13 March 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, My unmarried, unattached daughter recently came to my wife and me and announced that she’s going to have a baby. She says she’s had no luck finding a husband she wants to spend her life with, and she’s getting older, and she’s always wanted a child, so she’s […]
10 March 2023 | Does God allow evil things like Satan for the purpose of making us appreciate him greater? According to TikTok, yes, but according to any sensible grounded Christian belief in God’s love, the answer must be no. Join an Adventist professor of the Bible and theology as he reacts to a viral […]
8 March 2023 | The role of a chaplain is to be an agent of hope. The Adventist message can be a message of hope, but its hopeful notes are too often submerged under pessimism and paranoia. How can we recover and reemphasize the heart and soul of the early pioneers, who spoke and acted […]
by Amy Nordhues | 8 March 2023 | The term “gaslighting” comes from the 1938 play (and later film) also named Gaslight, in which a husband commits a murder and attempts to throw his wife off his scent by making her think she is going insane. When she questions the noises she hears in the […]
by Joni Bell | 7 March 2023 | I may be the “queen of returns.” I am one of those people who expects to get exactly what is advertised. If I order it on Amazon and it isn’t the quality, color, or fit I expected, it will be returned. If that lettuce goes bad days before […]
6 March 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN) had a miraculous birth, and for a time produced outstanding programming. Although it is an independent ministry, the Adventist Church appears to endorse it.. Yet available information indicates that the founder has had a tumultuous domestic life, and some say that his current […]
by Shelley Curtis Weaver | 3 March 2023 | A modern parable: Two men went to the local church one Sabbath day. The first was an accountant. He had been top of his class at his Adventist university, and had married a good Adventist girl soon after graduation. He held a partnership in a successful […]
by Robert D. Crux | 2 March 2023 | In America’s culture wars, schoolchildren are now taking center stage. School boards, educators, and students have all been caught in the crosshairs of culture warriors. Across the nation parents, teachers, and school boards are squabbling over what ought to be taught in the nation’s public schools. […]
2 March 2023 | The Seventh-day Adventist Church faces a crisis: how to read the Bible. Almost every debate dividing Adventism today relates to the issue of hermeneutics. According to church leaders, it’s the fundamental problem preventing Adventism from moving forward missionally. Those at the top of the church seem to believe the path to […]
by Hannele Ottschofski | 28 February 2023 | We had planned to go to the top floor of the round tower at the Azrieli Center in Tel Aviv to see the panoramic view of the city. We found the elevator, but on that day there was no access. We could only admire the tall tower […]
27 February 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, My spouse and I are having an uncomfortable discussion about an uncomfortable topic. We’re about to have a baby boy. My husband insists that the Bible requires male children to be circumcised. In the Old Testament it’s the mark of God’s chosen, he says, and in the New […]
by Edward Reifsnyder | 23 February 2023 | It is the year 2200. What has become of the Seventh-day Adventist Church? Now right off the bat, many readers will say, “That’s not possible; I am certain Jesus will come before then.” But hear me out. It has been roughly 180 years since intense focus began […]
