SATIRE: GC Mistakenly Sends Out Second Coming Alert
SILVER SPRING, Maryland — A virtual thunderbolt struck Adventism today as the General Conference (GC) headquarters of the church sent out a push notification to members’ phones announcing the Second Coming. The announcement delighted some members and absolutely horrified others. Adventist hospitals, schools, and Little Debbie’s factories came to an immediate standstill as employees dropped […]
EDITORIAL: Doves and Snakes
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the tension between idealism and “the way things are.” I’m a naturally sincere and optimistic person. I want to improve the world around me, and when I touch the lives of those around me I want that to be a net positive. I often make the mistake of […]
What an Adventist Pastor Learned From the Pope
by Steve Case | 19 January 2024 | As a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, I don’t look to the pope for guidance. I grew up believing the pope was “the beast”—or at least a boogeyman. But when the pope said it was okay to bless same-sex couples who request one, the news media had a new […]
Рабочий Курс церкви нарушают всё время
Элвин Масарира | 9 октября 2017 | Исполнительный комитет Генеральной Конференции Церкви Адвентистов седьмого дня состоит из представителей всех Дивизионов, персонала Генеральной Конференции, некоторых учреждений церкви, и президентов всех Унионных Конференций и Унионных Миссий. Он встречается два раза в год, но обычно именно Годичное совещание, проходящее в октябре, рассматривает темы, которые затронут всю Всемирную церковь. […]
News Briefs for January 18, 2024
18 January 2024 | Camporee Tickets for Gillette, Wyoming, Sell Out With Over 55,000 Attendees “According to information provided on January 15 to church leaders across the North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (NAD), tickets to the 2024 International Pathfinder Camporee in Gillette, Wyoming, United States, August 5-11, are sold out.” Full story […]
Adventists Should Know the Reason for the Civil War
by Tuwan Ussery White | 18 January 2024 | Speaking to supporters on December 12, 2023, in Manchester, New Hampshire, Nikki Haley was asked about the cause of the Civil War. She said I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run, the freedoms and what people could […]
Tante Louise, la Bible ne veut pas que les femmes soient ordonnées et qu’elles prêchent!
18 janvier | Chère tante Louise, Des femmes ordonnées et qui prêchent? Tante Louise, la Bible est-elle ou non la parole de Dieu? Est-ce que nous considérons ou non que Dieu nous y parle? Que dit la Bible? Il est très clair que les femmes n’ont pas leur place derrière la chaire, et, sur ce […]
Melody Tan: The Nights Are Long
by Melody Tan | 17 January 2024 There is an often-quoted saying when you become a parent: “The nights are long, but the years are short.” The idea is that while whatever period of parenthood you are in may feel arduous and tedious, the beauty of nostalgia provides you not only with the ability to […]
ATSS: Laurence Turner, “Reading the Bible’s Stories Imaginatively”
17 January 2024 | Of the many types of literature found in the Bible, narrative or story predominates, making up about forty percent of the entire Bible. The reason for this is that the Bible is the product of the Israelite or Jewish mind. And the primary mode of discourse used in that culture when […]
Проблема клановости в обществе и в адвентистской церкви в Африке
Тайсан | 29 мая 2017 | Клановость в обществе, политике и экономике – это серьезная проблема, с которой Кения сталкивалась в прошлом и которая все еще живет сегодня. Этот вирус поразил и адвентистскую церковь. Например, его уродливая голова поднимается, когда община из народа Луо не будет сотрудничать с областным пастором, если он принадлежит к народу […]