Loren Seibold
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Posts by Loren Seibold:
Aunty, must church workers work themselves half to death just because they’re doing God’s work?
6 January 2025 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I just heard someone using the example of Jesus and His long days of ministry to justify my school’s expectation that we work evenings and weekends for free. To me, that’s taking following Jesus’ example wildly out of context to justify a toxic work environment. What do you […]
Editorial: “A Time to Deconstruct… and A Time to Innovate”
I remember a particular theology class, with one of the hardest professors on campus during graduate school. After handing out the syllabus he said something that stayed with me for years afterwards. “If you look at the syllabus and decide that you would like to leave the class, please leave now. Otherwise, I ask that […]
Alt-Right Strategist Steve Bannon Endorses The Great Controversy
3 January 2025 | In a viral video, alt-right strategist, populist podcaster, and Trump associate Steve Bannon is handed a copy of The Great Controversy, and talks about it. In Danbury Federal Prison my cellmate Tim Huntsberger had converted from being a—he would tell you a convict—into being very religious through reading Mrs. White’s books, […]
Video Warns of “Pastor” Speaking in Churches, Asking for Personal “Loans”
3 January 2025 | {Addendum: This note was received from Billy Mirander’s wife, Abigail Foster: “I would like to clarify that I have been separated from Billy Mirander for over four years, with no contact whatsoever, due to a court-ordered protection. I ask that a statement be released to correct this misrepresentation, confirming that I […]
Epiphaneous Awareness
by Jim Burklo | 3 January 2025 | An awakening. An opening into higher consciousness. A discovery. A parting of the fog of confusion, revealing a new kind of clarity. The dictionary says that an epiphany is a sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something. What an enticing definition! It […]
Christians in Counterfactual Chaos
by Paul Annala | 2 January 2025 | Fake news. Fact resistance. Filter bubbles. Troll factories. Alternative facts. It is said that we live in a post-truth era; post from the Latin word for “after.” A time after the truth, a time where interest in what is true, correct, and factual has waned. We live […]
ATSS: Marko Lukić, “A Useless Doctrine? Revisiting the Investigative Judgment”
1 January 2025 | The doctrine of the investigative judgment (particularly when expressed in metaphors regarding the sanctuary and day of atonement) is regarded by many as one of the three major pillars of Adventist identity. It has shaped the way we Adventists understand ourselves and our special mission. But it has for a long […]
The Blessings of a New Year
by Reinder Bruinsma | 31 December 2024 | In my native Dutch language we wish people either a “happy” or a “blessed” new year. There’s an origin story about this difference: those with a Protestant heritage prefer the term “happy,” while people with a Roman Catholic background opt for “blessed.” I like both of these […]
Must we see Ellen White as either authoritative as the Bible, or a fraud? Is there a middle path?
30 December 2024 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Is there a path between regarding Ellen White as being as authoritative as Scripture, and seeing her as a plagiarist and fraud? Signed, Searching for a Middle Way Dear Searching, Yes, of course there is. But it would involve correcting some long-held attitudes that Seventh-day Adventists have about […]
Editorial: “Desmond Doss Gives a Christmas Gift to Adventists”
I am happy when Adventists are spoken well of in the media, and for reasons that show us at our best. Recently United States senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia introduced legislation to rename the Veterans Affairs clinic in Lynchburg, Virginia, after Private First Class Desmond T. Doss, an Adventist conscientious objector whom […]