By Paul Perez | 11 May 2021 | Being a man of 40 and deciding to return to school after 16 years is difficult. And, I’m a Roman Catholic which is, frankly, sometimes difficult too. The moment I utter the word “Catholic” I brace myself for the typical response: “oh.” And this last was especially […]
10 May 2021 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, As a child, Sabbath was my favorite day of the week. For the majority of my adult life as a church employee, however, Sabbath has felt like another work day: preparing for Sabbath School or worship, rehearsing, cooking for potluck or supervising kids—a lot of work. Since COVID-19 […]
by Joni Bell | 7 May 2021 | I’ve always felt accepted, loved and valued in my religious community. My dad was a much-loved pastor all his life and my husband a respected leader in our denomination, and I know I rode on their coattails for much of my early life. I came into my […]
By Loren Seibold | 6 May 2021 | Recently I participated in a Facebook discussion in which one of our pastors reminded us of the threat of Sunday laws. This in itself wasn’t surprising: Sunday laws have been hanging over our heads for as long as I can remember. In my childhood church we had […]
The Revelation: The Book For These Difficult Times, by Dan Appel. Available on Amazon. Reviewed by Ron Preast. Dan Appel says in his new commentary, “I grew up in a family where I was taught to respectfully question everything I was told or taught.” In this book, Dan continues to question interpretations and ideas that […]
4 May 2021 | Ron Graybill’s “My Life with Ellen White,” is a varied and colorful story of Ron’s more than half a century as an Ellen White scholar. There has been insight and intrigue, genetics and genealogy, courage and cowardice, legend and legacy, myth and music, portraits and parodies. Guest teacher: Ronald Graybill’s early […]
By Lindsey Abston Painter | 30 April 2021 | Some years ago when Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, I wrote a piece for Adventist Today about believing women who share their stories of sexual assault.[1] Though I’ve written many controversial articles, about everything from gun control to my own divorce, the […]
by Rita Corbett | 30 April 2021 | Mugonero in Rwanda was a quiet place. I recall a lush hilltop garden mission with a hospital of excellent reputation. It was a paradise—until April 16, 1994. Hutu pastors had told Tutsi pastors they would protect their families if they came to the church. But according to […]
29 April 2021 | Read this essay in preparation for this Sabbath’s class. Excerpt: There have been a number of projects dedicated to looking at attrition in Seventh-day Adventism, at who leaves the denomination and why. One of the most recent is this presentation by Dr. David Trim, the church’s Director of Archives, Statistics and Research, […]
28 April 2021 | Dennis Meier has been president of the Hansa Conference, the northernmost conference in Germany, since 2013. Adventist Today editor Loren Seibold reached out to him to ask about the North German Union Conference’s (NGUC) recent decision to ordain both women and men in their field. AT: When did the NGUC first […]
26 April 2021 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, The book of Revelation is said to be the Revelation of Jesus, and according to Revelation 5:1-5 only Jesus can explain it correctly. Yet why does it seem that sometimes it is the Revelation of the Adventist Church or the Revelation of Ellen White rather than the Revelation […]
By Carmen Seibold | 2 November 2018 | Like a lot of my generation, it didn’t occur to me when I was a child that women could be pastors. But when it was suggested to me, perhaps some time when I was in college, there didn’t seem to me to be any reason why they […]
