News
What Will a New Supreme Court Justice in the United States Mean for Adventists? - 13 July 2018 | Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge, was nominated by United States President Donald Trump this week to fill Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat on the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh, age 53, was a staff member in the White House for President George W. Bush and a onetime investigator of President Bill […]- News Briefs for July 13, 2018 - News reports from Bakersfield, California; Denver, Colorado; Loma Linda University Medical Center; Loma Linda University Medical Center Children’s Center, Walla Walla University and Union College Bakersfield.com reported that 13 members of the Westside Crips criminal street gang attended a recent gang call-in at Southside Seventh-day Adventist Church in central Bakersfield, California. At the event attended […]
- Spoofing Scam Uses Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley Name - 12 July 2018 | Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley has reported telephone scams in which the name of the hospital is being used to obtain credit card information from Tehachapi community members. According to the BakersfieldNow news site, the hospital is warning the public to hang up immediately if they receive a call from someone claiming […]
- Adventist Health System Teams Up With Texas Health Resources to build $150 Million Healthcare Campus in Mansfield, Texas - 11 July 2018 | Adventist Health System and the faith-based nonprofit healthcare system, Texas Health Resources, are building a new health care campus in Mansfield, a rapidly-growing suburban city in North Texas which is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area. The joint-venture will be named Texas Hospital Mansfield and is slated to open in […]
- Pastor Angry as Air Conditioning Is Stolen from Free Seventh-day Adventist Church - 10 July 2018 | The pastor of Kingdom Growth Free Seventh-day Adventist Church in Midfield, Alabama, has confessed to local media that he is angry after a thief made off with the church’s air conditioning valued at several thousand dollars. CBS 42 reported that the temperature inside the church was 97 degrees when the station interviewed Pastor […]
- Canadian Village Distances Itself From Local Adventist Camp Meeting Featuring Coming Out Ministries - 10 July 2018 | The village of Pugwash, a community of 76 residents in Cumberland, Nova Scotia, is actively distancing itself from an Adventist camp meeting based at Adventist-owned Camp Pugwash, a short distance from the village. The July 20-28 camp meeting, sponsored by Canada’s Maritime Conference of the Adventist Church, is due to feature […]
- Carson Aims To Help Public Housing Recipients Reach God-Given Potential By Raising Rent - 8 July 2018 | Last Monday, Ben Carson defended a plan to raise the rent on public housing. The Adventist former neurosurgeon said the plan to raise minimum subsidized rent from $50 to $150 would give tenants “more skin in the game.” Delivering the keynote at the American Conservative Union Foundation’s Conservative Political Action Conference 365 […]
- Adventist Denominations: The Larger Picture - 6 July 2018 | The 14th edition of the Handbook of Denominations in the United States came off the press in recent weeks. This is the most widely respected reference volume of its kind, designed for readers other than academic specialists. The last edition was released in 2010. The new edition lists 10 denominations under […]
- News Briefs for July 6, 2018 - News reports from New Zealand, Roseville, California; New York, Loma Linda University, Colombia, Canada, Guatemala and Simi Valley, California: The Stuff news site reported that Longburn Adventist College in Manawatū, New Zealand, has launched an online learning program allowing students to be beamed into classrooms anywhere in the world using Zoom video conferencing technology. Students […]
- Transplant Operations Suspended at Porter Adventist Hospital - 5 July 2018 | Porter Adventist has announced that it is suspending transplant operations. A number of trained staff members have left and the hospital has not been able to replace them given a challenging labor market. Porter has said that it needs more time to recruit staff and boost clinical support teams. The Denver […]
- Sikh Association and Adventist Health Bakersfield Partner for Cancer Screening at Sikh Temple - 4 July 2018 | Adventist Health Bakersfield is joining forces with Bakersfield Sikh Women’s Association for a preventative cancer screening. The Kaur Care Women’s Health Preventative Cancer Screening program will feature free breast exams and will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Sunday, July 8, at Gurdwara Guru Dashmesh Darbar, a Sikh […]
- Flagship Adventist Radio Station in the United States to Revise Support Structure - From News Release, 3 July 2018 | The Adventist radio station with the largest listening audience in the United States is WGTS, 91.9 FM which is heard throughout the nation’s capital region. It is transitioning from Washington Adventist University (WAU) to a separate nonprofit entity. Pending approval by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), it will […]
Commentary
- The Dangers of an All-or-Nothing Morality - By Loren Seibold | 13 July 2018 | Recently we learned that recreational marijuana would be legal in Canada in October. A whole country, right next door to mine, is letting people buy in a store a drug that I was taught would instantly destroy your life if tried even once! Many of us […]
- Would I Thrive in the Republic of Gilead? - by Stephen Ferguson | 08 July 2018 | The world is abuzz with Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a new TV series that adapts the 1985 book of the same name by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. The series is now in its second season, and received an impossible 100% score on review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. […]
- What is the “Everlasting Gospel” of Revelation 14? - by Steven Siciliano | 5 June 2018 Readers of Adventist Today are no doubt familiar with topical Bible studies, in which the goal is to trace one teaching through the entire Bible and formulate a comprehensive view of what the scriptures say about it. That kind of cross-referential approach is a common method that has also […]
- Our Vatican Spies - By Loren Seibold | 30 June 2018 | Some of you have read and followed the ongoing saga of my secret Jesuit life—that is, according to some of my Seventh-day Adventist brothers and sisters who have so labeled me. The comments from the article I wrote on the topic were telling: even my denial I’m […]
- To the Judgy Church Lady Who Told Me to Go Back to My Ex-Husband - by Lindsey Abston Painter | 25 June 2018 | This is an actual letter I received recently. Out of kindness to the writer, I’ve changed her name to “Judgy Church Lady”. Dearest Lindsey, It was a sad day when I heard you and (ex-husband) are getting a divorce. You are too young to be making […]
- The Great Ejection - By Jack Hoehn | 17 June 2018 | Voting by leadership to require church members to all act in a uniform manner has a long and harmful history in the reformation of the Christian church. How can church members stop a Great Ejection from happening in Adventism? Understanding the reformation of the English church is complex. […]
- Forever Young? - By Melody Tan | 27 June 2018 | An article on innovative business news website, Fast Company, is reporting that we are extremely close to finding the fountain of youth. More accurately, startup company Unity Biotechnology is working on developing a drug that will enable us not so much to live forever, but to feel […]
- Childish Gambino, the Fourth Seal, and Christian Responsibility - by Danielle Bernard | 18 June 2018 | I stared at the screen of my phone in utter shock at what I had just seen. “Disturbed” is the only word that even comes close to articulating how I felt on that Sunday morning in early May after I watched American rapper Childish Gambino’s latest music […]
- Porqué amamos nuestra gran y obesa administración - Por Loren Seibold | 18 de junio 2018 | En 2015 un estudio independiente comisionado por el Comité de Gobierno Eclesiástico de la División Norteamericana (NAD por sus siglas en inglés) reportó un hecho impactante en el Concilio Anual de la NAD. En ese momento (hace dos años y medio), el estudio descubrió que si eliminaban […]
- Dear God, Your People Hate Me… - by Christopher C. Thompson Terrorists, drug dealers, rapists, drug addicts, homosexuals… I’m trying to think of all the different types of people whom we consider to be cut off from God. I have long struggled with this given the fact that over the years it has been some of the very people on this list […]
- Has a General Conference Session Approved Female Church Elders? - 13 June 2018 | At the request of readers, Adventist Today has researched a statement on the General Conference website dated 17 November 2017 and published in the “Presidential Perspectives” section of the official GC website. It was published under the byline of Elder Ted Wilson, the president of the General Conference, answering a question […]
- Buy or Sell - by Alicia Johnston | 11 June 2018 | The Supreme Court recently decided an important religious liberty case, ruling against homosexual activists who don’t want Christians to be able to practice their beliefs. Or was the Masterpiece Cakeshop vs. Colorado Civil Rights Commission a decision about ending discrimination and giving gay and bisexual people the […]
Features
- Dr. Ron Numbers on Writing Prophetess of Health - Adventist Today editor Loren Seibold talked with Dr. Ron Numbers, whose article on once-Adventist, later media and sports mogul, John Fetzer will appear in the autumn edition of Adventist Today magazine. You have a distinguished pedigree with the Seventh-day Adventist church. According to family lore my great-grandmother, Mary Anne Dicky Branson, then living in southern […]
- You Can’t Win, Can You? - To comment, click here.
- Adventists and HIV-AIDS - By Ronald Lawson | 21 June 2018 | To what extent should Adventists be concerned about people with HIV-AIDS? In the 1950s America suffered a polio epidemic. This was right down our alley as Adventists: we loved giving water treatments, massages, etc. Those affected were usually innocent young children, and our hearts went out to […]
- Baptismal Vows - To comment, click here.
- When the Adventist Church Sponsored an Ex-gay Ministry - by Ronald Lawson | 15 June 2018 | “The Troubled Career of an ‘Ex-Gay’ Healer: Colin Cook, Seventh-day Adventists, and the Christian Right.” Seventh-day Adventists had long assumed that they had no gay or lesbian members, even though there was a history of gay pastors, some in key posts, being discovered and fired, and gay […]
- Small Things - by S.M. Chen | 13 June 2018 “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” Confucius, aka Kong Qiu (551-479 BC), teacher, politician, philosopher I’m standing by the kitchen sink. As I lean over the garbage disposal, I hear a faint clink, metal on metal. I increase kitchen illumination, look around, […]
- Sermon: Working Like God - by John McLarty | 12 June 2018 | Sermon for Green Lake Church of Seventh-day Adventists for May 26, 2018 Texts: Deuteronomy 14:22-29, Exodus 20:8-11, John 5:8-19 Yesterday I was at Cypress Adventist School to present a chapel talk. Since I’m freshly returned from vacation in southern Utah, I told the kids about one of […]
- The Church and Its Homosexual Members - by Ron Lawson | 29 May 2018 | The chapter I wrote for the book, Christianity and Homosexuality: Seventh-day Adventist Perspectives, edited by David Ferguson, Fritz Guy, and David Larson, which was released in 2007, has been uploaded to my website, www.RonaldLawson.net. The title of the paper is “The Caring, Welcoming Church?: The Seventh-day Adventist […]
- Seventh-day Adventists and Polygamous Converts - by Ronald Lawson | 29 May 2018 | “Church-Sponsored Injustice: The Seventh-day Adventist Church and Polygamous Converts” addresses how Adventists have dealt with polygamously married converts in Africa, where the practice has been widespread. The policy long followed by other mission churches was to refuse to baptize converts who were polygamously married unless the male put away […]
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- Recent Adventist Today Articles by Jack Hoehn - ADVENTISM TOMORROW – by Jack Hoehn #1.) Reading Your Bible with Greater Care. #2. ) Open to the Openness of God. #3.) Against All Abuse, For all Love (the Bible and homosexual people.) #4.) Very Political. #5.) Rehabilitating Satan. #6.) Miltant Pacifism _______________________________________________ Other Recent Articles by Jack: “Death on St. Valentine’s Day, Slow Resurrection” […]
Poetry & Arts
- The Kingdom of Heaven - by John Bryan | 11 May 2018 | How would you explain color to a man who’s never seen before? With what words would you describe the sounds of music to someone who is deaf? Pingelap is a small circular island in the Pacific, an atoll, forming part of the country of Micronesia. A portion […]
- Somewhere: Spiritual Lessons from West Side Story - by S.M. Chen | 26 April 2018 | “There’s a place for us…” —from “Somewhere,” song in 1957 Broadway musical “West Side Story” One of the finer achievements of the late musician (conductor and composer) Leonard Bernstein was the music he composed for “West Side Story.” In collaboration with Stephen Sondheim, lyricist, he created for […]
- Revelation 2:17: A Poem - by Carolyn Shultz | 13 April 2018 | A smooth white stone. Mystery-white like Melville’ s whale? Alabaster— Or perhaps a new-made onyx Forged in the last prolific fires That purge and permute the once clean earth To Earth again. Inscribed, John says. Ur-Hebrew? Apocalyptic Greek? I think I’d fancy Strange new shapes and lines […]
- Lest We Forget - “Love is so short; forgetting is so long.” ~Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (1904-1973), Nobel laureate (1971) in literature “… before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.” ~Isaiah 65:24 I take a number of pills daily. These include a multivitamin formulation, chewable megavitamin C, vitamin D, L-lysine, and […]
- Something for the POTUS - by S.M. Chen | 23 February 2018 | I don’t know if Donald Trump reads USA TODAY. The back page of the first section of the 2/13/18 issue caught my attention. Someone named Tom Blair took out a full page ad entitled “Mr. President,” with the subheading: “In anticipation of Presidents’ Day (February 19) consider […]
- Ken Lauren: An Appreciation - by S.M. Chen | 12 February 2018 | Dr. Ken Lauren died not long ago of an injury sustained in Costa Rica, while he was working as a volunteer on the construction of a church. A report was posted here at Adventist Today. I visited Peru in 2005 at the invitation of my brother, taking […]
- Jesus’ Response to Nationalism & Racism - by Lars Justinen | 2 February 2018 | There was an immigration problem back in Jesus’ day. It seems the culture then was steeped in nationalism and racism. Especially hated in Israel were the “Muslims” of their day: the Samaritans. While sharing the same roots in Father Abraham, the Jews viewed the Samaritans as […]
- Doing Nothing Because You Can Do Only a Little? - by S.M. Chen | 22 January 2018 | “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” —Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish statesman and philosopher The story is told of an old man who walks the beach. He is in the habit of doing this before he begins […]
- Sunrise, Kapaa 1/11/18 - by S.M. Chen | 12 January 2018 | Some ancients bent a knee to sun. With outstretched arms they welcomed it And turned their face to catch its light And heat that warmed them to the bone, That took away the chill within. We, too, have shared the wonder of A rising sun in flaming […]
- More Rain - By S.M. Chen | 21 December 2017 | “The rain falls on the just And also on the unjust fella But mainly on the just Because the unjust steals the just’s umbrella.” —Heywood Broun, 20th century American journalist When, a few months ago, I wrote an essay, “Rain”, little could […]
- A Light to Lead Us Home - by Sharan Bennett | 20 December 2017 | Christmas, 2017 enters a chaotic and gloomy world that seems unprepared to receive it. But has our world every been much different? Ellen White says of the first Christmas: “The earth was dark through misapprehension of God.” (The Desire of Ages, p.22) And “While the light of […]
- On Learning from Bad Decisions - By S.M. Chen “There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.” – Abraham Lincoln “Every why hath a […]
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- The Dangers of an All-or-Nothing Morality - By Loren Seibold | 13 July 2018 | Recently we learned that recreational marijuana would be legal in Canada in October. A whole country, right next door to mine, is letting people buy in a store a drug that I was taught would instantly destroy your life if tried even once! Many of us […]
- What Will a New Supreme Court Justice in the United States Mean for Adventists? - 13 July 2018 | Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge, was nominated by United States President Donald Trump this week to fill Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat on the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh, age 53, was a staff member in the White House for President George W. Bush and a onetime investigator of President Bill […]
- News Briefs for July 13, 2018 - News reports from Bakersfield, California; Denver, Colorado; Loma Linda University Medical Center; Loma Linda University Medical Center Children’s Center, Walla Walla University and Union College Bakersfield.com reported that 13 members of the Westside Crips criminal street gang attended a recent gang call-in at Southside Seventh-day Adventist Church in central Bakersfield, California. At the event attended […]
- Spoofing Scam Uses Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley Name - 12 July 2018 | Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley has reported telephone scams in which the name of the hospital is being used to obtain credit card information from Tehachapi community members. According to the BakersfieldNow news site, the hospital is warning the public to hang up immediately if they receive a call from someone claiming […]
- Adventist Health System Teams Up With Texas Health Resources to build $150 Million Healthcare Campus in Mansfield, Texas - 11 July 2018 | Adventist Health System and the faith-based nonprofit healthcare system, Texas Health Resources, are building a new health care campus in Mansfield, a rapidly-growing suburban city in North Texas which is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area. The joint-venture will be named Texas Hospital Mansfield and is slated to open in […]
- Pastor Angry as Air Conditioning Is Stolen from Free Seventh-day Adventist Church - 10 July 2018 | The pastor of Kingdom Growth Free Seventh-day Adventist Church in Midfield, Alabama, has confessed to local media that he is angry after a thief made off with the church’s air conditioning valued at several thousand dollars. CBS 42 reported that the temperature inside the church was 97 degrees when the station interviewed Pastor […]
- Canadian Village Distances Itself From Local Adventist Camp Meeting Featuring Coming Out Ministries - 10 July 2018 | The village of Pugwash, a community of 76 residents in Cumberland, Nova Scotia, is actively distancing itself from an Adventist camp meeting based at Adventist-owned Camp Pugwash, a short distance from the village. The July 20-28 camp meeting, sponsored by Canada’s Maritime Conference of the Adventist Church, is due to feature […]
- Would I Thrive in the Republic of Gilead? - by Stephen Ferguson | 08 July 2018 | The world is abuzz with Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a new TV series that adapts the 1985 book of the same name by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. The series is now in its second season, and received an impossible 100% score on review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. […]
- Carson Aims To Help Public Housing Recipients Reach God-Given Potential By Raising Rent - 8 July 2018 | Last Monday, Ben Carson defended a plan to raise the rent on public housing. The Adventist former neurosurgeon said the plan to raise minimum subsidized rent from $50 to $150 would give tenants “more skin in the game.” Delivering the keynote at the American Conservative Union Foundation’s Conservative Political Action Conference 365 […]
- Adventist Denominations: The Larger Picture - 6 July 2018 | The 14th edition of the Handbook of Denominations in the United States came off the press in recent weeks. This is the most widely respected reference volume of its kind, designed for readers other than academic specialists. The last edition was released in 2010. The new edition lists 10 denominations under […]
- News Briefs for July 6, 2018 - News reports from New Zealand, Roseville, California; New York, Loma Linda University, Colombia, Canada, Guatemala and Simi Valley, California: The Stuff news site reported that Longburn Adventist College in Manawatū, New Zealand, has launched an online learning program allowing students to be beamed into classrooms anywhere in the world using Zoom video conferencing technology. Students […]
- Transplant Operations Suspended at Porter Adventist Hospital - 5 July 2018 | Porter Adventist has announced that it is suspending transplant operations. A number of trained staff members have left and the hospital has not been able to replace them given a challenging labor market. Porter has said that it needs more time to recruit staff and boost clinical support teams. The Denver […]