I last mentioned the Outspoken series here in February, when Daneen and Stephen published the first installment. The series features Adventist LGBTQIA people sharing their stories, families, and experience with their congregations. In the most recent installment, about Philip, Alberto, Dahlia, and Nicolás, Philip and Alberto reflect on all the ways that their family’s life in […]
Lessons from the designers
The Seventh-day Adventist denomination revealed its latest visual identity standards today at the General Conference’s spring meetings in Maryland. I’m impressed. The core font family, Advent Sans, is open source, based on Google font typography, and designed for more languages than those that use the characters A-Z. The twenty-year-old Bible-cross-flame symbol is unchanged and set on a […]
Despair and resilience among LGBT+ Adventists
Remember the Andrews University researchers who wanted to hear from LGBT+ Adventist young adults last summer? Nearly 500 people responded, and 310 young adults completed the survey. The researchers are reporting early findings now. On the Spectrum blog this week, Drs. Nancy Carbonell, Curtis VanderWaal, Shannon Trecartin, and David Sedlacek talked with Alita Byrd about […]
David Newman was right
During the lead-up to the 2015 Adventist General Conference session in San Antonio, TX, several preachers, teachers, and scholars discussed the Adventist community’s approach to ordination. The Theology of Ordination Study Committee (TOSC) and its regional subcommittees met over two years to thresh the questions. Their hope was that they would get to San Antonio […]
New Project: Outspoken
The latest project from the co-directors of Enough Room at the Table is a series of mini-documentary videos called Outspoken. I mentioned this back in August when the filmmakers came to my home to talk to me. Tonight, the first video hits the web. It features Yeshara Acosta, who I met just under three years ago and […]
Knowing history can change the conversation
This weekend I watched an extended presentation by Bert Haloviak and Dr. Kendra Haloviak Valentine on the Adventist community’s first 150 years with female pastors. It’s part of a series of talks from 2014, and so occurred before the 2015 General Conference vote in San Antonio. Adventist Women In Ministry – Progress or Regress? from […]
