by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D | 22 November 2018 | October 22 this year was the 174th anniversary of what Adventists know as “The Great Disappointment.” It also means that Adventists have been proclaiming urgently that Jesus is returning “soon” for 174 years. After that many years, what does “soon” mean? How soon is “soon”? If the […]
by Sam Chen | 16 November 2018 | “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), French writer, poet, journalist, pioneering aviator It was still dark when he approached the monolith. He had gazed at it many times, but […]
by Erv Taylor | 16 November 2018 Author’s Note: Readers may recall that OV (“Our Visitor”) is from a planet circling the nearest star to Earth, other than our sun. We call his star Proxima Centauri. It is about four light years away. That means that traveling at the speed of light (which obviously is […]
by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 13 November 2018 | The paper just uploaded to my website, which you are invited to read, was, like the previous paper, originally written at the request of the editor of an encyclopedia. In this case it was an article simply titled “Seventh-day Adventism” that was published in the Encyclopedia […]
This article is reprinted from the Summer, 2018 Adventist Today magazine. If you would like to receive the quarterly magazine, become a member here. by Lindsey Painter | 12 November 2018 | We are in a social media age! At least, that’s what all the articles say that pop up on Facebook and Twitter (oh, […]
12 November 2018 | The Lesser Light Collective, a group of 30 Adventist artists which created two groundbreaking musical dramas over the last decade, is disbanding. Jennifer Jill Schwirzer, a well-known Adventist author and key leader in the group announced last week that it has come to “the end of the road.” The group created […]
by Steven Siciliano | 07 November 2018 | Most people who’ve been exposed to the Western cultural tradition know that Cain killed his brother Abel and that, before the murder, God had rejected Cain’s offering. Fewer individuals take time to consider exactly why Cain’s offering was rejected, or what his gift intended to accomplish in […]
by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 06 November 2018 | During the period from about 1995 through 2007, several American publishers prepared and published encyclopedias that focused on various aspects of religion. Libraries were an important portion of the market that they had in mind when they considered marketing these volumes. Editors were appointed who were […]
7 November 2018 | Yesterday the policy-making body of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination’s North American Division (NAD) voted a response to the “Compliance” document voted on October 14 during the annual meeting of the denomination’s top, global governing body, the General Conference (GC) executive committee. The voted statement requested that the GC executive committee “rescind […]
By Jim Walters | 28 October 2018 | With the theme “Unveiling: Women, Faith and Sexual Abuse,” the Association of Adventist Women (AAW) convened Friday and Sabbath (October 26-27) in Riverside, California. It was not your typical Adventist conclave by traditional standards. However, for vegetarians like me, the food couldn’t have been better. But more […]
by Melody Tan | 25 October 2018 | Last night, after my two-year-old forced me to repeatedly sing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” and “The A-B-C Song” (or “The Alphabet Song”), I made a startling discovery. For the first time in my almost 40 years of existence, it occurred to me that both songs have the […]
The Adventist Today team wants to say “Thank You” to the supporters who responded during out Fall Membership Drive the last ten days of September, as well as at other times through the year. We are a little behind because our annual Reader Survey and then the news blitz surrounding the Annual Council of the […]
