spectrum series “Time to Start

The Life And Ideas Of Charles Scriven Part 3

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This week I talk again with legendary Adventist editor, pastor, college administrator, author, and longtime Spectrum leader Charles Scriven. We explore the final essay from his ser

The Life And Ideas Of Charles Scriven Part 2

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This week I talk again with legendary Adventist editor, pastor, college administrator, author, and longtime Spectrum board chair Charles Scriven. We explore two more essays from hi

The Lgbtq Experience

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On this episode of Imago Gei, a multitude of LGBTQ voices share their stories of struggle, triumph and faith, along with their complicated relationship with the church. Understandi

The Directors Of “Boys State”

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Winner of the U.S. Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, “Boys State” explores a thousand member annual effort to form a representative govern

The Dangers Of Deconstruction

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This week on Imago Gei, we are talking about the importance of the "box," as well as the dangers of deconstruction, especially when done in isolation. Imago Gei is a podcast dedi

The Community Of Richard Rice

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Here is part 2 of our series exploring Dr. Richard Rice’s books and biography. In this Dr. Rice talks about how he came to write Adventism’s first serious theology textbook, Th

The Brazilian Zealots

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I speak with two young Adventist intellectuals in Brazil who publish an online magazine (Zelota) with investigative journalism and detail rich op eds calling out the authoritarian