Loren Seibold
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The Wrong Way to Preach the Gospel
by Loren Seibold | 28 June 2024 | Adventists (they weren’t Seventh-day Adventists yet) had a pretty good idea back in the 1830s and 1840s. They believed Jesus was returning, and they wanted to be ready for him. They were wrong—but they were sincerely and innocently wrong. And righteously wrong: they wanted Jesus to come […]
Why I Write: My Rant on Writing
by Carl McRoy | 27 June 2024 | I write because I dance better with my fingertips than on my tiptoes. I write for the same reason many people talk to themselves: they enjoy intelligent conversation. I write for practical reasons because, as one of my undergrad professors chanted, “People forget but paper remembers,” and […]
ATSS: Randi Robertson, “Discovering Who We Are: Relationships & Gender Identity”
26 June 2024 | We humans have always sought to explain our place on this earth and within the cosmos. We look for explanations of how and why we exist, attempting to create reason and stability. The ongoing evolution of societies is relatively easy to document, but even over each of our short lifetimes we […]
From Stagnation to Innovation: HYVE Wants to Reinvigorate Adventism
by Björn Karlman | 25 June 2024 | This article marks the launch of our AdventInnovate series, where we spotlight and inspire Adventist innovators shaping our faith and community. At just 20 years old and light years from college graduation, Swiss-born Jesse Zwiker found himself in the deep end. He had abruptly quit his Adventist […]
Aunty, should we really put so much emphasis on the Sabbath?
24 June 2024 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I have been a Seventh-Adventist Church member since 1975. Even after so many years, I am still puzzled by the amount of emphasis on the Sabbath in the Adventist Church. Signed, Still Puzzled Dear Puzzled, Aunty is puzzled about why you are puzzled. You are, after all, a […]
Editorial: Define “Success”
The topic of “success” has been on my mind lately. What exactly does success look like at 35 years old? Does it look like the lives of family members from older generations with more “traditional” lifestyles? Does it look like influencers on Instagram gathering followers and making money? Maybe success is having found the right […]
Fighting for the End of the World
by Robert Crux | 21 June 2024 | Imagine an influential movement of Christian fundamentalists in the United States who, with millions of dollars in backing and connections into government, are fighting for the end of the world. Imagine people with such a mindset engineering American politics and foreign policy to bring about the very […]
I’ve Got Some Questions About Prayer
by Loren Seibold | 20 June 2024 | I was a young teen when Glenn Coon came to the North Dakota Camp Meeting to present his famous (among us Adventists) program, “The ABC’s of Prayer.” For those of you who don’t remember—or never knew—Glenn Coon’s theology of prayer was that you Ask God for something, […]
Being Adventist: Is It All or Nothing?
by Reinder Bruinsma | 19 June 2024 | Most days I spend at least a few minutes on Facebook. Some friends get more attention than others. David Larson, who before his recent retirement taught ethics at Loma Linda University, is a friend whose opinions I value. Recently he posted this insightful paragraph: Some seem to […]