by Christopher C. Thompson | 23 December 2022 | Did you ever participate in a Christmas pageant or recite an Easter speech? If you have, then you’ll appreciate the story I have to tell you. When I was growing up in the First African Baptist Church in Beaufort, South Carolina, we commonly had Christmas pageants, […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 22 December 2022 | Around 2003 I made an extended visit, together with Dr. Bert B. Beach, to the Baltic countries. He was at that time the director of the Department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty (PARL) of the General Conference, while I combined that same role at the division […]
22 December 2022 | Fake news wasn’t just invented when Donald Trump rose to fame. It’s been around a lot longer. And unfortunately, even the most famous ministers of the Adventist church are capable of falling for it. Join Professor Matthew Korpman for another episode of Bible Scholar Reacts as he examines a widely distributed […]
22 December 2022 | This is our annual ATSS communion service. Our service will be shorter than usual. Please prepare your chosen bread and symbolic beverage before the service. We will begin with a devotional presented by sisters Taneshia Kerr and Cherri-Ann Farquharson, “Faith as an Experience.” Explains Cherri-Ann, Faith and fear cannot coexist. Some […]
by Joshua Hester | 21 December 2022 | “My life has never been sadder, yet I’ve never been happier.” These words were spoken during an 80th birthday party of a woman of my acquaintance. She’d lived a long life of pain and hard work—a life I’d have thought had been overfull and difficult. Somehow, though, […]
19 December 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Our Thanksgiving dinner was a disaster. We expected a happy gathering around the table with everyone feeling gratitude, but my father hijacked it by lashing out at the table with political topics and dumb conspiracy theories about vaccinations and the 2020 election. Several of us tried to change […]
13 December 2022 | Think about this for a moment: Satan is hardly mentioned in the Old Testament—just three times—and is present almost everywhere in the New Testament. Where does that emphasis on Satan come from? The Old Testament is silent about an afterlife: the dead know nothing, feel nothing, experience nothing. The New Testament […]
17 December 2022 | Bert Beverly Beach, PhD, former director of the General Conference Department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty (PARL), passed to his rest on December 14, 2022. I worked at Bert’s side in PARL for fifteen years and witnessed first-hand his enormous contribution to our church and beyond. He championed religious freedom […]
by Joni Bell | 15 December 2022 | Belief in the imminence of Jesus Christ’s return marked the faith of the earliest Adventist believers. Jesus was coming soon! Imminently! Earth was in the final countdown! That belief provided the energy for our preaching, our evangelism, our mission. Yes, He is coming, and He is coming […]
14 December 2022 | Most Adventists are familiar with the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary set released in the 1950s. Avocado green cloth with red and gold lettering on the spine, they’re common in most church libraries and many home libraries too. With the passing of years, and advances in Adventist studies, though, some of the […]
by Amalia Goulbourne | 13 December 2022 | Cheer and happiness are key facets of the holiday season. But after losing two grandparents in two years, I recognize how isolating it can be to feel heavy and sorrowful during the weeks of holiday cheer. The following historical story is not for the cheerful, but for […]
par Stephen Ferguson et Lillian-Paige Turner | 13 December 2022 Alors que le reste du monde avait les regards tournés vers les règlementations anti- Covid et les invasions russes, le parlement australien se penchait, quant à lui, sur la question épineuse de la discrimination religieuse. Ici, cela faisait passablement de bruit. Préoccupé par un sentiment anti-religieux […]
