Oakwood Board Expected to Announce New President
by Pamela Maize Harris | 27 March 2025 | Oakwood University’s Board of Trustees is expected to announce its choice for president at any minute. According to sources familiar with the situation, three candidates have already interviewed and a vote has been taken by the Board, who has kept everything as secret as possible, skipping […]
La tradition et le texte biblique
par Richard W. Coffen | 27 mars 2025 | Vous avez peut-être vu Tevye dans Un violon sur le toit chanter «Tradition, tradition, tradition!» C’est le thème de cet essai. Et plus précisément, le rôle de la tradition dans notre lecture des textes bibliques. Nos comportements, basés sur des traditions, ne sont pas nécessairement mauvais, […]
To Church Boards Everywhere: Is there a better way to be a church?
by Linda McCabe | 27 March 2025 | Once upon a time there was a church. (I won’t give the name or location, but the story is true. Anyway, it is similar enough to many other stories across the land that there is little danger of your identifying it.) Forty to fifty members in a […]
News from Loma Linda, Nicaragua, AdventHealth, and Trans-European Division
27 March 2025 | News from Loma Linda According to a press release, “Loma Linda University School of Religion has launched two new certificate programs — one in Spiritual Care (13 units) and another in Bioethics (13 units). The school is accepting applications for the upcoming 2025 – 2026 academic school [year], and applications received before […]
SATIRE: General Conference Clarifies: It’s “AD-ven-tist” Not “Ad-VEN-tist”
SILVER SPRING, Maryland — Earlier today, General Conference (GC) linguists brought clarity to a matter that has plagued Adventism for decades: the correct way to pronounce the word “Adventist.” “The right way to say it has always been and will always be “AD-ventist” not “Ad-VEN-tist,” said GC spokesperson Hauju Seyit. “For years, our church has […]
Drink Deeply, O Lovers!
by Jim Burklo | 26 March 2025 | In the Roman empire, sexual abuse was rampant. Male slave-owners regularly raped their male and female slaves. “Homosexuality” did not exist as a distinct social category at the time: it was common for otherwise heterosexual men to engage occasionally in homosexual acts. Consensual, committed, long-term homosexual relationships […]
ATSS: Maury Jackson, “The Greatest Hits of the Epistle to the Galatians”
26 March 2025 | Galatians is a short book with some fascinating content. But reading through it could raise some questions in your mind. Paul starts some of his books with praise and appreciation. Why does he start this book with a scolding? What’s significant about Paul’s conversion story that he has to add it […]
New GC Session App Will Be Offered in Seven Languages
26 March 2025 | “The last GC session was revolutionary in the digital media sphere,” said Sam Neves, associate director of communication at the General Conference (GC) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. “This year’s session will be evolutionary.” According to the General Conference publication Adventist News Network (ANN), the communication department plans to utilize social […]
Editorial: Lo bueno y lo malo del sectarismo
No hace mucho, en una conversación con una amiga, me referí a los adventistas como «sectarios». Ella me preguntó qué significaba eso. Por si tú tampoco lo sabes, permíteme que intente explicártelo. En cuanto a doctrinas, los adventistas del Séptimo Día compartimos muchas cosas con la mayoría de los demás cristianos. Pero tenemos un tipo […]
Australian Digital Discipleship Conference Faces Tropical Cyclone
25 March 2025 | Tropical Cyclone Alfred caused power outages, flooding, and evacuations when it impacted the coast near Surfer’s Paradise just days before the 2025 South Pacific Division’s (SPD) Digital Discipleship Conference, which took place in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The widespread devastation resulted in power outages at the original venue, prompting a frantic […]