By Lindsey Painter | 16 February 2018 | I already wrote one entire essay about guns. But this is not it. In my first attempt—because I am tired of the endless arguing, the endless deadlock—I advocated for understanding and reasonable discussion. Like so many political issues, the gun issue is complex and both sides […]
by Edwin Torkelsen | 15 February 2018 | For many of us the third person in the Godhead is probably the most problematic one. The problem is not the Spirit’s, but ours. How do we understand the Spirit; or more specifically, in what ways do we expect the Spirit to lead us? When we face problems, […]
by Gary E. Fraser | 16 February 2018 | The motivation for this piece was Adventist Today’s news story about the fact-checking site Snopes.com’s casting doubt on the idea that vegetarians live longer than meat eaters. Most of us do not think several times each day about quarks, neutron stars or acetylcholine esterase. Yet when it comes […]
by Loren Seibold | 14 February 2018 | It is perhaps unfortunate that many of us know holidays more for their cultural accoutrements than for their original meaning. Take Valentine’s Day which, when I was a child, was about little more than decorating a shoebox to hold silly little cards from other school children—children to whom […]
by Christopher C. Thompson | 14 February 2018 | Black Panther is making history. The movie hasn’t even been released yet and it’s already breaking records for prerelease ticket sales. Movie ticket agent, Fandango, finds that presale tickets are on target to surpass all first-quarter movie sales in the entire history of their company. Fandango’s managing […]
by S.M. Chen | 12 February 2018 | Dr. Ken Lauren died not long ago of an injury sustained in Costa Rica, while he was working as a volunteer on the construction of a church. A report was posted here at Adventist Today. I visited Peru in 2005 at the invitation of my brother, taking […]
by S.M. Chen | 12 February 2018 | “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” —John Emerich Edward Dalbey-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834-1902) Before Watergate, there were the Pentagon Papers. And who knows? Had it not been for the Pentagon Papers, perhaps there would have been no Watergate, in which case Richard Nixon may not […]
by Loren Seibold | 10 February 2018 The events at the 2017 Annual Council in response to a few unions continuing to ordain women shouldn’t have surprised anyone. Nor should the subsequent actions of the problematic Unity Oversight Committee. Hierarchical organizations will always make sure the top of the hierarchy gets the last word. But […]
9 February 2018 | Several retired Adventist workers in India have gone public with allegations that since 2011, Adventist conference and union leaders in the South Central Indian Union (SCIU) have worked with a middleman to receive from the Karnataka state government money to renovate churches, some of which they say has been misappropriated. The […]
This is the response by Angus McPhee to Marvin Moore’s article, “Why the Little Horn of Daniel 8 is Much More Than Antiochus Epiphanes” Moore: The three prophecies that concern us here are found in chapters 2, 7, and 8. McPhee: Why insist on including Daniel 2 and 7 in a discussion of Daniel 8, […]
Alvin Masarira | 7 February 2018 | In 1995 William Johnsson, the Adventist Review editor (1982–2006), published a book entitled The Fragmenting of Adventism. Whether by design or by coincidence, that was the year of the General Conference Session in Utrecht where was first discussed whether divisions should be allowed to decide independently about the ordination of female ministers. […]
