by David Geelan | 19 April 2024 | Talking with friends and family, both in person and online, got me thinking about the relationship between a person’s religious beliefs and the moral tone struck by their actions in the world. Such discussions tend to be anecdotally driven, and to line up on “party lines”: my […]
by Stephen Ferguson | 29 December 2023 | In one of my favorite Jesus parables, the movie Man of Steel, a teenage Clark Kent (played by Dylan Spraberry) is finally told of his alien origins by adopted-father Jonathan Kent (played by Kevin Costner in one of his best-ever performances). Jonathan tells Clark he isn’t just […]
by Horace Alexander | 25 December 2023 | Birth has been described as the earliest miracle of human life, and before the science of fertilization, conception, and gestation were more completely understood, birth was seen as miraculous, a gift from God. Even with our scientific knowledge, birth is still full of wonderment and mystery. There […]
by Mark Gutman | 12 December 2023 | What are we supposed to do with the command, “Judge not, that ye be not judged” (Matthew 7:1, KJV)? It is commonly quoted, but not commonly “unpacked.” When you stop to think about it, it seems like an unrealistic order. We presume it means that we shouldn’t […]
by Alvin Masarira | 21 November 2023 | On Sunday, May 21, 2023, the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church turned 160 years old. For all intents and purposes, church members equate the General Conference organization with the Adventist Church itself. They don’t differentiate between the administrative entity and the church—but that should be […]
by David Geelan | 9 November 2023 | I love learning new words, don’t you? I most often pick them up from context in something I’m reading, which means I usually don’t know how they should be pronounced, and don’t know the dictionary definition, but I still love them. And, quite often, I go on […]
by Stephen Ferguson | 7 November 2023 | As reported by Christianity Today, the resignation of Brian Houston of the Hillsong megachurch for inappropriate behavior with a female staff member: Brian Houston has resigned from Hillsong Church, the congregation he founded nearly 40 years ago and led as global senior pastor. The boards of the […]
by Nick Arroyave, Carl McRoy, and Christopher C. Thompson | 3 November 2023 | “Thou shalt not steal.” Exodus 20:13 Ellen White commented on this timeless directive when she wrote: “The eighth commandment condemns man stealing and slave dealing, and forbids wars of conquest” (Patriarchs and Prophets, p.309). Is it not stealing to conquer people’s […]
The Bruinsma Blog | 1 November 2023 | Adventist leaders might benefit from a study of Dutch church history. The Netherlands has become a very secular country, but its spiritual roots continue to shape at least part of its national identity. Through the centuries, religion and church were crucial pillars of Dutch society, and its […]
by Stephen Ferguson | 15 September 2023 | What many readers may not quite understand—especially American readers—is that when Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor, better known as Charles III, was coronated in May, he was crowned not merely king of the United Kingdom, but of 14 other Commonwealth realms. These other realms include Canada, New […]
by Melissa Brotton | 05 September 2023 | “Your comforts delight my soul.” (Psalm 94:18b, NKJV) Science is telling us that one of nature’s most precious gifts is a tranquil and sound mind, something we’ve known intuitively for a long while. This truth hit home to me in late spring of this year. As the […]
By S M Chen | 5 September 2023 | “A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.” –J. P. Morgan (1837-1913), American financier and banker I was a youngster of perhaps six when I first became aware of the word “motive.” Late one afternoon, when […]
