I’m speaking at the 2016 Spectrum Conference next week. The theme is Non-violence and the Atonement, and we’ll be joined by Greg Boyd, author of The Myth of a Christian Religion and proponent of the Christus Victor atonement theory. Check out the schedule and read an interview Spectrum conducted with me.
Inspired by Adventist Scholarship
A few weeks ago I shared information about Washington Adventist University’s Keough Lectureship—a biannual series hosted by the university’s Department of Religion. This year’s lectures focused on women’s ordination and biblical interpretation and featured WAU’s Dr. Olive Hemmings and Loma Linda University’s Dr. Richard Rice. I had a blast! Adventist Today’s Monte Sahlin has compiled […]
Olive Hemmings, Richard Rice on Ordination & Interpretation
Black women have always comprised anywhere between 65 and 90 percent of membership in black [US] churches — institutions where they are largely excluded from the religious polity… Religion that began in slave communities is the only ancestral tie American-born blacks have to something like a family tree. But black churches, like many of their white […]