Loren Seibold
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Posts by Loren Seibold:
Must we see Ellen White as either authoritative as the Bible, or a fraud? Is there a middle path?
30 December 2024 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Is there a path between regarding Ellen White as being as authoritative as Scripture, and seeing her as a plagiarist and fraud? Signed, Searching for a Middle Way Dear Searching, Yes, of course there is. But it would involve correcting some long-held attitudes that Seventh-day Adventists have about […]
Editorial: “Desmond Doss Gives a Christmas Gift to Adventists”
I am happy when Adventists are spoken well of in the media, and for reasons that show us at our best. Recently United States senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia introduced legislation to rename the Veterans Affairs clinic in Lynchburg, Virginia, after Private First Class Desmond T. Doss, an Adventist conscientious objector whom […]
Losing Mike
by Linda McCabe | 26 December 2024 | On November 20, 2024, exactly six weeks to the day from his diagnosis of stage four esophageal cancer, my husband of 41 years passed away at home. We had cancelled the oncology appointment. Instead, we had an anointing and enrolled Mike directly in hospice care. We had […]
ATSS: Warren Trenchard, “The Common Core Tradition of the Nativity Stories”
26 December 2024 | The New Testament contains only two accounts of the birth of Jesus, both dating to the 80s of the 1st century of the Christian Era. The first is in Matthew (1:18–2:23). the second in Luke (1:45a, 36–38; 2:1–40). Although these accounts are very different, for most of Christian history, including today, they […]
Christmas Online Forums Around the World
by Dorothy Porawski | 24 December 2024 | After over a decade of discussions and arguments on this topic, I’ve stopped participating in online forum discussions about Christmas. I am resigned that there is nothing which could be written that would so much as make a dent in the zealous opposition to Christmas by some […]
Aunty, doesn’t Jeremiah 10 ban Christmas trees?
23 December 2024 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Why do people have Christmas trees, when Jeremiah 10:3-4 clearly warns against them? For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with […]
Missing the Forest for the Christmas Tree
by Nicole Brown Dominguez | 23 December 2024 | In my grandparents’ church, there is a member who refuses to enter the sanctuary for the entire month of December. Why? Because the platform has a Christmas tree on it. I briefly was the moderator of the General Conference Instagram account. I once suggested doing an […]
Editorial: “Confessions of an Ex-Adventist”
In last week’s editorial, Loren Seibold wrote about not being an ex-Adventist. I am an ex-Adventist. I left the church about seven years ago, and I haven’t been back. Like most divorces, my break-up with the church was painful and bitter at first. I had a lot of anger and a lot of grief. It […]
What Did Revelation Mean to Its First-Century Hearers?
by Norm Young | 20 December 2024 | The seven churches to which John wrote in Revelation 2 and 3 were in a circle of about 500 km, from Ephesus on the coast, to Laodicea in the south, and then west back to Ephesus. Early Adventists interpreted the seven letters according to the historicist method […]