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A Biblical Perspective on the Immigration Debate the Migrant Cain and Abel: A Biblical Perspective on the Immigration Debate The Migrant Crisis: Mopping Up While the Tap is Still Running The Turnip Picker Florida Hospital Hits the NASCAR Circuit Tempered Enthusiasm: Adventists and the Temperance Movement Let the Slave Reply Reading Recommendations from Roy Branson’s Sabbath School Class VOLUME 44 ISSUE 1 I 2016 SPECTRUM is a journal established to encourage Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discus- sion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the merits of diverse views, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED COPYRIGHT © 2016 ADVENTIST FORUM and to foster Christian intellectual and cultural growth. Although effort is made to ensure accu- rate scholarship and discriminating judgment, the Editor Bonnie Dwyer statements of fact are the responsibility of con- Editorial Assistants Wendy Trim, Linda Terry tributors, and the views individual authors express Design Laura Lamar are not necessarily those of the editorial staff as a Spectrum Web Team Alita Byrd, Pam Dietrich, whole or as individuals. Bonnie Dwyer, Rich Hannon, Steve Hergert, Wendy Trim, Alisa Williams; Jared Wright, managing SPECTRUM is published by Adventist Forum, a editor nonsubsidized, nonprofit organization for which gifts are deductible in the report of income for About the cover art: purposes of taxation. 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Art has always been a peripheral pursuit, but cre- ativity is central to his identity. winter 2016 VOLUME 44 ISSUE 1 SPECTRUM 4 contents Editorials and Feedback 5 2 Confronting Prejudice | BY BONNIE DWYER 3 The Holy Spirit and the Frozen Chosen | BY CHARLES SCRIVEN 4 Creativity Comes Alive: Coloring Contest Winners Announced Noteworthy 8 5 Watching Waves: Andrews University Professor Helps Make Physics History | BY CLINTON JACKSON Bible 9 Loving Others Like Jesus Loves You | BY JOHN MENDIS 11 11 Cain and Abel: A Biblical Perspective on the Immigration Debate | BY ABIGAIL DOUKHAN Migrant Journeys 17 The Turnip Picker | BY DESIREE LACEY 19 Paradise Valley Refugee Assimilation Project | BY WILL JAMES 17 26 The Migrant Crisis: Mopping up while the tap is still running | BY HELEN PEARSON; Serbia: On the Road to Hope | BY MIRKO RUDI; Macedonia: The Caring Hand of Support | BY MAJA VUCINIC; ADRA in the Middle East | BY MEMORY COX AND BRITT CELINE OLDEBRÅTEN Health and Health Care 26 41 Tempered Enthusiasm: Adventists and the Temperance Movement | BY RICHARD RICE 56 The Adventist Church and Its American Health Systems | BY GERALD WINSLOW 62 Florida Hospital Signs Contract with Daytona Speedway | BY JARED WRIGHT Race and Adventism 41 66 “Let the Slave Reply”: The Critical Sabbatarian Adventist Decade, Ellen White, and Blacks | BY BENJAMIN BAKER 71 Adventism’s Promise for Black Liberation | BY DOUGLAS MORGAN| BY XXX Books 66 79 Reading Recommendations from Roy Branson’s Sabbath School Class | BY RON GRAYBILL AND DAVE LARSON Poem back cover Prayer Psalm | BY DAVE REYNOLDS WWW.SPECTRUMMAGAZINE.ORG 1 EDITORIAL I from the editor Confronting Prejudice | BY BONNIE DWYER acist, prejudiced labels are getting regarding race that have been recently expressed thrown around a lot by politicians in our community.” R in this election season. But I was Next came news that in an attempt to fight surprised to find them in the Sab- on-campus racism, Andrew Ashley and his friend bath School lesson recently, as the study on the Jordan Putt set up a hashtag #LivetoListen and Great Controversy moved to a discussion of the asked people to post photos and tributes to peo- Racism in our Early Church. The quarterly called out the ple of a different race who had made a differ- national prejudices of the disciples, with Peter ence in their lives. Their commitment to community, being the poster boy whose prejudice God con- fighting racism by listening helped restore my fronted with a vision. That was followed for faith in Adventist college students. Peter by a visit to the home of the centurion Racism in our community, in our hearts; here in our hearts; Cornelius, where Peter greets his host and the we thought we were beyond all that. The stories other guests by saying that according to Jewish in this issue, about the Paradise Valley Church law he shouldn’t be associating with them. He and the work of ADRA, are meant to provide here we tries to take the sting out of his remark, howev- hope from within our community about how we er, by saying that God has shown him that no treat one another, but also to help us address the thought we man should be considered impure or unclean. issues of prejudice that divide us. The conversa- Makes you wonder what the people were mut- tion continues online with an article by Tom tering under their breath after that. DeBrun titled “I Was a Refugee.”. I were beyond My take-away from the lesson was that the Great Controversy plays out not only on the Bonnie Dwyer is editor of Spectrum magazine. cosmic canvas, but in our hearts and minds. To all that. wit, the teachers’ edition of the quarterly sum- Correction: In Richard Rice’s article “When Philosophy Killed marized the lesson with this sentence: “We can- God: Analytic Philosophy and the Death of God—What the Sixties Have to Tell Us” in Vol. 43, No. 4, on page 28, the para- not overcome our own prejudices or withstand graph about Paul M. van Buren should read: the forces of evil except by the power of the According to van Buren, secularity is simply a given for peo- Holy Spirit.” ple today. It is not something we may or may not choose to With that lesson ringing in my ears, I turned embrace; it is part of what we are. So, the choice facing mod- ern Christians is not whether or not to be secular. It is whether on my computer and was disappointed to see or not they can find a meaningful understanding of their faith prejudice rearing its ugly head on social media within this perspective. Their choice is either a secular Gospel after a Black Christian Union vespers presenta- or no Gospel at all. tion at Southern Adventist University. The Uni- Our interpretation of the Gospel must be “secular” because modern thought is grounded in the “empirical attitudes” (20, versity administration shut down Yik Yak, and 84) that characterize believers and unbelievers alike (79). expressed its disappointment on Twitter saying, “Southern’s administration is appalled and deeply saddened by the hurtful, insensitive comments 2 spectrum VOLUME 44 ISSUE 1 I 2016 EDITORIAL I from the forum chairman The Holy Spirit and the Frozen Chosen | BY CHARLES SCRIVEN all it Holy Spirit Adventism, the kind that ond-greatest disappointment, after October 22, 1844. throws its arms around Jesus’ promise (John It’s a dark reminder, certainly, of bureaucratic resistance C 16) that he will bear us all, through the to the Holy Spirit. Jesus made it clear, after all, that the Spirit, toward the new, toward a faithful- Spirit would nudge true disciples toward deeper embodi- ness fully liberated from ruts and rigidity. ment of the radical welcome He preached and lived. His Bureaucracies get nervous around the Holy Spirit. The words and deeds undermined any basis for exclusion other young as outspoken as the old; the powerless talking than sheer refusal to respond (Matthew 18), and led Paul, change and sounding off like prophets—it’s discombobu- just a few years later, to exclaim that in Christ there is nei- lating. But it’s also…how the Gospel unthaws the frozen chosen. ther Jew nor Greek, nor slave nor free, nor even “male and The Jesus movement…moves; it’s too wild for confinement. female” (Galatians 3:28). Inside the church, status distinc- I have no formal connection with the One Project, but tions based on luck—your color or gender; your language in February I was present and grateful when this year’s or circumstance—simply dissolve. American “gathering” convened in Seattle. Under gray Sin-twisted souls balk at this. That’s why, at His last skies and light, light rain (only tourists carry umbrellas), meal, Jesus held His tongue even when He had more 1,000 people assembled in the Westin Hotel, some saying things to say— “[Y]ou cannot bear them now,” He told this was their “camp meeting.” His inner circle (again, John 16).
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