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Rising Above a Culture of Lies How to Tell the Bible and Its Fundamental Rising Above a Culture of Lies How to Tell the Bible and its Fundamental Beliefs as One Powerful Story Adventist Hall of Fame Luther and Romans: Five Hundred Years Later Ties that Bind: A Research Report on the Experience of Adventist Youth Coming Out Protest and Progress: Untold Stories in Adventist History VOLUME 45 ISSUE 1 n 2017 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 © 2017 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 contrib- Editorial Assistants Wendy Trim, Linda Terry utors, and the views individual authors express are Design Laura Lamar not necessarily those of the editorial staff as a Spectrum Web Team Hallie Anderson, Alita Byrd, whole or as individuals. Pam Dietrich, Bonnie Dwyer, Rich Hannon, Steve Hergert, Wendy Trim, Jared Wright, Alisa Williams; managing SPECTRUM is published by Adventist Forum, a editor nonsubsidized, nonprofit organization for which gifts are deductible in the report of income for purposes of taxation. The publishing of SPEC- ABOUT THE COVER ART Editorial Board: TRUM depends on subscriptions, gifts from indi- AND ARTIST viduals, and the voluntary efforts of the For four decades, Dr. Morris Beverly Beem Richard Rice Taylor (1931–2016) was on Walla Walla, Washington Loma Linda, California contributors. the faculty of SDA universi- Alita Byrd Charles Scriven ties. He retired as Professor Dublin, Ireland Phoenix, Arizona SPECTRUM can be accessed on the World Wide Emeritus of Music, of Web at www.spectrummagazine.org. Andrews University. In the Alexander Carpenter Gerhard Svrcek-Seiler capacity of his missionary Sacramento, California Vienna, Austria credential, he taught Bible Editorial Correspondence Sharon Fujimoto- Norman Young classes for youth and Johnson Cooranbong, Australia Direct all correspondence and letters to the editor to: adults, and raised up a Sev- Sacramento, California enth-day Adventist church in Appalachia. In his sixties Fritz Guy SPECTRUM Riverside, California Morris acted upon his P. O. Box 619047 inherent homosexuality; he David R. Larson Roseville, CA 95661-9047 came out and quickly be- Loma Linda, California came a community leader and advocate. He fought Juli Miller tel: (916) 774-1080 Sun Valley, Idaho for inclusion and mutual fax: (916) 791-4938 respect, key ideas in the [email protected] featured painting. The cover illustration titled Letters to the editor may be edited for publication. A House of Prayer for All People appears in Nine ISSN: 0890-0264 Lives of Morris: Great Tales from One Cool Cat!, the last book produced by Subscriptions and Advertising Dr. Taylor before his death [email protected] in 2016. The painting illus- (916) 774-1080 trates the chapter Church Outing No Picnic, in which he describes his experience at the San Diego Adventist Forum, when he told his personal story of coming out in a public space. VOLUME 45 ISSUE 1 SPECTRUM contents 3 Editorials 2 Rising Above a Culture of Lies | BY BONNIE DWYER 7 3 The Maestro: A Singular Life | BY CHARLES SCRIVEN Noteworthy 5 From Unity to Poetry 22 The Bible Story 12 How to Tell the Bible and its Fundamental Beliefs as One Powerful Story | BY JAN BARNA 26 Celebrating Excellence in Adventism 22 Who was Charles E. Weniger? | BY ERIC ANDERSON 24 Adventist Hall of Fame: Charles Elliott Weniger Society for Excellence Medallion Recipients 26 Luther and Romans: Five Hundred Years Later | BY SIGVE TONSTAD 42 Adventists and the LGBT Community 37 The Ties that Bind? Exploring the Impact of SDA Family Response to LGBT+ Children | BY CURTIS VANDERWAAL, DAVID SEDLACEK, NANCY CARBONELL, AND SHANNON TRECARTIN 45 42 From SGA to Outspoken: Documenting LGBT Adventist Stories | BY JARED WRIGHT 45 The Message Behind the New Film from Coming Out Ministries | BY ALITA BYRD 48 Love, Sex, Orientation, and Companionship: A Review of Journey Interrupted | BY TODD LEONARD 53 Untold Stories in Adventist History 53 Protest and Progress: Untold Stories in Adventist History | BY CALVIN B. ROCK Poem back cover Modern Faithful Adventist | BY RAY MCALLISTER WWW.SPECTRUMMAGAZINE.ORG 1 EDITORIAL n from the editor Rising Above a Culture of Lies | BY BONNIE DWYER In 2009, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre put on paper her up against the current bifurcated climate in which we find stewardship strategies for those life-sustaining resources ourselves. How can we help each other if we can’t talk to one I known as words, because “language can be depleted, another? This, also, is a homework question. polluted, contaminated, eroded, and filled with artificial In this issue of the journal, we address several significant stimulants,” she said. “Like any other resource, it needs the pro- conversations within our community. Researchers at Andrews tection of those who recognize its value and commit them- University detail how Seventh-day Adventists families talk selves to good stewardship.” Her book, Caring for Words in A with their LGBTQ+ children, and the effect of their words. Culture of Lies, caught our attention and we used it for a series of The ongoing conversation within the denomination about discussion pieces on the Spectrum blog in 2014. Week-by-week how to relate to these brothers and sisters makes some un- we worked our way through her twelve strategies that spelled comfortable, so it often takes place behind closed doors. The out things we each could do to take good care of words: prac- title for the art on our cover reminds us of Christ’s desire that tices such as telling the truth, reading well, staying in conversa- His house be “A House of Prayer for All People.” Making tion, sharing stories, loving the long sentence, and praying. that statement true is a homework assignment for all of us. I picked up the book again recently. “Strategy #3—Don’t Tol- Prayer is actually one of the strategies that McEntyre erate Lies” jumped out at me from the table of contents. What is proposes in her book. Prayer reminds us who God is, and true, she says, “is not a rhetorical question to ask while we wash who we are. our hands like Pontius Pilate. This is a homework question. The language of prayer, then, works on multiple levels. It reminds, Any effort to find reliable reporting needs to start not with questions reframes, and re-awakens; it humbles us and also empowers us to about the sources but with questions about ourselves. What are claim and act on God’s promises; it brings our intentions into sharp my responsibilities as a citizen? As a person of faith? As a consumer? focus; it engenders intimacy with God and also brings us into align- As a leader? As a parent? As an educator? What am I avoiding know- ment, harmony, and unity with the other members of the Body of ing? Why? What point of view am I protecting? Why? How have I Christ and with the communion of saints and angels. arrived at my assumptions about what sources of information to rely on? What limits my angle of vision? Have I tried to imagine how one Prayer is also one of the strategies that is built into the might arrive at a different conclusion? How much evidence do I need to ongoing conversation between the General Conference and be convinced? What kind of persuasion works most effectively for me? the North American Division unions regarding the ordina- How do I accredit or challenge authority? tion of women. We have included the statement that the union presidents drafted for their February meeting with the After her list of questions for ourselves, she had another list, General Conference president. We await the April Spring this time for news sources: questions about sponsors, who is Meeting, to see how the prayers for unity may be answered. framing the question, detectable partisan biases in the language, In each section of the journal, there is an implied home- authorities, credentials, and allegiances. She admitted that work assignment in how we talk to and treat each other, a call these questions take time to address, perhaps more time than to excellence, a call to rise above the current culture of lies. n any one person has, so she recommends helping each other. And here is where her thoughtful recommendations run Bonnie Dwyer is editor of Spectrum magazine. 2 spectrum VOLUME 45 ISSUE 1 n 2017 from the forum chairman n EDITORIAL The Maestro: A Singular Life | BY CHARLES SCRIVEN In any community, o, the Swedish maestro Herbert Blomstedt to Leipzig, Germany, where we heard the Gewand- and certainly is turning ninety in July, and conducting haus Orchestra play with him at the podium. Ear - ninety concerts a year with the world’s lier he had been the orchestra’s music director (as S any religious great orchestras, and the New York Times is had, among others, Felix Mendelssohn), and he had asking: “Was it difficult for you, as a Seventh-day held similar posts with orchestras in Copenhagen, HTTP://WWW.CESKAFILHARMONIE.CZ/EN/CONCERT-DETAIL/832-CZECH-PHILHARMONIC-HERBERT-BLOMSTEDT Adventist, to tell orchestras you would not rehearse Oslo, Stockholm, Dresden, and San Francisco. On community, on Saturday, the Sabbath?” The question is friendly; the way to Leipzig, my Swedish bus seatmate re- the interview audience is one the rest of us could marked that Blomstedt was eighty-seven and “fully never reach. I’m suddenly thanking God (again) booked” a couple of years or more into the future.
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