It’s Okay to Say “I Don’t Know”
by Terry Bottrell | 8 December 2023 | Paul’s wonderful discourse in I Corinthians 13 on unlimited, unconditional love also contains some statements on the limits and conditions surrounding human knowledge and perception. In verse 9 he says, “we know in part and prophesy in part.” Verse 12 continues, Now […]
Adventist Society for Religious Studies Publishes Two New Books
8 December 2023 | Scholars of the Adventist Society for Religious Studies (ASRS) have published two books based on the themes of the yearly conferences held in 2020 and 2022. The publisher is Oak & Acorn Publishing, Westlake Village, California. The books are major contributions to Sabbath theology, and to […]
Stay and Make a Difference
Some of us are old enough to remember the late 1960s, when here in the United States billboards and bumper stickers began appearing with the challenge: “America—Love it or leave it!” The historical context necessary to understand such an either/or imperative included a war raging in Vietnam; anti-war protests roiling […]
Did Anyone Actually See the Three Angels?
by Loren Seibold | 7 December 2023 | The year was 1844; the date, October 22—a Tuesday. A group of Millerite believers had been having a prayer service in a barn in western New York. Their sincere expectation—that Jesus would return that night—had been thus far disappointed. One member of […]
News Briefs for December 7, 2023
7 December 2023 | General Conference Launches New Website on Faith and Human Sexuality “On December 6, 2023, the General Conference (GC) of Seventh-day Adventists launched www.humansexuality.org, which was designed and developed by the GC’s Human Sexuality Taskforce in efforts to help local and global church leaders address a wide […]
ADRA Fights for Climate Solutions at COP28 in Dubai
6 December 2023 | The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is participating in the COP28 United Nations Global Climate Change Conference in Dubai this week, aiming to showcase its extensive experience in fostering resilience and sustainable development, according to a recent press release. This vital engagement is intended to […]
What Is Success in Ministry?
by Reinder Bruinsma | 6 December 2023 | Seven years ago Pastor Jolanda Aantjes moved to Hall, a small village in a rural area in the central part of the Netherlands, to serve as pastor of the United Protestant Church (PKN). In a recent interview in Christian Daily she talked […]
ATSS: Laura Wibberding and Jonathan Butler, “Ellen White—What Now?”
6 December 2023 | Jonathan Butler and Laura Wibberding discuss the October 22 conference on Ellen White’s role in light of recent scholarship. Adventist Today has published two pieces about this conference, that you can read here in preparation for the class: Scholars Appeal for Re-examination of Church’s Relationship to […]
Responding to the World We Live In, Not the World of a Century Past
It astonishes me sometimes when I read Adventist history, how well our pioneers understood the contemporaneity of truth. Remember the names they gave their early publications? Present Truth Signs of the Times These Times The greatness of these women and men was that they responded to the world they lived […]
What’s in a Name?
by Leland Yialelis | 5 December 2023 | “‘Why,’ asked a friend this week, ‘are so few Adventist churches really happy, rewarding places to be?’” This quotation from a recent editorial in Adventist Today poses a most salient question. From my own experience as a pastor, and from pastors that […]
Coming Out Ministries to Move In Across From Andrews University
5 December 2023 | Coming Out Ministries (COM), a Seventh-day Adventist-affiliated group, is reportedly under contract to purchase a building directly across from Andrews University, according to Volume 104, Issue 9 of The Student Movement. This development has sparked debate and concern among students and faculty, as the ministry’s views […]
Aunty, why do the genealogies of Jesus end with Joseph—who wasn’t Jesus’ actual father?
4 December 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, The prophets said that the Messiah would be the son of David, from the tribe of Judah. The book of Matthew traces the genealogy from Abraham, and in Luke from Adam. But all of them lead to Joseph—and Joseph was not Jesus‘ father, […]
Interim Chief Diversity Officer at Andrews University Tenders Resignation
4 December 2023 | Dr. Danielle Pilgrim, Interim Chief Diversity Officer at Andrews University, turned in a letter of resignation on Friday, December 1, informing the administration of her decision not to extend her contract or apply for the newly posted position of Assistant to the President for University Mission […]
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Adventist Society for Religious Studies Publishes Two New Books
8 December 2023 | Scholars of the Adventist Society for Religious Studies (ASRS) have published two books based on the themes of the yearly conferences held in 2020 and 2022. The publisher is Oak & Acorn Publishing, Westlake Village, California. The books are major contributions to Sabbath theology, and to the ministry of healing. The […]
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It’s Okay to Say “I Don’t Know”
by Terry Bottrell | 8 December 2023 | Paul’s wonderful discourse in I Corinthians 13 on unlimited, unconditional love also contains some statements on the limits and conditions surrounding human knowledge and perception. In verse 9 he says, “we know in part and prophesy in part.” Verse 12 continues, Now we see through a glass […]
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Aunty, why do the genealogies of Jesus end with Joseph—who wasn’t Jesus’ actual father?
4 December 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, The prophets said that the Messiah would be the son of David, from the tribe of Judah. The book of Matthew traces the genealogy from Abraham, and in Luke from Adam. But all of them lead to Joseph—and Joseph was not Jesus‘ father, he was Jesus‘ adoptive father! […]
