by Elliot Pinero | 30 December 2020 | For most of my life, I have not only believed that those who commit suicide will not be saved, but also found myself preaching as much. I felt sorry for those individuals, who according to my beliefs, were eternally lost and could never do a thing about […]
by Melissa Brotton | 28 December 2020 | “Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.” (Ps. 42:11) Sometime during my college graduation weekend, my mother presented me with the gift […]
28 December 2020 | Press release from the Inter-American Division, Miami Pastor Elie Henry, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America, along with his adult daughter, Irma, were released unharmed on Dec. 28, 2020, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Pastor Henry and Irma went missing on the evening of Dec. 24, 2020. “I have spoken with […]
28 December 2020 | The latest issue of the Adventist Today paper magazine has arrived in many mailboxes. If you’d like to receive the paper magazine, click here to make any donation to Adventist Today. You’ll be put on the distribution list for the upcoming edition that is mailed out during the middle month of every quarter. If […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 28 December 2020 | In my native Dutch language we either wish people a “happy” or a “blessed” new year. Many of my compatriots may not be aware of the origin of this difference: those with a Protestant heritage prefer to use the term “happy,” while people with a Roman Catholic […]
Dear Aunt Sevvy, My son is mildly autistic. In kindergarten through third grade he was in the Adventist school—but he was doing worse and worse. Now he is doing very well in a public school under an Individualized Education Program that includes in-school tutors, occupational therapists, and school counselors. It’s working! But when we enrolled him in the […]
by Loren Seibold | 25 December 2020 This essay was first printed in the 2020 Winter edition of Intersections, the magazine of the Glendale City Church. Perhaps my very first experience of standing for truth though the heavens fall began with standing on my tiptoes at the school lunch counter at the Gackle, North Dakota, […]
23 December 2020 Accusations of sexual misconduct made public in August of this year against the late Ravi Zacharias have been confirmed by the ministry’s own investigation. Ravi Zacharias International Ministries engaged Atlanta law firm Miller & Martin to investigate the claims, mostly made by massage therapists, against Zacharias. While RZIM had insisted it would […]
by Christopher C. Thompson | 22 December 2020 | This has been the weirdest year ever—and the competition with past years in my life isn’t even close. We’re ready for Christmas! We’re starving for some good news, good cheer, warm and fuzzy feelings, and a break from the bad news that 2020 keeps dishing out. […]
By Raj Attiken | 22 December 2020 | Christmas, heralded by some as “the most wonderful time of the year,” routinely receives a bit of a bashing in Christian circles. The haranguing may be over such things as Christmas ads, decorations, greetings, songs, trees, shopping, and even the design on Starbucks holiday cups. There is […]
by Loren Seibold | 18 December 2020 | Now and then we hear of a pastor who was dismissed for misbehavior, usually the cause being, as one friend described it, “honey or money.” Adventist Today doesn’t normally report such stories unless they contain criminal acts that have already brought them to the attention of the […]
18 December 2020 | An article in the Adventist Review released jointly by the General Conference Department of Health Ministries, General Conference Biblical Research Institute, and Loma Linda University School of Pharmacy and School of Public Health answers some of the objections being raised against the vaccine, such as those made publicly by lay evangelist […]
