SATIRE: Adventist Caught Vacuuming After Friday Sunset
BERKSHIRE, England — Earlier today a sudden bolt of lightning tore a hole in the roof of a house belonging to a Seventh-day Adventist. The lightning strike occurred minutes after sunset as Waden en Agua, a deacon at the local Adventist church, was rushing to finish vacuuming his living room. Famously spread thin for over-committing […]
News Briefs for February 16, 2023
16 February 2023 | Adventist Churches Respond to Devastation in Turkey While most of the world watched in disbelief as news of the earthquake slowly emerged from the rubble, Adventist members in more than two dozen sites in Turkey met online the day after the quake to wrestle with what they could do in the […]
¿Por qué rechazo la teología?
Me fascinan las “mentes brillantes” que discuten las interminables y profundas capas de la teología. Se atreven a plantear cuestiones existenciales y a elaborar teorías fascinantes mientras se esfuerzan por comprender la incomprensible divinidad. Pero en los últimos diez años, más o menos, algo ha sucedido en mi mente. Después que mis padres y los […]
An Invitation to Progressive Christianity
by Jim Burklo | 16 February 2023 | “It tastes like cardboard,” I said to my friend—also named Jim—as we wandered through the crowd, veggie burgers in hand. He nodded and laughed. We drifted into a huge canvas tent where a preacher was fully, physically engaged in exhortation, mopping his sweaty forehead with a big […]
SATIRE: GC Says Women Can Be Ordained as Housewives
SILVER SPRING, Maryland — General Conference (GC) officials have been working hard to offer some form of concession to placate advocates of women’s ordination who were bitterly disappointed by the GC San Antonio “No” vote on the issue. Although the vote result means that regionally approved women’s ordination for pastoral ministry is not sanctioned by […]
Partnership Between Catholic and Adventist Hospital Network Ends on Valentine’s Day
15 February 2023 | CenturaHealth, one of the largest hospital networks in Colorado, released a statement on Tuesday announcing the end of its 27-year partnership between Catholic-affiliated network CommonSpirit Health and Seventh-day Adventist-affiliated network AdventHealth. Centura said that the partnership between the two had reached its “natural maturity,” according to CPR News. “CommonSpirit Health and […]
ATSS: Don Casebolt on “Father Miller’s Daughter”
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. […]
Survivor of 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing Shares Her Story with Pacific Union College Community
14 February 2023 | The sisters giggled together as they walked down the avenue to church in their Sunday best. Janie had a new purse, and they tossed it back and forth and laughed some more. Even the gray clouds and autumn wind couldn’t dampen their spirit. It was Youth Day at church, and they […]
The Legacy of the Badge
by Christopher C. Thompson Here’s the disclaimer: I haven’t watched the video. As a matter of fact, I don’t think I have watched one of those videos since 2016 when Philando Castile was murdered in cold blood on camera by a trigger-happy police officer by the name of Jeronimo Yanez. And now we have another […]
Christianity Today Podcast Hosted by Andrews Professor Heather Thompson Day
14 February 2023 | In July of 2021, Christianity Today produced a new podcast entitled Viral Jesus, hosted by Andrews University communications scholar Heather Thompson Day. More than a year-and-a-half later, its 62 episodes have received a stellar 4.9 out of 5-star rating on Apple Podcasts, featuring interviews with a diverse group of theologians, evangelical […]