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 […]
By Kara Wibberding | 9 August 2021 | I’m certain all of us have had the experience of visiting a new-to-us church on vacation. A one-time visit, never to return again. And while we do just fine visiting yarn shops and such places, churches are not the same. Churches are not businesses. They are communities. […]
By Jim Wibberding | 8 August 2021 | Curly dark locks danced beside her round face and bright eyes. “Daddy! I saw another jackrabbit!” Alonzo Beauchamp felt the lump of cash in his pocket and smiled at his four-year-old girl. For Alice, the train ride from Kinsley, Kansas, to their new home out west was […]
9 August 2021 | Dear Aunt Sevvy: I liked your answer to a woman who was asking about her declining libido, except for one point: you suggested that she could talk to her gynecologist. That comment brought to mind my own experience in talking to my physician about a sexual concern, and how she dismissed […]
By Loren Seibold | 6 August 2021 | I landed my first solo pastorate in the far southeastern corner of South Dakota. There are few things that make Yankton, South Dakota, memorable. But there is one I enjoy telling Adventists about: it was in that district where a convert named Jasper Wayne, who owned a […]
4 August 2021 | Read Dr. Frey’s paper about the Sabbath’s lessons of justice and equality here. The Art of Remembering: It Matters How We Tell the Sabbath Story I remember the girl, 8 years old, trembling beneath a towering, gray-haired madman teacher. To the left of her outstretched arms twenty-four students held their breath. […]
by Daniel A. Mora | 3 August 2021 | In the prologue to John’s Gospel we find this statement: “He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him” (John 1:11 NIV). On reading that, we first think of the people of Israel—that it was the Jewish people who did […]
2 August 2021 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Recently in my church six sermons were dedicated to informing the congregation of the dangers of The One Project. I happen to think The One Project is doing a wonderful job of presenting Jesus to the world. How can I challenge what happened at this church in a […]
31 July 2021 | Dear Adventist Today: I am responding to the article by Daniel A. Mora, “I Do Not Claim to Be a Prophetess” that appeared on a recent Adventist Today web site, which is his response to an article of mine that appeared on an earlier web site titled “A Response to Loren Seibold.” In […]
By Debbie Hooper Cosier | 30 July 2021 | There’s some debate about Goliath, the Philistine champion who terrorized the Israelites day and night in the Valley of Elah. According to unreliable conversions from ancient units of measurement, his height at ‘six cubits and a span’ was about ten feet. But Dead Sea Scrolls scholars […]
By Alden Thompson | 28 July 2021 | God is in the business of changing people’s minds, especially the minds of sinners. That’s not surprising. But it is worth a raised eyebrow or two to hear God ask sinners to help Him change His own mind. You heard right. God asks sinners to help Him […]
by Daniel A. Mora | 27 July 2021 | The question of the authority of Ellen White’s writings continues to be a head-scratcher for Adventists. One traditional position can be seen in a recent article by Marvin Moore responding to Loren Seibold’s article, “Ellen White, the Bible, and Persistent Hermeneutical Confusion.” Moore’s observations affirm that […]
