17 March 2025 | Please subscribe to our YouTube channel to continue to receive reminders of new programs! Marcelo Reis, “Lord’s Supper or Lost Supper? The Evolution of the ‘Sacramental Meal’” Warren Trenchard, “The Investigative Judgment: Adventist Asset or Liability?” Rolf Pöhler, “Future, Past, and Present: Adventist Apocalypticism Facing the Times” Stephen Ferguson, “What Makes […]
17 March 2025 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Recently, because I wanted to know God better, I started reading the Bible from cover to cover starting with Genesis. Very soon I found myself feeling conflicted. I believe God is good—but I can’t help but think that God seems petty and even cruel in the Old Testament. […]
I am not built for unprecedented times. Not many of us are giddy at the idea of a collapsing democracy or rising cultural tensions. But sometimes I fall into frantic anxiety. The usual platitudes about how it’s all in God’s plan and how we are living in the end times don’t provide comfort; they only […]
by Shelley Curtis Weaver | 14 March 2025 | I’ve lived long enough to recall a time when a preacher might have jokingly said, “We Adventists are a queer bunch!” Mostly, though, we used a different word: we said we were a “peculiar people”—and we expressed a good deal of pride in our peculiarity. Language […]
14 March 2025 | A recent announcement by Amazing Facts shows Doug Batchelor hosting Barbara O’Neill, whose offbeat health teachings have led to a ban on her providing any health-related services in Australia. Batchelor describes her as a “health educator.” Sacramento Central is the host church for O’Neill this week, and according to the church’s […]
by Melody Tan | 13 March 2025 | My son used to take offense to Cyndi Lauper’s 1980s hit, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.” This, coming from a then-four- or five-year-old: “Are girls the only ones who can have fun? What about the boys?” he would say. As he got older and exposed to […]
12 March 2025 | In a letter made public yesterday, the Berrien Springs Village Church has asked for a special constituency meeting in the Michigan Conference to discuss the dismissal of its pastor, Ron Kelly. BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that the board of the Village Seventh-day Adventist Church hereby formally requests the Executive Committee of […]
by Jack Hoehn | 12 March 2025 | Walla Walla University (WWU) students yesterday protested university administration banning a candidate to be president of their student association—because the candidate identified as LGBTQ. These young Adventists are serious Adventists. The 1,400 students at WWU are each investing $45,963/year for four or more years in an Adventist […]
12 March 2025 | From its inception, Seventh-day Adventism has relied on an apocalyptic worldview derived from Millerism and the apocalyptic passages in the Bible. While these ideas still shape Adventist teaching and evangelism, in recent decades critical questions have been raised regarding the biblical validity, theological potency, and contemporary relevance of this apocalyptic imprint. […]
by Daniel Zwiker | 11 March 2025 | A discussion is going on right now among sociologists about whether the Western culture of guilt is developing into a culture of shame. Guilt is feeling bad about something we’ve done, while shame is deeper than that: it is about what we believe we are. The Western […]
