Someone wrote me a note recently: “Why do you let people who aren’t Adventists anymore write for Adventist Today?” she asked. It’s a good question. The answer goes to the heart of the Adventist Today philosophy. There is an official understanding of what makes someone a Seventh-day Adventist, of course: your name is recorded on […]
23 August 2024 | The Northern New England Conference, where the Northern Maine Camp Meeting of last week took place, has made a response—though a decidedly tepid one—to the controversial sermon by Conrad Vine, president of Adventist Frontier Mission. The letter praises the camp meeting, though making clear that it was “…not organized by the […]
23 August 2024 From a story from Adventist News Network: The South American Division is addressing child sexual abuse in local Adventist churches. “It is our responsibility to protect our children, guaranteeing them the love, security, and help they need,” says Jeanete Lima, educator and coordinator of the Basta de Silencio project for the South […]
by Loren Seibold | 22 August 2024 | Let’s imagine—purely hypothetically—that one day you picked up the Adventist Review and saw, featured on the cover, an article entitled “The Truth About the Jews.” Suppose the article said that Jews had a secret conspiracy for global domination; that, because they’re in banking, they will soon take […]
21 August 2024 | Given all we have learned in the last half century (from 1970 until now) about Ellen White’s writings—how they were written, what sources she used, how they were edited and compiled, and how she and the church explained and defended her inspiration—how might our Fundamental Belief on the gift of prophecy […]
by Carsten Thomsen | 20 August 2024 | Most religious journeys begin with a holy book; an old book with murky origins; a collection of works by multiple authors chronicling the origins of a religion, while also defining it. This holy book is considered undisputed. It claims other-worldly inspiration. When accepted by its followers, it […]
19 August 2024 | At a camp meeting this past week, Conrad Vine, president of Adventist Frontier Missions, advocated for the establishment of a parachurch organization that would withhold tithe and release it only to those organizations that resist “cultural Marxism” and uphold freedom of conscience in matters of vaccinations and climate change. His August […]
19 August 2024 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I’ve heard that in some financially struggling conferences, pastors are being assigned a ridiculous number of churches that aren’t even near one another. This is being presented as going back to the model of pastors as evangelists, who leave the local elders to run the church. They say […]
by Debbie Hooper | 18 August 2024 | In late May 2024, seven Adventists embarked on a grueling 1,145-kilometer (711-mile) evangelistic bike ride across Australia called “I Will Go Ride,” traveling from Brisbane, Queensland, to Eugowra, New South Wales. The self-funded riders included Pastor Glenn Townend (South Pacific Division president) and Pastor Brett Townend (South […]
The longest journey in the Bible—at least judged by the time it took—was from Egypt to Canaan, which by a direct route would be about 250 miles. It took the crowd of Hebrew people 40 years. Adventist Today is on a journey, too. If you’re reading this, you already know what an important outlet for news […]
by Charles Scriven | 16 August 2024 | Read part 1 here. Change is difficult as well as energizing. In obliterating complacency, Christ brings challenges as well as solace. Nor does anything I’m saying here entail disdain for helping administrative units to function well. For a large—in our case, international—communion of congregations, administrative units are […]
