By T.J. Sands  |  28 June 2022  |   It was a long drive from Oklahoma to Kentucky, but at least there were beautiful sights—God’s creation, and humankind’s. Sarah and I began our journey early Sunday morning, and by evening we’d passed a candy factory, a closed-down wax museum, endless acres of wheat and corn, massive […]

by Jay Wintermeyer  |  24 June 2022  |   I’ve worked in Adventist radio, mission work, and church administration at the conference and union level for more than 29 years. I’ve enjoyed my work for the Adventist Church and have felt blessed to produce high quality content and programs that encouraged members and pointed people to […]

by Victor Czerkasij  |  22 June 2022  |   In a recent Aunt Sevvy column Aunty quoted a General Conference leader saying that the Ukrainian Union was separated from the Euro-Asian Division (ESD) because of the inconveniences in travel and handling of funds, caused by Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. These current problems are undeniable, making […]

by Melissa Brotton  |  21 June 2022  | Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand” (John 13:7). I watch the tortoiseshell kitten as she climbs to the top of the rope hanging in the middle of her large crate. She claws into the rope and hangs […]

by Andreas Bochmann  |  17 June 2022 When I grew up in the city of West Berlin, it was still surrounded by the Berlin Wall, to “protect” Communist East Germany from all the dangers of the free world. It is this memory that flooded my mind after the General Conference (GC) session was over and […]

by Thandazani Mhlanga  |  16 June 2022  | On July 23, 1983, Air Canada flight 143 left Montreal bound for Edmonton with 61 passengers and 8 crew on board. What seemed to be another routine flight turned out to be nothing of the kind: while cruising at 41,000 feet over Manitoba, the Boeing 767 ran […]

15 June 2022  | When Ted Wilson delivered his inaugural sermon twelve years ago, after his election as president of the General Conference (GC) a few days earlier, I sat in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta listening to him with growing uneasiness. It was, through and through, a conservative speech in which he left no […]

by Alicia Johnston  |  14 June 2022  | A lot of Christians chafe at the idea of anyone describing themselves with the word “pride” as if it were a virtue. Pride has been the problem all along. Pride led to the fall of Lucifer, the first movement of sin in the universe. Pride is behind […]

by Loren Seibold  |  13 June 2022  | A friend of mine, a pastor’s wife, wrote this to me a couple of days ago:  Two of our members went as delegates to the General Conference session this week. These members texted me from the General Conference floor during the week. They were stunned. They saw […]

by Charles Scriven  |   9 June 2022  | This study guide is to help you prepare for our Adventist Today Sabbath Seminar at 1:30 Eastern time on Sabbath. Click here for link and password.  Let’s allow first that the word “progressive” is both a problem and a solution. In media culture the word is synonymous […]

by Samuel Jeudin & Christopher C. Thompson |  9 June 2022  | One of the greatest failures of the Christian church is that we spend so much time preaching that we haven’t cultivated the ability to listen. Given the depth and pervasive tragedies and injustices in our world, this failure borders on egregious, and in […]

by Loren Seibold  |  7 June 2022  | Though I never thought that the General Conference (GC) was an oracle (a modern Urim and Thummim where every vote reflected the mind of God), in my younger years I did hope that important things—things that helped the church become better and more responsive to the world […]

by Hannele Ottschofski  |  2 June 2022  | As the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begins, people in Britain look forward to a supplementary bank holiday and various celebrations commemorating the rule of their monarch. As a young woman, Elizabeth pledged to serve her country and the Commonwealth for as long as she lives […]

by Loren Seibold  |  31 May 2022  |  A while back I was reading an Adventist-run Facebook group about modesty in dress. The striking thing about this group is that it is organized and written mostly by men, yet is almost entirely about women. It is not unusual in this group to read a man’s […]

by Andreas Bochmann  |  27 May 2022  | My pastor made me aware of it: an article on “headship theology” in the Adventist Review. Before I found it, a Facebook group I follow discussed it, with rather mixed opinions. When I read it I found it deeply disturbing. The piece I’m referring to was written […]

By Norman H Young  |  26 May 2022  |   Read part 1 of this series here. In his Letters to an American Lady, C. S. Lewis writes. I never could find out what the VIIth Day Adventists believe, tho’ I had a long talk with one the other day, a professor of electrical engineering from […]

by Norman H. Young  |  24 May 2022  |  In Fern Seeds and Elephants (p. 78–79) C.S. Lewis gently described one of Adventism’s most revered forefathers as “poor William Miller,” whom he took “to have been an honest fanatic.” Lewis deemed efforts to calculate the date of Christ’s return as vainly attempting to do what […]

by Rich Hannon  |  20 May 2022  | With the historical ascent of science and its theories about the natural world, there has been a gradual but intensifying religion-driven conflict about science’s trustworthiness, as some conclusions have departed from traditionally orthodox Christian understandings.   For example, believers have for centuries accepted the idea that the world […]

by Loren Seibold  |  17 May 2022  | “All of creation groans with pain, like the pain of childbirth.” Romans 8:22 (Good News Translation) “Was everything OK?” he asked. Yes, we said. As good as usual. Curious why our Cracker Barrel waiter was a middle-aged man, soft-voiced and serious, when usually they’re young people, students, […]

by Richard W. Coffen  | Morning news, noontime news, evening news—the media are reporting a leak of a legal opinion allegedly supported by the majority of the justices of the United States Supreme Court. Someone, somewhere, somehow has released to Politico, without authorization, a 98-page “Opinion of the Court” written by Justice Samuel Alito. The force […]

by David Geelan  |  11 May 2022  | To be honest, I’m not 100% sure what I think about “cancel culture.” Often when I sit down to write for Adventist Today I have a fairly clear idea of the conclusion I hope to share, or at least the question I want to leave you with. […]

by Loren Seibold  |  10 May 2022  | “Where’d you get married?” I asked. “In Jim’s church,” Terry said. Jim is a Seventh-day Adventist; Terry isn’t. “The Adventist pastor stood up in front with us and preached a sermon,” she said. “But he said he couldn’t marry an Adventist with a non-Adventist so we had […]

by Lindsey Abston Painter  |  6 May 2022  |   My job is to train professionals who work with children and families in a variety of needs.  One is the foster care system: I train new foster parents, seasoned foster parents, foster family case workers, social workers, and floor staff in group homes.  In my work […]

by Admiral Ncube  |  5 May 2022  |   Recently I saw on the General Conference Youth Ministries Facebook page an announcement that on Sunday, May 1, 2022, our denomination would commemorate the global Ramadan prayer day, the keynote speaker being General Conference President Ted Wilson.  This initiative was championed by the Global Center for Adventist-Muslim […]

by Paul Priest  |  28 April 2022  |   I am a Bible believer. But I also believe in dinosaurs. I have seen their bones.  Science says the dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago. My church says life was created in six days, 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. My church bases this belief on […]

by Loren Seibold  |  7 April 2022  |   I remember, years ago when I was a young pastor in the Bay Area of Northern California, talking to an older pastor friend who worked in a church near me. I remember saying to him, “I’m looking forward to the time when those of us who are […]

by Thandazani Mhlanga  |  5 April 2022  | In my birth country of Zimbabwe, back in colonial times when it was still called Southern Rhodesia, a respected and highly esteemed colonial dairy farmer imported a prize-winning bull from Scotland. The bull’s arrival was no small affair: farmers from far and wide came down to see […]

30 March 2022  | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Let me begin by saying that I regard you as a wise aunt who gives good advice. I’m usually impressed by your wisdom and probity. However, an answer last week to a question about whether Elder Ted Wilson is a bad person gave me pause, and made me […]

by Stephen Ferguson and Lillian-Paige Turner  |  23 March 2022  | While much of the world was dealing with Covid mandates and Russian invasions, the Australian Parliament was addressing the thorny question of religious discrimination. It was big news here. With concerns about increased anti-religious sentiment, Australia’s conservative Coalition-Government (led by the Liberal Party, confusingly […]

by Rich Hannon  |  17 March 2022  | I recently binge-watched the six-part BBC mini-series Wolf Hall, which traces the life of Thomas Cromwell (1485-1540) during his political ascent in the reign of England’s Henry VIII. Henry’s ongoing, overriding problem was in securing a male heir. This caused him to end the marriage to his […]

by Loren Seibold   |  15 February 2022  |   Here is a question that has often puzzled me: why do some people survive in the Adventist Church in spite of their heterodoxy, and others don’t?  Paging back through our history, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that there is far greater latitude for people who are […]