by Jack Hoehn | 12 March 2025 | Walla Walla University (WWU) students yesterday protested university administration banning a candidate to be president of their student association—because the candidate identified as LGBTQ. These young Adventists are serious Adventists. The 1,400 students at WWU are each investing $45,963/year for four or more years in an Adventist […]
12 March 2025 | From its inception, Seventh-day Adventism has relied on an apocalyptic worldview derived from Millerism and the apocalyptic passages in the Bible. While these ideas still shape Adventist teaching and evangelism, in recent decades critical questions have been raised regarding the biblical validity, theological potency, and contemporary relevance of this apocalyptic imprint. […]
by Daniel Zwiker | 11 March 2025 | A discussion is going on right now among sociologists about whether the Western culture of guilt is developing into a culture of shame. Guilt is feeling bad about something we’ve done, while shame is deeper than that: it is about what we believe we are. The Western […]
10 March 2025 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, If Ted Wilson admires Ellen White so much, why doesn’t he follow her counsel? “I have been shown that ministers should not be retained in the same district year after year, nor should the same man long preside over a conference. A change of gifts is for the […]
9 March 2025 | After almost 50 years of operation, Dakota Adventist Academy (DAA) could close at the end of this school year, according to a letter sent out widely by the Dakota Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. While the letter asks for money, it also makes clear that faced with astonishingly low enrollment, even sacrificial giving […]
Almost every time an article in Adventist Today mentions some matter that politicians discuss, we get angry responses. It doesn’t matter if it is behavior addressed directly in the Bible. It could even be something Jesus himself talks about. If a politician has an opinion on it, we are criticized for mentioning it. Yet biblical ethics and […]
by Richard W. Coffen | 7 March 2025 | You saw Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof singing, “Tradition, tradition! Tradition!” That’s the theme of this essay: specifically, the role tradition plays in our reading of the biblical texts. Traditional behaviors aren’t necessarily wrong, but they can be arbitrary. For example, Americans open gifts in […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 6 March 2025 | Ten years ago Pastor Jan T. Knopper died in far-away (for me) Australia. Jan Knopper was a Dutchman. He worked his entire working life in the publishing branch of the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a coordinator of literature evangelism, first in the Netherlands at the union level, […]
by Jim Burklo | 5 March 2025 | On my forehead, A sign of the cross, Smudged in ash from the fire That burned down the McMansion of my hubris, And, with it, The money I should have given away, The electronic screens I used to numb my senses, The carpet I should have been […]
5 March 2025 | Christians spend much of their spiritual lives worshipping in some sort of religious building, which we commonly call a “church.” Huge amounts of time, money, and effort are dedicated to keeping these structures running. Have you ever paused and considered what makes these spaces sacred, or “holy”? What does sacred or […]
by Rich Hannon | 4 March 2025 | I suspect the word Luddite has quietly slipped away from usage and recognition. It has two meanings: a narrow historical meaning in the Industrial Revolution, and a broader one describing someone who is actively opposed to new technology or new ways of working. However, I wish to […]
3 March 2025 | African-American Seventh-day Adventists are concerned that the Ohio State University (OSU) may shut down the Frank W. Hale Jr. Cultural Center, known to students on campus as the Black Student Union, a landmark in one of the largest universities in the United States. The center was named after well-known Seventh-day Adventist […]
