This is the first of a series of five talks about Making Sense of Religion, in which I finally “come out” and declare “I got religion!” —which is a bit of a double entendre and I’ll leave it to you to figure out what I mean. This introductory talk is a bit long, and also…

We have been talking about love, and throughout this series I have tried to steer us away from thinking about love primarily as a romantic feeling. Instead, we focused on the actionable aspects of love—the kind of love expressed in service, forgiveness, and care for others. In other words, the kind of love the New…

We have been talking about love and trying to understand its actionable dimensions. Last time, we discussed community and saw how love and grace shaped the early church as it moved from a pseudocommunity into a true community. Today I would like to turn to one of the practices without which love and community simply…

Last week, Dr. Weaver made an important observation. He said that when we study prophecy, we often see ourselves in it. That is natural. But if we claim that the prophetic record represents us, then we must also allow others to see themselves in it as well. That is a humbling thought. It suggests that…

With just five people present, two of whom were not Adventists, and of the three Adventists one (Kiran) was today’s speaker on the topic of the Remnant—a topic of especial interest to Adventists—it was decided to postpone the talk until next week.  Meantime, a general discussion got underway about AI, with concerns expressed about its…

In the last two weeks, we examined the pattern of the remnant in the Bible and the meaning of the word remnant based on the Hebrew and Greek terms used in Scripture. We learned that the remnant exists because God preserves a people by grace. The remnant is preserved because God remains faithful to His…