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  • Poll Results: Are You Among the Disappointed with GC Leadership? - 15 October 2018 | More than four out of five Adventists said in a poll conducted over the last two weeks that they disagreed with the “compliance” proposal that was voted by the General Conference executive committee yesterday. The survey of people in the pews, and including some pastors, found that only seven percent agreed […]
  • Chinese Firm Eyes Atlantic Union College Campus for Future Prep School - 14 October 2018 | Atlantic Union College (AUC) is in the early stages of discussing the potential use of its facilities by a Chinese company looking to convert its campus into a prep school. Last month a memorandum of understanding was signed between AUC and Eaglebridge Educational Holdings, a Hong Kong-based company that operates international […]
  • The Past with a Future, Day 1—Afternoon Report - 14 October 2018 I could go through every comment. But you can get that on Twitter. I’m going to sum up this discussion in three points: #1. Elder Wilson started out super nice. Apparently he heard that he came across last year as heavy-handed. This time he was positively unctuous. Lots of “We have been greatly […]
  • The Past with a Future, Day 1—Morning Report - By Loren Seibold  | 14 October 2018  | When I was a child growing up on the Great Plains, there was a town not far from us that every year held what they called “Pioneer Days.. It was innocent enough. There was a parade through town of antique cars and tractors and horse-drawn buggies and […]
  • Elder Wilson’s BC Tabernacle Sermon: Purifying the Church, Rooting out Error, Returning to Past - by Andre Reis  |  14 October 2018  | This week, as the church leadership gathers in Battle Creek for the cosplay Annual Council 2018, the membership watches with bated breath. For months the church has been stirring as many institutions have expressed concern with the way the Wilson administration has been attempting to enforce “compliance” […]
  • William Johnsson: GC Officers Should Be Censured - 13 October 2018   | This morning, speaking to a Sabbath School class in the University Church in Loma Linda, California, Dr. William Johnsson, long-time editor of the Adventist Review, stated that any General Conference (GC) officer who “voted to bring the Compliance document to the [2018] Annual Council should be censured for that action.” The […]
  • News Briefs for October 12, 2018 - News reports from St. Helena, California; the North American Division, Oakwood University, Southern Adventist University, Indianapolis, Indiana and Newbold College. Jeff Wood, who wrote the song Side by Side for a week of prayer at Rio Lindo Adventist Academy, died this week at St. Helena Hospital. He was one of the original members of the […]
  • Southwestern Adventist University Professors Nominated for Regional Emmy Awards - 11 October 2018 |Three professors from Keene, Texas-based Southwestern Adventist University have been nominated for regional Emmy Awards. Kyle Portbury, Glen Robinson and Michael Agee have been nominated for their movie, “Truth.” According to the Burleson Star, the film is nominated for the category of Historic/Cultural – Program Feature/Segment in the annual Lone Star Chapter […]
  • Late Changes to Sabbath School Lessons Minimize Trinity, Emphasize Catholicism - 10 October 2018  |  Translators who have been working on the Sabbath School lessons on the book of Revelation scheduled for the first quarter of 2019 were surprised to get a late, fairly extensive revision to the lessons recently. The lessons, written by New Testament scholar Dr. Ranko Stefanovic of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at […]
  • International Students Face Possible Deportation After Alleged Pot Smoking Incident at Adventist University of the Philippines - 10 October 2018 | Three international students at the Adventist University of the Philippines face possible deportation after allegedly smoking marijuana on campus. The three international students and a Filipino student were caught by both university security and local police while allegedly smoking the drug in a university restroom on the Cavite, Philippines-based campus. The […]
  • Adventist Denomination’s Annual Council Begins: What’s on the Agenda? - 10 October 2018 | The governing board of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination is the General Conference (GC) executive committee. Its annual meeting begins Thursday evening with the opening session of a leadership training event that will continue through Sabbath afternoon. The first business session will begin on Sunday morning. It is scheduled to continue through […]
  • Sandra Roberts Re-elected Southeastern California Conference President - 10 October 2018 | Constituents from the Southeastern California Conference re-elected Sandra Roberts as president at a constituency meeting held at La Sierra University Church on Sunday morning, October 7, 2018. Roberts is the only female conference president in the Adventist denomination. The General Conference of the Adventist Church does not recognize Roberts’ ordination as […]
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  • The Past with a Future, Day 1—Afternoon Report - 14 October 2018 I could go through every comment. But you can get that on Twitter. I’m going to sum up this discussion in three points: #1. Elder Wilson started out super nice. Apparently he heard that he came across last year as heavy-handed. This time he was positively unctuous. Lots of “We have been greatly […]
  • The Past with a Future, Day 1—Morning Report - By Loren Seibold  | 14 October 2018  | When I was a child growing up on the Great Plains, there was a town not far from us that every year held what they called “Pioneer Days.. It was innocent enough. There was a parade through town of antique cars and tractors and horse-drawn buggies and […]
  • Just in Case the Unlikely Happens - by Edward Reifsnyder© | 11 October 2018 | If, inexplicably, the current General Conference (GC) proposals regarding compliance are adopted by the General Conference Executive Committee (GCC) at the upcoming Annual Council, here is what I hope would happen next. The year-end meetings of the North American Division (NAD) occur November 1-6, 2018, shortly after […]
  • Elder Wilson’s BC Tabernacle Sermon: Purifying the Church, Rooting out Error, Returning to Past - by Andre Reis  |  14 October 2018  | This week, as the church leadership gathers in Battle Creek for the cosplay Annual Council 2018, the membership watches with bated breath. For months the church has been stirring as many institutions have expressed concern with the way the Wilson administration has been attempting to enforce “compliance” […]
  • Compliant or Complicit? - by Christopher C. Thompson  |  11 October 2018  | My mouth has gotten me into a lot of trouble over the years. This is not something that I am particularly proud of; it’s just a fact. I have too many stories to illustrate this. Here’s one. When I was in the 10th grade, my first-period […]
  • Loma Linda University Church on Compliance: A Perspective - Jim Walters  |  11 October 2018  | Last Sabbath’s day-long discussion of the GC compliance document at the Loma Linda University Church was characterized by candor with kindness—and if participants had to choose, kindness won. Senior pastor Randy Roberts, in the afternoon Q&A, was asked whether his congregation “would submit” to the General Conference. He […]
  • Compliance and Unity - by Larry Downing  |  08 October 2018  | This piece is written prior to when the 2018 General Conference (GC) Autumn Council meets in Battle Creek, Michigan, where, in 1863, the Seventh-day Adventist church began. To commemorate this date and the place of meeting, GC president Ted Wilson and other administrative officials sport full-grown beards. […]
  • Dr. Jon Paulien’s Presentation at the LLUC Compliance Discussion - by Erv Taylor  |  10 October 2018  |   Dr. Jon Paulien made the major presentation during the Loma Linda University Church (LLUC) Saturday morning, October 6, 2018, discussion of the Adventist General Conference (GC) compliance proposal. Dr. Paulien is Professor of New Testament Studies and Dean of the School of Religion at Loma Linda University. […]
  • Adventist Tomorrow: #9: The Blessed Knowledge Tree - by Jack Hoehn | 17 September 2018 At the center of life stand two essential gifts, existence and understanding, well symbolized by Eden’s two trees, one offering “Life” and the other offering “Knowledge.” The Knowledge Tree was not a trap, it was a school. It was not a danger; it was an opportunity, one we […]
  • Spiritually Naked? - by Lizwi Ntuli  |  9 October 2018  |   When I was in primary school, I read a story about a king who loved nice clothes. Each time he bought a new suit, he would call his subjects to gather so that he would parade before them. One day two men came to town and announced […]
  • The Ghosts of Adventism - by Seth Pierce  |  9 October 2018  | I have a confession to make: I believe in ghosts. Now, I also believe our teaching of conditional immortality. The ghosts I’m talking about operate on a metaphorical level. Even that may be too scary for some. I once used a football analogy that resulted in an angry […]
  • Recovering from Compliance Fever - By Loren Seibold  |  5 October 2018  |   Our denomination is suffering a fever right now. Everywhere you look, people are on a boil: frightened and angry over Elder Wilson’s compliance proposals.   It’s disappointing how tone-deaf our GC leaders seem to be. But “the Adventist FBI”? The GC as the “beast that would ‘make […]
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  • 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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  • Poll Results: Are You Among the Disappointed with GC Leadership? - 15 October 2018 | More than four out of five Adventists said in a poll conducted over the last two weeks that they disagreed with the “compliance” proposal that was voted by the General Conference executive committee yesterday. The survey of people in the pews, and including some pastors, found that only seven percent agreed […]
  • Chinese Firm Eyes Atlantic Union College Campus for Future Prep School - 14 October 2018 | Atlantic Union College (AUC) is in the early stages of discussing the potential use of its facilities by a Chinese company looking to convert its campus into a prep school. Last month a memorandum of understanding was signed between AUC and Eaglebridge Educational Holdings, a Hong Kong-based company that operates international […]
  • The Past with a Future, Day 1—Afternoon Report - 14 October 2018 I could go through every comment. But you can get that on Twitter. I’m going to sum up this discussion in three points: #1. Elder Wilson started out super nice. Apparently he heard that he came across last year as heavy-handed. This time he was positively unctuous. Lots of “We have been greatly […]
  • The Past with a Future, Day 1—Morning Report - By Loren Seibold  | 14 October 2018  | When I was a child growing up on the Great Plains, there was a town not far from us that every year held what they called “Pioneer Days.. It was innocent enough. There was a parade through town of antique cars and tractors and horse-drawn buggies and […]
  • Just in Case the Unlikely Happens - by Edward Reifsnyder© | 11 October 2018 | If, inexplicably, the current General Conference (GC) proposals regarding compliance are adopted by the General Conference Executive Committee (GCC) at the upcoming Annual Council, here is what I hope would happen next. The year-end meetings of the North American Division (NAD) occur November 1-6, 2018, shortly after […]
  • Elder Wilson’s BC Tabernacle Sermon: Purifying the Church, Rooting out Error, Returning to Past - by Andre Reis  |  14 October 2018  | This week, as the church leadership gathers in Battle Creek for the cosplay Annual Council 2018, the membership watches with bated breath. For months the church has been stirring as many institutions have expressed concern with the way the Wilson administration has been attempting to enforce “compliance” […]
  • The Trial of Elder Hernandez, part 10 - To comment, click here.
  • William Johnsson: GC Officers Should Be Censured - 13 October 2018   | This morning, speaking to a Sabbath School class in the University Church in Loma Linda, California, Dr. William Johnsson, long-time editor of the Adventist Review, stated that any General Conference (GC) officer who “voted to bring the Compliance document to the [2018] Annual Council should be censured for that action.” The […]
  • Let’s Not Single Out One Denomination over Another - Thank you so much for sharing and exposing the hacking that has been undertaken by “someone/some body” on Dr Stefanovic’s lessons for next quarter (Jan-Mar 2019). I am a Sabbath School teacher, and bulletin editor. You can be sure that I will be including the original text which he prepared, both in my lesson presentation […]
  • The Trial of Elder Hernandez: Part 9 - To comment, click here.  
  • Compliant or Complicit? - by Christopher C. Thompson  |  11 October 2018  | My mouth has gotten me into a lot of trouble over the years. This is not something that I am particularly proud of; it’s just a fact. I have too many stories to illustrate this. Here’s one. When I was in the 10th grade, my first-period […]
  • “Ghosts” was brilliant writing - “The Ghosts of Adventism” was brilliant!  Insightful, yes. But I’m writing because of the cleverness of the writing. Using the ghost theme, in October no less, tying together so many pieces of SDA history and consequent issues.  I am in awe!  I don’t know how long it took to craft such a masterpiece, but thanks […]

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