I love the Spectrum website’s ability to bring together people from such diverse backgrounds and perspectives to have genuinely meaningful dialogue.

Thus far, we have sampled some empirical evidence for biological evolution and an ancient earth and universe, and we have seen that some church fathers had an approach to Scripture that is more permissive of nonliteral understandings of origins. Chapter 3 addresses the question, How then do we relate science and religion?

Sensing that the big questions in the church are really questions about what it means to be a Seventh-day Adventist, my graduate school friends and I set out to find out how other Seventh-day Adventists defined themselves. We authored an online survey and released it to the world. The Spectrum community soon became involved when a link to the survey was published on the Spectrum Blog. Thank you to everyone who participated and shared with us their feedback.

What happens when a group of Adventist graduate students in the sciences get together and discuss the hot-button issues affecting our church? We cry out for more data!

We continue our summer series in which members of the SPECTRUM community share the 3-5 books that shaped them the most.