Watching Hacksaw Ridge is an ordeal. Even more so when the central character is a United States Army medic, a conscientious objector and a Seventh-day Adventist. The portrayal of the battlefield horrors in this new biographical film render the heroism and the faithfulness of Desmond Doss more troubling than inspiring.
This is your story
Thursday, September 8, 2016Nathan Brown reflects on the release of Tell the World, the “moviementary” of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s early history. The temptation: to imagine these periods as a golden age. Despite the inevitable challenges and disappointments, they are “an invitation to live the same story in our time and in our place.“
Lecture: Nathan Brown
Saturday, August 6, 2016Author Nathan Brown speaks about his friendship with former Seventh-day Adventist minister Ryan Bell, whose year-without-God experiment led to Bell becoming an atheist.
Why Becky tries to believe
Friday, August 5, 2016Author Nathan Brown acknowledges the negative reaction to the title of his book, Why I Try to Believe, in the book itself. But isn’t figuring out how our own experiences have built or shaken our faith an experiment that will go on for as long as our lives last? asks Becky De Oliveira in her review. Acknowledging there are no easy answers, but that commitment to God through faith is worthwhile anyway, “Brown challenges us in a quiet and deeply respectful way to ‘walk on’ in faith” and “makes it seem like a noble approach.”
Why try to believe
Friday, July 22, 2016Something within us seeks purpose, meaning and hope amid the busyness, distractions and disappointments of our lives, writes Nathan Brown. It prompts us toward a relationship with our Creator, although we’re not sure what that might mean, even as we use that language to describe what we try to believe.
How the story begins
Friday, July 1, 2016Our faith begins with Jesus, but Nathan Brown asks what that means and whether it changes how we tell our story—or how we live it.