LIVE: GC Session 2025 – Day 1 Kicks Off in St. Louis
LIVE: GC Session 2025 – Day 1 Kicks Off in St. Louis Welcome to Adventist Today’s live updates from the 62nd General Conference Session in St. Louis, Missouri, as this historic event unfolds. Business wraps with a prayer. Everyone is hungry. [5:31 PM CDT] – A list of 277 nominating […]
St. Louis GC Session 2025: Day ½
by Loren Seibold | 3 July 2025 | This is the first General Conference (GC) session I’ve ever attended. I always thought some conference, some time, would send me as a delegate. I thought I would have risen in the ranks, as many of my friends did, to be a […]
ATSS: Michael Scofield, “The Rise & Fall of Adventist Publishing”
2 July 2025 | The Adventist publishing “industry” is 170 years old. Publishing was vigorous even before Adventist education and healthcare began to expand. In an effort to reach the whole world “in this generation,” publishing houses and journals were established all over the world, ever adding more languages whenever […]
Beyond Allyship: Finding Accomplices for the Work of Racial Justice
by Christopher C. Thompson | 1 July 2025 | I was recently talking to a local politician who has grown to be a dear friend. As we talked and solved the problems of the world, she made a statement that has invaded the corridors of my mind ever since. She […]
Why I Don’t Care Who the Next General Conference President Is
by Loren Seibold | 30 June 2025 | The Adventosphere—both the online and personal gossip variety—has been buzzing with questions about who the next General Conference (GC) president will be. I take a minority position: it shouldn’t matter. My diminished interest First, I doubt the selection will be a surprise. […]
Comments of the Week June 23-29
Comments of the Week June 9-16 “Well done, Jescah Gesare, for carrying through with this case. Too many Seventh-day Adventists (SDAs) believe that it is wrong to take those who have wronged them to court, hiding behind the false belief it is ‘unchristian’ to do so. When treated illegally by […]
Editorial: “AT Prepares to Cover the Good, Bad, and Ugly at the St. Louis GC Session”
Many love it. Many love to hate it. The 62nd General Conference (GC) Session of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is nearly upon us, set to unfold from July 3-12 in St. Louis, Missouri. Adventist Today will be on the ground to cover it. This gathering, held every five years (though […]
Northern New England Conference President Says Ron Kelly Will Not Be Executive Secretary
27 June 2025 | In a recent Northern New England Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (NNEC) town hall meeting, president Gary Blanchard said that Ron Kelly, fired pastor of the Berrien Springs Village Church, would not be the conference’s executive secretary. Anybody heard of Spectrum magazine? I have gotten lots of […]
Reclaiming the Prophet: How to Believe in Ellen White
by Reinder Bruinsma | 27 June 2025 | Read part 1 here. Opening the third section of Reclaiming the Prophet, veteran Adventist historian George R. Knight recaps much of what he’s written in his other books about Adventist church history. He recounts how the original perspective on the ministry of […]
Adventist Church Denied Injuction in Hiring Rights Lawsuit
27 June 2025 | A ruling was granted this month regarding the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s October 2023 lawsuit against the members and executive director of the Maryland Civil Rights Commission. The church had requested religious exemption from the Maryland Fair Employment Practices Act. According to The […]
ATSS: Charles Scriven, “Can We Grow Up? Truthfulness, Matthew 18, Community & Conversation”
28 June 2025 | Conversation among different kinds of Adventists is often either a bit mean-spirited, or entirely non-existent. I will use both contemporary philosophy of knowledge and a key passage from Matthew to argue that failure by Adventists to interact across lines of convictional difference in vigorous, open-minded conversation […]
Reclaiming the Prophet: How to Read Ellen White
by Reinder Bruinsma | 26 June 2025 | I first became aware of Reclaiming the Prophet when I saw urgent warning to stay far away from it on the website of the far-right website Fulcrum7. It was clear from the description that the author of the short, ultra-negative piece had […]
News from Scotland, the General Conference, Southern Adventist University, and Chicago
26 June 2025 | News from Scotland “Audrey Mutongi-Darko, founder of The No.1 Befriending Agency, has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) on May 23 in recognition of her outstanding work to combat loneliness and isolation among older people in Glasgow. Mutongi-Darko is also invited to attend a royal […]
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LIVE: GC Session 2025 – Day 1 Kicks Off in St. Louis
LIVE: GC Session 2025 – Day 1 Kicks Off in St. Louis Welcome to Adventist Today’s live updates from the 62nd General Conference Session in St. Louis, Missouri, as this historic event unfolds. Business wraps with a prayer. Everyone is hungry. [5:31 PM CDT] – A list of 277 nominating committee names was quickly scrolled […]
Commentary
Beyond Allyship: Finding Accomplices for the Work of Racial Justice
by Christopher C. Thompson | 1 July 2025 | I was recently talking to a local politician who has grown to be a dear friend. As we talked and solved the problems of the world, she made a statement that has invaded the corridors of my mind ever since. She said, “I don’t need allies. […]
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ATSS: Michael Scofield, “The Rise & Fall of Adventist Publishing”
2 July 2025 | The Adventist publishing “industry” is 170 years old. Publishing was vigorous even before Adventist education and healthcare began to expand. In an effort to reach the whole world “in this generation,” publishing houses and journals were established all over the world, ever adding more languages whenever possible. Books and journals provide […]