Ronald Lawson For PDF Click Here: The Caring, Welcoming Church? Introduction In 1983, Charles Bradford, the president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America, invented a new slogan, which was disseminated widely: Adventism styled itself “The Caring Church.”1 Some twenty years later, the newly reelected president of the world church, Jan Paulsen, preaching on…… Continue reading The Caring, Welcoming Church? The Seventh-day Adventist Church and its Homosexual Members
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CHURCH-SPONSORED INJUSTICE: The Seventh-day Adventist Church and Polygamous Converts
Ronald Lawson For PDF click here: The Seventh-day Adventist Church and Polygamous Converts A paper presented at the meeting of The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Albuquerque, N.M., November 1994 Polygamy has been the most complex, perplexing and persistent marriage-related problem encountered by churches in their missionary enterprise. The most intense and resistant…… Continue reading CHURCH-SPONSORED INJUSTICE: The Seventh-day Adventist Church and Polygamous Converts
PRO-WHAT? Seventh-day Adventists and Abortion.
Ronald Lawson For PDF click here: PRO-WHAT Seventh-day Adventists and Abortion Presented at the Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Raleigh, NC, October 1993 The Issue The Seventh-day Adventist Church is conservative in its interpretation of the Bible, and typically upholds conservative standards on “family” issues: it has, for example, adopted…… Continue reading PRO-WHAT? Seventh-day Adventists and Abortion.
Ronald L. Lawson Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Queens College, CUNY 