General Conference Spring Meetings: Notes from April 10, 2024
11 April 2024 | The General Conference (GC) Spring Meetings began day two of business on April 10th in Silver Spring, Maryland. These meetings included a series of presentations, updates, reports, and discussions on future plans for the Adventist Church, providing key insights into the church’s strategic direction. The following […]
Chasing Perfection
by Melody Tan | 10 April 2024 | Early childcare is linked to better emotional and social outcomes for children than those who are looked after at home, a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health has found. Before you put your keyboard warrior hats on to […]
ATSS: Katrina Blue, “Sexual Abuse and the Bible”
10 April 2024 | TRIGGER WARNING The topic of sexual abuse in the Christian church has not abated after being brought to greater public attention in the twentieth century. With the legal system involved in cases of abuse, light has been shed on the suffering of both adults and children […]
General Conference Spring Meetings: Notes from April 9, 2024
10 April 2024 | On April 9th, 2024, the General Conference (GC) hosted the Spring Business Meetings in Silver Spring, MD. These meetings included a series of presentations, updates, reports, and discussions on future plans for the Adventist Church, providing key insights into the church’s strategic direction. The following are […]
Advice for My Adventist Friends
by John R. Landgraf | 9 April 2024 | I just got word that my dear friend and Baptist pastor John Landgraf passed away. A couple of years ago I asked him to write for Adventist Today. His essay was beautiful and thoughtful and remains excellent advice. —Loren Seibold I […]
Aunty, I’m under pressure in my church employment, because “it’s for God!” Sometimes it feels abusive.
8 April 2024 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I’ve heard Adventist administrators and others remind their overworked staff that they work for God, not the church or school, as the case may be. While technically true, it seems like an excuse to justify unreasonable expectations. Honestly, sometimes it has felt to […]
Editorial: “Truth-Seeking Thomas”
I like truth that rests on proof. I see no merit in believing something just because someone says it. I want solid, rational evidence. And I’m willing to follow that evidence, even if it leads to uncomfortable conclusions. In that respect, I’m like many Adventist Today readers. I know there are […]
Eclipse Fever
by Loren Seibold | 5 April 2024 | A reader recently sent Adventist Today a note reminding us that next week, April 8, a solar eclipse will be visible in a path across the United States. Their concern wasn’t astronomical, however: they wanted us to know that this eclipse was […]
Are You Living in an Information Echo Chamber?
by Robert Crux | 4 April 2024 | Echo chambers can be tricky to recognize—especially when you’re in one. And once you are in one, it can be hard to leave. The echo chamber’s belief system takes over and your mind is almost oblivious to any other sources of information or contrary […]
News Briefs for April 4, 2024
4 April 2024 | New York Inmates Sue to Watch Monday’s Solar Eclipse “The suit filed Friday in federal court in upstate New York argues that the April 8 lockdown violates inmates’ constitutional rights to practice their faiths by preventing them from taking part in a religiously significant event. The […]
ATSS: Matthew Korpman, “Did Ellen White Read Apocryphal Gospels? The New Testament Apocrypha in Early Adventism”
4 April 2024 | In recent years, renewed attention has been given to the role of the Old Testament Apocrypha for Ellen White and early Adventism in general. It turns out that many Adventists, including Ellen White herself, believed those non-canonical books contained in the middle of their KJV Bibles […]
Dear Lord, Forgive…
by Reinder Bruinsma | 3 April 2024 | On the 13th of May, 1981, a 23-year old Turkish militant named Mhemet Ali Ağca fired four pistol shots at Pope John Paul II in front of the St. Peter basilica in Rome. His motives have always remained unclear. What is clear […]
Pew Research on Influence of Religion in America, Christianity & Politics
3 April 2024 | The Pew Research Center survey reveals a growing concern among adults in the United States about the diminishing role of religion in American life, with 80% perceiving its influence as waning, the highest ever in such surveys. This decline is largely viewed negatively, with 49% unhappy […]
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News
News Briefs for April 18, 2024
18 April 2024 | New Document to Curb Theological “Slippage” Described as Proactive and Embracing “Ted N. C. Wilson, GC president, acknowledged that the rationale behind the document is to provide ‘an initiative to help stem the tide, to stop the drift, to help reduce the slippage of church members, teachers, pastors, all of us […]
Commentary
Disease and Doctors
If life is intelligently designed, with forethought, planning, purposeful, meaningful, are diseases intelligently designed, planned, purposeful too? Do we need more or less religion? Do we need more or fewer doctors? by Jack Hoehn | 17 April 2024 | There are many things that attack and end life. Here are 20, plus a few more, […]
Features
Aunty, why are we Adventists so focused on Satan?
15 April 2024 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, In the Adventist community I grew up in, the power of Satan was presented vividly: the devil was more personally involved in everyone’s life than God and the angels. The angels would stay outside places like theaters, where the evil angels would congregate. God was ready to abandon […]