25 January 2023 | by Bryan Ness Christianity, which heavily influenced Western culture, has been frequently blamed for being the cause of our current environmental crises. As acknowledged by Christians, when God created humans, He gave them dominion over all things: “God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill […]
18 January 2023 | Revelation for the 21st Century, part 2 Jan 21—Revelation’s Remnant and the World Religions. The most challenging doctrines of the SDA Church for evangelists have been the Sabbath, the state of the dead, and tithing, the so-called “testing truths.” These have become less challenging over the last twenty years or so. […]
11 January 2023 | Revelation for the 21st Century Jan 14—Youthful Atheism and the Adventist Approach to Revelation 12. “My son is involved in an online forum that includes a number of ex-Christian and ex-Adventist atheists. These young people have two common denominators in their leaving God and the church. We will explore these briefly and […]
4 January 2023 | Fake news and conspiracy theories are not new phenomena. They have been with us through the centuries. Jews, Muslims, Catholics, and secret societies have often been the subjects. Today these stories play an ever bigger role. Religious people of the more conservative variety appear to be especially susceptible for all kinds […]
13 December 2022 | Think about this for a moment: Satan is hardly mentioned in the Old Testament—just three times—and is present almost everywhere in the New Testament. Where does that emphasis on Satan come from? The Old Testament is silent about an afterlife: the dead know nothing, feel nothing, experience nothing. The New Testament […]
7 December 2022 | This week, Gerald Winslow considers the Creator’s invitation to wonder about creation. With the Galapagos Islands as the backdrop, Dr. Winslow develops the thesis that creation is God’s gift to be celebrated, not debated—that we have spent too much time arguing about the how and when of creation, and not enough about the why. The hope […]
30 November 2022 | If you know anything about the history of Adventism, then you know that this movement was conceived in discussion, and it was birthed in dialogue. It was breast-fed on argument, and it grew up in a debating hall. It’s not for nothing that the signature book of this movement for more […]
23 November 2022 | Spiritual abuse is a sensitive and largely neglected topic in the church. We are accustomed to talking about it in the context of cults, such as the infamous Waco group. For some, any criticism of the church seems like cutting the branch we are sitting on. So to even suggest that […]
24 November 2022 | The following ATSS PRESENTS programs are now on the Adventist Today YouTube channel. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Katrina Blue | 29 October 2022 Do you have family members, friends, neighbors, or co-workers who deny, or don’t know, or don’t seem to care, if God exists? How do you maintain […]
15 November 2022 | I still remember a time when divorce was not talked about very much in my church. At most, there were whispers behind closed doors. Divorce simply didn’t happen—and if it did, at least one person of the couple was disfellowshipped. Pastors who went through a divorce always lost their jobs. Divorce […]
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 […]
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 […]