Jojo,
Your professor and I would probably agree that labels can be tricky, sometimes multiple labels are needed in order to describe our positions with accuracy!
Anyways, I guess you're right that this subforum has been neglected lately. I'll try to post more often here from now on. As a people I believe that we need to have our feathers roused from time to time, sometimes we need to challenge orthodoxy.
After all, the advent movement was originally a true progressive movement, not only theologically, but also from a social point of view. Abolitionism, prohibitionism, pacifism and vegetarianism was the cutting edge of social reform back in the 19th century, and the adventist church took a bold stance on these issues. Just think about it, if these issues have a progressive flavour even today, how much more radical wouldn't these things have been back in the Victorian era?
I believe that as a Church we've lagged behind, in many ways we've quenched the progressive spirit of our pioneers. (For the records, by “progressive” I don't mean “liberal”. “Radical” is closer to what I mean.)
