I am not built for unprecedented times. Not many of us are giddy at the idea of a collapsing democracy or rising cultural tensions. But sometimes I fall into frantic anxiety. The usual platitudes about how it’s all in God’s plan and how we are living in the end times don’t provide comfort; they only […]
by Shelley Curtis Weaver | 14 March 2025 | I’ve lived long enough to recall a time when a preacher might have jokingly said, “We Adventists are a queer bunch!” Mostly, though, we used a different word: we said we were a “peculiar people”—and we expressed a good deal of pride in our peculiarity. Language […]
14 March 2025 | A recent announcement by Amazing Facts shows Doug Batchelor hosting Barbara O’Neill, whose offbeat health teachings have led to a ban on her providing any health-related services in Australia. Batchelor describes her as a “health educator.” Sacramento Central is the host church for O’Neill this week, and according to the church’s […]
by Melody Tan | 13 March 2025 | My son used to take offense to Cyndi Lauper’s 1980s hit, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.” This, coming from a then-four- or five-year-old: “Are girls the only ones who can have fun? What about the boys?” he would say. As he got older and exposed to […]
12 March 2025 | In a letter made public yesterday, the Berrien Springs Village Church has asked for a special constituency meeting in the Michigan Conference to discuss the dismissal of its pastor, Ron Kelly. BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that the board of the Village Seventh-day Adventist Church hereby formally requests the Executive Committee of […]
by Jack Hoehn | 12 March 2025 | Walla Walla University (WWU) students yesterday protested university administration banning a candidate to be president of their student association—because the candidate identified as LGBTQ. These young Adventists are serious Adventists. The 1,400 students at WWU are each investing $45,963/year for four or more years in an Adventist […]
12 March 2025 | From its inception, Seventh-day Adventism has relied on an apocalyptic worldview derived from Millerism and the apocalyptic passages in the Bible. While these ideas still shape Adventist teaching and evangelism, in recent decades critical questions have been raised regarding the biblical validity, theological potency, and contemporary relevance of this apocalyptic imprint. […]
by Daniel Zwiker | 11 March 2025 | A discussion is going on right now among sociologists about whether the Western culture of guilt is developing into a culture of shame. Guilt is feeling bad about something we’ve done, while shame is deeper than that: it is about what we believe we are. The Western […]
10 March 2025 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, If Ted Wilson admires Ellen White so much, why doesn’t he follow her counsel? “I have been shown that ministers should not be retained in the same district year after year, nor should the same man long preside over a conference. A change of gifts is for the […]
9 March 2025 | After almost 50 years of operation, Dakota Adventist Academy (DAA) could close at the end of this school year, according to a letter sent out widely by the Dakota Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. While the letter asks for money, it also makes clear that faced with astonishingly low enrollment, even sacrificial giving […]
Almost every time an article in Adventist Today mentions some matter that politicians discuss, we get angry responses. It doesn’t matter if it is behavior addressed directly in the Bible. It could even be something Jesus himself talks about. If a politician has an opinion on it, we are criticized for mentioning it. Yet biblical ethics and […]
by Richard W. Coffen | 7 March 2025 | You saw Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof singing, “Tradition, tradition! Tradition!” That’s the theme of this essay: specifically, the role tradition plays in our reading of the biblical texts. Traditional behaviors aren’t necessarily wrong, but they can be arbitrary. For example, Americans open gifts in […]
