Truth, and Nothing But
by Stephen Chavez | 10 February 2022 | “You can’t handle the truth!” That’s the stunning assertion near the end of the film A Few Good Men. Marine lieutenant Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise), cross-examining Colonel Nathan Jessup (Jack Nicholson), shouts: “I want the truth!” Jessup’s reply—“You can’t handle the truth!”—reveals that if we knew everything, […]
UPDATE: News Briefs for February 9, 2022
News reports from Germany, Southern Adventist University, Southwestern Adventist University, Trans Pacific Union Mission, United States. One for the History Books Eric Anderson, Ph.D., will be the presenter for the first Benjamin McArthur Endowed Lecture at Southern Adventist University. All are invited to the free talk on Feb. 17, 2022, at 7 p.m. ET in […]
U.S. Federal Agencies Tracking Religious Exemptions to COVID-19 Vaccine
According to the Heritage Foundation, some federal agencies have created or proposed tracking lists for religious-exemption requests for the COVID-19 vaccine within their own agencies. George Washington University law professor says the government does have to track its workforce. Liberty and Health Alliance, an organization run by Adventist members, maintains the COVID-19 mandates are “obviously […]
ATSS Presents “Written for Us, but Not to Us”: Genesis 1 in Historical Context
ATSS Presents: Dr. Laurence Turner. Just as Jesus told apparently simple parables to convey deep spiritual truths, so Genesis 1 (i.e., 1:1–2:4a) uses an easily remembered account to help us reflect on matters of first importance. In this way, it is also like ancient Near Eastern creation stories. For Israel and its neighbors, creation was […]
ATSS: How Headship Theology Distorts the Gospel
by Olive J. Hemmings | 9 February 2022 | Jamin Hübner critiques the headship argument in terms I like. He says: “It is an unbalanced, reductionistic, and simplistic approach. And it bears all of the marks of a theology born out of contemporary culture wars, not centuries of scholarship and contemplation.”[1] I would revise that […]
The Adventist Health Message and the Environment
by David Garner | 8 February 2022 | Since their early days, Seventh-day Adventists articulated principles of health based on biblical principles and backed up by medical science of the day. Collectively these principles are known as the health message. At times there have been conflicting studies about specific aspects of the health message—science is […]
Not So Happy, Happy Home: Lack of Family Worship Possibly Related to Youth Exodus from Adventist Church
In 2013 only 36 percent of respondents had family worship daily, and even those who experienced it more than once a week were below 60 percent of the total. In 2018, the proportion of people that said they never had daily worship rose to 21 percent. Also, the number of people reporting that they had […]
Quest Diagnostics Settles Religious Discrimination Lawsuit by Adventist for $90,000
Adventist phlebotomist received religious accommodation for religious beliefs during first 9 years of employment. In 10th year of employment, Quest denied her religious accommodation and fired her after she didn’t show up for Saturday shift. Quest has agreed to adopt a religious accommodation policy, create a protocol for its employee relations department and provide annual […]
Has the church hidden gospel writings it doesn’t want you to see?
7 February 2022 | Are there secret gospels that the church has hidden? Does the History Channel give actual history? These questions and more are answered (with the addition of a good laugh) in a new episode of Bible Scholar Reacts—sponsored by Adventist Today. To comment, click/tap here.