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 […]
27 July 2021 | The entire article can be read here. Excerpt: When a well-intentioned endeavor or promising new initiative fails, the question naturally arises, “What went wrong?” The answer too often implicates leaders as being responsible for the graveyard of promising initiatives or once-thriving efforts. It is expected of leaders that they contribute constructively […]
26 July 2021 | Aunty, I wish you lived next door. Our millennial kids are good, loving people, but not interested in being Seventh-day Adventists. Besides prayer and loving them, what can we do? Signed, Worried mother and dad Dear Worried, Aunty wanted to make sure she got this right, so she asked a millennial […]
by Raj Attiken | 23 July 2021 | Two churches I am very familiar with, each with its own junior academy, decided to merge their schools following long and serious consultations. To avoid the appearance of one school shutting down and sending its students to the other (which might have been perceived as a “win-lose” […]
by Elle Berry | 22 July 2021 | I was twenty-six years old when I had my quarter-life crisis. Most people are probably familiar with the mid-life crisis, so the idea of a quarter-life crisis may be new to you. However, it is not for most Millennials. As it turns out this generation is so […]
24 July 2021 | The entire article can be read here. Excerpt: Rather than regarding some as lesser Adventists, or dissenters, or silent hypocrites, we propose a 29th fundamental belief. This 29th statement would say that people can embrace or reject any one or more of the previous 28 and still remain loved and active […]
21 July 2021 | A Sydney Water employee, who’d agreed to pose for a poster about warming up one’s joints before working, won an appeal for a $200,000 settlement from Vitality Works, an Adventist Sanitarium subsidiary company. The poster read “Feel great—lubricate!” next to her picture, which Reem Yelda felt was “objectively sexual and likely […]
by Mailen Kootsey | 20 July 2021 | Jack Hoehn recently reviewed here on the Adventist Today website the latest book by prolific science writer Stephen C. Meyer, entitled Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe (New York: Harper One, 2021). Hoehn recommends this book as one […]
19 July 2021 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, In the safety training mandated by the denomination for working with and protecting children, there is a rule that we are to have more than one adult in the room during a children’s Sabbath School class. Yet in our little church, that’s not easy. Sometimes it’s hard to […]
19 July 2021 A contact in Nigeria, who is known to us but wishes to remain anonymous, has shared additional documentation about the story of Omosebi Fred Adeola, the former director of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) of Nigeria, that recently was published on the Adventist Today website. He writes, Many of us […]
16 July 2021 | Admiral Ncube’s thoughts on virginity and young women in Aunt Sevvy’s column were absolutely beautiful. Oh, that it were published worldwide! Our young ladies are precious in the sight of God. Our young men need all the support they can get, too. Our church families should be there for them. I’m […]
By Edison García-Creitoff | 15 July 2021 | Few will be surprised to hear me say that there is a tendency to inflexibility and rigidity in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The church “froze” in the 20th century, and is finding it difficult to adapt to the 21st. A false identity took hold: that what defines […]
