Loren Seibold
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Editorial: What I Miss About Being Adventist
It has been a few years since I’ve regularly attended an Adventist Church. A lot has been written about about why people leave, and those points all still deserve thought. But yesterday I was missing a very specific Seventh-day Adventist thing. I mentioned it to my husband, and he had never even heard of it. The thing I […]
The Great Adventist Mythology
by Loren Seibold | 26 July 2023 | Carmen and I occasionally reminisce about the first church where I served as a pastoral intern. We had just graduated from Walla Walla College, and in the space of a few weeks found ourselves married and dropped into a tiny, mostly elderly church in a small town […]
ATSS: Warren Trenchard, “Should the Ten Commandments Be Taught in Public Schools?”
25 July 2024 | Recently the American state of Louisiana legislated that all its public school classrooms must display the Ten Commandments. Aside from United States Constitutional concerns about the independence of religion from government, and the obvious Judeo-Christian bias it engenders, this legislation begs several content-related questions, the answers to which should inform the […]
The Infinite Cost of Freedom
by Mark B. Johnson | 25 July 2024 | There was war in heaven (Rev. 12:7). This is one of the most startling texts in the Bible. So startling that brilliant theologians such as Martin Luther could not imagine it was true. So startling that many Christians still cannot accept it. But it reveals something […]
Is the Apocrypha Inspired? An Enlightening Letter from Ellen White’s Son
By Matthew J. Korpman | 24 July 2024 | When Denis Fortin of Andrews University wrote the encyclopedia entry on Ellen White’s use of the Apocrypha in 2013, he noted what was the central issue involved in the discussion: “whether she considered the Apocrypha to be inspired Scripture.” He notes that “eight references to the […]
Does Adventist Flood Geology Make Sense? Part 3: Of YEC & Miracles
by Rich Hannon | 23 July 2024 | My two-part essay (read part 1 here, and part 2 here) last week on Young Earth Creationism (YEC) and Noah’s ark received a lot of comments, and I thank you for your interactions. It is not an easy topic for Adventists, we who were raised to believe […]
Aunty, what does the church think of IVF—for a single person?
22 July 2024 | Dear Aunt Sevvy I have a female friend, 40 years old and single, who has long wanted a child. She was unsuccessful in finding a husband, so she consulted an obstetrician, who performed in vitro fertilization (IVF) for her. She is now the mother of a beautiful daughter. How does the […]
Editorial: Why People Don’t Have a Religion Anymore
When I grew up, everyone had a religion. They may not have been very faithful in it, but they had one. More and more Americans, when asked their religion, reply “none.” In 2007, the “nones” were 16%, according to Pew Research. “Nones” now outnumber Roman Catholics, who are 23% of the population, and Evangelical Christians […]
Does Adventist Flood Geology Make Sense? Part 2: Can a flood explain the geological results?
by Rich Hannon | 19 July 2024 | In the first part of this essay, I explained the problem with keeping all kinds of life alive for a year in a relatively small wooden ship: Noah’s ark. Now let’s study the effects of the flood itself. Can a flood—a relatively short one—explain what we see […]