What Does It Mean to “Hold Fast to What Is Good”?
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 […]
La distorsión del papel de Ellen White – Parte 2
Por Daniel A. Mora, BTh | 15 de junio, 2022 Lea la primera parte de esta serie aquí. Las aproximaciones fundamentalistas han sido constantes desde 1919, y este intento de darle una posición elevada a Ellen White, ha sido una movida estratégica de ciertos dirigentes para posicionarse como el “líder que transformará al adventismo” o […]
How Christians Misunderstand Pride Month (and Why It Makes Them Act Like Jerks)
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 […]
New Kids on the Block: A Look at the 5 New World Division Presidents
Division presidents are also members of the Executive Committee, the second highest governing body of the Adventist Church. In between General Conference Sessions, the Executive Committee is delegated the authority to act on behalf of the General Conference in Session. New division heads are replacing outgoing presidents who officially served only one term. 14 June […]
La distorsión del papel de Ellen White – Parte 1
Lea la segunda parte de esta serie aquí. Por Daniel A. Mora, BTh | 13 de junio, 2022 La discusión actual sobre la autoridad de los escritos de Ellen White sigue siendo un dolor de cabezas para el adventismo. Esta línea tradicional del adventismo pudo verse en el reciente congreso de la Asociación General, y […]
Watching the Sausage Being Made
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 […]
This Takes Stamina: Day 4 of the 2022 GC Session (June 9, 2022)
12 June 2022 | To the disappointment of very few, June 9, 2022, was the last day of the 61st General Conference (GC) Session’s business meetings in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. The flurry of delegate activity included votes on the finer points of church discipline, a statement of confidence in the writings of Ellen White, […]
Who’s Who in AdventWorld 2022: Day 3 of the 2022 GC Session (June 8, 2022)
09 June 2022 | GC Health Director Peter Landless chimed in with some advice for delegates early on June 8, 2022/GC Session Day 3: Get up and move during the three-minute waits that are required for electronic voting on each motion. It wasn’t a bad idea, considering the dense day of recommendations, debate, and voting […]
Are “Progressive” Adventists Deluded?
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 […]
Pressing Toward the Mark
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 […]