Charles Scriven is a Seventh Day Adventist theologian, who has been President of Kettering College since 2000. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Kettering foundation and Chair of the Board of Adventist Forums

Adventist Forums

Adventist Forums is an international non-profit organization of Seventh-day Adventists. It publishes Spectrum magazine. Its stated aim is to create community through open conversation. Local groups of the association are known as local forum chapters...

, publisher of Spectrum magazine

Spectrum (magazine)

Spectrum is the official publication of Adventist Forums, published four times a year. It was established "to encourage Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the...

.

Career

After attending Walla Walla University

Walla Walla University

Walla Walla University is a University offering liberal arts, professional, and technical programs located in College Place, Washington, just a few miles from Walla Walla. The current President is John McVay. It was founded in 1892 and is affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church.The...

 in College Place, Washington

College Place, Washington

College Place is a city in Walla Walla County, Washington, United States next to Walla Walla, Washington. The population was 8,765 at the time of the 2010 census.College Place is the home of Walla Walla University, a Seventh-day Adventist college....

, Scriven obtained a Master's degree in divinity at Andrews University

Andrews University

Andrews University is a Seventh-day Adventist university in Berrien Springs, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1874 as Battle Creek College in Battle Creek, Michigan, it was the first higher education facility started by Seventh-day Adventists, and is the flagship university of the Seventh-day...

 in 1968. In 1984 he obtained a Ph.D. in systematic theology and Christian social ethics at the Graduate Theological Union

Graduate Theological Union

The Graduate Theological Union ' is a consortium of nine independent theological schools, and eleven centers and affiliates. Eight of the theological schools are located in Berkeley, California. The GTU was founded in 1962. It maintains the Graduate Theological Union Library, one of the most...

 in Berkeley, California

Berkeley, California

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. He served for six years as minister in the Seventh Day Adventist church in Sligo in Montgomery County, Maryland

Montgomery County, Maryland

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. In 1992 he was appointed president of Columbia Union College (now renamed Washington Adventist University) in Takoma Park, Maryland

Takoma Park, Maryland

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. He has been an editor of Insight

Insight (Adventist magazine)

Insight is a weekly magazine aimed at Seventh-day Adventist young people, published by Review and Herald. It has been described as one of the "most important" Adventist magazines.- History :...

, a Seventh Day Adventist magazine for young people.

Selected publications

• The Demons Have Had It: A Theological ABC (1976)
• The transformation of culture : Christian social ethics after H. Richard Niebuhr (1988)
• The Promise of Peace: Dare to Experience the Advent Hope (2009)