by Milton Hook | 29 October 2024 | On October 22, 2024, one hundred and eighty years after The Great Disappointment in America, I watched the film The Hopeful in a movie theater in Australia. There was only one other person in the three-hundred-seat cinema. The intention of the director, Kyle Portbury, was to portray […]
Landless, Peter N. and McBride, Duane C., editors, Alcohol, All Risk, No Benefits. Pacific Press, 2024, 128 pages. Reviewed by Gregory Matthews. The strength of this book is the 151 references to the literature on alcohol that it provides. Some may wish that such material had been incorporated into the text of the book, rather than […]
28 October 2024 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, We often say that Satan tempts us. Apart from his temptation of Jesus in the desert, though, we don’t see many examples of the mechanism of temptation. James 1:14 actually says that “each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.” What’s the […]
A few weeks ago a commenter responded to an Aunt Sevvy column, Most, if not at all, of the issues that garner so much feedback—like the current questions about The Great Controversy, the role of Ellen White, perfectionism, what you eat and wear—are so much white noise in the light of the gospel. Unfortunately, it […]
by Fredrick A. Russell | 25 October 2024 | In M. Scott Peck’s riveting book, People of the Lie, Peck places front and center a disturbing reality: there is evil in this world. The target audience for his book was not particularly religious, although the notion of organic evil is biblical. And yet I suspect […]
25 October 2024 | The church in the South Pacific is in an uproar at the allegation that the church in Fiji failed to address a known situation of the now-president of the Seventh-day Adventist Mission in Fiji abducting and attempting to rape a 13-year-old girl when he was the pastor of the Damboro church. […]
24 October 2024 Calvin B. Rock has spent six decades as a pastor, church administrator, and writer. He was president of Oakwood University from 1971 to 1985, and a general vice president of the General Conference (GC) from 1985 until his retirement in 2002. He can now add political endorsement to his resume: he has […]
By Pamela Maize Harris | 24 October 2024 | Last week Oakwood University’s (OU) board announced that President Leslie N. Pollard has accepted a new position as Assistant to the North American Division president Alex Bryant for Pastoral Continuing Education and Mission, beginning July 1, 2025. Concerned Oakwoodites, a lay group that has been pushing […]
Statement issued October 22, 2024: In view of the allegations of abuse made against the former pastor of the Hanseatic Conference, which have been made public, it seems appropriate for us, as a former employer, to provide some factual information on this matter—in brief, the facts as we know them. These more factual statements are […]
by Melody Tan | 23 October 2024 | Saturday—Sabbath—mornings are often chaotic in our household. Sure, we all get to enjoy a little bit of a sleep-in because we don’t have to leave the house as early as we normally do on a weekday, but it’s all systems go, shortly after waking. After a leisurely […]
23 October 2024 | “As the pessimism and despair of Orthodoxy fades away, like the darkness before the rising sun, it leaves us in a world containing a nobler religion, a grander God, a more hopeful man, a more comprehensive Bible, a better Church, and a more inspiring destiny.” So wrote the Rev. Minot Savage, […]
by Loren Seibold | 22 October 2024 | A friend wrote me a note today. “Happy Great Disappointment Day,” he said. “Another year of remembering that something didn’t happen.” Actually, the bearded ones told us something did happen. And who knows for sure?—though I confess I don’t find the tortured arithmetic terribly convincing. But my […]
