Memory, Meaning & Faith

Week Four Giveaway! Recipients

Thank you to all who suggested topics for our contributors to cover! Out of those who left comments at Memory, Meaning & Faith on Facebook,

• Edwin Mejia will receive an autographed copy of The Cosmic Christ of Scripture, by Martin Hanna,
• and Christian Dumitrescu will receive an autographed copy of The Trinity by  John W. Reeve.

Stay tuned for more draws next week.

Week Four Giveaway!

At Memory, Meaning & Faith, we want to scratch where it itches, be where the rubber meets the road, and avoid stagnant clichés. In other words, we want to know what you're interested in. So we're asking you to tell us what specific topics you'd like to see us cover by tweeting @memmngfaith on Twitter or writing our wall at Memory, Meaning & Faith on Facebook.

All those who tweet @ us or write on our wall will be entered in a draw, and two (2) will receive free books. Read the details here.

Week Two Giveaway! Recipients

Out of those who linked to us from their personal blog or website

• Nick Jones at Speak Free
• and Matt Burdette at Constructing Adventist Theology

are receiving a two year (2009-2010) subscription to AUSS.

Week Three Giveaway! Recipients

Out of those who commented on our website on Monday, April 5

• Denis Kaiser is receiving Politics and Prophecy,
• and Victor Reyes-Perito is receiving The Cosmic Christ of Scripture.

Week Three Giveaway!

Our contributors want to hear from you!

So we're giving away a copy of Politics and Prophecy, with a chapter by our own Nick Miller, and a copy of Cosmic Christ of Scripture by regular contributor, Martin Hanna. All you need to do is make a relevant comment on one of our posts (like Martin's recent one on Science-Theology Relations), and you're entered in the draw.

And be sure you become of fan of Memory, Meaning & Faith on Facebook and follow us on Twitter, since we'll be running some giveaways out of those pages later this week.

For details on the draws, click here.

Week Two Giveaway!

Our contributors just love giving their books (and journals) away. This time we're going to send some gifts to those who are spreading the word about Memory, Meaning & Faith. Two of those who link to us from their blog will get a two year subscription to AUSS. And one of those who submit an announcement about Memory, Meaning & Faith to their local church bulletin will receive a copy of The Trinity.

For details on how to become a part of the draw, click here.

Week One Giveaway! Recipients

Following our official drawing ceremony (involving a UPS box, our intrepid Church History Department administrative assistant, and tiny bits of paper) the recipients of our first round of gifts have been chosen at random from those who were among the first to subscribe to Memory, Meaning & Faith.

• Michael Corbel, one of our Memory, Meaning & Faith on Facebook fans, gets an autographed copy of Politics and Prophecy, edited by Alan Reinach, which includes the chapter "'Render Unto God': How Should the State Relate to God?" by a regular contributor to this blog, Nicholas Miller.
• Nicholas Jones, who follows memmngfaith on Twitter, will find himself in possession of an autographed copy of The Trinity by Woodrow Whidden, Jerry Moon, and our very own John W. Reeve.
• Mathilde Frey, recipient of our email newsletter, will receive an autographed copy of Altar Call by Memory, Meaning & Faith regular contributor Roy Gane.

Thank you for choosing to make Memory, Meaning & Faith a part of your online community. And watch for next week's giveaways!

2010 Adventist Historians' Conference

This weekend Memory, Meaning & Faith regular contributor Nick Miller will be blogging the 6th Triennial Meeting of the Association of Seventh-day Adventist Historians. He will be posting evening updates on the presentations and proceedings at the campus of Washington Adventist University in Takoma Park, Maryland. The sessions will cover topics such as "War Mongering," "Religion, Diversity & Change in the West," and "Race, Ethnicity & Adventist Church Governance." We look forward to Nick's reports on the sessions he attends.

Nick will also be tweeting the conference at Memory, Meaning & Faith on Twitter, where, among other things, you can find out what it's like to take a 12-hour road trip in a minivan full of historians.

Welcome From John Reeve

Welcome to Memory, Meaning & Faith! You will notice from Who We Are, Why We're Here and What We Believe that we want to have a faith-building historical and theological dialogue that is Bible-based, Christian, and Adventist. Now I want to speak from my heart about what motivates me to want this dialogue.

My study of the early Christian church has taught me (at least) two things:

1. Protecting yourself against the possibility of being wrong sets you up to go farther and farther wrong, all the while claiming to be right.
2. Even people that are right sometimes make wrong choices with bad results and, conversely, even people that are wrong sometimes make right choices with good results.

I do not suggest by the second that there is no moral imperative to do right, but rather, that I can learn from the mistakes and successes of all people in history by standing on their shoulders and choosing to emulate that which is right and true. This, of course, means that I must critique all people and movements in history in both thought and action. The first thing I learned, however, means that I must also be willing to critique myself and my own movement and be critiqued by what I have found right and true in history.

This calls for an attitude of humility—neither arrogance nor sheepishness, neither vindictiveness nor quiescence, neither defensiveness nor an attitude of aggression. I believe in acting with confidence while standing ready to be corrected, in teaching with authority while remaining teachable, in listening and not just speaking, in critiquing all thoughts and actions while respecting all people and leaving the judgment to God. I also believe that truth can stand being inspected and must be in order to be passed on. This is the attitude I intend to have permeate the discussions on this blog. You are welcome to join in.

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Check out our giveaway! This week we'll be giving away books authored by our regular contributors, including John Reeve, as a way of saying thank you for subscribing to us on Facebook, Twitter, and via our email newsletter. More information is available here. -DH