By Stephen Ferguson | 16 May 2018 | I am increasingly convinced that we view God’s supposed power all backwards. I don’t think Lucifer would have bothered starting his rebellion if he thought he was up against an all-powerful divine being. In fact, I suspect God may be the weakest being in the entire universe. […]
Guiding Families of LGBT+ Loved Ones, Adventist Edition. Posture Shift Books/Lead Them Home, 2006-2018. Available from North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, 9705 Patuxent Woods Drive, Columbia, MD 21046. Reviewed by Dave Ferguson A new 71-page booklet from the NAD titled Guiding Families of LGBT+ Loved Ones provides the most compassionate response to LGBT+ Adventists ever […]
14 May 2018 | Dear Elle, Thank you for writing “The Day My Church Broke My Heart.” I have read it with interest. Perhaps you would like to hear my story along these lines. Since I am 91 now, I don’t claim to remember all the details exactly right. But I will do my best […]
Reviewed by S.M. Chen | 13 May 2018 | It seems a truism that society often does not recognize the truly gifted: the revolutionaries, the visionaries, the geniuses. It is only after they are gone that they are appreciated. So it was with Vincent van Gogh who, during his relatively short life, sold only 1 […]
9 May 2018 | Chapter 1, by Loren Seibold Awhile back I was attending a General Conference Executive Committee meeting in Silver Spring. It was mid-afternoon, about an hour after lunch. The discussion on the dais was a matter of considerable pith and moment to our work: Mark Finley on the opportunities to evangelize people […]
By Elle Berry | 8 May 2018 I remember July 2015 as a miserably hot month. Temperatures were circulating well into the triple digits every day, and since my sister and I had spent the end of June in San Francisco, I recall our July return to Walla Walla as being a particularly painful transition. […]
by Ronald Lawson | 8 May 2018 | The Seventh-day Adventist Church is conservative in its interpretation of the Bible, and typically upholds conservative standards on family issues, so much so that it has adopted strict rules concerning divorce and remarriage, and has stated that practicing homosexuals are not acceptable as members. However, on the […]
by Loren Seibold | 6 May 2018 | When I was a teen, one Adventist teaching that seemed extraordinarily clear to me was that Seventh-day Adventists were, and I supposed always would be, noncombatants in military service. This was the Vietnam era, and I knew Adventist young men who got drafted and served, not as […]
by Steven Siciliano | 4 May 2018 | This series of articles, called “Reading What’s There,” intends to show how studying biblical passages in their own context can provide insights beyond those that can be derived from other methods. Here we survey representative expositions of Jesus’ parable of the ten bridesmaids, a passage in Matthew […]
29 April 2018 | The group of donors, headquartered in the Williams Lake (British Columbia) Adventist Church, that has accused the denomination’s South East Andhra Conference of mismanagement of funds for a million-dollar conference center, has made public their letter to Pastor Ezras Lakra, president of the Southern Asia Division of the General Conference. The letter, […]
26 April 2018 | AT Executive Editor Loren Seibold will be the speaker at the Glendale City Seventh-day Adventist Church tomorrow, Sabbath, April 28 at 11 a.m and 3 p.m. In the morning Dr. Seibold will be speaking at the worship service at 11:00 a.m. His title is “First Things First,” and is based on Colossians […]
