By Ronald Lawson | 21 June 2018 | To what extent should Adventists be concerned about people with HIV-AIDS? In the 1950s America suffered a polio epidemic. This was right down our alley as Adventists: we loved giving water treatments, massages, etc. Those affected were usually innocent young children, and our hearts went out to […]
by Danielle Bernard | 18 June 2018 | I stared at the screen of my phone in utter shock at what I had just seen. “Disturbed” is the only word that even comes close to articulating how I felt on that Sunday morning in early May after I watched American rapper Childish Gambino’s latest music […]
Por Loren Seibold | 18 de junio 2018 | En 2015 un estudio independiente comisionado por el Comité de Gobierno Eclesiástico de la División Norteamericana (NAD por sus siglas en inglés) reportó un hecho impactante en el Concilio Anual de la NAD. En ese momento (hace dos años y medio), el estudio descubrió que si eliminaban […]
by Ronald Lawson | 15 June 2018 | “The Troubled Career of an ‘Ex-Gay’ Healer: Colin Cook, Seventh-day Adventists, and the Christian Right.” Seventh-day Adventists had long assumed that they had no gay or lesbian members, even though there was a history of gay pastors, some in key posts, being discovered and fired, and gay […]
by Christopher C. Thompson Terrorists, drug dealers, rapists, drug addicts, homosexuals… I’m trying to think of all the different types of people whom we consider to be cut off from God. I have long struggled with this given the fact that over the years it has been some of the very people on this list […]
by S.M. Chen | 13 June 2018 “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” Confucius, aka Kong Qiu (551-479 BC), teacher, politician, philosopher I’m standing by the kitchen sink. As I lean over the garbage disposal, I hear a faint clink, metal on metal. I increase kitchen illumination, look around, […]
by John McLarty | 12 June 2018 | Sermon for Green Lake Church of Seventh-day Adventists for May 26, 2018 Texts: Deuteronomy 14:22-29, Exodus 20:8-11, John 5:8-19 Yesterday I was at Cypress Adventist School to present a chapel talk. Since I’m freshly returned from vacation in southern Utah, I told the kids about one of […]
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By Loren Seibold | 9 June 2018 In 2015 an independent study commissioned by the North American Division’s Church Governance Committee reported a rather astonishing fact at the NAD’s annual Year-End Meeting. At that time (2½ years ago, now) the study found that if we eliminated all North American Division conference offices, and administered pastors, […]
by Ron Lawson | 29 May 2018 | The chapter I wrote for the book, Christianity and Homosexuality: Seventh-day Adventist Perspectives, edited by David Ferguson, Fritz Guy, and David Larson, which was released in 2007, has been uploaded to my website, www.RonaldLawson.net. The title of the paper is “The Caring, Welcoming Church?: The Seventh-day Adventist […]
by Arthur Klym | 3 June 2018 | In February 2018 a petition for writ of certiorari (a request that it accept an appeal) was filed with the United States Supreme Court asking it to review the South Carolina Supreme Court’s decision regarding the ownership of 29 Episcopal church properties. The South Carolina Supreme court […]
