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: David Williams)
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”
Andrew Tompkins, “Learning about the Sabbath from Hindu Devotees”
Erik C. Carter, “The Converging of the Ways?: What Sabbath Practice Can Teach Us about Jewish-Christian and Intra-Christian Relations Today”
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 + Introduction of Speaker
Erik C. Carter
Message
Sigve K. Tonstad, “Meanings that We Need: Does the Sabbath Have Them?” (Jn. 5:15-18)
Confessional + Liturgy
Anne Collier-Freed
Special Music
Oakwood University’s Aeolians
Closing Thoughts
Erik C. Carter
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, Leslie Pollard, Amy Rosenthal).