2020 Virtual Conference
Theme: “SABBATH: ROOTS, REST & RESISTANCE”
Wednesday and Thursday, November 18-19, 2020
Sectional Meetings + Conveners
Old Testament (Convener: Jody Washburn)
Wednesday, November 18 at 3.30pm (PST)/6.30pm (EST)
Topic Title: “OT Perspectives on Crisis”
World Religions/Missiology (Convener: John Jones)
Wednesday, November 18 at 7.00am (PST)/10.00am (EST)
Topic Title: “What I Wish They Had Taught Me in College and Seminary about World Religions: Three Lessons for a More Impactful Ministry”with Samir Selmanović
New Testament (Convener: Erhard Gallos)
Wednesday, November 18 at 5.30pm (PST)/8.30pm (EST)
Topic Title: “Confirmation Bias in Research”
Christian Theology and History (Convener: Martin Hanna)
Wednesday, November 18 at 3.30 (PST)/6.30 (EST)
Topic Title: “The New Andrews University Theological Center for Interdisciplinary Dialogue”
Philosophy and Ethics (Convener: Roy Benton)
Wednesday, November 18 at 5pm (PST)/8pm (EST)
Topic Title: “Planning Session for the Society of Adventist Philosophers”
Practical Theology (Convener: Ernie Furness) will join the Women in Theology Group (Anne Collier-Freed)
Thursday, November 19 at 3pm (PST)/6pm (EST)
Topic Title: “Does Seventh-day Adventist Healthcare Have a Formation Problem?”
Black Theology Group (Convener: Lincoln Nogueira)
Thursday, November 19 at 3.30pm (PST)/6.30pm (EST).
Topic Title: “Adventist Black Theology in light of George Floyd and other 2020 events”
Thursday, November 19, 2020 (5pm-7pm PST)
5.00-5.30pm PST
Welcome (Erik C. Carter and Mathilde Frey)
5.30-7pm PST
Presidential Address (Mathilde Frey)
Friday, November 20, 2020 (7am-5.30pm PST)
Welcome (Erik C. Carter)
7.00-8.30am PST
Session 1: Bible and History (Chair: Ross Winkle)
Melissa Brotton, “Established Forever: The People of God in the Sabbath Psalm”
Andy Blosser, “The Earth-Healing Sabbath: Jesus’ Sabbath Miracles and Adventist Sabbath Ethics”
Warren Trenchard, “Evidence for the Sabbath in Christianity before AD 60”
Live Q+A
8.30-8.45am PST
Break
8.45-10.15am PST
Session 2: Theology and Ethics (Chair: Mark Carr)
Rick Rice, “The Sabbath and Human Wholeness: Expanding the Adventist Vision”
Daryll Ward, “Being, Holiness and Freedom: On the Sacramental Character of the Sabbath”
Nicholas Miller, “Prophecy, Sabbath and Jubilee: The Social Justice Implications for Developing Nations of an Eschatological Sabbath Message”
Live Q+A
12-1.30pm PST
Session 3: Practical Theology (Chair: Ante Jeroncic)
Vaughn Nelson, “Disabling Sabbath: Practical Theological Possibilities in Calibrating Sabbath Time to ‘Crip Time’”
Liam Gearon and Arniika Kuusisto, Sanctifying the Sabbath: Rest as Resistance – Life Trajectories of Finnish Adventist Youth
Live Q+A
1.30-1.45pm PST
Break
1.45-3.15pm PST
Session 4: World Religions (Chair: Paul Dybdahl)
Marina Garner-Assis and Luiz Gustavo Assis, “Shabbat, Istauua, or both? Connections Between the Qur’anic and the Biblical Seventh Day of Creation”
Erik C. Carter, “The Converging of the Ways?: What Sabbath Practice Can Teach Us about Jewish-Christian and Intra-Christian Relations Today”
Andrew Tompkins, “Learning about the Sabbath from Hindu Devotees”
Live Q+A
4.30pm PST
Joint Worship Service with the Adventist Theological Society (Sponsored by the North American Division of SDA)
Sabbath, November 21, 2020 (8am-2.30pm PST)
8-9.30am PST
Panel Discussion #1: “Sabbath and Justice” (Chair: Erik C. Carter; Participants: Mathilde Frey, Marina Garner-Assis, Olive Hemmings, Zack Plantak, Buster Swoopes)
9.30-10.00am PST
Break
10.00-11.30am PST
Welcome + Prayer
Erik C. Carter
Musical Meditation
Oakwood University’s Aeolians
Silence
Reading of Scripture (Jn. 5:15-18)
Denis Fortin
Introduction of Speaker
Erik C. Carter
Message
Sigve K. Tonstad, “Meanings that We Need: Does the Sabbath Have Them?”
Silence
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Confessional + Liturgy
Anne Collier-Freed
Silence
Special Music
Oakwood University’s Aeolians
Closing Thoughts
Erik C. Carter
Closing Prayer
Sigve K. Tonstad
1.00pm-2.30pm PST
Panel Discussion #2: “Higher Education in the Age of Covid-19 and BLM” (Chair: Michael W. Campbell; Participants: Gordon Bietz, Ivan Williams, Lisa Beardsley-Hardy, Delbert W. Baker, Amy Rosenthal).