
Aunty, is it wrong to have the dead body of a loved one cremated?
15 January 2024 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I have heard that some consider cremation to be a pagan practice. Does our church have a particular position on cremating dead bodies? Signed, Funeral Planning Dear Planning, Some Christians say that God disapproves of burning the bodies of the dead. Arguments Aunty has heard include: Saul, a […]

SATIRE: Southern Closes After Cafeteria Accidentally Serves Bacon Instead of Stripples
COLLEGEDALE, Tennessee — In what administrators admit constitutes an unpardonable sin for an Adventist institution, Southern Adventist University disclosed today that bacon strips had been served to students instead of Stripples. “The two food products look remarkably similar,” said Southern spokesperson Lechon Diba to a large gathering of reporters, adding that Southern’s theologians had immediately […]


EDITORIAL: Healing From Bad Religion
A friend told me this week of his sadness about one of his friends—in particular, the picture of God she seems to have. She pictures God, he says, as an angry, easy-to-displease Being—someone who is supposed to love her, but she’s not at all sure God does. She worries about God’s opinion of her. She […]

Елена Уайт и её навыки построения английской речи: краткие выводы
Эдвард Хэнгану | 23 января 2015 | Это гостевая публикация в блоге на тему, интересующую многих адвентистов. Введение Традиционная фольклорная и богословская литература Адвентистов седьмого дня часто указывает на «прекрасный» язык Елены Уайт, как бесспорное доказательство того, что многочисленные книги, статьи, брошюры и другие произведения, приписываемые ее авторству, и которые вышли под ее именем, имеют […]

Jesus, Ted Lasso, and Radical Empathy
by Lindsey Abston Painter | 12 January 2024 | “I promise you there is something worse out there than being sad, and that’s being alone and being sad. Ain’t no one in this room alone.” – Ted Lasso A few weeks ago I finished watching the final season of the Apple TV series Ted Lasso. […]

News Briefs for January 11, 2024
11 January 2024 | Unity and Empowerment: Over 2,000 Women Gather at Regional Congress in Zambia “More than 2,000 women from six union territories of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe attended a regional congress at Rusangu University, near Monze, Zambia. Two hundred ninety were from the Malawi Union Conference. The theme […]

Miniskirts. Artificial eyelashes. Tattoos. Hanging pants. Aunty, how can God bless his people when they dress like this?
11 January 2024 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Makeup. Miniskirts. Gaudy hosiery. Hanging pants showing underwear. Necklaces. Earrings. Painted and artificial fingernails. Artificial eyelashes. Tattoos. Finger rings. Women in men’s attire. I cannot even finish the list, these things bother me so much! How can God’s people dress like this? Signed, Offended Dear Offended: Aunty doesn’t […]

The Three Infinities
by Jack Hoehn | 11 January 2024 | Science can bring us to worship the presence of God. Glorifying or worshiping God in our bodies may be familiar because of Adventist health teachings—don’t smoke, drink, eat pigs or between meals—because your body is God’s Temple. But there is a grander possibility for worshiping of God […]