14 November 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Would it be better for me to marry a Seventh-day Adventist man even if he’s not my ideal man, or a man who isn’t Seventh-day Adventist but has the qualities I’m looking for? Signed, Searching Dear Searching, When Aunty was young, she was told that Adventists should always […]
13 November 2022 | The treasurer of the Metropolitan Conference of Panama, Mr. Ovidio Abdiel Guerra, has been removed from his position after being accused of a misappropriation of funds. In a Zoom meeting on Sunday, September 11, 2022, conference president Eluvinio Castrellon explained the departure of the treasurer to the church elders of the […]
12 November 2022 | One result of the chaos at social media service Twitter is that a preexisting parody account appears to have emerged as the verified Ted Wilson account. The parody account Ted Wilson (@PastorWedTilson) on Twitter leads off with the unlikely introduction, The one & only president of the @adventistchurch. Don’t be deceived by […]
by Rajaratnam Jones | 11 November 2022 | I was born and brought up in a village in India where almost 100% of the population was Christian. Missionaries from England had come here about 250 years ago and evangelized this area. My grandfather’s parents had been Hindus. Seventh-day Adventist missionaries came to Mukuperi, a very […]
by Richard W. Coffen | 10 November 2022 | The field of theology includes a subcategory called theodicy—the defense of God in light of the existence of evil. I’ve read several books on the topic and am currently reading another. I generally find myself arguing with their arguments. After all, who authorized a mere finite […]
9 November 2022 | Read this essay in preparation for this Adventist Today Sabbath Seminar (ATSS) class. by Thandazani Mhlanga I find the story of Uzzah in 1 Chronicles 13:1-11 and 2 Samuel 6:1-8 still as puzzling and perplexing as the first day I heard it. After all, if it weren’t for Uzzah, the ark […]
by Thandazani Mhlanga | 8 November 2022 | At midnight on November 14, 1960, Robert Raymond Cook made the fateful trip to the gallows from his cell in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta—the last man to be hanged in the province of Alberta. Because of how the trial seemed to have been argued on circumstantial evidence, much […]
7 November 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I like our pastor, and his wife is a nice person, except for this: she doesn’t help out enough in church. I asked her once why she doesn’t always bring food for fellowship dinner, and why she won’t teach an occasional children’s class, and she said that being […]
by Paul Priest | 4 November 2022 | In previous articles here I have argued that Genesis 1 and 2 represent two separate creations. I have suggested that one speaks of the creation of life, the other the elevation of the previously created hominins to humankind. Genesis 4 and 5 introduce two interesting terms that […]
by Nerida Taylor Bates | 3 November 2022 | I’ll never forget something that I saw when coming out of my kindergarten Sabbath School when I was five years old. The hall under our small church was completely empty except for a young woman with teased hair, go-go boots, and short mini skirt, kneeling in […]
2 November 2022 | by Bryan Ness When I started my biology education in 1980, I was confident that the creation story in the Bible could stand up to scientific scrutiny. As a third-generation Adventist educated in Adventist schools from first grade through high school, I had been taught that the earth was young (about […]
2 November 2022 | The following four ATSS presentations are now available for your viewing. Heidi Campbell | 15 October 2022 Who do you think Mary Magdalene was? A woman with a scandalous past? The sister of Lazarus and Martha? First witness to the resurrection? A rich heiress? An evangelist and miracle worker? Heidi Olson […]
