10 October 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I agree with your recent response to the question regarding 1844 and the plan of salvation. Which brings me to ask this question: if you don’t believe in this central point, then why remain a Seventh-day Adventist? Might as well attend another church that preaches the finished work […]
by Ron Hessel | 8 October 2022 | I got my undergrad degree in theology in the last half of the ’70s. Lots of confusing stuff was happening in that era in the Adventist world, particularly around the investigative judgment doctrine. Reputations were teetering on the edge. Careers were at stake. I just ducked my […]
5 October 2022 | According to the postmodern philosophers the ‘grand stories’ of the past are no longer valid. Could it, however, be that the ‘great controversy’ theme offers, in fact, a ‘grand story’ that can still appeal to people today? Can we read the apocalyptic books of the Bible in such a way that […]
by Jim Walters | 4 October 2022 | Where was God in Hurricane Ian, one of the deadliest hurricanes to ever hit the US mainline? Here’s one view. According to “Captain” Lewis McDonald, God miraculously preserved his ocean-going, shark-hunting cruiser. The boat surged over still-standing electric power lines, ending atop mangled mangrove trees 600 feet […]
3 October 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Every time I go to my in-laws’ house, my mother-in-law throws little passive-aggressive barbs my way about how I’m raising her grandchildren—most of them about food. Like she’ll say to the kids over dinner, “Sorry, Grandma doesn’t have all the prepackaged frozen foods you are accustomed to.” Or […]
1 October 2022 | What do the books that weren’t included in the Bible say? Are there secret gospels that contain secret teachings of Jesus? Famous YouTuber MorgueOfficial claims in a viral video that the Gospel of Thomas contains the secrets of eternal life the church doesn’t want you to know. Join biblical scholar and […]
by Hannele Ottschofski | 30 September 2022 Yochi Rappeport’s blog in the Times of Israel on September 13 about role models led me to think about the influence of what we Adventists see and experience. Yochi writes about the influence that exclusively male teachers and rabbis had on her spiritual development as a teenager. If […]
by Carsten Thomsen | 29 September 2022 | Some of the most long-lived organizations are churches and religious groups. Some of the great world religions are thousands of years old, and Christianity has been around for 2,000 years. Adventism is less than two hundred years old, but has many characteristics of a long-lived, successful religion. […]
28 September 2022 | Brent A. Strawn, in his book The Old Testament Is Dying, draws an analogy between the contemporary Christian church’s competence in reading the Old Testament and the ability to speak a language fluently. Acknowledging the limitations of any analogy, he argues that the church is losing its ability to understand the […]
by Amalia Goulbourne | 27 September 2022 | In many Adventist spaces Ellen White’s books are referred to as “the Spirit of Prophecy,” as though her writings are a simple and all-encompassing rulebook and commentary; however, members can greatly benefit from studying the letters of advice she gave regarding real-life situations. One of the most […]
26 September 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Recently someone shared with me this quote from J.N. Loughborough from the October 8, 1861, Review and Herald. The first step of apostasy is to get up a creed, telling us what we shall believe. The second is, to make that creed a test of fellowship. The third […]
by Tuwan Ussery White | 23 September 2022 | We often think of white supremacy as the Ku Klux Klan and other violent groups. However, historical evidence shows that segregationism is a type of white supremacy too. In the year 1890 the Seventh-day Adventist church voted a policy of racial segregation that lasted for the […]
