18 July 2025 | Dear Elder Köhler, I was not in physical attendance in St Louis, but I have followed closely what happened during the ten days of the 2025 GC session. I have spent my entire working life in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. I was baptized as a teenager, and almost seventy years later I […]
by Melody Tan | 17 July 2025 | I’m writing this having waved my soon-to-be nine-years-old son goodbye. He’s off to school independently, on a public bus for the first time. Let me clarify that this was just a trial run. We are not planning for this to be the beginning of a new going-to-school […]
16 July 2025 | For 2,000 years, Christians have used artistic media to express themes of the Bible and Christian life. Words and pictures are often mutually illuminating, as texts come alive in the imagination of artists. In this class, Dr. Tonstad will share examples from the world of art, based on stories in the […]
by Loren Seibold | 16 July 2025 | Implicit in the two back-to-back interviews Elder Ted Wilson sat for after being replaced at the 2025 General Conference (GC) session was that he wasn’t about to go silent, to retreat to his garage and build birdhouses for the grandchildren. Many wondered: how will his influential—and very […]
15 July 2025 | On July 8, Elder Erton Köhler, new General Conference president, sat for an interview with Luis Andres Henao of Associated Press (AP), an international news consortium. The article was entitled “Newly elected Seventh-day Adventist Church leader reflects on challenges and faith’s healthy living.” “If I can choose one word that represents […]
by Lynn Nyaera | 15 July 2025 | An Adventist women’s group from the Nairobi South Adventist Church, dubbed Sisterhood, are redefining what it means to create and build community among women. Their methods are deceptively simple. Twice a year, a member of the group volunteers one of their female Adventist relatives, who hosts the […]
14 July 2025 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I recently heard a sermon on Ezekiel 33. The preacher stressed that Ellen White said we Adventists are the watchmen, and we will be held responsible if we don’t warn people that they’re wrong. It seems to me that applying it today would make us very judgmental. How […]
by Carsten Thomsen | 12 July 2025 | I do care, because his pastoral role and values herald an important example to all current and prospective members. I care, because that example should tear down barriers, heal old wounds, and reset expectations about a new, welcoming church. I care, because that example should take a […]
9 July 2025 | The Adventist Today team has spent the week covering the events of the General Conference here in St. Louis. We’ve seen new leaders be elected and changes being made in Adventist policy. More important, we have brushed shoulders with lovely people from around the globe, talked with them, listened to them. […]
by Loren Seibold | 9 July 2025 | A collection of thoughts and ideas and observations that have been piling up on my mental desk: I have seen my church… …and it’s not white anymore. All ya gotta do is walk around this building, and you’ll see mostly faces of some shade of brown. Prepare, […]
by Loren Seibold | 8 July 2025 | Please forgive me: I’m going to whinge a bit. Because I’m fed up. The General Conference (GC) Session brings people from all around the world into one place. These are, presumably, some of the most faithful, generous, mission-minded Seventh-day Adventists in the world, which is why they […]
by Loren Seibold | 7 July 2025 | This is a big noisy meeting in an inferior space—spread out and confusing and noisy with bad acoustics. But as I look around, I’m moved by people from all over the world—not the big conference and union and division people with fancy suits and ties, but the […]
