Set in Motion: Day 1 of the GC Business Session (June 6, 2022)
07 June 2022 | After two consecutive postponements of the planned GC Session, June 6, 2022 marked the first day of the first hybrid General Conference (GC) Session in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—for the first time, delegates could attend and participate in the GC Session online and in-person. Delegates waded through many motions, and some […]
‘Again????’: Ted N.C. Wilson Re-elected as President of the General Conference
During final minutes of June 6, 2022, business meeting, Ted N.C. Wilson re-elected as president. Wilson has been president of the GC for 12 years; this is his third term. While many on social media are expressing congratulations, many others are expressing concerns about his re-election and how well Wilson actually represents the global Adventist […]
ATSS PRESENTS: Reinder Bruinsma, “The Church Has a Future”
6 June 2022 | The Christian church is in trouble, in particular in the Western world. Many denominations see their membership decrease and experience an exodus of the younger generations. Postmoderns may still have an interest in spirituality, but they turn away from institutional Christianity. Current trends also affect the Seventh-day Adventist Church. While the […]
Aunty, can we really just “Let go and let God”?
6 June 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, “Let go and let God.” I’ve heard this phrase frequently. People tout it as the answer to their prayers. It doesn’t work for me, no matter how I try to apply it to my life’s situations, nor can I find satisfactory examples in scripture. Is there, or is […]
¡Primer festival de música adventista hispana!
Panamá 06 de mayo, 2022. En un impresionante evento organizado en el Hotel Lopesan Costa Bávaro, en Punta Cana, República Dominicana, organizado por Advent World Music (del 4 al 6 de junio), se dieron cita los músicos y cantantes adventistas de Latinoamérica y el Caribe, para celebrar la música hispana. El festival conto con una […]
El auge y la caída de 1844 – Parte 1
En Fern Seeds and Elephants [Esporas de Helechos y Elefantes] (p. 78-79), C.S. Lewis describió gentilmente a uno de los antepasados más venerados del adventismo como “el pobre Guillermo Miller”, a quien consideraba “un honesto fanático”. Lewis consideraba que los esfuerzos por calcular la fecha del regreso de Cristo eran un intento vano de hacer […]
Praying in Texas: A Poem
by Sigve Tonstad | 4 June 2022 | They are praying again in Texas, the governor praying, too, politics of the pious, praying is what they do, and now the news from heaven, fresh from a first-hand source: the prayers will go unanswered: “The prayers show no remorse.” ’Twas time long ago to admit it, […]
Poem: A Psalm for the Earth and Its People
by Patti Purdy Hansen Tompkins | 3 June 2022 | When You made us keepers of Your earth, O God, You expected a lot of us. But we have become careless with Your trust. The oceans and the firmament, the forests and living creatures, All the works of Your hands have been tainted by our […]
Inherited: of the General Conference Session & the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
by Hannele Ottschofski | 2 June 2022 | As the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begins, people in Britain look forward to a supplementary bank holiday and various celebrations commemorating the rule of their monarch. As a young woman, Elizabeth pledged to serve her country and the Commonwealth for as long as she lives […]
ATSS: “The Voice of Your Brother’s Blood” – Mathilde Frey on the Cain, Abel & Violence
1 June 2022 | by Mathilde Frey “Wars are won by weapons, but it takes ideas to win a peace.” — Rabbi Jonathan Sacks A few days ago, I put these numbers on my office door in the School of Theology at Walla Walla University: A colleague stopped to read and asked me, “So, Mathilde, […]