What Did Revelation Mean to Its First-Century Hearers?
by Norm Young | 20 December 2024 | The seven churches to which John wrote in Revelation 2 and 3 were in a circle of about 500 km, from Ephesus on the coast, to Laodicea in the south, and then west back to Ephesus. Early Adventists interpreted the seven letters according to the historicist method […]
Why Is the General Conference Scared of Us?
Since hearing about the General Conference’s Item #6 — a General Conference (GC) working policy addition which has the effect of discouraging GC employees from speaking with independent Adventist publications — I have felt some anger and confusion. But, to my surprise, my most prominent feeling was amusement. I spent the majority of my life […]
News Brief: 19 December 2024
19 December 2024 | News from Ecuador A group of women from several areas in the province of Guayas gathered on November 29 to participate in “Florezca” [Flourish], a project of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in South America. The project was designed to help women feel empowered in their Christianity and in their mental and […]
ATSS: Denis Fortin, “What Is Inspiration? Another look at the rejected views of G.I. Butler”
18 December 2024 | Raising questions about what inspiration means is not new. Do you ever wonder how inspiration worked in a prophet? And were all biblical prophets inspired in the same way? In fact, are there different levels of inspiration? Take, for example, the narratives of the life of Jesus, or of the kings […]
This, Too, Is Resistance
by Christopher C. Thompson | 19 December 2024 | I recently attempted here to address our present political context, and to show why the correctives in Paul’s letters to the Thessalonians are relevant today. The responses to that piece were vocal and varied. One of the things I’ve learned is that even Adventist Christians struggle […]
Alerta de Spoiler
En la película El planeta de los simios (1968), tres astronautas se estrellan en un planeta desconocido que, según sus cálculos, se encuentra a 300 años luz de la Tierra. El cronómetro de la nave espacial indica que han pasado 2.006 años desde el lanzamiento de la nave. Gracias a la « aceleración del tiempo […]
Two Adventists Die in Escalating Gang Violence In Haiti
18 December 2024 | In a recent report by the Inter-American Division, “Two Seventh-day Adventist church members were tragically killed during a recent gang-led massacre that claimed over 180 lives in the Wharf Jérémie neighborhood of Cité Soleil, a densely populated commune in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. The attacks, which occurred between December 6-8, 2024, […]
The Body Temple: Your Food Tube
“It’s just a simple tube?” by Jack Hoehn | 18 December 2024 | A newborn’s first job is to find some oxygen, the second is to find a nipple. Little puppies and little people expend their first newborn energy looking for something to eat. I’ve read several articles on the digestive system that begin with […]
In Praise of Pagan Christmas
by Jack Hoehn | 17 December 2024 | There can be no doubt about it: December 25 was once a pagan holiday, the birthday of the Sun god, Sol Invictus, from his winter nap—the shortest winter day that starts the gradual return of longer days, the winter solstice. So let’s celebrate the end of winter and […]
Cadena perpetua contra teólogo adventista que construyo una red de pedófilos para abusar a su hijastra
El sábado 14 de diciembre de 2024, el Tribunal de Chillán leyó la sentencia de prisión perpetua y adicional 15 años, a Marco Antonio Orellana Basaes de 64 años, un teólogo adventista y profesor en una Escuela no adventista, que cursaba la maestría en Salud Pública en la Universidad Adventista de Chile. Y otras 13 […]