by the AT Reporting Team | 1 November 2018 | Anticipation is in the air for this year’s North American Division (NAD) Year-end Meeting. You can see it, hear it, and feel it. Typically there are around 300 members, invitees, and guests who attend the Executive Committee that oversees the ministries that serve Bermuda in […]
By Monte Sahlin | 29 October 2018 | In the late 1970s, I was a pastor in Pittsburgh and as part of the urban ministries program that I coordinated, I participated in community meetings at the Tree of Life Synagogue. For a while, I lived about a mile from the synagogue. Saturday night when I […]
A Message from the Executive Officers of the Southwestern Union October 25, 2018 At the recently held General Conference Annual Council in Battle Creek, Michigan, on October 14, 2018, a vote was taken to implement a new system of compliance over church entities around the world. The vote was a disappointment to many and to us, […]
This article is reprinted with permission from the website of the Iowa-Missouri Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, published 25 October 2018. The author, Randy Harmdierks, is the communications director of the conference. On October 9 I published an analysis of what I believe was a problematic question and answer article from the General Conference communication department regarding the […]
A contemporary version of John 9:13-41, by Patricia Johnston | 26 October 2018 | Following instructions from their leader, who lived far away, certain church members wanting to be compliant to his orders reported to the Compliance Committee that a woman preacher had just baptized eight people. The Compliance Committee said, “This baptism cannot be ‘official’ […]
by Sonja DeWitt | 26 October 2018 | This is a story of a country—a deeply religious and very moral country. Perhaps the most moral country that ever existed. A country where hundreds of laws were developed to prevent its citizens from the least appearance of sin. The religious leaders paid tithe on their tiniest […]
By Loren Seibold | 25 October 2018 | I said it before the GC ExCom. I will say it again. That thing they voted in Battle Creek? It probably won’t affect your life in this church very much at all. Unless, that is, you let it. Please understand: I’m not saying there aren’t dangers here. […]
by S.M. Chen | 25 October 2018 | “One is not the loneliest number; zero is.” —Boris Zubry (1951- ), American inventor My grandson just finished 2nd grade recently. On the occasions he visits and stays over, we talk about various things. One is numbers. He particularly likes big ones. Like ten thousand. And a […]
by Claira Eastwood | 23 October 2018 | My name is Claira Eastwood. I was dedicated when I was a baby and baptized when I was twelve. I have gone to Seventh-day Adventist schools and churches my entire life. I currently attend a Seventh-day Adventist university. My dad is a pastor, and I grew up […]
Hailing from a country in one of two hemispheres, Sabine Dürer is a recent fifth-generation convert to Adventism. He or she may or may not have been Adventist-educated through college, or work for a major SDA institution, but perhaps not. Sabine enjoys spending time outdoors in his or her urban rural community, cooking sweet, salty, sour, […]
by Ryan Becker | 22 October 2018 | In 2013, while working at Forest Lake Academy, Ben Kreiter and I had a wonderful idea to celebrate Great Disappointment Day. That morning, we told all the seniors there would be free pizza in the Campus Ministries office at lunch. They spread the news around, eventually growing […]
by Maury Jackson and Sydney Freeman | 21 October 2018 | Because one of the authors socializes with people more concerned with Black Lives Matter than the Annual Council of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, it surprised him to hear that the delegates at the meetings dressed up in nineteenth century costume, parading around […]
