by Loren Seibold | 1 January 2018 | “We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.” ~Richard Hofstadter, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” Not long ago a rumor […]
by Cliff Goldstein | 23 December 2017 | Though hardly expecting a positive review in Adventist Today of Baptizing the Devil, I didn’t expect something so skewed, imbalanced, unfair. I don’t recognize in the reviewer’s arguments my views, only caricatures of them. For starters, he bemoans my “scientific nihilism.” On the contrary, I take a fairly […]
by Christopher C. Thompson | 22 December 2017 | I love Christmas! It’s the most wonderful time of the year! There’s something in the air during Christmas time that’s effervescent and intoxicating at the same time. The rat race slows down just a bit as people are closing out the year. Everyone is buzzing around […]
By S.M. Chen | 21 December 2017 | “The rain falls on the just And also on the unjust fella But mainly on the just Because the unjust steals the just’s umbrella.” —Heywood Broun, 20th century American journalist When, a few months ago, I wrote an essay, “Rain”, little could […]
by Sharan Bennett | 20 December 2017 | Christmas, 2017 enters a chaotic and gloomy world that seems unprepared to receive it. But has our world every been much different? Ellen White says of the first Christmas: “The earth was dark through misapprehension of God.” (The Desire of Ages, p.22) And “While the light of […]
By Loren Seibold, 17 December 2017 | A few weeks ago one of my friends on Facebook wrote an anguished post about how two of her favorite Minnesotans, Al Franken and Garrison Keillor, had been accused of sexual harassment. She was grieving because men she’d admired had proven to be lecherous jerks. She was also, […]
See part 1 of “Guarding the Edges” here. Hailing from a country in one of two hemispheres, Sabine Dürer is a recent fifth-generation convert to Adventism. He or she may or may not have been Adventist-educated through college, or work for a major SDA institution, but perhaps not. Sabine enjoys spending time outdoors in his or […]
By: Dan M. Appel Read part 1 here. 1 Peter 3:15-16 (NLT) – Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks about your Christian hope, always be ready to explain it. But do this in a gentle and respectful way. Keep your conscience clear. Then if people speak against […]
Reviewed by Warren Nelson, 13 December 2017 Ok, I know, that’s a simply terrible knock off of the title a science fiction classic by Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, written in 1968 and set in post-apocalyptic San Francisco. It inspired the 1982 Ridley Scott classic, Blade Runner. The movie starred […]
By Dan M. Appel, 13 December 2017 The first of two articles on Civil Discourse in an increasingly polarized church and society. Proverbs 18:13 (NLT) – Spouting off before listening to the facts is both shameful and foolish. “Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in […]
