by Victor Czerkasij | 22 June 2022 | In a recent Aunt Sevvy column Aunty quoted a General Conference leader saying that the Ukrainian Union was separated from the Euro-Asian Division (ESD) because of the inconveniences in travel and handling of funds, caused by Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. These current problems are undeniable, making […]
21 June 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, People tell me that Ellen White didn’t plagiarize, because copying from other authors was a commonly accepted practice in Ellen White’s time. Is this true? Signed, Truth Seeker Dear Seeker, When in the 1970s Adventist scholars began to notice that significant amounts of Ellen White’s writings (in some […]
by Andreas Bochmann | 17 June 2022 When I grew up in the city of West Berlin, it was still surrounded by the Berlin Wall, to “protect” Communist East Germany from all the dangers of the free world. It is this memory that flooded my mind after the General Conference (GC) session was over and […]
17 June 2022 | Introduction by Mathilde Frey. The story of Cain and Abel has been invoked in the wake of mass shootings numerous times. “Cain killed Abel with a rock, and God did not take away the rock.” Yes, I have seen the billboards and the memes, and I heard this message after every mass […]
by Thandazani Mhlanga | 16 June 2022 | On July 23, 1983, Air Canada flight 143 left Montreal bound for Edmonton with 61 passengers and 8 crew on board. What seemed to be another routine flight turned out to be nothing of the kind: while cruising at 41,000 feet over Manitoba, the Boeing 767 ran […]
15 June 2022 | Why and how do people change their minds? Why do we forget important things and remember trivial ones? Do we remember events as accurately as we think we do? How come two people can be equally confident of different memories of the same event? And regarding prophecy, how do our minds […]
15 June 2022 | When Ted Wilson delivered his inaugural sermon twelve years ago, after his election as president of the General Conference (GC) a few days earlier, I sat in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta listening to him with growing uneasiness. It was, through and through, a conservative speech in which he left no […]
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 […]
