by Sonja DeWitt | 2 February 2019 | There’s a powerful conservative Christian movement in this country which finds the idea of a theocracy powerfully attractive. Imagine: a government like ancient Israel’s, with God directly in charge, favoring his chosen people with blessing and prosperity and cursing their enemies with dire punishments. A righteous nation […]
By Werner E. Lange | 1 February 2019 | This commentary corresponds to Sabbath School Lesson 6 for February 2-8, “The Sealed People of God.” Revelation 7 describes the sealing of the 144,000. The meaning of this seal is described in Rev 9:4: “They [the locusts] were told not to harm the grass of the earth […]
By John McLarty | 1 February 2019 | The December 2018 Ministry Magazine carried an article by Sven Östring, “Our Miraculous Planet Earth.” Östring makes the astonishing claim that . . . Genesis 1:1–31 describes the creation ex nihilo of our planet Earth and its subspace in six literal days. This means that our planet […]
1 February 2019 | Dear Aunt Sevvy: The Super Bowl is coming up, and it caps a season of disagreement between my husband and me about sports. I like fitness, and I do think playing certain sports taught our children fairness and cooperation—Ellen White’s competitive sports statements notwithstanding. But all I see in professional and […]
By Marvin Moore | 31 January 2019 | In an article that was posted on the Adventist Today website on December 7, 2018, Reinder Bruinsma argues that the Adventist teaching of end-time Sunday laws is becoming increasingly implausible. Sunday laws were being enforced in the United States in Ellen White’s day, especially in the Southern […]
by André Reis | 29 January 2019 | Adventist scholars have long debated whether the Old Testament background for Rev 4–5 is the inauguration of the earthly sanctuary or the Day of Atonement. The implications of this are not unimportant for Adventist historicists who see Jesus initiating his Day of Atonement ministry in 1844 rather […]
By Lindsey Abston Painter | 28 January 2019 | Lately, every time a feminist hashtag goes viral, or sexual harassment is debated in the media, I see people wringing their hands about their sons. What if my son is falsely accused? How can I raise a son in a world that isn’t safe for him? […]
29 January 2019 A bill requiring North Dakota public schools to teach Bible classes has failed in the state senate. Senate Bill 2136 was introduced by Republican North Dakota Senator and Minot insurance broker Oley Larsen on January 3. It was described as “an Act to amend and reenact sections 15.1-21-02 and 15.1-21-02.2 of the […]
Dear Aunt Sevvy: I disapprove of the way my wife dresses. She wears tops and pants that reveal her female form. I know what goes through my mind when I look at a woman’s curves, and I’m afraid other men are looking at her that way, too. What can I do to convince her that […]
by Tim Roosenberg | 25 January 2019 | A concept that was of great importance to our Adventist ancestors was “present truth”—truth that shows God’s guidance at our particular point in time. In this essay I look at the context of Daniel 8-12 to explore what prophetic present truth is. Daniel 2 and 7 give […]
by Benjamin Baker | 21 January 2019 | Question: Please help me and my wife to settle our religious differences. My understanding is that a man and his wife are to be as one in everything, I am a Baptist and she is a Seven-Day [sic] Adventist. She goes to church on Saturday and I […]
By Sydney Freeman, Jr. “We must produce, as rapidly as possible, theologians who can interpret through the axiological grid of African-Americans the remnant categories of the Word of God. While leading the nation in evangelism, we have fallen behind in scholarship. We need and must have content theologians, systematic, New Testament, Old Testament scholars—the Ph.D. […]
