Wounds
We can worship in the cuts and scrapes. Healing is a science showing foresight and purpose in creation. by Jack Hoehn | 27 March 2024 | Thomas was a twin. In ancient cultures twins were not heroes. In Zambia, a mother who had twins was thought to have been adulterous, […]
ATSS: Horace Alexander, “Bible Stories for Women’s History Month”
27 March 2024 | In recognition of March as Women’s History Month, it is worthwhile to look at the earliest biblically recorded women’s rights movement and the culture which, to this day, affects attitudes, policies, and the experiences of many women. The daughters of Zelophehad asserted their rights, and Moses, […]
Empathetic Fasting: What I learned from my Islamic friends
by Carl McRoy | 26 March 2024 | He was running everywhere. He was running from home to school, running from school to his afterschool job, from his job back home. Running while wearing extra clothes, a sweatsuit under a sauna suit. Or was the sweatsuit over the sauna suit? […]
Marcellus T. Robinson Named President of Columbia Union Conference
25 March 2024 | Marcellus T. Robinson has been elected as the new president of the Columbia Union Conference, according to the Columbia Union Visitor, succeeding his role as president of the Allegheny East Conference. This decision was finalized by the Columbia Union Executive Committee in a special session held […]
Aunty, is everything in the Bible about the Seventh-day Adventist Church?
25 March 2o24 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Recently I sat through a sermon where the pastor used the Bible story of King Josiah and Huldah the prophetess to explain Ellen White, and to justify her public and sometimes condemnatory “testimonies” to individuals. It seemed to me that in his need […]
Editorial: Our Women Amazed Us
In the story of the two men walking to Emmaus, there is a verse that catches my attention. The two men are joined by an unexpected visitor who, they conclude, must have been living under a rock, so little does he appear to know of the latest happenings in Jerusalem. […]
Time to Flip the Tables on Adventist Leaders in Africa
by Admiral Ncube | 22 March 2024 | A few days ago a director in the Southern African and Indian Ocean Division (SID) innocently posted pictures on his Facebook page with his family on a church-organized leadership summit on a cruise ship in South Africa. It is reported that this […]
Suffering Saints: Is There Profit in Our Pain?
by Shelley Curtis Weaver | 21 March 2024 | Has anyone ever given you a jar of dough starter—the kind of thing you have to use to make more bread every few weeks or it dies? It has crossed my mind, in unkind moments, that the sharer isn’t nearly as […]
News Briefs for March 21, 2024
21 March 2024 | Pastor Joanne Cortes Ordained at BeLove Church in Washington, D.C. Pastor Joanne Cortes was ordained at BeLove Church, a church plant that she helped initiate, on Saturday, March 16, 2024. For more than 20 years she has actively ministered to others, along with her husband, Pastor […]
Oregon Conference Shares Open Letter from President Dan Linrud
20 March 2024 | The Oregon Conference released a letter from President Dan Linrud, openly discussing the reasons for last month’s budget adjustments and staffing changes, which drastically affected the Conference’s employees, churches, and schools. Linrud began the letter by acknowledging the feelings that many in the Conference were experiencing: […]
Melody Tan: Losing—and Finding—Me
by Melody Tan | 19 March 2024 | I braced myself as I heard the opening strains of the familiar song during church that day. A few seconds later, when the singers announced its title, my husband leaned towards me and whispered teasingly, “Uh oh.” It was too late. Tears […]
ATSS: Stephen Chavez, “From Dysfunction to Nobility: Hidden Figures in the Patriarchal Saga”
20 March 2024 | Some Bible stories are so familiar that we not only know them by heart, we know the lessons we’re supposed to take from them. The stories of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are some of the more familiar. In re-reading these stories a few years ago, I […]
A Proposal for Better Ministerial Education
by James J. Londis | 19 March 2024 | Decades ago, my son in his graduate business program, his good friend Dave in law school, and another friend of mine studying ethics had in common a special feature in their education: along with grasping theory and information, all mastered their […]
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News
Marcellus T. Robinson Named President of Columbia Union Conference
25 March 2024 | Marcellus T. Robinson has been elected as the new president of the Columbia Union Conference, according to the Columbia Union Visitor, succeeding his role as president of the Allegheny East Conference. This decision was finalized by the Columbia Union Executive Committee in a special session held on Sunday, March 24. Robinson […]
Commentary
Wounds
We can worship in the cuts and scrapes. Healing is a science showing foresight and purpose in creation. by Jack Hoehn | 27 March 2024 | Thomas was a twin. In ancient cultures twins were not heroes. In Zambia, a mother who had twins was thought to have been adulterous, because sex with one man […]
Features
ATSS: Horace Alexander, “Bible Stories for Women’s History Month”
27 March 2024 | In recognition of March as Women’s History Month, it is worthwhile to look at the earliest biblically recorded women’s rights movement and the culture which, to this day, affects attitudes, policies, and the experiences of many women. The daughters of Zelophehad asserted their rights, and Moses, under God’s counsel, honored their […]