By Edison Garcia-Creitoff | 26 August 2021 | When in March 2020 a pandemic hit forcing a lockdown in most of the world, Puerto Rico, a United States territory, wasn’t spared. In December 2020, the Inter-American Division passed along a statement from the General Conference Ministries of Health, the General Conference Biblical Research Institute, and […]
25 August 2021 | The following reading was given us by the author. It is reprinted from Spectrum, 1999, summer, pp. 45-52: “Adventists and Catholics: Prophetic Preview or Prejudice?” You can read the entire essay by clicking here. Excerpt: Adventists did not invent anti-Catholicism. Even before the Reformation drastically changed England’s ecclesiastical landscape, there were […]
by Admiral Ncube | 24 August 2021 | Having been expelled from their former churches and rejected by other adventist groups, early Seventh-day Adventist church leaders were understandably hostile towards creeds. The Bible alone, they said, is our rule of faith and practice. Their comments in those early meetings show that they feared that those […]
23 August 2021 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I have been wondering whether evil spirits have a body. Satan appeared in person to Jesus. But other demons “possessed” people, and once Jesus sent them into pigs. It seems this may have implications for our view of the soul, not to mention people’s belief in ghosts and […]
By Thandazani Mhlanga | 20 August 2021 Christianity—Protestantism, in particular—is built on a foundation of theological and moral absolutes. These absolutes are at the heart of why we have so many denominations; we seem to have made a tacit agreement that we cannot peacefully coexist unless we have the same absolutes in common. This agreement, […]
18 August 2021 | Read the article by Stephen Chavez here: For most of the last decade, Seventh-day Adventist church leaders at the highest levels have hammered the necessity of revival and reformation. The height of this obsession was perhaps demonstrated most starkly in March 2021, when 10 pages in Adventist World magazine featured messages […]
By Edison Garcia-Creitoff | 17 August 2021 | The history of the Adventist Church is characterized by tension between conservative and liberal sectors. The tension seems to come from how we think of our identity. That identity that traps some in their defense, others in their rejection, others in their wish to reform the church. […]
17 August 2021 | Dear Adventist Today, Thank you so much for Aunt Sevvy’s column posted on Monday. Our son told us several months ago that he and his wife were now in a polyamorous relationship. We met their new partner and her children and like them very much. We have accepted the situation, though […]
16 August 2021 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, My family has a situation I haven’t heard about much. My son and daughter-in-law have just informed me they are taking a new “wife” and will be a threesome. They are all “married” to each other, I guess. I am horrified and completely blindsided by this news. They […]
By Loren Seibold | 13 August 2021 | In the past year a number of Seventh-day Adventists, including me, have raised questions about whether Adventist eschatological details, such as Sunday laws or the close of probation or predictions of imminent persecution, are the necessary interpretations of Bible prophecy. We have suggested that you cannot come […]
by Arthur Sibanda | 12 August 2021 | The Bible says that when God created Adam and Eve, there was no need for them to cover themselves with clothing. Ellen White adds that they were enveloped with the same glorious light that enshrouded God Himself (see Psalm 104:2). (The theory isn’t original to her: Jewish […]
11 August 2021 | Muscular Adventism, by Michael W. Campbell While attending some recent scholarly meetings, I was standing in line to visit the book exhibit. In front of me was a renowned Old Testament scholar whom I readily recognized. After I complimented him, telling him that I enjoyed his books and noting a relative […]
