Introducing Three New Contributing Bloggers

We're excited about the latest resident additions to our little village. We feel these people below will add great depth and height, creativity and character, provoking us to image a broader, inclusive, emerging Adventism.

Allow us to introduce to you our new contributing bloggers.


Felisa Samarin-Meier is a graduate student at La Sierra University and will receive her MA in Religion, majoring in Christian Ethics and Theology with a minor in Biblical Studies, this June. She has worked as an associate pastor and still has the privilege to preach at several local churches. She volunteers for the Women's Resource Center at La Sierra University, enjoys yoga, the Los Angeles Lakers, traveling, party planning and collecting books. Felisa will blog on gender issues in the church.

You can start by reading her prolific book review of Sexism and God-talk: Toward a Feminist Theology on Adventist Today



Kris Loewen is currently an associate pastor at the Yakima Seventh-day Adventist church in Yakima, WA. He has a Bachelor's degree in theology from Walla Walla University and is currently working on an MDiv through Andrews University. Kris sees his gifts aligning with public speaking, studying, synthesizing ideas, and writing. He is passionate about mission and moving our churches more towards mission outposts in our world and cultures. Favorite authors and speakers include Alan Hirsch, N.T. Wright, Erwin McMannus, and Rob Bell. Kris is excited about helping people learn to see God all through our world, not just in the 'religious', and to help give them the language and framework to speak about and describe these encounters. He blogs regularly at Loewen Thoughts.




Pastor Bill Colburn is a convert to Christianity, having been raised in a more or less unchurched family. He currently leads two congregations that are contemporary expressions of Adventist Christianity: Oasis & Grace Point in TN. Bill's wife is Japanese and was raised within the Buddhist traditions. They have three free-spirited and awesome sons. Bill has spent the last ten years engaged in the Emerging Church Conversation. His Christian friends most often label him an 'orthodox heretic', which is the title of a newly published book by Pete Rollins. The subject of his blog musings here at The Wheel: "living paradox." He blogs regularly at Segue.