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Newsletter March 2014 Safe Places Newsletter March 2014 “Instructors in our schools should never be bound about by being told that they are to teach only what has been told hitherto. way with such restrictions. There is a God to give the message His people shall speak'. That which God gives His servants to spespeakak today wouldwould not perhaps have been present truth twenty yearsyears ago, but it is God)s message for this time.* +++,llen+,llen -hite Manuscript .a 1..., a talk to ministers delivered on October 21, 1.... “ sk and it shall be given unto you. Seek and ye shall find. 0nock and the door will be opened unto you*you* 1Matthew 232, .4. 5ear Colleagues, March 2014 his month we)re delighted to have articles by three people with decades of high78uality contributions to the Seventh7day dventist Church. Over his 357year career, Mitch Tyner was a pastor, religious T liberty director, and Legal Counsel to the General Conference. Reinder Bruinsma is a long7time pastor and church administrator. He is about to leave his home in The Netherlands for a 8uarter of teaching at Loma Linda University. Reinder earned his Ph5 in church history at the University of London. Gilbert Valentine is chair of the 5epartment of Leadership and dministration at La Sierra University. ll three men share a passion for understanding our dventists roots and developing ways to incorporate that understanding as we address issues we face today. For the neAt few months we will be testing a new format for this newsletter. Based on feedback at a recent Safe Places meeting, we)re working to make it easier for you to access the articles and/or information that is most interesting or helpful to you. In each section we will have an introductory paragraph and then a link to the rest of the article. Cou will be able to scan the overall topics in Dust a page or so. -e)ll be delighted if you are able to take the time to let us know what you think. This month we are beginning our series on ways we have addressed “heated* theological topics in the past. Our first article is Gil Valentine)s short discussion of our Dourney toward a Trinitarian view of Eesus. -e had a re8uest to share some of the research and professional thinking about “reparative therapies* and “change ministries.* Cou)ll find an overview in our research section as well as a list of 135 references for those of you who would like a more in7depth study of this topic. -e added three new short videos to our resource section. Eonathan Haidt)s 207minute T,5 talk goes over some of the basic constructs of our notion of morality, taking a look at ways both conservatives and liberals bring valuable perspectives to some of the difficult ethical conversations of our day. -e)ve included a talk by Tony Campolo about working with a gay son. Since ,Aodus was one of the longest standing support groups for orientation change, we included a film by some of their former leaders. This month, as many of you already know, there will be a summit on homoseAuality, organiFed by the administration of the General Conference. The organiFers chose to present primarily, if not eAclusively, one side of this topic that is affecting many individuals, families, and congregations inside our denomination. Many people wrote to the organiFing committee re8uesting that two perspectives of the issue of lesbian/gay/biseAual/transgender/interseA dventists in the church be shared. -e)ve included four of their e7 mails. s always you are welcome to share this newsletter with anyone you think would enDoy and benefit from reading it. If you know of anyone who would like to be added to the mailing list, we can be reached at SafePlacesGbuildingsafeplaces.org. If you have comments, criti8ues, 8uestions, concerns, or a desire to chat with us, you are most welcome to write. If you would like to be taken off our mailing list, you can reach us at the same address. -e wish you many blessings, Catherine Taylor and the Safe Places Team3 Ruud 0ieboom, Floyd PoenitF, Frieder Schmid, Ingrid Schmid, and ,lodie Souil 2 In this month)s issue Public Policy Issues Involving HomoseAuality3 n Recent Research dventist Response In 2002, a task force of the merican HomoseAuality+more particularly, the status of Psychological ssociation undertook a thorough homoseAuals and their relationships before the review of the eAisting research on the efficacy of law+has become one of the most confrontational, reparative therapy. Their report noted that there divisive topics of our time, both politically and was very little methodologically sound research on theologically. Recently, numerous Durisdictions seAual orientation change efforts 1SOC,s4 and that have moved significantly toward legal e8uality for the “results of scientifically valid research indicate homoseAuals, including listing seAual orientation as that it is unlikely that individuals will be able to a protected category in local or state human rights reduce same7seA attractions or increase other7seA statutes and recogniFing homoseAual marriage or seAual attractions through SOC,.* In addition, the domestic partnership. task force found that “there are no How do we, corporately and individually, relate methodologically sound studies of recent SOC, to the religio7political 8uestions involving homo7 that would enable the task force to make a seAuality that are currently producing so much definitive statement about whether or not recent heat and so little lightH -hat are the considerations SOC, is safe or harmful and for whom.* that should be involved in the formation of an Read more on page 10 dventist response to such public issuesH Read more on page 4 Love Lost ininin Translation3 HomoseAuality and thethethe Reaction to Cape Town Summit Bible. 1Book Review4 The Seventh7day dventist church is planning a 0. Renato Lings is a 5anish biblical scholar and large, international summit on homoseAuality this linguist who has focused much of his academic month in Cape Town, South frica. The organiF7 work on the biblical stories and passages that are ing committee, including General Conference often 8uoted as having a negative bearing on President Ted -ilson, has planned four days of homoseAuality. In this new, independently sessions talking about LGBT people or “alternative published book he has provided us with a very seAualities.* -hile they invited three people who comprehensive study on this topic. This substantial describe themselves as eA7gay, they are not book can make a significant contribution to the allowing active lesbian, gay, biseAual, transgender, ongoing debate among Christians about the or interseA dventists to share their own stories. biblical arguments for and against same7seA Read more on page 1I relationships. Read more on page . How Clearer Views of Eesus 5eveloped in the dventist Church 5iscussions of the doctrine of the Trinity are again rippling the surface of dventist reflection on the nature of the Godhead. In some 8uarters the eddies of discussion gurgle 8uietly. In other places the water is Dust plain choppy. Read more on page 24 Resources Page 19 3 Visions of God and the Church Public Policy Issues Involving HomoseAuality3 n dventist Response By Mitchell . Tyner 7 Maryland, US omoseAuality+more particularly, the status of homoseAuals and their relationships before the law+ has become one of the most confrontational, divisive topics of our time, both politically and Htheologically. Recently, numerous Durisdictions have moved significantly toward legal e8uality for homoseAuals, including listing seAual orientation as a protected category in local or state human rights statutes and recogniFing homoseAual marriage or domestic partnership. How do we, corporately and individually, relate to the religio7political 8uestions involving homoseAuality that are currently producing so much heat and so little lightH -hat are the considerations that should be in7 volved in the formation of an dventist response to such public issuesH Consider four 8uestions3 the first two scriptural and timeless, the last two more contemporary. The list is not eAhaustiveK it should include, but is not limited to, the following. 1.1.1. 5oes thethethe proposed position maAimiFe human freedomH To be faithful to scripture, our positions on public “Father, I have sinned before you and before God. policy issues should work to maAimiFe human I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Eust freedom to the highest appropriate level. rguably, hire me and let me live out in the bunk house the most revealing scripture passage involving with the hired hands.* -ith that, he started home. freedom is Luke 15, the passage that I call The The father had never given up on his son)s Story of the -aiting Father. return. One day, far off down the road, he sees a young man, raised on an affluent but remote pathetic figure limping along. HeMs lame, he)s ill7 farm, went to his father and said, “5ad, I)m bored. kempt, and he)s dirty. But the father immediately I)m tired of living way out here. I want to eAperi7 recogniFes him as his son. He hurries off the ence the world for myself. I want to go to the big porch, down the path, through the gate, and down city. I want to do my own thing. nd 5ad, I want the road to meet his son. s they meet, the son you to give me an advance on my inheritance to begins his prepared speech of contrition3 finance the trip.* Nothing in either Eewish or “5ad, I)ve blown itK I)m not worthy to be Roman law gave the father any obligation to grant called your son...* and he never gets to finish the that re8uest, but he did.
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