by Loren Seibold | 13 June 2022 | A friend of mine, a pastor’s wife, wrote this to me a couple of days ago: Two of our members went as delegates to the General Conference session this week. These members texted me from the General Conference floor during the week. They were stunned. They saw […]
by Charles Scriven | 9 June 2022 | This study guide is to help you prepare for our Adventist Today Sabbath Seminar at 1:30 Eastern time on Sabbath. Click here for link and password. Let’s allow first that the word “progressive” is both a problem and a solution. In media culture the word is synonymous […]
8 June 2022 | Many Adventists who identify themselves as progressive wonder if they are delusional in dreaming of a more thoughtful and open-minded church—perhaps, especially, after a week like this one when we’ve watched the top body of our church trying to chart a way forward. In this class, Dr. Charles Scriven will make […]
by Loren Seibold | 7 June 2022 | Though I never thought that the General Conference (GC) was an oracle (a modern Urim and Thummim where every vote reflected the mind of God), in my younger years I did hope that important things—things that helped the church become better and more responsive to the world […]
6 June 2022 | The Christian church is in trouble, in particular in the Western world. Many denominations see their membership decrease and experience an exodus of the younger generations. Postmoderns may still have an interest in spirituality, but they turn away from institutional Christianity. Current trends also affect the Seventh-day Adventist Church. While the […]
6 June 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, “Let go and let God.” I’ve heard this phrase frequently. People tout it as the answer to their prayers. It doesn’t work for me, no matter how I try to apply it to my life’s situations, nor can I find satisfactory examples in scripture. Is there, or is […]
by Sigve Tonstad | 4 June 2022 | They are praying again in Texas, the governor praying, too, politics of the pious, praying is what they do, and now the news from heaven, fresh from a first-hand source: the prayers will go unanswered: “The prayers show no remorse.” ’Twas time long ago to admit it, […]
by Patti Purdy Hansen Tompkins | 3 June 2022 | When You made us keepers of Your earth, O God, You expected a lot of us. But we have become careless with Your trust. The oceans and the firmament, the forests and living creatures, All the works of Your hands have been tainted by our […]
by Hannele Ottschofski | 2 June 2022 | As the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begins, people in Britain look forward to a supplementary bank holiday and various celebrations commemorating the rule of their monarch. As a young woman, Elizabeth pledged to serve her country and the Commonwealth for as long as she lives […]
1 June 2022 | by Mathilde Frey “Wars are won by weapons, but it takes ideas to win a peace.” — Rabbi Jonathan Sacks A few days ago, I put these numbers on my office door in the School of Theology at Walla Walla University: A colleague stopped to read and asked me, “So, Mathilde, […]
by Loren Seibold | 31 May 2022 | A while back I was reading an Adventist-run Facebook group about modesty in dress. The striking thing about this group is that it is organized and written mostly by men, yet is almost entirely about women. It is not unusual in this group to read a man’s […]
30 May 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, This weekend was Memorial Day in the United States, when we are supposed to remember our servicemen and women who died fighting for our country. Every year on Memorial Day Sabbath in my church, an elderly veteran arranges for the uniformed Pathfinders to march in (with barked military […]
