18 October 2023 | One of the reasons God was so incensed with injustice—after all, he raised prophets such as Isaiah and Ezekiel and others who were prophets particularly of social justice—is because injustice is so much against who he is and what he is about. If God’s nature is love, and God’s mission is […]
4 October 2023 | Adventist healthcare ministry was once considered the “entering wedge” for our church. Other faith-based healthcare ministries were common at the time, with similar goals and objectives: serving the public in our communities with regard to health and well-being, all the while hoping they would join the church. As Adventism went up […]
27 September 2023 | In discussions about theology and spiritual lives, the aesthetic hardly ever gets the spotlight. When it does, it is often a battle of preferences, not an exchange of informed or “sensed-through” comments on the deeper makeup of the concept and related fields. Things like beauty and arts exist, an artifact may […]
The following recordings of Adventist Today Sabbath Seminar (ATSS) classes are available on our YouTube channel: Bryan Ness, “God, the Big Bang, and the Age of Everything” Matthew Korpman, “Ellen White and the Apocrypha” Rolf J. Pöhler, “Is Truth a Secure Possession or Steady Search?” Sigve Tonstad, “The Sabbath as a Divine Commitment” David Neff, […]
20 September 2023 | Raj Attiken When the church of my childhood years organized a Pathfinder club, I became one of its early members. Our club meetings typically began with the recital of the Pathfinder Aim, Motto, Pledge, and Law. None of us questioned how doable the Aim was: “The Advent Message to all the […]
6 September 2023 | For thousands of years mankind has wrestled with the problem of human suffering. The book of Job is primarily concerned with this problem. The first two chapters are in prose and the last chapter is mostly prose. Sandwiched between these two prose passages are 39 chapters of poetry. If we take […]
30 August 2023 | A community cannot exist without general consensus about its goals and its self-identity, but responsible dissent is healthy for the future of the church. History shows that at times the church has been wrong and dissenters were often pioneers of renewal and reform. Dissent forces the community to re-assess its self-understanding. […]
16 August 2023 | In that phrase—“what language shall I borrow”—the translator of “O Sacred Head Now Wounded” captures the sense of speechlessness we experience when confronted with divine mystery. When we experience life’s greatest joys or sorrows, when we sense the Divine presence in church, in the natural world, or in our relationships, we […]
16 August 2023 | My title is not a misspelling or manufactured. The Sabbath among Adventists has primarily been seen as a divine commandment. What if this is a sin of omission, or at least a misperception? What will we say if, after putting the seventh day in our denominational name, it should turn out […]
9 August 2023 | Adventists have used certain key terms and phrases to express their view on doctrinal development. These catch-words reflect both the determination to uphold the doctrines of the church and the readiness to advance in the understanding of truth. Because of this tendency to use these expressions without an accurate understanding of […]
2 August 2023 | For a number of years, an increasing number of voices in Seventh-day Adventism have been interested in the topic of the Apocrypha, lost books of the Bible, and particularly the Book of Enoch. In this Sabbath School, a leading expert on Ellen White’s use of the Apocrypha (with almost ten publications […]
26 July 2023 | Those who accept a literal interpretation of Genesis often feel threatened by the Big Bang, which implies a universe much older than just 6,000 years. In some ways the Big Bang is more supportive of the existence of a God who created the universe! Prior to the Big Bang theory cosmologists […]