It is edited by youth pastor David Wood, with heavy responsibilities carried by co-managing editors Rene Dupertuis and Michael Zbaraschuk, both doctoral students at nearby Claremont Graduate University. The inaugural issue represents the MTVification of Adventism. Multicolored graphics and photos are everywhere, often existing in ambiguous relationship to anything else. Background images are underprinted on most pages of text. And the text itself sometimes includes varying-sized lines of type in the middle of an article.
Pages vary in color from deep blue to see-through onion skin to pale yellow.
Anything less will indicate to them that other forms of worship, other religions, or perhaps, no organized religion can be their home. In addition to a movie and a book review, the first issue of Scanner includes articles in which young adult Adventists grapple with their faith. I m forced to take positions I feel are unfair because my superiors tell me to. They feel that political pressure to be tough on crime. I feel the pressure to keep my job.