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Interviews
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| Today the media is full of discussions about the various issues of the day. There is talk Radio and TV in addition to a steady stream of Books, Magazines, Newspapers, and Web sites. The whole world seems to be caught up in an ongoing and public dialog about politics and religion, as well as everything else.
As this communications phenomenon grows, new ideas and concepts will emerge. Myths will be exposed, discarded, and replaced, thus facilitating numerous paradigm shifts within society. Such is the inevitable result of open and free discussion.
Although, the church leaders have been asked may times to join in this Adventist discussion, and participate in Reforming this dysfunctional church, they have refused. The Editor of the Adventist Review, Bill Johnsson, has specifically refused to discuss the issues on the record. So too have all the others at the General Conference, including Clifford Goldstein, a leading apologist for Glacier View theology.
Such self-imposed censorship is neither helpful nor honest. There is no excuse for this silence. It is time for the leaders to join this discussion about Adventist Reform. This is their duty, as well as their moral obligation. They are supposed to be caring "servants" not masters who dictate, control, and censor. They are paid to serve, and to facilitate the search for truth, not to run and hide from truth.
Notwithstanding their adversarial position, Adventist Reform will go forward, with or without the leaders. If they continue to run and hide from the issues and continue to try and avoid accountability for their gross mismanagement, then all will come to realize that new management is needed. Thus their continued silence should be seen as an admission of guilt. And this discussion, along with the Adventist Movement, will continue without them.
This section will feature interviews related to Adventist Reform. It will focus on the issues in a forthright, honest manner, without they typical hierarchical censorship or double-talk that is so familiar to those within the SDA Community.
The first interview is with Dr. Desmond Ford. He is a well-known Adventist theologian who was exiled in 1980. Dr. Ford has done more to help Reform the SDA church than anyone else. His pioneering work on Daniel 8:14 was so monumental and paradigm shifting that few today properly understand the details of his controversial eschatology that is still acting as a positive catalyst for change within the SDA church.
This interview with Dr. Ford was first conducted for the Adventist Today Forum in ______. It was warmly received around the world because it clearly and honestly addressed the issues of Glacier View that has been so deliberately confused and misstated by the church leaders. However, because church management did not want the Adventist Community to discuss such forbidden topics, the Atoday Forum was closed down on ________.
So here is that original interview, which is continuing in nature, so that the Adventist Community can have the benefit of Dr. Ford's theological insight and Gospel wisdom. Adventist Reform encourages all those who have something worthwhile to say about the issues, to join this discussion to reform the SDA church.
Today, an atmosphere of censorship is difficult, if not impossible to maintain. There are far too many communication venues to monitor and control. Therefore, it is futile for the SDA church to even attempt to censor and manipulate the legitimate discussions about church history and theology within the Adventist Community. Rather, the leaders should determine to embrace the communications revolution and join in the discussion about Adventist Reform. This is no time to run and hide.
Adventist Reform looks forward to the time when the church leaders can openly and honestly participate in this important discussion about the future of the Adventist Movement.
Tom Norris, for Adventist Reform |
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