Important Update: Exceeding Our Year-End Fundraising Goal
Dear Adventist Today Supporter, I’m writing to provide an important update regarding our year-end fundraising campaign. After posting yesterday’s update, we discovered additional donations that had come in through the mail but were not included in our initial count due to a processing error. We apologize for this oversight. With these contributions now accounted for, […]
SATIRE: All Movement Banned During Adventist Song Services
The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists has announced a sweeping new policy banning all forms of movement during Sabbath song service. The initiative, dubbed “Statuesque Sabbath,” aims to eliminate what church leaders are calling “distracting kinetic worship.” Elder Rigid Stockstill, chair of the newly formed Committee on Motionless Melodies, explained the rationale behind the decision: […]
SATIRE: Top 10 Adventist New Year’s Resolutions
1. Memorize All 13 Sabbath School Memory Verses Each Quarter – Commit to learning every single Adult Sabbath School quarterly memory verse so you can recite them from the pulpit with the confidence of an ordained minister. 2. Master the Art of Nominating Committee Evasion – Perfect your “I’m suddenly very busy” face and strategically […]
Adventist Church in PNG Receives K1 Million at 100-Year Anniversary
December 30, 2024 | On December 26, Prime Minister James Marape offered a government donation of K1 million to support the Seventh-day Adventist Mission in Bougainville. The donation was part of the community’s two-week celebration for the church’s 100 years in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (AROB), New Guinea Islands, and neighboring Solomon Islands to […]
Must we see Ellen White as either authoritative as the Bible, or a fraud? Is there a middle path?
30 December 2024 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Is there a path between regarding Ellen White as being as authoritative as Scripture, and seeing her as a plagiarist and fraud? Signed, Searching for a Middle Way Dear Searching, Yes, of course there is. But it would involve correcting some long-held attitudes that Seventh-day Adventists have about […]
Final Push
UPDATE: December 31, 2024 Important correction: We’ve discovered additional donations that weren’t initially counted due to a processing error. We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve not only met but exceeded our original goal, raising over $140,000! For the most up-to-date information on our fundraising campaign and our new stretch goal, please see our latest post […]
SATIRE: Adventist Mathematicians Claim to Have Discovered the “Golden Ratio” in EGW’s Hairdo
LOMA LINDA, California — A team of Adventist mathematicians from Loma Linda University claims to have discovered the elusive “Golden Ratio” in an unexpected place: Ellen G. White’s (EGW) iconic hairstyle. Dr. Pythagoras Fibonacci, lead researcher and chair of the newly formed Department of Prophetic Geometry, explained the team’s findings at a press conference held […]
Comments of the Week December 23-29
Comments of the Week December 23-29 “Who bows down, or worships their Christmas tree? No more than you bow down or pray to your child’s picture. Common sense needs to be used in ALL things!” –-Barbara Clark Wassom on whether Jeremiah bans Christmas Trees Comments on Grief, Christmas Scolds, Aunt Sevvy, and Missing the Forest […]
Editorial: “Desmond Doss Gives a Christmas Gift to Adventists”
I am happy when Adventists are spoken well of in the media, and for reasons that show us at our best. Recently United States senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia introduced legislation to rename the Veterans Affairs clinic in Lynchburg, Virginia, after Private First Class Desmond T. Doss, an Adventist conscientious objector whom […]