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6:30-8:00 AM 

Adventist Women's Scholars Breakfast hosted by the North American Division (TBD)

 

8:00 – 9:00 AM  Paper Session I: Reimagining the Church in a Digital Age

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Room 205 – Perception, Formation, and the Meaning of Technology

Presiding: Tihomir Lazić, Newbold College

 

Paper #1: Sacred Narratives and Silent Lands: Ellen G. White, Indigenous Erasure, and Adventist Memory

Julius Nam, Loma Linda University

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Paper #2: A Glass or a Wall? Shame Avoidance and the Rise of Chatbots

Marina Garner, Loma Linda University

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Paper #3: Way-out to too Way-out: A Conservative Church Copes with New Communication Platforms

Gil Valentine, Avondale University

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Discussion (15 min) 

 

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Room 203 – Digital Ecclesial Practice

Presiding: Oleg Kostyuk, AdventHealth University

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Paper #1: The Jesus Method for Social Media: A New Path for Discipleship in the Digital Neighborhood

Mabio Coelho, Andrews University

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Paper #2: Civilizing Narratives in the Digital Church: Data Colonialism and the Future of Adventist

Ecclesial Practice

Jeffrey Gang, Loma Linda University

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Paper #3: Reimagining Baptism in the Digital Age: An Exegetical-Theological Analysis of Its

Administration in the NT and Its Implications for Online Worship

Suryanica Aristas Pasuhuk & Malalasoa Daniel Andrianjafimbeloarijaona, Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies

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Discussion (15 min) 

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9:10-10:10 AM                  Paper Session II: Identity: Who Is the Church?

 

Room 205 – The Unaffiliated and the Search for Identity

Presiding: Katrina Blue, Pacific Union College

 

Paper #1: An Everlasting Gospel for Every Nation: The Three Angels' Messages as Missional Authorization

for Reaching the Religiously Unaffiliated

Zilan Holtmann, Andrews University

 

Paper #2: Recovering the Ekklesia: Liberating the Church from the Antichrist

Keith Burton, AdventHealth University

 

Paper #3: Becoming a Church of Belonging for Generation Z

Kenley Hall, Andrews University

 

Discussion (15 min) 

 

Room 203 – Ecclesiology: Structure & Authority

Presiding: Ross Winkle, Pacific Union College

  

Paper #1: Running Together, Arriving Differently: Authority in Tension in the Johannine Vision of the

Church

Laslo Gallusz, Newbold College of Higher Education

 

Paper #2: The Missional Theology of the Letter to the Ephesians: Its Implications for the Seventh-Day

Adventist Church

Leo Ranzolin, Loma Linda University

 

Paper #3: William Tyndale and a New Adventist Congregationalism

John McVay, Oregon Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

 

Discussion (15 min) 

  

10:20-11:20  AM    Paper Session III: Engaging a Divided World: Justice and Mission

  

Room 205 - Justice and the Public Square

Presiding: Olive Hemmings, Washington Adventist University

 

Paper #1: Using Computation Analysis to Examine Racial Colorblindness in SDA Sermons

Jillian Royal, Cornell University

 

Paper #2: Christian Nationalism: A Threat to Religious Liberty and Social Justice: The Adventist

Prophetic Response

Isaac Olatunji, Oakwood University

 

Paper #3: The Retributive Complex: Rethinking Divine Justice and the Church’s Role in a Divided World

Tammy Wiese, University of St. Andrews

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Discussion (15 min)

 

Room 203 - The Church's Mission and Witness to the World

Presiding: John Jones, La Sierra University

 

Paper #1: The Economic Entanglements of Moravian Mission Endeavors in the 18th Century with

Implications for Ecclesial Separation Today

Andrew Tompkins, Andrews University

 

Paper #2: Seeking the Welfare of the City: Reimagining the Missional Community and Identity of the Church in Contemporary China

Chuanshan Liang, Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies

 

Paper #3: Inroads to the Islamic Community. Reimagining Church Outreach to Muslim Neighbors

Sean Facchinello, Federal Prison, US Army Retired Chaplain (LTC)

 

  

11:30 AM-12:00 PM              Business Session II, Room 205

 

 

12:00-1:00 PM               Lunch Break