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Celebrating 50 Years of Adventist Forum on Earth As It Is in Heaven • the Madaba Plains Project Comes of Age • Compliance Review Committee System Set-Up Celebrating 50 Years of Adventist Forum On Earth as It Is in Heaven • The Madaba Plains Project Comes of Age • Compliance Review Committee System Set-up VOLUME 46 ISSUE 3 n 2018 ABOUT SPECTRUM SPECTRUM is a journal established to encourage Seventh-day Adventist partic- ipation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look ALL RIGHTS RESERVED COPYRIGHT © 2018 ADVENTIST FORUM without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the merits of diverse views, and to foster Christian intellectual and cul- EDITOR EDITORIAL BOARD tural growth. Although effort is made to Bonnie Dwyer Beverly Beem ensure accurate scholarship and discrimi- Walla Walla, Washington Richard Rice nating judgment, the statements of fact EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Riverside, California Alita Byrd are the responsibility of contributors, and Wendy Trim, Linda Terry Dublin, Ireland Charles Scriven Gilbert, Arizona the views individual authors express are ASSISTANT COPY EDITOR Alexander Carpenter not necessarily those of the editorial staff Sacramento, California Gerhard Svrcek-Seiler Ian Fujimoto-Johnson Vienna, Austria as a whole or as individuals. Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson DESIGN Roseville, California Gil Valentine Riverside, California SPECTRUM is published by Adventist Forum, Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson Fritz Guy a nonsubsidized, nonprofit organization for Riverside, California Kendra Haloviak- Valentine SPECTRUM WEB TEAM Riverside, California which gifts are deductible in the report of David R. Larson income for purposes of taxation. The pub- Alita Byrd, Pam Dietrich, Bonnie Beaumont, California Norman Young Cooranbong, Australia lishing of SPECTRUM depends on subscrip- Dwyer, Rich Hannon, Steve Hergert, Juli Miller tions, gifts from individuals, and the volun- Bellevue, Idaho Wendy Trim, Alisa Williams; tary efforts of the contributors. managing editor SPECTRUM can be accessed on the World Wide Web at www.spectrummagazine.org. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE ABOUT THE COVER ARTIST Direct all correspondence and letters to the editor to: Thomas Morphis is a San Francisco artist with a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. “I am honored be in the com- SPECTRUM pany of so many talented artists who have created covers P. O. Box 619047 for Spectrum magazine. And I speak for all of them when I Roseville, CA 95661-9047 say thank you to Spectrum for its practice of featuring and valuing visual artists for so many years.” Tel: (916) 774-1080 ABOUT THE COVER ART To mark Adventist Forum’s fifty-year celebration, this collage is made from pieces of fifty Fax: (916) 791-4938 previous Spectrum magazine covers. It represents the diversity of individuals and ideas and [email protected] the connections among them which are engendered by Adventist Forum. The artists whose covers are included this collage are: Eunice Aguilar, Mindy Bielas, Francisco Badilla Briones, Cabel Bumanglag, Greg Constantine, Amy Cronk, Rod Crossman, Elizabeth Davis, Thomas Letters to the editor may be edited for publication. Emmerson, Peter Erhard, Janene Evard, Karen Gimbel, Richard W. Hawkins, Joe Hoskins, John Hoyt, Ronald L. Jolliffe, Kim Justinen, Heather Langley, London L. Lee, Milbert Mariano, Mar- ISSN: 0890-0264 tha Mason, James McClelland, John McDowell, Beatriz Mejia-Krumbein, Thomas Morphis, Grant Ordleheide, Lisie S. Orjuela, Bodi Parkhurst, Rosemary Peterson, James Reeder, Kent Rich, Cliff Rusch, Max Seabaugh, Richard Simonsen, Casey Speegle, Morris Taylor, Maria-Jose SUBSCRIPTIONS AND ADVERTISING Triguero, Shelley Utt, Carolyn Gard Waldron, Jared Wright, and Charles Zuill. [email protected] (916) 774-1080 VOLUME 46 ISSUE 3 SPECTRUM CONTENTS 8 Editorials 2 A Toast to the Many Teams! | BY BONNIE DWYER 3 Does Reality Butt Heads with Adventist Apocalypticism? | BY CHARLES SCRIVEN Noteworthy 5 Compliance Review Committee System Set Up at the General Conference | BY BONNIE DWYER Bible 9 On Earth as It Is in Heaven | BY BRUCE BOYD History of Adventism Forum 15 The Importance of Independence Marks the First Fifty Years | BY BONNIE DWYER 22 The Metro New York Adventist Forum: Celebrating its First Fifty Years | BY RONALD LAWSON Art in Adventism 24 The Apocalypse of Adventist Art | BY ALEXANDER CARPENTER 29 Pictures for an Exhibition | ART CATALOG Archaeology 69 The Madaba Plains Project Comes of Age: MPP@50 | BY DOUGLAS CLARK, ET AL. 1 spectrum VOLUME 46 ISSUE 3 n 2018 EDITORIAL n From the Editor A Toast to the Many Teams! | BY BONNIE DWYER Better Together writers with their ideas, observations, and reporting have changed our world. Given us hope. At least, that is Together we can make it happen! what they did for me after I moved away from Southern California’s robust Adventist community. As a new stay- Never doubt that a small group of committed cit- at-home mom in a new town with few friends, Spectrum izens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only kept Adventist thinking a regular part of my life. So I thing that ever has. was happy to accept an occasional assignment as a free- lance writer for the magazine. hen a paper that I wrote as a journalism Then, in 1998, I accepted the position of Spectrum edi- major at Loma Linda University’s La tor and I developed a greater appreciation for additional Sierra Campus was published in Spectrum teams that became very important in the process of pub- in 1977, I found myself on the team of lishing a journal: the artists, photographers, and designers authorsW for the Volume 8, Number 4 issue that included that we celebrate in this issue of the journal and with an Dort F. Tikker, Wilfred M. Hillock, Donald McAdams, exhibition of art at the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration Dave Schwantes, Elvin Benton, Darren Michael, Willis Conference, September 14–16, at La Sierra University. J. Hackett, Fred Veltman, William Wright, and Wayne Their art has changed our vision of Adventism. Addition- ally, there are the very special teams that worked in the Spectrum offices and on the editorial advisory board over These writers with their ideas, observations, the years, all seventy-six of them. And with the creation of the website, another team emerged and made Spectrum and reporting have changed our world. into something to be read not just quarterly, but daily. And of course, the team that made sure that it all got paid for—the Adventist Forum Board of Directors. Judd, none of whom I then knew other than by name. As we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Adventist Well, Elvin Benton was the father of my friend Roy Forum, I want to thank the many teams that have come Benton. And I had met Wilfred Hillock, because he together over the years, giving us their very best. Thank taught at La Sierra where I had just graduated. But our you, thank you, and again I say thank you. To our readers, teamwork happened in the publication process, not in a our friends, our families. room together, or on a field or sports court. Our coaches, editors Roy Branson and Charles Scriven, worked with us What a grand adventure! individually and then orchestrated the publication of our What a platform for the future! work. And we were better together. For fifty years, teams of writers have come together in similar fashion and their collective efforts have com- BONNIE DWYER is editor of Spectrum magazine. bined to create a place of openness and significance within the Seventh-day Adventist community. These 2 spectrum VOLUME 46 ISSUE 3 n 2018 From the Forum Chairman n EDITORIAL Does Reality Butt Heads with Adventist Apocalypticism? BY CHARLES SCRIVEN Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and the media and the tiresome pessimism of left-wing, secu- Progress lar academia. Despite the constant “drumbeat of doom,” By Steven Pinker Enlightenment science and reason have helped the fol- Viking, 2018, 556 pp., $35.00 lowing, he says, to have happened: Violence overall is down; so is death among the very Why Liberalism Failed young, and so is discrimination against women, children, By Patrick Deneen gays and lesbians. As for famine and lethal infectious dis- Yale University Press, 2018, 225 pp., $30.00 ease, both are declining rapidly. The world’s wealth, on the other hand, is hugely greater that it once was, and more evenly distributed; poverty, even among racial mi- ope is the heart of Adventism. According to norities, has fallen. Life expectancy is up. Education is this hope, life on earth is bound to get worse, better and more widely available, with IQs themselves but at the point of final cataclysm, divine higher by thirty points than for our ancestors. People are, rescue—the Second Coming—interrupts, and by a mile, safer than they used to be. Hall who are “ready” leave earth for heaven. Though some raise doubts, Pinker’s arguments for these For nearly three years now, I have belonged to a small congregation in Gilbert, AZ, just twenty minutes east of the Phoenix Airport. The congregation rents wor- Humanity’s record shows (even if it does not ship space and shares (but for more than a year had not even had) a pastor. Early on, I sat in what was then the guarantee) that passion for knowledge and use only adult Sabbath School class, and discovered that, of the scientific method can “improve the human among those present, I alone was a lifelong Adventist. All the others had joined the church as adults, and were condition,” including the human moral condition. still largely under the influence of evangelists like Doug Batchelor who continue, it seems, to define official -Ad ventism. These people held the eschatology I have just points are, on the whole, convincing. The Enlightenment described, and still do. makes the claim that “we can apply reason and sympathy to Now comes the well-known Steven Pinker, self-assured enhance human flourishing,” and Pinker backs it up.
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