Adventist Forum

Featuring Charles Scriven

Adventist Forum presents Dr. Charles Scriven, President of Kettering
College and Chair of the Association of Adventist Forums board,
discussing "The Promise of Peace:  Dare to Live the Advent Hope Toward a
Post-Conventional Adventism."  The meeting will be Sabbath afternoon at
3:30 p.m., February 26, 2011, in the Physics Amphitheater in the Science
Complex of Andrews University.  Please plan to come.
                                    
President of Kettering College of Medical Arts, Charles Scriven has
worked as an editor, college teacher, pastor, health care trustee and
college president.  Before coming to Kettering College, he served for
eight years as president of Columbia Union College in Takoma Park, Md.,
a suburb of Washington, D.C.

Dr. Scriven studied philosophy, theology and social ethics at the
Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif.    

Dr. Scriven has published many articles and several books, including The
Demons Have Had It: A Theological ABC, The Transformation of Culture:
Christian Social Ethics After H. Richard Niebuhr, and How to Believe
When You Hurt.  His most recent book, published in 2009 by Pacific
Press, is The Promise of Peace: Dare to Live the Advent Hope.  His
articles have appeared in Spectrum, The Adventist Review, Ministry and
numerous other Adventist publications, and also in Christianity Today,
Sojourners and the Dayton Daily News.  

Dr. Scriven has three children, and six grandchildren.  His older son,
Jonathan, teaches at an international high school in southern France.
His daughter, Christina, is a nurse in Chattanooga, Tenn.  His younger
son, Jeremy, works as a benefits analyst at Adventist Health Care in
Rockville, Md.  Dr. Scriven is married to Rebekah Wang, an internist and
currently Medical Director for Clinical Quality at the Kettering Medical
Center in Dayton.  

Adventist Forum is open to the public.  All are welcome.  For
information, contact Art Robertson at robertsa2@earthlink.net or call
471-7150.