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On “Biblical Literalists”
Posted March 17th, 2010 by Ervin Taylor
My good friend and currently the most prolific apologist for traditional Adventism, Clifford Goldstein, has struck again in the Adventist Review.
North American Adventism in 1910, 2010, and 2110
Posted February 23rd, 2010 by Ervin TaylorOne hundred Years Ago: In the Year of Our Lord 1910, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, now some 47 years into its formal history as an organized denomination, reported a total membership of a little over 90,000 of which about two-thirds lived in North America. Most of its members belonged to the dominant ethnic group that then composed the population living in Canada and the Unit
A Battle for the Hearts and Minds of North American Adventism: The Tipping Point?
Posted January 8th, 2010 by Ervin TaylorErvin Taylor Introductory Comment: From time to time, I receive materials which, upon reflection, it seems should be shared with those who read this blog. Such materials serve as a window through which we can all better understand the great challenges that the SDA administrative clergy have in maintaining balance in the Adventist Church in North America.
Adventist Church As Remnant Church: Sheep Theology?
Posted December 27th, 2009 by Ervin TaylorThe title of a recent article in the Adventist Review, Dr. Angel Rodriguez, Director of the Biblical Research Institute (BRI) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, asks a question: "God's End-time Remnant: What Are the Practical Implications of This Theological Concept?"
The Literal Truth
Posted December 3rd, 2009 by Ervin TaylorThe following is
YEC/YLC Adventist Creationism: The Ellen White Connection
Posted November 12th, 2009 by Ervin TaylorIn the current seemingly never-ending, misnamed and mischaracterized Creationism vs. Evolutionism discussions, debates, and diatribes, one fact seems consistently overlooked by most activist Adventist Young Earth (YEC) and/or Young Life Creationists (YLC).
Will Adventist Mass Public Evangelism Ever Grow Up?
Posted October 20th, 2009 by Ervin TaylorThe Amazing Facts organization of Doug Batchelor recently sent out a mailing in an envelope in the form of a non-existent newspaper "The Daily Chronicle" carrying the headline "Pope Signs New Globalization Encyclical."
A Statement on the “EducateTruth” (sic) Site from “Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino”
Posted October 5th, 2009 by Ervin TaylorThe badly misnamed "EducateTruth" web site is, with some rare exceptions, the place to go if you wish to read Adventist populists and fundamentalists venting their displeasure and rage at the La Sierra University biology department whose faculty possesses the intellectual and moral strength to teach science uncontaminated by medieval ideas about how the living world developed.
EducateTruth.com: The Voice of Populist or Folk North American Adventism
Posted September 24th, 2009 by Ervin TaylorIf we only base our understanding of contemporary Adventism on official sources such as the Adventist Review and the Union Conference papers, we might fail to appreciate the great diversity of views existing within the contemporary North American Adventist Church. You can consult the web site of the Adventist Theological Society and Adventist Affirm for the voices of the traditional/conse
Time To Defend Adventist Higher Education: Let Those of Good Will Speak Out
Posted September 5th, 2009 by Ervin TaylorOf all the major indigenous American religious denominations (e.g., SDA [Adventist], LDS [Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon], JW [Watchtower Society-Jehovah’s Witness], Christian Science [Church of Christ, Scientist]), the Adventist approach to science and higher education is most interesting because it seems to border on the institutionally schizophrenic.
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