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Member of Loma Linda University Health’s Team PossAbilities named to U.S. National Team - 20 January 2019 | From a Loma Linda University Health press release: Loma Linda University Health Team PossAbilities member, Shawn Morelli, road and track cycling two-time gold medalist in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, has been named to the 2019 U.S. Paralympics Cycling National Team. Morelli, who was first named to the U.S. National Team […]- News Briefs for January 18, 2019 - News reports from Poland, Oklahoma City, Loma Linda University Health, Northern Caribbean University and Southern Adventist University From APD (the Adventist news agency in parts of Europe) – On the evening of January 13, Pawel Adamowicz, the mayor of Gdansk, Poland, was attacked at a charity event by a 27-year-old man with a knife. The […]
- Ten Reasons AT1 Will Not Be Your Average Adventist Camp Meeting - The inaugural AT1 gathering will take place in Portland over the weekend of October 4-6 this year. AT1 will be a camp meeting-style gathering but it will be unlike any Adventist camp meeting you’ve gone to in the past. Here are some reasons AT1 will be different: Our theme is Christ Challenging Culture – that […]
- New Brunswick Woman Sues Adventist Church Over Alleged Sex Abuse - 17 January 2019 | A 58-year-old woman from Moncton, New Brunswick, has filed a lawsuit against the Adventist Church and a former school teacher that she says abused her sexually when she was a teen in the 1970s. The Adventist school that the alleged victim attended in Moncton was operated out of the basement of […]
- South African Adventist Church Leader Critiques “Toxic” Sexism of Prominent Religious Figure - 16 January 2018 | Adventist Pastor Sduduzo Blose, Stewardship Director for the Kwazulu Natal – Free State Conference of the Adventist Church, has critiqued what he called the “toxic views on women” of the Methodist Chaplain-General of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) political party. Dr Vukile Mehana had recently come under fire for […]
- Negligence Lawsuit Filed Against Adventist Health St. Helena After Death of Local Woman - 15 January 2019 | Adventist Health St. Helena is being sued for an unspecified amount for negligence, wrongful death and medical malpractice after a local middle school teacher died following treatment at the facility. The hospital has denied all allegations brought by the family of the patient, Rosemarie McMahon, who was 68 when she passed. […]
- Treasurer of Adventist School in Berrien Springs Accused of Embezzling Nearly $230,000 - 14 January 2019 | Sarah Kurtz, the former secretary/treasurer of Village Adventist Elementary School in Berrien Springs, Michigan, has been arraigned for the alleged embezzlement of close to $230,000 from the school between 2011 and 2018. According to Berrien County Prosecutor, Michael Sepic, the alleged embezzlement happened via “automatic bill payments, use of the school’s […]
- Central California Hospital to Join Adventist Health - 14 January 2019 | A 156-bed hospital in Central California has agreed to join Adventist Health. Pending regulatory approval, Delano Regional Medical Center, currently operated by Central California Foundation for Health, would join the Adventist health care system headquartered in Roseville, California. Quoting Adventist Health regional communication director, Christine Pickering, Bakersfield.com reported that Delano Regional […]
- Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About the AT1 Gathering - Frequently Asked Questions What is AT1? AT1 (pronounced “At One”) is a brand new camp meeting-style gathering for the Adventist community. It is a call to be one body in Christ. Our theme is “Christ Challenges Culture.” AT1 will call everyone who attends to reimagine the Adventist narrative to fully embrace the reassuring, present truth […]
- News Briefs for January 11, 2019 - News reports from the North American Division, Leominster, Massachusetts, Sydney Adventist Hospital, the Adventist University in Collonges-sous-Salève, France; Houston, Texas, and the Euro-Asia Division of the Adventist denomination. Every two or three years the departmental staff from local and union conferences across the denomination’s North American Division gather for the NAD Ministries Convention, a time […]
- Jamaican Adventist Church Adopts 100 Clinics - 10 January 2018 | The Adventist Church in Jamaica has committed to supporting 100 medical clinics on the island through an adoption program where the denomination provides repairs, renovation and other resources to the facilities as requested by the Jamaican Ministry of Health. The denomination’s support of the clinics comes as part of its backing […]
- ADRA Awards Adventist Community Services $50,000 to Help Wildfire Survivors in California - From ADRA – 9 January 2019 | The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has announced it will provide financial support totaling $50,000 to Adventist Community Services (ACS) which has been coordinating efforts to help survivors of Butte County, California, recover from deadly wildfires, which started on November 8 and were later contained on November […]
Commentary
- A State of Emergency: Trained African-American Adventist Theologians Needed - By Sydney Freeman, Jr. “We must produce, as rapidly as possible, theologians who can interpret through the axiological grid of African-Americans the remnant categories of the Word of God. While leading the nation in evangelism, we have fallen behind in scholarship. We need and must have content theologians, systematic, New Testament, Old Testament scholars—the Ph.D. […]
- A Look Back at the Theology of Ordination Study Committee - by John Brunt | 19 January 2019 | From 2012 to 2014 I had the privilege of participating in the Theology of Ordination Study Committee (TOSC), along with a little over 100 others, who met to hear papers and discuss the theology of ordination. Although the focus was on the broad issue of ordination, it […]
- Enter the Matrix: Is Adventism Gnostic? - by Stephen Ferguson | 16 January 2019 | Ever noticed a commonality between Nazi “Deutsche Christianity,” Catholic monasticism and Scientology? And what do these religious movements have in common with the Hollywood productions The Matrix, Blade Runner and Westworld? These disparate movements and productions, for all their differences, share a common inspiration found in Christianity’s […]
- The President and Outrage Porn - by Elle Berry | 7 January 2019 | Like many children growing up in the Adventist church, I was involved in my church’s Pathfinder club. Not only was I a Pathfinder, but my parents were the Pathfinder leaders for a portion of my childhood. Pathfinders, like many such clubs for young humans, often took trips […]
- Paradise Lost - by S M Chen | 9 January 2019 | “God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform.” William Cowper (1773), poem: “Light Shining out of Darkness” In June 2008 the Humboldt fire swept through Paradise, CA, a town of 27,000 in the Sierra Nevada. It scorched 23,000 acres. As many as 10,000 residents […]
- The Other Side of Humble - by Larry Downing | 7 January 2019 | “I accept this office with humility.” “I am humbled by the trust you have put in me.” “I ask that, in humility, you accept and follow the decisions of this body.” The phrases above, or ones like them, were spoken by numerous individuals after they learned the […]
- Prayer for the New Year - by John McLarty | 4 January 2018 | “You are the light of the world.” Matthew 5:14 I woke late, well after dawn. Still, I walked up the hill to the park above our house and sat for a while in prayer and meditation. It was a turning point on the calendar, the first day […]
- Sanctification by Association? Corinthians 7:14 - by Steven Siciliano | 4 January 2018 | Some of the bible’s most enigmatic sayings can also be the most enlightening in that their seeming incongruity, if carefully attended to, can serve a doctrinally corrective function. In cases where they appear to be out of harmony with our theological systems it’s not because the verses […]
- Serving God in 2019 - by Reinder Bruinsma | 1 January 2019 | Most people are interested in new things: in buying new clothes and following the newest fashion, getting new furniture for their home, buying new gadgets, acquiring a new and faster laptop or tablet, and trying new holiday destinations, and all kinds of other new adventures. Companies want […]
- Mountains and Valleys - by Melody Tan | 29 December 2018 | I remember the day I realized I had fully accepted Jesus into my life, 20 years ago. It was a day filled with so much joy and peace. I had given my life up to God, which meant that He could do whatever He wanted with it […]
- Revelation, the Quarterly and Present Truth - by Steve Case | 26 December 2018 | Seventh-day Adventists face a conundrum. Our pioneers emphasized “Present Truth”[1] when we officially became a church in the second half of the 19th century. Present Truth meant truth pertinent to right now—a front-burner topic or issue. How long does Present Truth continue on the front-burner? Moving truth […]
- The Jewish Meaning of Christmas? - by Steven Siciliano | 24 December 2017 | The phrase seems incongruous at best; scandalous or even offensive at worst. But Jesus, after all, was a Jew. The meaning of his story arises out of a worldview steeped in and shaped by the Hebrew scriptures. The familiar carols and scripture quotes that fill the air […]
Features
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- A Pastor’s Wife Who’s “Had It” - 18 January 2019 | Dear Aunt Sevvy: My husband is a pastor. On a recent Sabbath morning I taught Cradle Roll Sabbath School, told a children’s story, then sat up in front and kept my little ones quiet for the whole service, helped serve fellowship dinner (for which I’d prepared two dishes), and met after […]
- In All Humility: Saying No to Last Generation Theology - In All Humility: Saying No to Last Generation Theology. by Reinder Bruinsma. Oak & Acorn Publishing, 2018. Reviewed by Steve Case. While this book is written primarily for Seventh-day Adventists, the background for it certainly predates Adventism. Christians for centuries have debated the nature of Christ and the nature of man. Was Christ fully God? Was […]
- Crisis in the Heavenly Council - Commentary on “Jesus Message for the Seven Churches,” January 12-19, 2019 by Werner E. Lange | 16 January 2019 | Can you image that there is a big crisis in the heavenly council? Nothing less is described in Revelation 5:3-4: “No one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open […]
- Mormons, Adventists, and Witnesses – II - by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 16 January 2019 | The paper we are uploading to my website this week is the second in the series comparing Mormons, Adventists, and Witnesses, all of which began in the USA in the 19th century and became global in their scope. The title of this paper explains its thrust: […]
- Dear Aunt Sevvy: I’m Sitting in the Lonely Pew - Dear Aunt Sevvy: My husband is a wonderful man: kind, hard-working, a good father. But even though he and I both grew up in the church, now he won’t attend church with me. I hate sitting alone. We’ve had a few arguments about it, to the point where I just don’t bring it up anymore. […]
- Behind the “Son of Man” - Commentary on “Among the Lampstands”, Lesson for January 5-11. by Werner E. Lange | 10 January 2018 | John saw a special “son of man” among seven golden lampstands in the vision that introduces the seven epistles to the seven churches (Rev 1:12-20). The identification of this “son of man” can be easily made on […]
- The Secular Transition: Worldwide Growth of Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Seventh-day Adventists. - by Ron Lawson, Ph.D. | 10 January 2019 | I am happy to report that we have just uploaded the first of a new series of my papers to my website. Unlike the most recent series, which featured my earliest papers about Adventism written in 1983-1984, this is the first of a very recent series […]
- “You don’t listen to me at all!” - Commentary on tomorrow’s Sabbath School lesson by Werner E. Lange | 4 January 2018 | Probably many of us have personally experienced or observed the following situation. A woman tries to make something clear to her husband, but does not feel understood. The conversation goes back and forth. Finally the woman says frustrated: “You don’t […]
- Adventism in Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion - Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 24 December 2018 | When the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion was being prepared in the mid-1990s, I was invited to write the article on Adventism for it. A decade later, Robert Wuthnow, its publisher, decided that it was time for a second edition, and I was […]
- Project “Revelation DIY“ - by Jon Paulien | 20 December 2016 | A friend of mine, Werner E. Lange, has started a very interesting project in relation to the Sabbath School Lessons for the next quarter. He is the retired book-editor of the German Adventist Publishing House and has edited several of my books. I am excited about his […]
- Sermon: The Wise Men - by John McLarty | 19 December 2018 | According to legend there were three. Old men living in Persia. Devout and philosophical. They saw a new star and understood it to be the sign of the birth of the Jewish Messiah, a divine king. Their convictions were so strong and their resources so deep they […]
Poetry & Arts
- 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 […]
- After 500 Years, God’s Grace is Still Amazing - by Sam Millen, 4 November 2017 October 31st has come and gone. No, I’m not referring to Halloween in America, but All Hallows’ Eve (All Saint’s Eve) in Germany 500 years earlier. On October 31st, 1517, the German monk and theology professor Martin Luther decided to nail his 95 Theses against Indulgences on the Bulletin Board […]
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- Member of Loma Linda University Health’s Team PossAbilities named to U.S. National Team - 20 January 2019 | From a Loma Linda University Health press release: Loma Linda University Health Team PossAbilities member, Shawn Morelli, road and track cycling two-time gold medalist in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, has been named to the 2019 U.S. Paralympics Cycling National Team. Morelli, who was first named to the U.S. National Team […]
- A State of Emergency: Trained African-American Adventist Theologians Needed - By Sydney Freeman, Jr. “We must produce, as rapidly as possible, theologians who can interpret through the axiological grid of African-Americans the remnant categories of the Word of God. While leading the nation in evangelism, we have fallen behind in scholarship. We need and must have content theologians, systematic, New Testament, Old Testament scholars—the Ph.D. […]
- A Look Back at the Theology of Ordination Study Committee - by John Brunt | 19 January 2019 | From 2012 to 2014 I had the privilege of participating in the Theology of Ordination Study Committee (TOSC), along with a little over 100 others, who met to hear papers and discuss the theology of ordination. Although the focus was on the broad issue of ordination, it […]
- Church HR3 - To comment, click here.
- A Pastor’s Wife Who’s “Had It” - 18 January 2019 | Dear Aunt Sevvy: My husband is a pastor. On a recent Sabbath morning I taught Cradle Roll Sabbath School, told a children’s story, then sat up in front and kept my little ones quiet for the whole service, helped serve fellowship dinner (for which I’d prepared two dishes), and met after […]
- News Briefs for January 18, 2019 - News reports from Poland, Oklahoma City, Loma Linda University Health, Northern Caribbean University and Southern Adventist University From APD (the Adventist news agency in parts of Europe) – On the evening of January 13, Pawel Adamowicz, the mayor of Gdansk, Poland, was attacked at a charity event by a 27-year-old man with a knife. The […]
- Ten Reasons AT1 Will Not Be Your Average Adventist Camp Meeting - The inaugural AT1 gathering will take place in Portland over the weekend of October 4-6 this year. AT1 will be a camp meeting-style gathering but it will be unlike any Adventist camp meeting you’ve gone to in the past. Here are some reasons AT1 will be different: Our theme is Christ Challenging Culture – that […]
- New Brunswick Woman Sues Adventist Church Over Alleged Sex Abuse - 17 January 2019 | A 58-year-old woman from Moncton, New Brunswick, has filed a lawsuit against the Adventist Church and a former school teacher that she says abused her sexually when she was a teen in the 1970s. The Adventist school that the alleged victim attended in Moncton was operated out of the basement of […]
- In All Humility: Saying No to Last Generation Theology - In All Humility: Saying No to Last Generation Theology. by Reinder Bruinsma. Oak & Acorn Publishing, 2018. Reviewed by Steve Case. While this book is written primarily for Seventh-day Adventists, the background for it certainly predates Adventism. Christians for centuries have debated the nature of Christ and the nature of man. Was Christ fully God? Was […]
- Crisis in the Heavenly Council - Commentary on “Jesus Message for the Seven Churches,” January 12-19, 2019 by Werner E. Lange | 16 January 2019 | Can you image that there is a big crisis in the heavenly council? Nothing less is described in Revelation 5:3-4: “No one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open […]
- Mormons, Adventists, and Witnesses – II - by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 16 January 2019 | The paper we are uploading to my website this week is the second in the series comparing Mormons, Adventists, and Witnesses, all of which began in the USA in the 19th century and became global in their scope. The title of this paper explains its thrust: […]
- Enter the Matrix: Is Adventism Gnostic? - by Stephen Ferguson | 16 January 2019 | Ever noticed a commonality between Nazi “Deutsche Christianity,” Catholic monasticism and Scientology? And what do these religious movements have in common with the Hollywood productions The Matrix, Blade Runner and Westworld? These disparate movements and productions, for all their differences, share a common inspiration found in Christianity’s […]