By Loren Seibold  |  24 September 2021  |   I was given a blessing in regard to LGBTQ+ people when I was younger, though I didn’t understand it at the time, nor realize how it would shape my ministry. I grew up in the narrow world of rural North Dakota. Questions of sexual orientation were not […]

by Arthur Sibanda  |  22 September 2021  | This year’s global Women’s Ministries Week of Emphasis used the theme Bringing Peace Home: Addressing youth violence at the roots.  Women’s Ministries is a department I initially viewed with suspicion through my patriarchal lenses. Yet the Women’s Ministries department has continued to demonstrate excellence in giving voice […]

by S.M. Chen  |  21 September 2021  | “The art of losing isn’t hard to master.” —Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), American poet: “One Art.” It is noon.   Not High Noon, the 1952 film in which actor Gary Cooper, a lone sheriff in a cowardly town, faces the prospect of fighting a band of outlaws by himself […]

by Kris Coffin Stevenson  |  17 September 2021  | I pass her every morning as I drive to work. She sits in the shade on the bike path next to a six-lane road. Her shopping cart is piled high with Grinch-like bundles, and she’s wrapped herself in layers of gray clothing, a turban around her […]

by Elle Berry  |  15 September 2021  | I was eleven years old when I experienced my first apocalypse. During September of that year, I developed a rash, followed a few days later with a fever. Assuming this was the flu, my parents kept me home to rest, and things appeared to clear up towards […]

by Lindsey Abston Painter  |  14 September 2021  |   Only if you have been living under a rock would you not have heard that at the beginning of September the state legislators in Texas passed a draconian law criminalizing abortions past six weeks of pregnancy. Not only the woman who has an abortion will be […]

by Kirsten Øster-Lundqvist  |  13 September 2021  | Seeing the news coming out of Afghanistan is heart-breaking. Whatever your political leanings, there is no denying that this is a devastating event for everyone in Afghanistan—especially the women. “They will come and kill me,” Afghanistan’s first female mayor told the Sydney Morning Herald. Zarifa Ghafari, 29, […]

by Jack Hoehn  |  9 September 2021  | Timothy R. Jennings MD is a prominent Chattanooga psychiatrist who graduated from University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine in 1990 and did a psychiatry residency at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Atlanta. He has been especially noted for treating depression with […]

by Hannele Ottschofski  |  3 September 2021  |   I grew up as a good Adventist no-coffee-drinker. We never had coffee in my childhood home. My family was not big on hot drinks, anyway, so I didn’t know to miss it.  But when I went somewhere where there was coffee, I loved the aroma. How could […]

by Admiral Ncube  |  24 August 2021  | Having been expelled from their former churches and rejected by other adventist groups, early Seventh-day Adventist church leaders were understandably hostile towards creeds. The Bible alone, they said, is our rule of faith and practice. Their comments in those early meetings show that they feared that those […]

By Loren Seibold  |  13 August 2021  |   In the past year a number of Seventh-day Adventists, including me, have raised questions about whether Adventist eschatological details, such as Sunday laws or the close of probation or predictions of imminent persecution, are the necessary interpretations of Bible prophecy. We have suggested that you cannot come […]

By Kara Wibberding  |  9 August 2021  |   I’m certain all of us have had the experience of visiting a new-to-us church on vacation. A one-time visit, never to return again. And while we do just fine visiting yarn shops and such places, churches are not the same. Churches are not businesses. They are communities. […]

By Loren Seibold  |  6 August 2021  |   I landed my first solo pastorate in the far southeastern corner of South Dakota.  There are few things that make Yankton, South Dakota, memorable. But there is one I enjoy telling Adventists about: it was in that district where a convert named Jasper Wayne, who owned a […]