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Agnosticism and atheism have quite publically arrived, in modernity. But, like the proverbial “elephant in the room,” I don’t think the Christian church universally, let alone Adventism specifically, is seriously addressing it.
Adventism seems unwilling to wrestle with the science/religion divide. Leadership takes its orthodoxy as axiomatic. And is actively hostile toward propositions uncongenial to these cherished beliefs. This is unconstructive in a 21st Century world.
The Thrill of the Chase Written by: December 31, 2020 In a significant percentage of all movies ever made there is an unstated, but definitely understood, compact between filmmaker and viewer. It is that everything will turn out all right in the end. In the Action/Adventure genre, for example, you have the hero(ine) – from James Bond to Indiana Jones – facing wild and dangerous obstacles, which consumes the majority of the running time. Yet they come out unscathed in the end. In RomComs ( Romantic Comedie s) the eventually-happy couple typically “meet cute,” then have some misunder...