AdventInnovate: The Enclave
The Enclave is a stress recovery facility with a network of programs, resources, and spaces to help guests unwind and decompress. It combines the services of a counseling center, and a yoga/meditation studio, with a Himalayan salt suite, an indoor garden, a beach room, massage chairs, and other relaxation spaces. There is also a free […]
Aunt Sevvy, why does the same GC president continue for so many years?
10 March 2025 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, If Ted Wilson admires Ellen White so much, why doesn’t he follow her counsel? “I have been shown that ministers should not be retained in the same district year after year, nor should the same man long preside over a conference. A change of gifts is for the […]
Editorial: Nos guste o no, la política es inevitable
Casi siempre que un artículo en Adventist Today menciona algún asunto que discuten los políticos, recibimos respuestas enfadadas de algunos lectores. No importa si es un comportamiento tratado directamente en la Biblia. Incluso podría ser algo de lo que habla el propio Jesús. Si un político tiene una opinión al respecto, se nos critica por […]
Comments of the Week Feb Mar 3-9
Comments of the Week Mar 3-9 “I like this EGW quote: ‘Live the life of faith day by day. Do not become anxious and distressed about the time of trouble, and thus have a time of trouble beforehand. Do not keep thinking, ‘I am afraid I shall not stand in the great testing day.’ You […]
La Universidad Estatal de Ohio considera el cierre del Centro Cultural Frank W. Hale Jr.
A los adventistas del séptimo día afroamericanos les preocupa que la Universidad Estatal de Ohio (OSU) pueda cerrar el Centro Cultural Frank W. Hale Jr., conocido por los estudiantes del campus como la Unión de Estudiantes Negros, un punto de referencia en una de las universidades más grandes de los Estados Unidos. El centro lleva […]
Dakota Adventist Academy Threatened with Closure at End of School Year.
9 March 2025 | After almost 50 years of operation, Dakota Adventist Academy (DAA) could close at the end of this school year, according to a letter sent out widely by the Dakota Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. While the letter asks for money, it also makes clear that faced with astonishingly low enrollment, even sacrificial giving […]
Editorial: Like It or Not, We Can’t Avoid Politics
Almost every time an article in Adventist Today mentions some matter that politicians discuss, we get angry responses. It doesn’t matter if it is behavior addressed directly in the Bible. It could even be something Jesus himself talks about. If a politician has an opinion on it, we are criticized for mentioning it. Yet biblical ethics and […]
Tradition and the Biblical Text
by Richard W. Coffen | 7 March 2025 | You saw Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof singing, “Tradition, tradition! Tradition!” That’s the theme of this essay: specifically, the role tradition plays in our reading of the biblical texts. Traditional behaviors aren’t necessarily wrong, but they can be arbitrary. For example, Americans open gifts in […]
Elijah and Elisha Statues Demolished at Southern Adventist University
07 March 2025 | After 15 years, Southern Adventist University decided to take down the two granite statues of Elijah and Elisha on February 19. The demolition, which took place over four days, was a difficult yet long-discussed decision. According to Marty Hamilton, associate vice president for financial administration, Southern’s Public Art Committee decided to […]
“Your Friend, Jan”: The Value of Friends You Don’t Agree With
by Reinder Bruinsma | 6 March 2025 | Ten years ago Pastor Jan T. Knopper died in far-away (for me) Australia. Jan Knopper was a Dutchman. He worked his entire working life in the publishing branch of the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a coordinator of literature evangelism, first in the Netherlands at the union level, […]