San Diego Adventist Forum
Chronological List of Recorded Meetings, 1981 2013
DATE SPEAKER PRESENTATION
181 Jonathan Butler* E. G. White’s Eschatology
381 Richard Rice* Divine Foreknowledge and Human Will
481 Charles Teel* Dilemmas in Institutionalization Adventism II
581 Jack Provonsha* Ethics and the Present Crisis
1081 Desmond Ford** Perils of a Christian Bureaucracy
1181 John DuNesme* Inside the E. G. White Vault
182 Niels-Erik Andreasen* Christ and the Heavenly Sanctuary
282 Molleurus Couperus*** The Christian and His Church
382 Raymond Cottrell* 1844: Message for Our Time
5-82 Fritz Guy* A Prophet in a Changing World
682 Dale Ratzlaff** SDAs' Dilemma
982 Ernie Ching*** Stained Glass Watergate: Davenport
1082 Louis Venden* Divorce and Remarriage
1182 Douglas Hackleman*** State of the Art: E. G. White
183 Wesley Ringer** The Shut Door Vision
283 Fay Blix** Women in the SDA Church
383 Lorna Tobler** Church Authority
483 Don Hamer* Religion and the Arts
583 Janice Von Pohle*** The Crisis at PUC
1083 George Colvin*** Church Reorganization???
1183 Paul Landa* The Protestant Deformation
184 Tom Mostert* Clergy versus Laity
284 Frank Knittel* The Truth Shall Make You Free
384 Raymond Cottrell* The Sanctuary Problem
484 Madelynn Haldeman* Interpretation of Scripture
584 David Larson* Form and Matter in Sexual Love
784 Calvin Edwards" Jewish Apocalyptic: Daniel 8
884 Jim Walters* The Greening of Adventism
1084 Richard Rice* Finding Your Religious Metaphor
1184 Jack Provonsha* Ethics at the Edges of Life
185 Charles Sandefur* Homosexuality and the Church
285 Robert Weiland* SDAs' Unique Gospel
385 Lanny Fisk* The Truth about Earth History
485 Mike Scofield*** The Church: Image versus Reality
585 Charles Teel * Liberation & Evangelism in Central America
785 Alberta Mazat* Speaking Up for Sexuality
885 Tom Blincoe* The Nature of Inspiration
985 Tony Brandon* Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage
1085 Ed Zackrison* The Christian Community
1185 Ron Lawson*** A Sociologist's View of Adventism
186 Richard Rice* A Christian Perspective on Suffering
286 Ian Chand* The Changing Texture of Adventism
386 Raymond Cottrell* What Do the Rocks Say?
486 Dorothy Comm* Azaria Case: Could Fiction Be So Strange?
586 Alan J. Rice* The Adventist Health System in Transition
786 Myron K. Widmer* Issues Facing 4dventism
8-86 Frank Knittel* Can SDA Education Survive?
9-86 David Larson* The Immorality of Miracles
10-86 Doug Weliber*** & Tithing: A New Test of Employment
Bruce Wilcox*
11-86 Charles Teel, Jr* The Promise and Peril of Liberation Theology
1-87 Des Ford** The Book of Revelation Revisited
2-87 Raymond Cottrell* A Reliable Method of Bible Study
3-87 C. Elwyn Platner* Adventist News Reporting: The Recorder
4-87 Steve Daily* Against All Odds: Keeping our NAD Youth
5-87 Fritz Guy* The Shape of an Adventist Future
7-87 Willard Meier* Case Study Procedures: Consolidation of LLU
8-87 Phil Robertson* Financial Relationship of Church Structures
9-87 Richard Utt* The Other Side of the Betrayal Story
10-87 George Rice* Inspiration/Research: Are They Exclusive?
1-88 Larry Geraty* A Tale of Two Tells
2-88 Stephen Gifford* Challenges Facing Adventism
3-88 Madelynn Haldeman* A Biblical Perspective on Jewelry
5-88 Ron Graybill* Z-File to Compact Disk: E .G .White Sources
DATE SPEAKER PRESENTATION
7-88 Glen Blix* Trends in Vegetarianism
8-88 Lyell Heise* Adventism in the Land Down Under
9-88 Raymond Cottrell* The Future of Adventism
10-88 Maurice Hodgen* SDA Higher Education: A Personal View
11-88 Diane Forsyth* & Fay Blix*** Including Women: Power Struggle or . . .?
1-89 Howard Weeks* Turning Church Inside Out/Not Upside Down
2-89 Jack Provonsha* Definitions of Life/Death: Bioethical Discourse
3-89 Kenneth Samples An Evangelical Looks at Adventism
4-89 James Walters* Personal Life: When Does It Begin…End?
5-89 Marlin Dolinsky* Hypnosis: Cutting Through the Ballyhoo
7-89 Walter Hammerslaugh* Sports: An Acceptable Alternative
8-89 Desmond Ford** Des Ford Speaks on Good News Unlimited
9-89 Daniel Simpson* On Spawning a New Church
10-89 Frank Knittel* Agony/Ecstasy of Loma Linda Accreditation
11-89 Raymond Cottrell* North American Division: Myth or Milestone
12-89 J. David Newman* The Future of the Adventist Ministry
1-90 Alberta Mazat* Changing Patterns of Loving
2-90 Gerald Toshalis*** Soul-Making: Learning to Live with Paradox
3-90 Richard Rice* The Challenge of a Changing Faith
5-90 Joyce Hopp* Changing Mission of the SDA Professional
6-90 Ronald Lawson*** Adventism at the Crossroads
7-90 Ivan Blazen* Divorce/Remarriage in Biblical Perspective
9-90 Ed Zackrison* Adventism and the Arts
10-90 Charles Teel, Jr.* Missionarie, Visionarie, Revolutionarie…Stahls
11-90 Myron Widmer* Issues Facing Adventism
1-91 Des Ford** The New Age Octopus
2-91 Paul Richardson*** Ministering to Baby-Boomers
4-91 Susan Cayleff*** Wash and Be Healed: History of Hydrotherapy
5-91 Bailey Gillespie* The Value-Genesis Study, Part I
7-91 Raymond Cottrell* Current Trends in Adventist Theology
8-91 Hector Betancourt* Conflict & Violence: the Why’s and Therefore’s
9-91 Edward Bryan* Myths of the Traditional Family
10-91 Monte Sahlin* Can Sabbath School & Church Be Made Relevant?
10-91 Monte Sahlin* (Sunday Workshop for Above)
11-91 Bailey Gillespie* Value-Genesis, Part II
1-92 Smuts van Rooyen* A Method of Biblical Interpretation
2-92 Dan Simpson*/Steve Bottroff* Celebration Center: Two Years Hence
3-92 Ron Graybill* Beating Back Enemy: Early Adventist Worship
4-92 Frank Knittel* The Saga at Southern
5-92 Edwin Krick* Rediscovering the Fountain of Youth
7-92 Raymond Cottrell* The Adventist Theological Society: Diagnosis/Prognosis
8-92 Michael Scofield*** Communication Tech/ 4 Stages of Adventism
9-92 Bailey Gillespie*/Stuart Tyner* Examining North American Evangelism
10-92 La Sierra U. Music Faculty* Music for Worship: What’s In/Out/Hot/Not?
11-92 Dan Savino* SDA Recent Research Findings
1-93 Phil Robertson* Church Finance: The Intoxication of Sameness
2-93 GaryPatterson* Six Models of the Church
3-93 Fritz Guy* Change in Adventist Higher Education
4-93 Douglas Hackleman*** Perverting the Process
5-93 Graham Maxwell* Perception of God: Understanding Atonement
7-93 Jack Cassell** What Goes Round, Comes Round: Saga at Southern
8-93 Lynn Mallery* Why Leaders Must NOT Be Trusted
9-93 Raymond Cottrell* Waco Syndrome and Relation to Adventism
10-93 Richard Rice* Faith and Reason: Are They Compatible?
11-93 Clarence Schilt* Small Groups: the Heart of the Church
1-94 Paul Landa* I Left the Church Because . . . .
2-94 Mic Thurber*, moderator We Left the Church Because. . .
3-94 P. Edgar Hare*** Genesis and Dinosaurs
4-94 Steve Daily* Adventism for a New Generation
5-94 Frank Knittel* To Be or Not To Be: E.G.W.?
7-94 Kenneth Samples Prophets of the Apocalypse
8-94 Jerry Glaldson** Adventist in Exile
9-94 Jim Walters* Does the End Justify Means: EGW Plagiarism?
10-94 Raymond Cottrell* Whither: Adventist Creationism?
11-94 Edmund Jones* The Church Bureaucracy – a Pastor’s View
1-95 Chuck McKinstry*, moderator Why I Stay in the Church. . . .
2-95 Fritz Guy* Adventism on the Way to the Future
3-95 Paul Landa* Independent Ministries: Bane or Blessing
4-95 Desmond Ford** The Sabbath and the Gospel
DATE SPEAKER PRESENTATION
5-95 Jerry Gladson** Are SDAs the Remnant Church?
7-95 David VanDenburgh* Pilgrimage
8-95 David Larson* Is Christianity the Only True Religion?
9-95 Jim Walters* Utrecht 1995: Issues, Actions, and Implications
10-95 Raymond Cottrell* Biblical Hermeneutics: What Difference . . .?
11-95 Harvey Elder* The SDA Church Has AIDS
1-96 Thomas Staples* Money, Mission, and Management
2-96 Dale Ratzlaff** Why I No Longer Observe the Sabbath
3-96 Smuts Van Rooyen* Adventist and Adventism Coping with Change
4-96 David Larson* The Wesleyan Quadrilateral: Implications for SDAs
5-96 Bernard Brandstater* Charismatic Renewal: Are We Missing Something?
7-96 Dan Smith*, Fritz Guy* & Ordination at La Sierra: Confrontation or . . . ?
Halcyon Wilson*
8-96 Raymond Cottrell* The Adventist Church of Tomorrow
9-96 Dalton Baldwin* Development of Biblical Concept of God
10-96 Penny Miller* & panel Gender Inclusiveness: Promise or Illusion?
11-96 Karen Kotoske*** Micro-Charities: Challenging Adventist Mission
1-97 Jeff Needle*** Divergent Paths – 19th Century Revival
2-97 Richard Bushman*** Joseph Smith, E. G. White & 19th Century Culture
3-97 Jim Walters* What Is a Person? How to Decide?
4-97 Gary Hopkins* AIDS and Adventist Youth
5-97 Ivan Blazen* Another Model for Jesus’ Death as a Sacrifice
7-97 Larry Christoffel* John’s Understanding of the Book of Daniel
8-97 Rennie Schoepflin* Apocalypse in an Age of Science
9-97 Raymond Cottrell* Anomalies in Interpretation of Daniel 8:14
10-97 Bernard Taylor* SDA Fascination with the Legal Model of Salvation
11-97 Ron Lawson*** Fragmenting of the Adventist Apocalyptic
1-98 Arthur Patrick* Revisioning the Role of EGW
2-98 Bailey Gillespie* Is There an SDA Way to Interpret Scripture?
3-98 Dan Houghton*** What Will It Take to Accomplish SDA Mission?
4-98 Ivan Blazen* Resurrection of the Living: Corinthian Theology
5-98 William Jarvis* Miracle Healings: the Psychology of Deception
7-98 Desmond Ford** My Vision for the Church
8-98 Raymond Cottrell* The Ethos of Adventism
9-98 Eldon Stratton*, moderator What’s Fundamental about the Twenty-Seven?
10-98 Richard Rice* New Directions in SDA Theology
11-98 Michael Scofield*** Models for Understanding SDA Pluralism
1-99 Bernard Taylor* Translating a Translation
2-99 Frank Knittel* Adventism in the New Millennium – Survival
3-99 Smuts van Rooyen* Rescuing the Adventist Identity
4-99 Madelynn Haldeman* SDA Message: What If It Were Based on Matthew?
5-99 Ivan Blazen* God and Human Suffering: Biblical Perspective
7-99 Frederick Hoyt* John Wesley: Father of SDA Health Reform
8-99 Ervin Taylor*** Crises SDA Creationism: Confrontation or . . . . ?
9-99 J. David Newman* Congregationalism: Why Is It So Attractive to SDAs
10-99 Ivan Blazen* Genesis I: Theological Dimensions/Implications
11-99 Michael Scofield *** panel Sabbath and Sabbath-Keeping – Today
1-00 Bonnie Dwyer*** et al Spectrum and Adventist Media . . . . 2000
2-00 Dalton Baldwin* Creation and Time: Biblical Reflections
3-00 David N. Freedman*** History of the Hebrew Bible & Book of Psalms
4-00 Larry Geraty*, Ron Graybill*, The Story Behind the 27 Fundamental Beliefs
& Fritz Guy*
5-00 Raymond Cottrell* Adventism in the Twentieth Century
7-00 Des Ford** Adventism and the Holy Spirit
8-00 Ed Hare** & Ervin Taylor*** A Question of Time
9-00 Charles McKinstry* School Vouchers, Constitution, SDA Education
10-00 Fred Hoyt*, et al Medical Biography: Ellen Gould Harmon White
11-00 Steve Daily* Contemporary SDA Sexual Mores
1-01 Larry Geraty* The Siegfried Horn Diaries
2-01 Walter Rea* How We Know What Isn’t So
3-01 David N. Freedman*** The Unity of the Hebrew Bible
4-01 Doug Clark* & Larry Herr* Madaba Plains Project: Excavating the Bible
5-01 Ivan Blazen* Sexuality: a Biblical Perspective
7-01 John Webster* The South African Commission: Reconciliation or?
8-01 Richard Marker* SDA Ethics/Organization: a Look at the Future
9-01 Mark Carr* Playing God: Genes, Stem Cells and . . . .
10-01 David Larson* & Christianity & Homosexuality: Ethical Concerns
Morris Taylor*
11-01 Warren Trenchard* Virgin Birth: Implications Reading New Testament
DATE SPEAKER PRESENTATION
1-02 Rennie Schoepflin* Making Doctors and Nurses for Jesus
2-02 Raymond Cottrell* The “Sanctuary Doctrine” – Asset or Liability?
3-02 John McLarty* Believer and Intellectual: a Personal Journey
4-02 John Testerman* Stages of Faith Development: Maturing SDAs
5-02 Doug Hackleman*** The Absence of Free Will – Implications of
7-02 Zane Price*** Genesis of Genesis: Tradition/Enlightenment
8-02 David Larson* IBMTE: Implications for Education/Governance
9-02 Walter Rea** EGW: the Ongoing Saga
10-02 Gerald Winslow* & The Test of Cloning: Can Adventists Pass?
Anthony Zuccarelli*
11-02 John Jones* Plural Pathways: Faith Diversity in N. America
1-03 Richard Rice* Forgiveness: the Final Form of Love
2-03 Dalton Baldwin* Life (Death) Before Adam
3-03 Lee Greer*** “Big Bang” Theory and Modern Cosmology
4-03 Kendra Haloviak* The Songs of Revelation
5-03 Ervin Taylor*** Adventist Creationism in 21st Century . . .
7-03 Arthur Patrick* Continuity/Change in SDA Doctrine/Practice
8-03 Robert Wonderly*** Faith on Ice: a Look at the Cold, Hard Evidence
9-03 Gary Fraser* Adventism’s Gift to the World
10-03 John Cobb*** with A Biblical Perspective on Homosexuality
Madelynn Haldeman*
11-03 Fred Hoyt* The Menace of Mesmerism in Maine
1-04 Charles Teel, Jr.* Adventists Discover the World: ......
2-04 Jack Gent & Ben Herndon Enigmas about Ellen
3-04 Richard Osborn* The Case against Galileo: Lessons for a 21st
Century Church
4-04 Zane Price The Seventh of Seven: the Origin of the Weekly Rest Day
5-04 Jim Walters* & Steve Hadley* A Judicial Branch of Church Governance: Is it Time? Is It Time?
6-04 Herold Weiss A Spectrum of Early Christian Sabbath Views
7-04 Brian Bull* & Fritz Guy* “Then a Miracle Occurs”: Harmonizing the
Disparate Realms of Science and Faith
8-04 Edwin Krick* The Lo Carb Craze and the Adventist Lifestyle
9-04 Wonil Kim* The Old Testament: To Read or Not To Read?
10-04 Bonnie Dwyer, with Academic Freedom and the Adventist Faith and
Brian Bull* & Fritz Guy* Science Conversation: a Firsthand Report
11-04 Bernard Taylor* Scriptural Models and Metaphors . . . .
1-05 Clive Holland Plant Geneticist: What, the Devil, Is He Doing?
2-05 V. Bailey Gillespie* ValueGenesis II – An Update
3-05 Ron Gladden** Same Cart, New Wheels
4-05 T. Joe Willey** Neuroscience, Human Nature, and Redemption
5-05 Larry Christoffel* “A Time, Times, and Half a Time” – Period of Gospel
Opposition
7-05 Dave Dennis** Denominational Internal Control and Conflicts s. .
8-05 Pierre Steenberg* Surviving Christianity
9-05 Gary Chartier* Natural Law, Same-sex Marriage;
Politics of Virtue
10-05 Leonard Brand* Whale Fossils in Peru: Implications for . . . . .
11-05 Bernard Taylor* It Is Written . . . . Where? NT and Septuagint
1-06 Greg Billock*** Neurotheology: What Is It?
2-06 Albert Koppel*** Truth Decay: A Call for Accountability . . .
3-06 Leigh Johnson & Jesus, Caesar, and the Adventists: Religious Liberty
Karen Scott
4-06 Dan Smith* Reconciling the Nature of God.
5-06 Jim Walters* Physician Assisted Suicide –
End of Life Challenges
7-06 Hans Diehl* How Shall We Eat?
8-06 Fred Hoyt* EGW & Plagiarism from an Historian’s Perspective
9-06 Brian Bull* & Ted Ramirez*** Enron and Its Aftermath: What is the Likelihood of Fraud and Embezzlement at the GC and its Institutions
10-06 Linda Caviness* Iterations in Neuroscience: Implications for Intelligent Design
11-06 David Dennis** The Theology of Tithing
2-07 Alden Thompson* The Finances of James and Ellen White
3-07 Dalton Baldwin* Prophecy and Community