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Reshaping the North American . Division The Voice of H.M.S. Richards Adventist Media Center at the Crossroads Must Polygamists Divorce? A Quarterly Journal of the Association of Adventists Fonuns Volmne 13, Nmnber I - ! t .. RESHAPING THE NORTH AMERICAN . DIVISION The Case for a North American Division . Current Opinion at the General Conference Confer~nce Mergers in Mid-America SPECTRUM Margaret Mcfarland Editor Editorial Board Consulting Editors Attorney " Roy Branson Roy Branson Earl W. Amuudson Washington. D.C. Ethics. Kennedy Institute President LaVouue Neff " Georgetown U~versity Atlantic Union Conference Publishing Associate Editor Molleuru. Couperus Eric Anderson Downers Grove. Illinois Physician History Rouald Numbers Charles Scriven Angwin. California Pacific Union College History of Medicine Gene Daffern Ro),Beuton University of Wisconsin Senior Editor Physician Mathematics GaryP_uon Washington. D.C. Columbia Union College President Tom Dybdahl BoDDie Dwyer Geri Fuller Georgia-Cumberland Conference Journalism Public Relations Edward E. Robinson Loma Linda. California Washington. D.C; Attorney News Editor Tom Dybdahl Raymond Cottrell Chicago. Illinois Bonnie Dwyer Editor Theology Gerhard Svrcek-Seller Allentown, Pennsylvania Loma Linda. California Psychiatrist Alvin L. Kwiram Lawrence Geraty Vienna, Austria Manuscript Editor Chemistry Old Testament Carolyn Stevens University of Washington SDA Theological Seminary English Gene Daffern Gary Land Fritz Guy Wana Walla College History Theology Helen Ward Thompoon Book Review Andrews University SDA Theological Seminary Administration ReDDie Schoepfliu F.E.J. Harder Walla Walla College Editors History Educational Administration L. E. Tlider Peggy Corbett University of Wisconsin College Place. W!'Shington Education Charles Scriven Jorgen Heurikaon Marienhoehe Gymnasium Rennie Schoepflin Theology Artist West Germany Walla Walla College Boston. Massachusetts Louis Venden Ottilie Stafford Edward Lagenbeal Pastor English Anthropology Loma Linda University Church A dantic Union College Berrien Springs, Michigan Association of Adventist Forums Executive Directors Systems Manager Columbia Don McNeU E. Theodore Agard Committee Of International Relations 'Computer Programmer Radiation Physicist Molleurus Couperus President Spen~i:rville. Maryland Kettering Medical Center Physician Kettering, Ohio GleuuE. Cae Angwin, California State's Attorney Regional Northern Pacific West Hartford. Connecticut Of Membership Johu Brunt Rouald D. Cople Representatives Theology V ice President Business Lyndrey A. Niles Silver Spring. Maryland Adantic Walla Walla Colle~ Communications Richard B. Lewis. Jr. College Place, Was "ngton Howard University, Washington, D.C. Advertising Southern Executive Secretary Staff Boston, Massachusetts T. Grace Emori Ciaire Hasten Secretary Central Nursing Attorney Vinette Anderson Darrell J. Huenergardt A danta. Georgia Washington, D.C. Takoma Park, Maryland Attorney Southern Pacific Kimball. Nebraska Treasurer Legal Consultant Mike Scofield Richard C. Osborn Bradley Litchfield Central Pacific Business Principal Attorney Guy D. Cochran Monterey Park, California Takoma Academy Washington, D.C. Dental Surgeon Takoma Park. Maryland Palo Alto, California SPECTRUM is a journal established to encourage Editorial Correspondence: SPECTRUM is published - Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discussion of quarterly by the Association of Adventist Forums. Direct contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look all editorial correspondence to SPECTRUM, Box 5330, without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the Takoma Park, Maryland 20912. 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TRUM, send a membership fee ($15 per 4 issues, except The Association of Adventist Forums is a nonsubsi­ $18 in Canada and in other foreign countries; $2 less for dized, nonprofit organization for which gifts are deduc­ students) to Association of Adventist Forums, Box 5330, tible in the report of income for purposes of taxation. The Takoma Park, Maryland 20912. Single copies may be publishing of SPECTRUM depends on subscriptions, gifts purchased for $4. Pay by check made out to the from individuals and the voluntary efforts of the Association of Adventist Forums. For address changes, contributors and the staff. send old address label along with the new address. @ 1982. All rights reserved. Litho USA In This Issue Volume Thirteen, Number 1, Published September 1982 SPECIAL SECTION: Reshaping the North American Division The Case for an Independent North American Division Ray Cottrell 2 An Independent North American Division: Current General Conference Opinions Geri Ann Fuller 15 Merging Unions and Conferences: The Example of Mid-America Jiggs Gallagher 21 ARTICLES Soul-searching at the Adventist Media Center: A Multi-Million Dollar Debate Bonnie Dwyer 26 The Voice ofB.M.S. Richards John Robertson 36 Must Polygamists Divorce? Russell Staples 44 POETRY Full Moon Cloudy Night Slivered Shards John Hamer 54 REVIEWS 55 RESPONSES 59 UPDATE Adventist Women's Association, One Adventist Health System for USA? Where are Evangelicals Headed? -Compiled by General Conference Headquarters For Sale Bonnie Dwyer 61 About This Issue he future of the Ad­ theologians and its pre-eminent authority on T ventist denomination the anthropology of Africa, introduces you depends on its vision, not its structure. We to perhaps the most poignant pastoral prob­ remain committed to publishing construc­ lem currently facing Adventists in Africa. tive glimpses of what Adventism might be. Three articles in this issue report on But structure does impair or improve lives, institutions. Particularly the article by Geri stifling originality and effectiveness or help­ Fuller on the North American Division and ing to achieve potential. This issue examines Bonnie Dwyer on the Adventist Media one possible innovation in denominational Center, were based on interviews with organization about which there are pas­ scores of denominational officials. The au­ sionately held and conflicting views. What­ thors may have wanted even mote infor­ ever your opinions, we think the authors of mation than they obtained, or wished more these essays will leave you better informed. individuals had spoken for attribution, but You will also learn from this issue facts they report an impressive willingness of you had never known before about H.M.S. Adventist denominational leaders to discuss Richards, probably the most widely admired sensitive topics. The Adventist Media Cen­ man in Adventism. Also, Russell Staples, ter was especially candid. one of the denomination's best-informed -The Editors The Case for an Independent North American Division Raymond F. Cottrell he time has come for participation by the North American church T a bona fide, truly in a genuine North American Division is independent North American Division, responsible for its painfully slow growth- operating on democratic principles, and 3.3 percent per year in North America, linked to a genuinely international General compared with a 5.8 percent average in the Conference. The General Conference overseas divisions.! should establish the same relationship to With all due respect for the laudable North America that it maintains with all intentions of those who formulated, and other segments of the world church. The those who perpetuate, the current relation­ term North American Division is mis­ ship of the General Conference to North leading; North America is not a true America, it has worked to the serious division. The present relationship of North disadvantage of the North American church America to the General Conference is and hindered its mission to the people of unique-and objectionable. It affords the North America. church in North America little voice in its One bar to an independent North Amer­ own affairs, and thereby impedes fulfillment ican Division has been concern that North of the church's mission to the people of America might use its financial resources to North America. It must be changed. pursue its own priorities and undermine the Under the special General Conference unity of the world church. But true unity arrangement now existing for North Amer­ around the world can be more real and ica, the General Conference has focused its enduring when the General Conference efforts on the world field and not allowed recognizes and respects the need and right of North America to explore its own ways of the church in different parts of the world­ pursuing the church's mission in its part of including North America-to do things the world. Full division status in the other differently. The world mission of the church world divisions is unquestionably an impor­ should not be hindered by demanding world­ tant factor contributing to the phenomenal wide uniformity. Rigid uniformity is self­ growth of the church outside North Amer­ defeating, whereas flexibility
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