Loren Seibold
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Editorial: Your Church Is Too Old
Something you’ll often hear Adventists complain about is that there aren’t enough young people in our church. There are probably many reasons for that, but one that I’d like to explore has to do with who’s leading the church. The word to describe leadership by the oldest people is “gerontocracy.” Our General Conference (GC) is […]
Can Adventists Use Condoms? and other unnatural questions
by Stephen Ferguson | 16 April 2025 | Should Seventh-day Adventists support reproductive technologies, including birth control and in vitro fertilization (IVF)? How about genetic counseling and gene-linked pharmaceuticals? Should I dye my graying hair? Can I wear glasses? Is it a sin to consume drinks with artificial sweeteners added, such as Diet Coke? How […]
“This, Right Here, Is Church”
by Melody Tan | 15 May 2025 | The camera operator turned to me. “This, right here, is church,” he declared. We were sitting at the outside area of a shopping mall, watching a group of women interact. Among them was a recent immigrant who had her first child not long after arriving, without any […]
ATSS: Jim Walters, “Inspiration: Now, Then, Everywhere & Always…”
14 May 2025 | Considering all the knowledge of the educated, well-read Adventists in the world today, the traditional concept of Divine inspiration seems inadequate. It doesn’t comport with: the best of our “inspired” descriptions of God’s actions on earth as seen, for example, in scientific thought and discoveries, expanded, nuanced theological/philosophical depictions of God, […]
The Death of a Pope
by Davide Romano | 13 May 2025 | On Monday, April 21, at 7:35 a.m. Pope Francis’s death was announced. The news, as always when a pope dies, shook many people. And, as expected, it immediately set off the formidable media apparatus in Italy and the whole world. This significant event saddened Roman Catholics, and […]
Aunt Sevvy, the Adventist churches near me aren’t at all helpful to my faith. What can I do?
12 May 2025 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I live in a semi-rural area. There are a few Adventist churches within a drivable distance, but they are all very traditional, and all more or less on life-support. Attending these churches is counterproductive to my walk with Jesus—and trying to be a change agent in these congregations […]
Editorial: What Are We For? A Call to Beautiful Vision
In a world increasingly shaken by corruption, exclusion, and abuse of power—whether in political systems or religious institutions—it’s easy to fall into a mode of resistance. We see and feel deeply that something is not right. Many of us are no longer willing to allow our identities to be passively associated with systems that perpetuate […]
Three Church Leaders, & What Their Selection Means
by Loren Seibold | 9 May 2025 | Three religious bodies are choosing their leaders in about the same six-month period. Two of them are major world communions; the other imagines it is. Two of the leaders will have worldwide name recognition; the third will be known only to his own church of roughly 20,000,000 […]
A Reflection on President Alex Bryan’s Post-Protest Vespers at Walla Walla University
by Shelley Curtis Weaver | 8 May 2025 | Now seems to be the time to talk about it. Alumni Weekend at Walla Walla University (WWU) is over. The former students and prospective donors have flown or driven home. The WWU newspaper, The Collegian, has now published their response to a March 14 vespers program, […]
Reverent Otherdoxy
by Jim Burklo | 7 May 2025 | Years ago, I hosted an event at the University of Southern California with Paul Woodruff, a philosopher at the University of Texas, who wrote a book that had a profound influence on me: Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue. He said that reverence doesn’t belong to any particular […]
ATSS: Donald McAdams, “A Review of the Ellen White Revisionist History Since 1970”
7 May 2025 | In 1919 at a Bible Conference in Washington, DC ,a candid discussion took place that raised questions about the prophetic gift of Ellen White—notably, the knowledge of many of her contemporaries that she borrowed from other sources. The notes from that conference were typed up and tucked away, not to be […]