by Loren Seibold | 27 March 2023 | This piece was originally published on 19 March 2019, at the time of Des Ford’s death. Read part 1 here. Des, with the help of friends, set up an independent gospel ministry called Good News Unlimited. Though Des never regained the audience he’d had before, the church […]
10 April 2019 “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.” —Tertullian The SDA church martyred Desmond Ford in 1980. His symbolically-spilled blood gave life to many toiling away in the shadows of perfectionism, brought “out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9). Luckily, I was one of them. Of […]
by Loren Seibold | 20 March 2019 | Read part 1 here. Des, with the help of friends, set up an independent gospel ministry called Good News Unlimited. Though Des never regained the audience he’d had before, yet the church was changed because of Des and the questions he raised. Adventist theology went underground. When […]
11 March 2019 | Dr. Desmond “Des” Ford went to his rest in Christ today at the age of 90. A pastor in Australia, where he was born and raised, he graduated from Avondale College in 1950 and completed a Master’s degree in systematic theology in 1959 at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary when it […]
by Milton Hook | 11 March 2019 | Dr. Desmond Ford passed away peacefully around 1:15 a.m. on March 3, in the confident assurance of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ. Ford was born in Townsville, northern Queensland, Australia, on February 2, 1929, and was raised in that district. His parents were nominal Episcopalians. His […]
By John Rosier | 29 November 2018 | Recently one of the most famous documents in the twentieth-century history of the Adventist faith was republished in a new edition with some recent annotation and documentation. “Daniel 8:14, the Day of Atonement and the Investigative Judgment” was written by Dr. Desmond Ford, then a visiting professor […]
Internationally-known Christian radio interviewer Chris Arnzen recently interviewed Dr. Desmond Ford on Arnzen’s Iron Sharpens Iron radio program. Ford is the well-known and controversial Adventist Bible scholar and gospel evangelist who has retired in his native Australia. You can hear the interview here.
By Stephen Ferguson | 7 March 2018 | Growing up as an Adventist in Australia during the 1990s-2000s Desmond Ford was something of a legend. By legend I mean he was like Voldemort in the Harry Potter series: the Dark Lord, never to be named.[1] For those who don’t know, Dr. Ford challenged the traditional […]
Dr. Ford expresses his opinion on women’s ordination with passion and clarity! To comment, click here.
When Clifford Goldstein makes Rome the only possible fourth danielic kingdom (Autumn 2016 Adventist Today magazine) he ignores the fact that for over a century the fourth kingdom was seen as Macedonian, including the Syrian regency of Antiochus Epiphanes. I offer two quotations that may help some. (It is because of the failure of Adventists […]
by Loren Seibold | 26 March 2023 | This piece was originally published on 19 March 2019, at the time of Des Ford’s death. It was my first year after seminary, and we pastors were working at the campground, replacing broken underground plumbing in the RV park. (I remember this detail, because as one of […]
by Thomas Durst | 1 July 2019 | This special memorial publication from Good News Unlimited evoked deep emotions in me as I read it, for I was significantly impacted by the ministry of Dr Desmond Ford. In late 1979 a friend sent me Des’s PUC Forum lecture on the ramifications of Hebrews chapter 9 […]
