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The Messengers and the Machinery
The denomination has spent a century telling itself it carries a message for the whole world.
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7 pieces.
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The Fingerprint Was Already Ours
Take the phrase “practicing the presence of God.” If those words mark a movement, if they are the fingerprint of a mystical stream that has crossed into the church, then the voice that uses them cannot be the voice of God.
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Stillness Was Ours Before It Was Hers
A recent Fulcrum7 essay describes a Loma Linda University Health women’s retreat as an occasion of “not the mystery of God, but that of another spirit.” The retreat’s offense, on that telling, is its featured author, Ann Voskamp.
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Two Things Called Justice
That is the whole logic of the warning in Galatians, and it is where the argument now circulating about social justice begins.
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About Our Sources: Why We Cite Everything
Why every Counterweight article cites publication, date, and page — how we check a quotation against the archive, and what we do when the record disagrees.
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Sacred, Reserved: The Tithe and the Individual's Judgment
The claim that a member may redirect the tithe to channels he judges faithful — tested against what Adventist records say about who receives it.
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An Old Complaint, Newly Filed
A 1951 Review and Herald warning that the work “should not rest upon two or three men” — what the denomination’s own weekly said about authority.