Ronald Lawson has spent the last half of his life as a sociologist researching the dynamics of the global Seventh-day Adventist Church. Now he has enlisted a team to help him complete books that will make his findings available. Lawson has interviewed 4,500 Adventists in 60 countries in all the divisions of the Adventist world…… Continue reading Admiral Ncube at the Asheville Forum
Author: ronaldllawson
Retired professor of history and sociology who has spent 30 years studying especially the changes in the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a result of it becoming global, with a clear majority of its members from the Developing world. I visited 60 countries for interviews in the process. I here make available to non-sociologists the papers I have published and presented at academic meetings on Adventism and also comparing Adventism's growth and spread with that of two other groups born in the US in the same century--Mormons (Latter-day Saints) and Jehovah's Witnesses.
The Disappointed Hopes for Healing
When gay, lesbian or bisexual church members step out of the closet, some brothers and sisters may feel pastorally responsible, exhibit holy distress or an impulse to help: Is it not an integral part of Christian faith that God wants to make saints out of sinners and free them from sinful habits (John 8:34, 36)?…… Continue reading The Disappointed Hopes for Healing
ADVENTISTEN UND IHRE LGBTQ-GESCHWISTER
A German translation of my paper ‘The Adventist Church and its LGBT Members’. adventisten-und-ihre-lgbtq-geschwister-finalDownload
