2 July 2025 | The Adventist publishing “industry” is 170 years old. Publishing was vigorous even before Adventist education and healthcare began to expand. In an effort to reach the whole world “in this generation,” publishing houses and journals were established all over the world, ever adding more languages whenever possible. Books and journals provide […]
by Christopher C. Thompson | 1 July 2025 | I was recently talking to a local politician who has grown to be a dear friend. As we talked and solved the problems of the world, she made a statement that has invaded the corridors of my mind ever since. She said, “I don’t need allies. […]
by Loren Seibold | 30 June 2025 | The Adventosphere—both the online and personal gossip variety—has been buzzing with questions about who the next General Conference (GC) president will be. I take a minority position: it shouldn’t matter. My diminished interest First, I doubt the selection will be a surprise. Don’t expect a Conclave outcome, […]
Many love it. Many love to hate it. The 62nd General Conference (GC) Session of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is nearly upon us, set to unfold from July 3-12 in St. Louis, Missouri. Adventist Today will be on the ground to cover it. This gathering, held every five years (though the 2022 session was delayed […]
27 June 2025 | In a recent Northern New England Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (NNEC) town hall meeting, president Gary Blanchard said that Ron Kelly, fired pastor of the Berrien Springs Village Church, would not be the conference’s executive secretary. Anybody heard of Spectrum magazine? I have gotten lots of phone calls and lots of […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 27 June 2025 | Read part 1 here. Opening the third section of Reclaiming the Prophet, veteran Adventist historian George R. Knight recaps much of what he’s written in his other books about Adventist church history. He recounts how the original perspective on the ministry of Ellen White was, to a […]
28 June 2025 | Conversation among different kinds of Adventists is often either a bit mean-spirited, or entirely non-existent. I will use both contemporary philosophy of knowledge and a key passage from Matthew to argue that failure by Adventists to interact across lines of convictional difference in vigorous, open-minded conversation is an egregious and tragic […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 26 June 2025 | I first became aware of Reclaiming the Prophet when I saw urgent warning to stay far away from it on the website of the far-right website Fulcrum7. It was clear from the description that the author of the short, ultra-negative piece had not read the book, but […]
by Mark Johnson | 25 June 2025 | (Read part 1 of this series here.) (Read part 2 of this series here.) I wrote before about how the accreditation of Loma Linda propagated accreditation and higher education down the line, to our colleges, and eventually even to our seminaries. It was the theologians that struggled […]
by Mark Johnson | 24 June 2025 | (Read part 1 of this series here.) In this installment I’m discussing an idea of central importance to Adventists—one that has largely been sidelined. It’s called wholism. Our doctrine of wholism (and for my purposes, the “w” seems essential) has often fallen under the rather dreary heading […]
23 June 2025 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, How can I be an LGBTQ ally without endangering my employment? Signed, Church Worker Dear Church Worker: Right now, as things stand in the church, you probably can’t—at least in most places. Be kind to your LGBTQ+ friends personally, but you dare not, if you want to keep […]
