4 April 2022 | LGBTQ+ Adventists have concerns and complaints about how they have been treated in the church. How does biblical love inform our beliefs and the challenges presented by LGBTQ+ Adventists? Before you go…The April 1-10, 2022 AT Spring Fundraiser is ON. Your donations are funding AT’s pioneering content for young people in […]
1 April 2022 | Dr. Fortin looks at the kinds of relationships we have had and can have with other churches. Can we engage along with other churches in inter-church activities, community action, dialogues, relief activities? Can we cooperate in community worship services? Can our pastors join local pastors’ associations? How about cooperating with larger […]
17 March 2022 | Ari Bates was a religion student, student leader and recruiter at Southern Adventist University— until she came out as trans on social media. Now she’s out of school and out of a job. Interviewer: Lindsey Abston Painter. To join this conversation, click/tap here.
13 March 2022 | After Ellen White, our church history remembered almost none of the women who made Seventh-day Adventists who we are. What happened? How did a church that was started by a woman—and has a majority of female members—end up forgetting the women who shaped it? To comment, click/tap here.
11 March 2022 | How is moral authority best understood and exercised in a worldwide church when there are deep divisions about so many ethical questions? Who’s in charge? Who decides? To comment, click/tap here.
5 March 2022 | This presentation by Michael W. Campbell examines some of the interactions, both positive and negative, in which Adventists participated with regard to race in 1910-1930. Some even embraced the second wave of the Klan. While this may seem deeply troubling to some today, at the time and in historical context, some […]
26 February 2022 | What is Biblical spirituality? Seventh-day Adventists speak of spiritual experience, of feeling God’s presence, but in practice much of our spirituality seems rooted in doctrines and interpretation. Ellen White encourages us to experience God, but also says we shouldn’t trust feelings and experiences. Our top church leaders warn against meditation and […]
25 February 2022 | Cindy Chamberlin Eastwood was an officer of the Central California Conference, working directly for CCC President Ramiro Cano—until she got married, and her boss systematically began to push her out of office. To comment, click/tap here.
23 February 2022 | What did Walter Veith say about the Apocrypha? Was there a Catholic conspiracy to change the Bible? Join biblical scholar Matthew Korpman as he reacts and fact checks Veith on his history of the canon. To comment, click/tap here.
20 February 2022 | “Headship theology belongs to an old dispensation in which man plays God and ironically erodes human worth and dignity; for to diminish one half of humanity is to also diminish the other half. We have seen the violence that has been perpetuated by this headship theology of male entitlement to female […]
17 February 2022 | University of the West Indies Professor Emerita and Jamaica Gleaner columnist Dr. Carolyn Cooper on Burnett Robinson, sexism in religion, and our troubled male-female relationships. Links referred to: Carolyn Joy Cooper writings Burnett Robinson news story Lindsey Painter article on purity culture Loren Seibold article on men’s temptations To join the […]
Was the son of God also the divine Bachelor? Was Mary Magdalene the wife of Jesus? These questions and more tackled by Matthew Korpman in a new Valentine’s edition of Bible Scholar Reacts, a YouTube series proudly sponsored by Adventist Today. To comment, click here.