Theme: “Mediating (W)holeness in a Broken World”
Annual Meeting
Adventist Society for Religious Studies
Denver, November 17-19, 2022
Thursday, November 17 5:00-9:00 pm
Maggiano’s Little Italy Denvery
500 16th St. Suite 150 | Denver, CO 80202
6:00-7:00 PM
Reception
7:00-7:15 PM
Welcome and Announcements by President-elect (Sigve Tonstad)
7:15-8:30 PM Presidential Address 2022
“‘Remember That We Are Dust’: Following Jesus in Seeing Our Broken World Through the Eyes of Weakness”
Anne Collier-Freed, ASRS President, Associate Professor of Religion, Kettering College
8:30-9:00 pm
Business Session I
Friday, November 18
Convention Center, Mile High Ballroom 2A
6:45-8:15 AM Adventist Women's Scholars Breakfast hosted by North American Division
Location:
The Edge Restaurant at the Four Seasons
1111 14th St. Denver, Colorado
8:00-8:30 AM
Morning devotional (paper)
Spiritual Wholeness: Sustainable Spiritual Resilience in a Conflicted, Destabilizing World Ben Holdsworth, Union College
8:30-9:45 Paper Session 1: States of Brokenness
Anne Collier-Freed, presiding
Restoring the Broken: The Function of Military Language in the Feeding of the Five Thousand Narrative (Mark 6:30–44) Oleg Kostyuk, AdventHealth University, Orlando
Deceived, Broken, Whole: How the Garden Explains the Cross
Thomas Toews, Union College
Jeremiah’s reBuilding (בנה) of the Destroyed City without Brick and Mortar
Oliver Glanz, SDA Theological Seminary, Andrews University
Discussion (15 minutes)
9:45 Break (15 minutes)
10:00-11:15 Paper Session 2: Pathways to Wholeness
Michael W. Campbell, presiding
The Reader’s Social Location: A Path to Wholeness in Theological Interpretation of Scripture Iriann Marie Irizarry, PhD Candidate, Andrews University
“When Healthcare Gets Sick: Epaphroditus, the Parabalani and Broken Hallelujahs” Kendra Haloviak Valentine, La Sierra University
"For the Healing of the Nations" John Brunt, Lynnwood, Washington
Discussion (15 minutes)
11:15-11:30 Business Session 2
11:30-12:45 Paper Session 3: Brokenness (Un)acknowledged
Tammy Wiese, Presiding
Developing a Critical Race Informed Adventist Eschatology
Keith Burton, AdventHealth University
Women Who Shaped Adventism: Ten Who Cracked the Glass Ceiling
James Wibberding, Pacific Union College
The Double-sided Mirror: Wholeness as Integrity; Wholeness as Connectivity
John R. and Patricia S. Jones, La Sierra and Loma Linda Universities
Discussion (15 minutes)
12:45-13:45 Lunch Break
13:45-15:00 Session 4: Visions of Healing
Lena Toews, Presiding
Mediating Wholeness in a Broken World Nicole Parker, Southern Adventist University
Reconciliating the Two Sides of the Wall of Separation: A Sanctuary Tension and Its Missiological Implications Based on Ephesians 2:14-18
Liang Chuanshan, AIIAS, Philippines.
The Minister and the Mother Wound: Trauma Conversations Between Jeremiah 13 and 31 Mathilde Frey, Walla Walla University
Discussion (15 minutes)
15:00-15:15
Business Session III
3:15-4:15 PM
Sectional Meetings and Conveners
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Old Testament (Jody Washburn)
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World Religions/Missiology (John Jones)
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New Testament (Erhard Gallos)
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Christian Theology and History (Martin Hanna)
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Philosophy and Ethics (Roy Benton)
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Practical Theology (Ernie Furness)
4:15-5:15 pm
Additional Sectional Meeting and Covener
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Black Theology Group (Rodney Palmer)
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Women's Group (Lena Toews)
5:45-9:00 pm
Adventist Scholars' Supper/Vespers by the North American Division Ministerial Department – Keynote speaker Niels-Erik Andreasen
Sabbath, November 19, 8:00 am-2:30 pm
Sheraton, Plaza Ballroom ABC
9:00-9:30 Devotional (paper)
Mending Collegial Relationships: An Intentional Process
Petr Cincala and Boubakar Sanou, Andrews University
9:30-10:45 Sabbath School Hour
Mediating (W)holeness in a Broken World
Zdravko Plantak, Loma Linda University, leading
11.00-12.00 Sabbath Service
Welcome and Prayer
Lena Toews
Introduction of Speaker
Sigve K. Tonstad
Liturgy and Music
Message:
“Esther: Beauty as Revolutionary Healing Practice”
Ramona Hyman, Professor of English, Oakwood University