23 February 2023 | The big challenge with studying Jesus in Revelation is this: how do you reconcile “the revelation of Jesus Christ” (Rev 1:1) with narrative horrors like the fifth trumpet (Rev 9:1-11)? What do events like the fifth trumpet have to do with Jesus? In this class we will dig below the surface […]
15 February 2023 | The crisis in Adventist eschatology is due to its reliance on Millerism’s faulty methodology and falsified prophetic predictions. Ellen White taught that Father Miller’s sole authority was Scripture and a concordance, that his interpretations were literal commonsense, and, most importantly, that God had originated his date-setting conclusions by repeated angelic guidance. […]
par Loren Seibold | 6 février 2023 | (Premiere partie) La désintégration du monde? Les gens disent: «Mais il y a de réelles tragédies, de réelles difficultés et de réels dangers dans le monde.» C’est vrai. Il y a toujours eu des tragédies, des difficultés et des dangers dans le monde. Aujourd’hui, nous faisons face […]
par Loren Seibold | 23 janvier 2023 | Vivre plus longtemps que la fin de son mythe est une chose périlleuse. Anne Carson Cent soixante-quinze ans ont passé depuis l’évènement le plus célèbre de l’histoire adventiste: le 22 octobre 1844, les adventistes millérites se rassemblent pour attendre le retour de Jésus. C’était, comme on le sait, […]
by Stephen Ferguson | 27 January 2023 | I was conversing with some ex-Adventist the other day when I came across a claim that Seventh-day Adventist pioneer and prophetess Ellen White was an alcoholic. It seemed farfetched to me. However, after doing my own research, I was able to find Mrs. White’s own words on […]
19 January 2023 | In our family album there’s a picture of the groundbreaking ceremony for my childhood church. I’m three years old in that photograph, dressed in a navy 1960s swing coat, with a prim hat and curled hair. My grandfather is holding the shovel while I, the youngest member of our congregation, press […]
18 January 2023 | Revelation for the 21st Century, part 2 Jan 21—Revelation’s Remnant and the World Religions. The most challenging doctrines of the SDA Church for evangelists have been the Sabbath, the state of the dead, and tithing, the so-called “testing truths.” These have become less challenging over the last twenty years or so. […]
by Patricia Johnston | 13 January 2023 | We’ve heard the story many times, from when we were little children. We’ve seen depictions of it in picture rolls and paintings. There’s even a statue of the Good Samaritan on the campus of Loma Linda University Health! It’s a wonderful story. It teaches such a good […]
by Thandazani Mhlanga | 5 January 2023 | Towards the end of 2021, a fascinating religious drama played out on the internet and social media. Dr. Yitzhak Y. Melamed, a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, posted to Facebook a letter he received from the Portuguese synagogue (the Esnoga) in Amsterdam. Dr. Melamed had […]
4 January 2023 | Fake news and conspiracy theories are not new phenomena. They have been with us through the centuries. Jews, Muslims, Catholics, and secret societies have often been the subjects. Today these stories play an ever bigger role. Religious people of the more conservative variety appear to be especially susceptible for all kinds […]
by Carsten Thomsen | 3 January 2023 | Whether Christian or not, many carry a lot of negative baggage about sex, its dangers, risks, and sinfulness, along with guilt and shadows of condemnation of your thoughts and actions. Yes, sex can be misused and abused. But of course, so can food, drink, exercise, and religion. […]
2 January 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, The only Bible class I recall in four years of academy Bible was the day we covered the final destruction of the wicked and the second death. I will never forget Ellen White’s explanations about how all are resurrected, just to be destroyed again—some in a moment, others […]
by Jack Hoehn | 30 December 2022 | [This is the second of two related articles. The previous article introducing this topic is called “DO ANGELS HAVE WINGS?”] I was baptized by a Trinitarian immersion in the White Memorial Church in Los Angeles, California, by A.L. Bietz. The baptistry in that church was far up […]
28 December 2022 | On its surface, prayer appears to be straightforward and easily understood. But the reality is quite different. Does prayer really matter? Does God ever answer prayers in a manner that changes the outcome of our stories? Why should anyone care to pray? Mike Tucker may not have all the answers, but […]
by Rajaratnam Jones | 28 December 2022 | When my train arrived at the Poona railway station, it was almost 7:00 A.M. I came out of the station to hire an autorickshaw to take me to the mission guest house at Salisbury Park, when a large billboard caught my attention. “Religion:” it said. “Talk about […]
by Christopher C. Thompson | 23 December 2022 | Did you ever participate in a Christmas pageant or recite an Easter speech? If you have, then you’ll appreciate the story I have to tell you. When I was growing up in the First African Baptist Church in Beaufort, South Carolina, we commonly had Christmas pageants, […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 22 December 2022 | Around 2003 I made an extended visit, together with Dr. Bert B. Beach, to the Baltic countries. He was at that time the director of the Department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty (PARL) of the General Conference, while I combined that same role at the division […]
by Joshua Hester | 21 December 2022 | “My life has never been sadder, yet I’ve never been happier.” These words were spoken during an 80th birthday party of a woman of my acquaintance. She’d lived a long life of pain and hard work—a life I’d have thought had been overfull and difficult. Somehow, though, […]
19 December 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Our Thanksgiving dinner was a disaster. We expected a happy gathering around the table with everyone feeling gratitude, but my father hijacked it by lashing out at the table with political topics and dumb conspiracy theories about vaccinations and the 2020 election. Several of us tried to change […]
13 December 2022 | Think about this for a moment: Satan is hardly mentioned in the Old Testament—just three times—and is present almost everywhere in the New Testament. Where does that emphasis on Satan come from? The Old Testament is silent about an afterlife: the dead know nothing, feel nothing, experience nothing. The New Testament […]
by Jack Hoehn | 16 December 2022 | [This is the first of two related articles on use of symbols and metaphors in the Bible. The next one is called IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, THE SON, AND MOTHERLY SPIRIT. ] Do angels have wings? What a question. Of course they have wings; everyone […]
by Joni Bell | 15 December 2022 | Belief in the imminence of Jesus Christ’s return marked the faith of the earliest Adventist believers. Jesus was coming soon! Imminently! Earth was in the final countdown! That belief provided the energy for our preaching, our evangelism, our mission. Yes, He is coming, and He is coming […]
14 December 2022 | Most Adventists are familiar with the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary set released in the 1950s. Avocado green cloth with red and gold lettering on the spine, they’re common in most church libraries and many home libraries too. With the passing of years, and advances in Adventist studies, though, some of the […]
par Stephen Ferguson et Lillian-Paige Turner | 13 December 2022 Alors que le reste du monde avait les regards tournés vers les règlementations anti- Covid et les invasions russes, le parlement australien se penchait, quant à lui, sur la question épineuse de la discrimination religieuse. Ici, cela faisait passablement de bruit. Préoccupé par un sentiment anti-religieux […]
12 December 2022 | On December 6, Paul Johnson, an auditor of General Conference Auditing Service (GCAS), arrived in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, to audit and review the finances of the Mexican Union of Chiapas (UMCH). The University of Linda Vista and other institutions also are part of the audit. The audit is expected to run […]
12 December 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I keep hearing of more preachers who have bypassed theological training (undergraduate and seminary) and have somehow managed to be hired after a few months of an evangelistic training course. Some conferences hire only such candidates, which makes me wonder if there’s a reason—or if we are just […]
by Laura Leeson | 9 December 2022 | In a world where identity theft and data mismanagement is rampant, knowing who has our information and why is an ongoing concern. While it is twenty years old, many of us became aware of eAdventist through Brian Ford’s talk at the North American Division year end meetings […]
7 December 2022 | This week, Gerald Winslow considers the Creator’s invitation to wonder about creation. With the Galapagos Islands as the backdrop, Dr. Winslow develops the thesis that creation is God’s gift to be celebrated, not debated—that we have spent too much time arguing about the how and when of creation, and not enough about the why. The hope […]
by Robert Crux | 6 December 2022 | Past generations used Christianity as a prop to support slavery and segregation. It turns out that what was once old has become new again. With the recent rise of Christian nationalist ideas merging into mainstream American politics (especially over the last two decades), we now see Christianity […]
Bill Knott | 03 December 2022 If you know anything about the history of Adventism, then you know that this movement was conceived in discussion, and it was birthed in dialogue. It was breast-fed on argument, and it grew up in a debating hall. It’s not for nothing that the signature book of this movement […]
by Norman H Young | 1 December 2022 | The title of this essay is borrowed from a British comedy TV panel show. The show begins with two teams of three members each. A member of team one shares some bizarre personal incident, and the members of team two interrogate her in an effort to […]
5 December 2022 | Dear Aunty I recently attended one of our churches where the majority of the congregation was of a different ethnicity than myself. The coldness was shocking. Not even a handshake was extended to me. I felt like some made a conscious effort to avoid me. Are we not all brothers and […]
par Loren Seibold | 5 décembre 2022 | Cet essai a été initialement publié dans le magazine Adventist Today de l’automne 2021. Je suis un exégète avec une orientation vers l’homilétique, c’est-à-dire qu’au cours des années, j’ai interprété des textes pour prêcher Jésus à mes différentes congrégations. Je n’ai écrit que peu d’articles – du […]
30 November 2022 | If you know anything about the history of Adventism, then you know that this movement was conceived in discussion, and it was birthed in dialogue. It was breast-fed on argument, and it grew up in a debating hall. It’s not for nothing that the signature book of this movement for more […]
2 December 2022 | A House on Fire: How Adventist Faith Responds to Race and Racism; Maury D. Jackson and Nathan Brown, editors; Signs Publishing, Warburton, Victoria, Australia, 2022; 244 pages, US$21.99. Reviewed by Stephen Chavez Racism in North America is nothing new. It’s been part of the fabric of the United States since the […]
29 November 2022 | Adventist Today magazine is landing in mailboxes (both postal and e-mail) around the world! You can get our quarterly magazine by becoming a donor to Adventist Today during our year-end fund drive. Magazine theme: Aspiring to Be Our Best: Toward a long, happy, and productive future for Seventh-day Adventists Guest Editorial: […]
by Rich Hannon | 28 November 2022 | Seventh-day Adventists have historically self-identified as the “people of the book.” That phrase is meant to convey the idea that we take the Bible as our sole rule of faith and thus would diligently study scripture to uncover its truths. Indeed, Adventist Fundamental Belief #1 states, in […]
28 November 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Why is Christmas never as relaxed and enjoyable as it is portrayed in the movies and sung about in popular songs? I was introduced to family Christmas when dating my now-husband. I quickly learned that the preparations are stressful, and the tension rises. The family dinner seems to […]
25 November 2022 | Swedish conductor Herbert Blomstedt, age 95, was honored this month by the prime minister of Saxony for his artistic life’s work. The award bestowed upon him was the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the article by EUDNews, the […]
Reviewed by Ronald Graybill Donald E. Casebolt, Child of the Apocalypse: Ellen G. White (Eugene, OR, Wipf & Stock, 2022). Donald E. Casebolt, Father Miller’s Daughter: Ellen Harmon White (Eugene, OR, Wipf & Stock, 2022). If you were persuaded by Numbers’ Prophetess of Health that Ellen White borrowed erroneous health teachings from secular sources, Don […]
24 November 2022 | The following ATSS PRESENTS programs are now on the Adventist Today YouTube channel. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Katrina Blue | 29 October 2022 Do you have family members, friends, neighbors, or co-workers who deny, or don’t know, or don’t seem to care, if God exists? How do you maintain […]
by William Law | 23 November 2022 | There is no state of mind so holy, so excellent, and so truly perfect as that of thankfulness to God, and consequently nothing is of more importance in religion than that which exercises and improves this habit of mind. A dull uneasy complaining spirit, which is sometimes […]
by Terry Bottrell | 22 November 2022 | Our children learn about literary devices such as hyperbole and similes when they study literature in school. They also investigate different literary genres such as poetry, drama, and narrative, as well as different approaches to drawing meaning from a text. These lessons are important not just for […]
22 November 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, What do you think about the mass mailings of The Great Controversy? Or the “mission trips” where they leave the book on people’s doors? I’m not convinced it’s an effective witnessing technique. People don’t need new fears of the end times as much as they need reassurance. Why […]
by Esther Loewen | 18 November 2022 | While I am transgender and a woman married to a woman, I am also white, educated, conventionally abled, Christian, fertile, and socially well-networked. I own my own home and vehicles, I am in my 40s, and I speak and write fluently in English. All this is to […]
by Hannele Ottschofski | 17 November 2022 | I am slowly waking up to the realization that the church that I belong to, and where I have grown up, with which I have identified myself for my whole life, has changed. It is no longer the church I joined when I was baptized 60 years […]
14 November 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Would it be better for me to marry a Seventh-day Adventist man even if he’s not my ideal man, or a man who isn’t Seventh-day Adventist but has the qualities I’m looking for? Signed, Searching Dear Searching, When Aunty was young, she was told that Adventists should always […]
13 November 2022 | The treasurer of the Metropolitan Conference of Panama, Mr. Ovidio Abdiel Guerra, has been removed from his position after being accused of a misappropriation of funds. In a Zoom meeting on Sunday, September 11, 2022, conference president Eluvinio Castrellon explained the departure of the treasurer to the church elders of the […]
by Rajaratnam Jones | 11 November 2022 | I was born and brought up in a village in India where almost 100% of the population was Christian. Missionaries from England had come here about 250 years ago and evangelized this area. My grandfather’s parents had been Hindus. Seventh-day Adventist missionaries came to Mukuperi, a very […]
by Richard W. Coffen | 10 November 2022 | The field of theology includes a subcategory called theodicy—the defense of God in light of the existence of evil. I’ve read several books on the topic and am currently reading another. I generally find myself arguing with their arguments. After all, who authorized a mere finite […]
by Thandazani Mhlanga | 8 November 2022 | At midnight on November 14, 1960, Robert Raymond Cook made the fateful trip to the gallows from his cell in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta—the last man to be hanged in the province of Alberta. Because of how the trial seemed to have been argued on circumstantial evidence, much […]
by Nerida Taylor Bates | 3 November 2022 | I’ll never forget something that I saw when coming out of my kindergarten Sabbath School when I was five years old. The hall under our small church was completely empty except for a young woman with teased hair, go-go boots, and short mini skirt, kneeling in […]
2 November 2022 | by Bryan Ness When I started my biology education in 1980, I was confident that the creation story in the Bible could stand up to scientific scrutiny. As a third-generation Adventist educated in Adventist schools from first grade through high school, I had been taught that the earth was young (about […]
2 November 2022 | The following four ATSS presentations are now available for your viewing. Heidi Campbell | 15 October 2022 Who do you think Mary Magdalene was? A woman with a scandalous past? The sister of Lazarus and Martha? First witness to the resurrection? A rich heiress? An evangelist and miracle worker? Heidi Olson […]
by Loren L. Fenton | 1 November 2022 | The Apostle John wrote in the prologue of his gospel, “The Word (Jesus) became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory . . . full of grace and truth” (John 1:14). Throughout our history, we Seventh-day Adventists have preached countless sermons and taught […]
31 October 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Genesis 3:6 says that Eve gave the forbidden fruit to her husband who was with her. Patriarchs & Prophets (pp. 53-56) paints a different picture: that Eve wandered away from her husband and his sensible control over her, so that she was alone at the tree—and when she […]
by S.M. Chen | 28 October 2022 | The above words were used by famed physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) to describe the phenomenon of quantum entanglement. There were likely very few things in life Einstein wanted to understand but didn’t or couldn’t. This may have been one even he had difficulty wrapping his head around. […]
by Admiral Ncube | 27 October 2022 A unique feature about Adventism has always been our eschatological view of the world and our nuanced understanding of the sin problem. Because we relate to the world through eschatological lenses, we have an inherent mistrust of ecumenism, and an indifference towards politics and social justice issues—unless, of […]
by David Geelan | 25 October 2022 | Is it possible, or will it become possible with technological advances, to ‘record’ a human mind into a computer? This might seem like a science or science fiction question, more than one appropriate for Adventist Today. Once we delve past some science and technology, though, it quite […]
by Melissa Brotton | 17 October 2022 | “Hi, Siobhan,” Tim greets his colleague of five years, then stops abruptly. “Everything okay?” Siobhan looks up from her laptop briefly. “Yeah. Well, not really. I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed.” “Anything I can do?” Tim leans into Siobhan’s cubicle. “Not sure. It’s not that I feel incompetent, […]
by Carl McRoy & Christopher C. Thompson | 20 October 2022 | It was roughly 2,000 years ago that Jesus said, “God’s kingdom is coming, but not in a way that you will be able to see with your eyes” (Lk. 17:20 NCV). It is as if these words were spoken with the year 2022 […]
by Daniel Golovenko | 18 October 2022 | The story has been told so often in Adventist circles around the world that it sometimes seems almost like sacrilege to revisit it: on October 22, 1844, thousands of faithful believers, mainly in the New England states, gathered in hopeful anticipation that the skies would break open […]
16 October 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I have been a Seventh-day Adventist my whole life. My parents were Adventists, and all my grandparents, and even my great-grandparents. I learned, as every Adventist should, that this is the church with the whole truth. There are other churches that have parts of the truth. They may […]
by John B. Hoehn, MD All the cells of a developing human live, die, and are replaced by different cells many times. This is as God designed it to be to create healthy humans in his image. Whether spontaneous abortion or medical abortion is a sorrow or a crime is a religious question with different […]
by Arthur Sibanda | 10 October 2022 | Over weeks since the death of the longest-serving British monarch, Elizabeth II, I have watched with keen interest the geopolitical arguments as people try to reflect on her legacy. Grief is of course to be expected from those who are directly related to her, as well as […]
10 October 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I agree with your recent response to the question regarding 1844 and the plan of salvation. Which brings me to ask this question: if you don’t believe in this central point, then why remain a Seventh-day Adventist? Might as well attend another church that preaches the finished work […]
by Ron Hessel | 8 October 2022 | I got my undergrad degree in theology in the last half of the ’70s. Lots of confusing stuff was happening in that era in the Adventist world, particularly around the investigative judgment doctrine. Reputations were teetering on the edge. Careers were at stake. I just ducked my […]
by Amy Nordhues | 6 October 2022 | Why is it that when a person is victimized, especially domestic violence or sex crimes, people are more likely to scrutinize the victim’s actions than those of the perpetrator? Psychologists describe this tendency to blame victims as the “just-world hypothesis,” and it stems from a deeply rooted […]
5 October 2022 | According to the postmodern philosophers the ‘grand stories’ of the past are no longer valid. Could it, however, be that the ‘great controversy’ theme offers, in fact, a ‘grand story’ that can still appeal to people today? Can we read the apocalyptic books of the Bible in such a way that […]
by Jim Walters | 4 October 2022 | Where was God in Hurricane Ian, one of the deadliest hurricanes to ever hit the US mainline? Here’s one view. According to “Captain” Lewis McDonald, God miraculously preserved his ocean-going, shark-hunting cruiser. The boat surged over still-standing electric power lines, ending atop mangled mangrove trees 600 feet […]
3 October 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Every time I go to my in-laws’ house, my mother-in-law throws little passive-aggressive barbs my way about how I’m raising her grandchildren—most of them about food. Like she’ll say to the kids over dinner, “Sorry, Grandma doesn’t have all the prepackaged frozen foods you are accustomed to.” Or […]
by Hannele Ottschofski | 30 September 2022 Yochi Rappeport’s blog in the Times of Israel on September 13 about role models led me to think about the influence of what we Adventists see and experience. Yochi writes about the influence that exclusively male teachers and rabbis had on her spiritual development as a teenager. If […]
by Carsten Thomsen | 29 September 2022 | Some of the most long-lived organizations are churches and religious groups. Some of the great world religions are thousands of years old, and Christianity has been around for 2,000 years. Adventism is less than two hundred years old, but has many characteristics of a long-lived, successful religion. […]
by Tuwan Ussery White | 23 September 2022 | We often think of white supremacy as the Ku Klux Klan and other violent groups. However, historical evidence shows that segregationism is a type of white supremacy too. In the year 1890 the Seventh-day Adventist church voted a policy of racial segregation that lasted for the […]
by Rebecca Brothers | 22 September 2022 | Around the year 360, the Roman emperor Julian (a.k.a. “the Apostate”) wrote a missive known as “Letter 22,” directed to Arsacius, the pagan high priest of Galatia. In his efforts to reinstate Hellenistic polytheism as the official state religion, Julian reopened many temples, repealed privileges Constantine had […]
by Kara Wibberding | 20 September 2022 | The home of Ellen G. White is a coveted visit for some. Others have no idea it’s there. Elmshaven sits on Glass Mountain Road in St. Helena, California. It was once the home of Robert Pratt, then of Ellen White, then sold and later gifted to the […]
by Bryan Ness | 15 September 2022 | On July 23, I addressed the Adventist Today Sabbath Seminar on the topic of the complexity of the LGBTQ+ question. I explained that though people assume that human sex and gender is binary, and that the normal outcome of reproduction and development is distinctly male or female, […]
by Loren Seibold | 9 September 2022 | Read The Blueprint, Part 1: The Myth of the Perfect Answer There’s a whole body of writing in the Bible, numbering hundreds of verses, that another group of God’s people regarded as their blueprint. The Torah laws contained the rituals of worship, but also very precise rules about […]
by Loren Seibold | 8 September 2022 | In a memoir in the New Yorker magazine (August 22, 2022), writer Hua Hsu told of how his family tried to overcome the barriers to success in their new home in America. “Like many immigrants who prized education, my parents had faith in the mastery of technical […]
by Loren Seibold | 26 August 2022 | Several weeks ago I yanked up my COVID roots and took myself on a trip. It felt like I’d come out of a dark cell, emerged from solitary confinement into daylight. I got invited (actually, I kinda invited myself) to the home field of the Seibolds in […]
by Rich Hannon | 2 August 2022 | Adventism has, in its basic DNA, a deep fascination with having The Truth. That is, a correct understanding of what God is revealing to mankind. Historically the church has evangelized from this posture, comparing other denominations’ theology to our doctrinal distillations and finding the competition wanting. This […]
by Sarah Kay Jones | 29 July 2022 | In the last few months, I’ve seen and heard countless comments about abortion rights, from both sides. But almost no one is talking about religious liberty in relation to this issue. I was raised in the Adventist school system which was then strongly opposed to government […]
by Lawrence Downing | 28 July 2022 | Would you be surprised to learn that Adventist evangelists no longer have a lock on the “We’re in the end times” mantra? A variation on that theme is heard in the community of those who are fascinated by the prospects of venturing beyond Earth’s atmosphere, there to […]
by Nerida Bates | 26 July 2022 | 20 students accepted the call to be baptized. The president told me that I would do the baptism—but I would have to tell the church board so they would not be surprised when Sabbath came that I was baptizing. When I told the board members I would […]
by Rebecca Brothers | 22 July 2022 | I love throwing parties. Pumpkin-carving parties in the fall, holiday brunches in December, birthday parties, dinner parties. All the parties. That was one of the hardest parts of lockdown: I had no reason to map out elaborate menus and try fun new recipes. My dad once said […]
Ostriches and Canaries: Coping with Change in Adventism 1966-1979 (Westlake Village, CA: Oak and Acorn Publishers, 2022). Reviewed by Reinder Bruinsma | 12 July 2022 What follows is more a personal reaction than a formal book review. Because reading Gilbert M. Valentine’s newest book Ostriches and Canaries—Coping with Change in Adventism 1966-1979 was an intellectual feast […]
by Todd Leonard | 7 July 2021 Just a few days ago, my friend and pastor, Todd Leonard, lost a loved one by suicide. The man’s family asked Todd to preach the funeral. I was moved by Todd’s focused message of hope and understanding, and I asked his permission to share it with you. Names […]
by Admiral Ncube | 1 July 2022 | “The man who hates and divorces his wife,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “does violence to the one he should protect,” says the Lord Almighty. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful. (Malachi 2:16 NIV) Malachi 2:16 is often employed as a […]
24 March 2023 | At the Hamburg-Grindelberg Adventist Church, in Northern Germany’s Hanse Conference, Pastor Saša Gunjević began his first sermon of the New Year on January 7, 2023. The title of his sermon paralleled the new motto chosen by Hanse Conference for 2023: “You Are a God Who Sees Me.” In his sermon (translated […]
Nota editorial: Este artículo fue publicado originalmente en “Junia the apostle”, Ministry, July 2013, pp. 6-9., y en “¿Una mujer apóstol?”, Revista Ministerio [División Sudamericana], Nov-Dic. 2013, pp. 20-23. Traducido por Daniel A. Mora, editor para Adventist Today Latinoamerica, reproducido con permiso. El nombre Junia aparece sólo una vez en el nuevo testamento (NT). […]
by Rich Hannon | 24 March 2023 | I’m a lover of biography. And, more foundationally, history. Not the dates-and-kings sort of history, but information that allows you to envision what it might be like to actually live in a certain time and place. How was society structured? What presuppositions did everyone accept? And crucially, […]
Este artículo fue publicado en la revista Adventist Today del primer trimestre de 2023, cuyo tema fue “Las disculpas adventistas demoradas”. El sábado 25 de marzo, el Dr. Jackson dará el Seminario Sabático de Adventist Today sobre este tema. Tengo un gran respeto por mis padres; demostraron más valor y amor del que yo podría […]
23 March 2023 | Leadership Change at Avondale University The search for a new vice-chancellor and president of Avondale University will now begin, following a decision by Professor Kevin Petrie to step down. Professor Petrie yesterday informed members of Avondale Council, staff, and students that this semester will be his final one in the role. […]
23 March 2023 | Pioneer Memorial Church (PMC) in Berrien Springs, Michigan, has selected their new lead pastor, Shane Anderson, after current lead pastor Dwight Nelson announced he will be stepping away from the position at the end of May 2023. A welcome message was released on the PMC website on March 22nd, sharing the […]
by Maury Jackson | 23 March 2023 | This essay is reprinted from the Winter 2023 Adventist Today magazine, whose theme was “Belated Adventist Apologies.” On Sabbath, March 25, Dr. Jackson will be teaching the Adventist Today Sabbath Seminar on this topic. I hold the greatest regard for my parents; they showed more courage and […]
Hay algo que no funciona en nuestra comprensión actual de cómo el Espíritu Santo otorga dones espirituales a los creyentes. Me parece evidente que no estamos experimentando la plena manifestación del poder del Espíritu, al menos tal y como se describe su labor en el libro de los Hechos. Mientras tanto, cómodamente hemos limitado nuestra […]
22 March 2023 | Paul wrote to Timothy, “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” But many Seventh-day Adventists struggle with fear: fear of end-time events, fear of not being saved, fear of rejection by God. Maury Jackson tells in this […]
par Admiral Ncube | 20 février 2023 D’après les réactions apparues sur les réseaux sociaux et les témoignages de nombreuses églises, la troisième leçon de l’école du sabbat des adultes a créé plus de controverses que de convictions. Intitulée, «Le contrat de la dîme», elle tentait d’affirmer l’importance et la validité de la dîme dans […]
by Thandazani Mhlanga | 21 March 2023 | Sex, Gender, Sexuality, and Being The case of Herculine Adélaïde Barbin, later known as Alexina or Abel Barbin, captures the timeless societal challenge of accepting those who do not fit the Judeo-Christian gender binary worldview. Alexina was assigned “female” at birth, then, by judicial order, reassigned “male” […]
21 March 2023 | A podcast by the name of “Cultish” has become more popular in the audioverse due to its focus on the “thinking, teaching, strategies, and consequences” of cults and religious movements from a theological, sociological, and psychological perspective. At the end of 2022, four episodes were released that drew some attention from […]