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Pastor Looks at Church Pacific Press Votes to Move Davenport Conllnission Overruled A Quarterly Journal of the Association of Adventist Forums Volume 13, Number 3 CHALL~ Prisons and the Prisoner Oppressed Brothers in the Soviet Union A pocalypse and the Environment SPECTRUM Editorial Board Consulting -Editors Roy Branson Earl W. Amnnchon Maqpret McFarland Ethics. Kennedy Institute President Attorney Editor Georgetown University Atlantic Union Conference Washington. D.C. Roy Branson Mollearui Conperus Eric Anderson LaVonne Neff Physician . History Publishing' Angwin. California Pacific Union College Downers Grove. Illinois Associate Editor Ge;'e Daffern Roy Beatoa Ronald Namben Physician Mathematics History of Medicine Charles Scriven Washington. D.C. Columbia Union College University of Wisconsin BonDie Dwyer. Geri Faller Guy Pattersoa Senior Editor Journalism Public Relations President Loma Linda. California Washington. D.C. Georgia-Cumberland Conference Tom Dybdahl TomDybdahl Raymoad Cottrell EdWard E. Robinsoa Editor Theology Attorney News Editor Allentown. Penniylvania Loma Linda. California Chicago. Illinois RiChard Emmer~on Richard Emmerson Gerh8rd svrcek..sen.r BonnIe Dwyer English English Psychiatrist Walla WaHa College Walla Walla College Vienna. Awtria Alvia L. Kwinm Carolr Stev_ . Manuscript Editor Chemistry : Lawreace Geraty Englis UniversitY of Washington Old Testament Walla Walla College Gene Daffern SDA Theological Seniinary Gary Lead Helea Ward ThompiOD History Fritz Gny . Administration Andrews University Theolo~ Walla Walla College Book Review SDA T ological Seminary Rennie Schoepflia L.E.T..... Editors History II.E.J. Harder Education . University of Wisconsin' Educational Administration" .Marienhoehe Gymnasium Peggy Corbett College Place. Washington Charles ScriVeD West Germany Theology Jorgea Henriksea Louis Veadea Rennie Schoepflin Walla Walla College Ariist Pastor Boston, Massachusetts Editorial Assistant Ottilie Stefford Loma Linda University Church Enr,lish Edward Lugeabeal At antic Union College Anthropology Dana Lauren West Berrien Springs. Michigan Association of Adventist Fonnns of Membership Columbia Executive Ronald D. Cople Secretary E. Theodore Agard Committee Business Vinette Ander.on Radiation PhysiCist President Silver Spring, Maryland Takoma Park. Maryland Kettering Medical-Center Lyndrey A. Niles Of Promotion Kettering. Ohio Communications Richard B. Lewis. Jr. Systems Manager Lake Howard University. Washington.D.C. Advertising Don McNeil RamiraJobe Executive Secretary Weston, Massachusetts Computer Programmer Attorney Claire Hostea Of Special Projects Spencerville, Maryland Berrien Springs. Michigan Attorney Glean E. Coe Northern Pacific Washington,D.C. State's Attorney John Brant Treasurer West Hartford, Connecticut Regional Theology Richard C. Osborn Walla Walla College Principal Representatives College Place, Washington Takoma Academy Central Southern Takoma Park, Maryland Darrell J. Hucnergardt T. Grace Emori Attorney Nursitig Directors Staff Kimball. Nebraska Atlanta. Georgia Of International Relations Legal Consultant Central Pacific Southern Pacific Molleums Couperus Bradley Litchfield Guy D. Cochraa Mike Scofield Physician Attorney Dental Surgeon Business Angwin. California Washington, D.C. Palo Alto. California. Monterey Park. California SPECTRUM is a journal established to encourage quarterly by the Association of Adventist Forums. Direct Seveuth-day Adventist participation in the discussion of all editorial correspondence to SPECTRUM, 7710 Carroll contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look Avenue, Takoma Park, Maryland 20912. Manuscripts without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the should be typewritten, double spaced and in matters of merits of diverse views, and to foster Christian intel­ style and documentation, conform to A Manual of Style lectual and cultural growth. Although effort is made to (University of Chicago Press). Submit the original and ensure accurate scholarship and discriminatingjudgment, two copies, along with a self-addressed, stamped enve­ the statements of fact are the responsibility of contrib­ lope. Responses from readers may be shortened before utors, and the views individual authors express are not publication. necessarily those of the editorial staff as a whole or as individuals. Subscription Information: In order to receive SPEC­ The Association of Adventist Forums is a nonsubsi­ TRUM, send a membership fee ($15 per 4 issues, except dized, nonprofit organization for which gifts are deduc­ $18 in Canada and in other foreign countries; $2 less for tible in the report of income for purposes of taxation. The students) to Association of Adventist Forums, Box 5330, publishing of SPECTRUM depends on subscriptions, gifts Takoma Park, Maryland 20912. Single copies may be from individuals and the voluntary efforts of the purchased for $4. Pay by check made out to the contributors and the staff. Association of Adventist Forums. For address changes, Editorial Correspondence: SPECTRUM is published send old address label alonj?; with the new address. @ 1983 All rights reserved. Litho USA In This Issue Volume Thirteen, Number 3, Published March 1983 ARTICLES The General Conference Overrules Commission on Davenport Disclosure Bonnie Dwyer 2 Ford and Van Rooyen Lose Ordinations Adrian Z ytkoskee 14 Is a Dissident an Apostate? A Pastor Looks at Church Discipline James Londis 17 SPECIAL SECTION The Oppressed Brother: The Challenge of the True and Free Adventists - Chuck Scriven 24 I Was in Prison Tom Dybdahl 31 Let the Wilderness be Glad! The Apocalypse and the Environment Barry Casey 40 REVIEWS 52 NEWS UPDATE 56 Liabilities of$7 million Force Pacific Press to Move: Indian Laypersons Run Independent Schools; John's Apocalypse Becomes Worship Service; Women's Discrimination Cases Enter Second Decade. RESPONSES 61 the American environment led to con­ flicts between the executive and legislative About This Issue branches of the United States government. The other articles in this issue deal with ith so many dra­ topics that also pose moral challenges. What W matic and far-reach­ are the moral standards demanded of ing events taking place within the denomi­ denominational leadership if they are to nation, it is ~asy to overlook the pain and maintain the trust of members? Do members distress in the larger community. Authors in of the Adventist church have a right to the special section remind Adventists of their know? If so, on what principled grounds can responsibilities to God's creatures and His leadership justifiably withhold information? creation. All the writers bring into sharper Do individuals employed by the church have moral focus parts of God's world that for rights to privacy even in their conduct of many of us remain blurred. Chuck Scriven official church business? Does Christian conducted his roundtable discussion soon morality suggest ways that discipline should after returning from the Soviet Union. Tom and should not be carried out? In this issue Dybdahl describes a mission he undertook as the last question is explored in depth by a part of his Christian discipleship. It Pastor James Londis. Other essays provide required his taking a leave of absence from a information about recent developments senior editorial post with a large publishing within the church that give rise to the wide firm. Barry Casey shares reflections he range of questions now troubling the presented in a slightly different form to the church. In subsequent issues of SPECTRUM national conference of the Association of we will return to the disciplinary actions Adventist Forums held in September 1982, now under way and the questions they raise. long before questions about protection of -The Editors Articles The General Conference Overrules Conunission On Davenport Disclosure by Bonnie Dwyer hen the General request a meeting of the respective W Conference Com­ constituency in order to place the matter mittee on Thursday, February 24, 1983, before that body." The General Conference reversed its action of the previous month Committee voted on the recommendation and voted 51 to 14 "not to proceed with the of the General Conference Officers, which previously proposed plan of publishing in includes the president, treasurer, secretary, the Adventist Review the names of individuals and all vice presidents, associate treasurers, in certain disciplinary categories," the and associate secretaries of the General Davenport affair moved from ;:t financial Conference-some 24 people. scandal to an open debate about authority in In addition to differing with the the Adventist Church. The General Confer­ commission on the publication of names, the ence Committee voted as it did despite the officers significantly altered the commis­ fact that the President's Review Commis­ sion's distribution of names into different sion, with a majority of lay members, four disciplinary categories. The most notable days before had unanimously voted to stand instances were the reduction of those who by its recommendation to disclose to the full should be removed or transferred from membership the names of those receiving office from 19 to nine, the non-disclosure of the most severe levels of discipline. any retired people's names no matter how The General Conference Committee serious their infractions, and more than action did say that General Conference/ doubling-from 40 to 81-the number ·of North American Division Officers would, people who were cleared completely. in personal representations, recommend Two
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