by Steven Siciliano | 7 March 2018 | Bible verses lifted out of context have a way of taking on a life of their own. Used in a colloquial sense they can often encapsulate helpful sentiments but can just as easily end up veering far from their original meaning. A particularly ironic example of this […]
By Stephen Ferguson | 7 March 2018 | Growing up as an Adventist in Australia during the 1990s-2000s Desmond Ford was something of a legend. By legend I mean he was like Voldemort in the Harry Potter series: the Dark Lord, never to be named.[1] For those who don’t know, Dr. Ford challenged the traditional […]
28 February 2018 | [To read this article in English, click here.] La Unión Noruega de la Iglesia Adventista ha pedido a la Asociación General que termine con sus inversiones en corporaciones que producen armas. El pedido fue realizado en una declaración del presidente de la Unión Noruega, Victor Marley. El pedido fue realizado luego […]
By Melody Tan | 28 February 2018 | The white screen of my computer monitor has been glaring at me for the past two hours. The blinking cursor in Microsoft Word is poised, awaiting the words I will type into it, hit save and submit to Adventist Today. My fingers have lightly brushed my keyboard countless […]
by Edwin Torkelsen | 28 February 2018 | It is always interesting to read the General Conference Executive Committee Newsletter (ECN). Since it was launched in January 2017 most issues have contained articles that defend and promote the present GC administration’s views of church authority, their interpretations of GC session votes and unity. The purpose […]
by Loren Seibold | 23 February 2018 | Billy Graham’s death brought to mind a story from the first church where I served as a pastoral intern. I remember early in our tenure there hearing in a Sabbath School discussion the curious assertion that before the time of the end Billy Graham would accept the […]
by Danielle Barnard | 22 February 2018 | Saturday, February 17, 2018. The lights darken as the praise team walks off of the stage. I grasp the base of the round tall table several pastors use when speaking, and carefully balance my iPad, a blue candle that I call my “peace candle” and a box […]
by S.M. Chen | 23 February 2018 | I don’t know if Donald Trump reads USA TODAY. The back page of the first section of the 2/13/18 issue caught my attention. Someone named Tom Blair took out a full page ad entitled “Mr. President,” with the subheading: “In anticipation of Presidents’ Day (February 19) consider […]
21 February 2018 | A press release has announced the closing of Atlantic Union College, bringing to an end the last struggling gasps of a tiny and unaccredited college program that had never really recovered since AUC lost its accreditation in 2011. According to the press release: At the February 2018 committee meetings, both the […]
by Ronald Lawson | 20 February 2018 | In 1945, when the regional conferences were created, Seventh-day Adventism in metropolitan New York was divided administratively into two conferences, one of which had an almost completely Caucasian membership, the other African-American. Both groups grew substantially in the following twenty-five years, but from 1968 onwards, when new […]
Editor’s note: This controversial article was written by retired pastor J. Alan Nash, and it is his story, told in his own words. Though this story does not flatter certain church leaders and presenters, we felt it was necessary to publish it because of two issues that have come up several times in the past […]
