Barry Bussey, the Seventh-day Adventist Church's liaison to the United Nations, explains why we can't continue to avoid the tough questions in an Adventist News Network opinion piece (15 April 2011):
...[T]he Seventh-day Adventist Church -- historically such an outspoken proponent of conscientious objection -- has grown less clear and less certain on the issue over recent decades. We've, by and large, preferred to look the other way or simply skirt around the edges of the issues.
I believe now more than ever we need to once again undertake a clear-eyed examination of the moral and theological questions raised by military service. A generation of young people face a politically unstable and unpredictable world. If their church can't provide clear principles to guide them in the choices that may confront them, who will?...
Read the full essay and and commentary by Doug Morgan at the Spectrum blog.
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