21 February 2020 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Back when I was a child, and even after I began raising my family, it was common to bring people home after church for Sabbath dinner. Our church has potluck meals in the fellowship hall once a month, but no one invites anyone home anymore, and when I […]
by Clyde McCulley | 20 February 2020 | I grew up a Seventh-day Adventist in the south in the 1950s. My mother was a faithful church member. My father was not. I went to a one-room church school for my mom, but each morning I ate bacon and drank coffee for my dad. I guess […]
by André Reis | 19 February 2020 | As Adventists all over the world gather to engage with the book of Daniel this quarter, some of us wonder, “What would Daniel think about our creative readings of his book if he were present?” As last quarter ended and we began this one, I perused the […]
by Dawnette Chambers & Christopher C. Thompson | 18 February 2020 | Do you ever think about your legacy? What do you plan to leave for your family, and how will you be remembered? Most people want the opportunity to share their life’s work, their passions and insight, with the next generation. However, many young […]
by Justin Spady | 16 February 2020 | Read part 1 here Read part 2 here Read part 3 here My mom likes to keep her home as tidy as possible. Growing up, we always took our shoes off when we entered the house. My wife and I still do today. As a pastor, whenever […]
Saying No to God, by Matthew J. Korpman. Published by Quoir Press, Orange, California, 2019. 358 pages. Reviewed by TJ Sands When was the last time you said “no” to God? Is even the thought of that question preposterous to you? Or am I a heretic for even asking? Rarely do I turn the last […]
14 February 2020 | In 2015, Ivan Rechter and Berit Elkjær represented the Danish Union as delegates to the San Antonio General Conference Session. Afterwards, they wrote a letter to the General Conference giving their suggestions for making the Session work better. “Unfortunately, we haven’t heard anything from the GC,” they wrote Adventist Today. “We […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 12 February 2020 | Read part 1 here Read part 2 here Read part 4 here When speaking about rituals, we are confronted with a cluster of terms that are closely connected and are at times used interchangeably: customs, traditions, rituals, symbols. A custom is what people have become used to […]
12 February 2020 | The comments Loren Seibold reported about what some folks feel about the foot washing part of communion were some of the same I heard when I did Biblical Hospitality seminars and passed around a “communion questionnaire.” What I’ve started doing at my church in Beltsville, MD, where communion is much better […]
11 February 2020 | On Sunday, 9 February 2020, about 80 people with roots in the Southern Asia Division of Seventh-day Adventists (SUD) met in Silver Spring, MD to discuss their concerns about the management of the Seventh-day Adventist church in India. The meeting was held in a rented room in the Transfiguration Episcopal church […]
by Loren Seibold | 6 February 2020 | The teaching concerning clean and unclean meats has been a remarkably enduring element of Seventh-day Adventism. I don’t know what the younger generation of Seventh-day Adventists thinks (what there is left of a younger generation to ask), but among their elders, it still has traction. Ask most […]
by Steve Moran | 6 February 2020 | I am a Seventh-day Adventist Boomer who has a Pentecostal/Millennial heart. In my day job as a blogger/thought leader in the senior living industry, I am presently spending a lot of time thinking about and writing about how companies that provide housing and services to older people […]
