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John Thomas Mclarty Senior Associate Editor James H $5.00 march | april 2006 adventist today volume 14 issue 2 Intellectual Adventism FORD & THE SPIRitUAL RENaissaNCE RETREat : 12 | ADRA RESPONDS TO EaRTHQUAKE : 14 Foundation Board Editorial | John McLarty Elwin Dunn—Board Chair Ervin Taylor—Board Vice-Chair Eugene Platt—Treasurer John McLarty Greg Billock Union of Church Keith Colburn Diana Fisher Edmund Jones Chuck Mitchell Madelyn Nelson and Reality Jim Nelson Randy Roberts Nate Schilt hen I ask Adventists they quit thinking . Eldon Stratton and listening. But the their views on abortion, If we keep our James Stirling proper way to bring John Vogt »church safe and James Walters many dodge the religious perspectives Kit Watts into the political or pure, we will also moral question and civic realm is to voice Raymond F. Cottrell keep it irrelevant immediately address the our deepest convictions Endowment Board and insignificant James Walters—Board Chair Wpolitical questions. Then, almost as quickly, they as “our testimony” Douglass Ewing duck behind the Adventist doctrine of separation rather than as “the for most of our James Nelson of church and state. We should not impose our moral verdict.” Our religious Nate Schilt children and Ervin Taylor values on others. End of discussion. views no less than our Something similar happens when I ask about political views are our neighbors. A Advisory Council war, earth stewardship, health care, pornography or convictions (not the radical divorce SENIOR LIFETIME ADVISORS* public education. We are afraid to get our religion truth). “Bearing witness” Beth and Elwin Dunn between our Kathi and Richard Guth dirty by taking it into the real world. But by keeping to our convictions is not Marilynn and Ervin Taylor our religion “pure and undefiled,” I fear we are not the same as making a religious thinking Priscilla and James Walters just separating church and state; we are separating wise decision. But if done and our political LIFETIME ADVISORS** church from reality. with respect for others, Albert Koppel thinking will The Adventist obsession with the separation it can aid in making Joan Ogden of church and state has led to utter silence in the decisions that bear the impoverish both. [SUSTAINING ADVISORS+] face of human rights abuses. Adventist leaders test of time. We do our religion have congratulated themselves on their amicable Adventist Today is UNDERWRITING ADVISORS++ Kelli and Robert Black relationships with dictators in Latin America and committed to bringing and the world a Mariellyn and Edwin Hill elsewhere. Back in the bad old days of the USSR, Adventist convictions disservice if we Thaine Price Adventist leaders at the General Conference and to bear on every area of William Sandborn keep our religion Tracy and R. 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If we done that in a had labeled them, W was surely “liberal,” and Y was reasonable “conservative.” One of the students once asked me, fashion, and his “Which of them most nearly reflects Jesus?” I can’t join ATS for doctrinal reasons (they treatment of demand that I believe in a literal seven-day enemies appears creation—a position I see as questionable), but more humanitar- I subscribe to and read their publications. I am a ian and just than member of AAF (the Adventist left?). Goldstein (AT Nov/Dec 2005) obviously does not know the genocide who welcomes another group seeking to express its practiced by the interpretation of our faith in the “marketplace of Hebrews. 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