A Reflection on President Alex Bryan’s Post-Protest Vespers at Walla Walla University
by Shelley Curtis Weaver | 8 May 2025 | Now seems to be the time to talk about it. Alumni Weekend at Walla Walla University is over. The former students and prospective donors have flown or driven home. The WWU newspaper, The Collegian, has now published their response to a March 14 vespers program, where […]
L’après-midi de l’Adventisme
par Reinder Bruinsma | 8 mai 2025 | Après une récente journée de prédication et d’enseignement à Stuttgart, en Allemagne, on m’a gracieusement offert un exemplaire du dernier livre de Tomáš Halík, The Afternoon of Christianity: The Courage to Change. Tomáš Halík (né en 1948) est un prêtre catholique romain et un théologien tchèque qui […]
News from the United Kingdom, the Navajo Nation, Korea, and Canada
7 May 2025 | News from the United Kingdom After owning the land on Shirley Road for 130 years, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is having to put their property up for sale. Listed by local agents at £700,000, the church has been a community center and place of worship for over a century. Read the […]
Editorial: ¿Por qué nuestra Iglesia Adventista es tan autoritaria?
En los últimos años, los adventistas hemos empezado a darnos cuenta de lo centralizada y autoritaria que es nuestra Iglesia. Los altos cargos de la Iglesia parecen querer controlar todos los aspectos de la vida eclesiástica, en todas las partes del mundo, hasta el funcionamiento cotidiano de las congregaciones locales. El reciente alboroto en la […]
Southern Student Presents Research at Global Mathematics Conference
7 May 2025 | The following is a press release from Southern Adventist University. Marinela Cruz, junior math and chemistry double major at Southern Adventist University, presented her research titled “Cycles in Grid Graphs and Toroidal Variants” at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, the largest mathematics conference in the world, earlier this semester. “I wanted to do […]
Reverent Otherdoxy
by Jim Burklo | 7 May 2025 | Years ago, I hosted an event at the University of Southern California with Paul Woodruff, a philosopher at the University of Texas, who wrote a book that had a profound influence on me: Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue. He said that reverence doesn’t belong to any particular […]
ATSS: Donald McAdams, “A Review of the Ellen White Revisionist History Since 1970”
7 May 2025 | In 1919 at a Bible Conference in Washington DC a candid discussion took place that raised questions about the prophetic gift of Ellen White—notably the knowledge of many of her contemporaries that she borrowed from other sources. The notes from that conference were typed up and tucked away, not to be […]
SATIRE: Loma Linda Adventists Greatly Disappointed: “Cloud the Size of a Hand” Just LA Smog
LOMA LINDA, California – Excitement swept through the Loma Linda Adventist community yesterday as word spread of a mysterious “cloud the size of a man’s hand” rising in the east. Local residents grabbed their binoculars, dusted off their hymnals, and texted their small groups: “It’s happening!” However, the anticipation fizzled out faster than a New […]
Danish Union Releases Generous LGBTQ+ Statement
6 May 2025 | On April 25, the Danish Union released one of the most inclusive statements on LBGTQ+ Adventists that has been seen in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The impetus for the statement is the recognition that We have not always lived up to the ethical standard and human concern that the Adventist Church […]
Rare Disclaimer from Sabbath School Quarterly Addresses Domestic Violence
5 May 2025 | Andrews University graduate student Esther Caro pushed for a potentially life-changing disclaimer. On Sunday’s lesson in the Sabbath School quarterly titled “Images from Marriage” (April 12-18), it ends with, “Here are three principles for marriage. First, forgive your spouse, however undeserving, just as Christ forgives us, however undeserving. Second, accept your […]