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3 April 2008

Introducing the Spectrum Online Book & Film Club

By Daneen Akers
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Mark Twain once said, “Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” While the sleepy conscience bit is a tad hedonistic for good Pathfinders, we are going to take his advice on good books and friends! As part of our continued commitment to community through conversation, we’re launching the Spectrum Online Book & Film Club.

25 March 2008

Times Review on Nussbaum, Conscience, Adventism

By Alexander Carpenter
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Still catching up from the weekend here, (one of these days I'll have time to transcribe my notes from the Elaine Pagels talk) but the Times Sunday Book Review discussed a topic of interest to some (should be more!) Adventists and referenced our 1963 Supreme moment.

Emily Bazelon reviews Martha Nussbaum's new book: Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religions Equality. Bazelon writes:

31 December 2007

Book notes on What’s So Great About Christianity

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Impetuous me, I wrote a comment on the book review: “New book out: Christianity and Homosexuality: Some Seventh-day Adventist Perspectives.” I got clobbered, pilloried, my humanity, and my Christian values were questioned. As a sensitive old man, sleep escaped me. I turned to late night television and clicked away until I reached C-Span 2.

A Search for God or Smiling in Your Liver: A Review of Eat, Pray, Love

Posted December 4th, 2007 by Katrina Emery
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“‘Do I resemble a pig, then? Perhaps a buffalo?’” Elizabeth Gilbert asks the kind saleswoman in an Italian fashion store about her new jeans. “This is becoming good vocabulary practice. I’m also trying to get a smile out of the salesclerk, but she’s too intent on remaining professional. I try one more time: ‘Maybe I resemble a buffalo mozzarella?’
Okay, maybe, she concedes, smiling only slightly. Maybe you do look a little like a buffalo mozzarella…”

30 November 2007

The Spectrum Blog rises again

By Alexander Carpenter
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Greetings all:

I've been away on a bloggin' vacation due to the holiday break and traveling down to San Diego for the Adventist Society for Religious Studies meetings. Plus, sometimes it just feels really good to leave my computer off.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Posted November 26th, 2007 by Heather Isaacs Royce
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Every once in awhile I encounter a book that makes me slightly covetous. Usually, my envy rears itself in the manner of “I wish I had written that.” But sometimes it comes in the form of “I wish I had lived that.” Reading Barbara Kingsolver’s new non-fiction work, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, which she wrote with her husband, Steven Hopp, and eldest daughter Camille, about her family’s home-grown experiment in local eating, is one of those books.

Homesick for Harry: Thoughts on the "Chosen One"

Posted August 21st, 2007 by Daneen Akers
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Friday night finds me a bit melancholy. As I’m sitting here in our apartment that opens onto a picturesque French courtyard, listening to the concierge and some friends chat over an evening aperitif, I am overcome with emotion, with an ache in the depths of my heart.

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