* $ T T community through conversation PCR M ALL RIGHTS RESERVED COPYRIGHT © Above: Seventh-day Adventist cover artist Dag Trygve Hansen at the Haberget Farm where he lives and works. About the cover art: Carved pine artwork exploring the symbols and words from the book of Revelation. Created for the Mjgndalen, Norway Seventh-day Adventist Church, it is one of three artworks in a series entitled “From Eternity to Eternity”. Editor Bonnie Dwyer 2016 ADVENTIST FORUM Editorial Assistants Wendy Trim, Linda Terry Design Laura Lamar Spectrum Web Team Hallie Anderson, Alita Byrd, Pam Dietrich, Bonnie Dwyer, Rich Hannon, Steve Hergert, Wendy Trim, Alisa Williams; Jared Wright, managing editor Editorial Board: Beverly Beem Walla Walla, Washington Alita Byrd Dublin, Ireland Alexander Carpenter Sacramento, California Sharon Fujimoto- Johnson Sacramento, California Fritz Guy Riverside, California David R. Larson Loma Linda, California Juli Miller Sun Valley, Idaho Richard Rice Loma Linda, California Charles Scriven Phoenix, Arizona Gerhard Svrcek-Seiler Vienna, Austria Norman Young Cooranbong, Australia SPECTRUM is a journal established to encourage Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discus- sion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the merits of diverse views, and to foster Christian intellectual and cultural growth. Although effort is made to ensure accu- rate scholarship and discriminating judgment, the statements of fact are the responsibility of con- tributors, and the views individual authors express are not necessarily those of the editorial staff as a whole or as individuals. SPECTRUM is published by Adventist Forum, a nonsubsidized, nonprofit organization for which gifts are deductible in the report of income for purposes of taxation. The publishing of SPEC- TRUM depends on subscriptions, gifts from indi- viduals, and the voluntary efforts of the contributors. SPECTRUM can be accessed on the World Wide Web at www.spectrummagazine.org. Editorial Correspondence Direct all correspondence and letters to the editor to: SPECTRUM P.O. Box 619047 Roseville, CA 95661-9047 tel: (916) 774-1080 fax: (916) 791-4938 editor@spectrummagazine.org Letters to the editor may be edited for publication. ISSN: 0890-0264 Subscriptions and Advertising subscriptions@spectrummagazine.org (916) 774-1080