by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 31 May 2019 | Read this article and others on Dr. Lawson’s website here. The Seventh-day Adventist Church, like many conservative denominations, has officially rejected homosexuality and its members who practice homosexuality. The Seventh-day Adventist Church Manual states that “…homosexual practices and lesbian practices are among the obvious perversions of […]
[symple_heading style=”” title=”Times of Loss” type=”h1″ font_size=”40″ text_align=”center” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”30″ color=”undefined” icon_left=”” icon_right=””] This is a tool for you to use if you lead a Sabbath School (SS) class or small group. It is keyed to the Bible texts used in the current week’s Adult SS Lesson and includes a brief story from current news […]
Dear Aunt Sevvy, When I went to an academy reunion recently, one of the first questions people asked me was, “”Where do you live now?” Then the second question was, “Oh! Cool! And where do you go to church?” Here’s my problem. I don’t attend church anymore and haven’t for 25 years. So after a […]
by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 26 May 2019 | This paper was presented at the meeting of the Religious Research Association, 2008. Adventists viewed themselves as “God’s Remnant People,” who, as the bearers of “present truth,” were charged with delivering God’s final warning message in the last days. Other Protestant groups were “apostate” and had […]
24 May 2019 | It has been labeled a “crisis” and last week Elder Ted Wilson, the president of the denomination’s General Conference (GC), appealed to Adventists around the world to pray for the church in the central African nation of Burundi. “I call on all Seventh-day Adventists to pray for our church members in […]
Homily delivered at Erv Taylor’s funeral, by Jim Walters | 21 May 2019 | This is a tale of Royal Ervin Taylor, Jr. Really, it a tale of two Ervs—Erv the scientist and Erv the Adventist Erv Taylor got his PhD in anthropology from University of California, Los Angeles, and went on to a distinguished […]
[symple_heading style=”” title=”Season of Parenting” type=”h1″ font_size=”40″ text_align=”center” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”30″ color=”undefined” icon_left=”” icon_right=””] This is a tool for you to use if you lead a Sabbath School (SS) class or small group. It is keyed to the Bible texts used in the current week’s Adult SS Lesson and includes a brief story from current news […]
by Larry Downing | 19 May 2019 | In the process of “ritting out” my bookcases (ritt out” is an expression my Carlisle, Pennsylvania, parishioners employed when they spoke of cleaning out a closet or attic) I rescued from the dark regions of my library several books authored by Adventist pioneers. One of these tomes caught my attention, […]
17 May 2019 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Is there ever an appropriate time to express an opinion or talk to your spouse about their appearance? I’m not talking about modesty, but what if your spouse is letting their health or appearance go? Can you say, “This would look better,” or “I wish you would try […]
by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 17 May 2019 | Introduction Seventh-day Adventism was born in America. Its forerunner, Baptist lay preacher William Miller, had gathered a considerable following as a result of his preaching throughout New England and upstate New York that Christ would return on October 22, 1844. Although Miller had stated that […]
[symple_heading style=”” title=”Keys to Family Unity” type=”h1″ font_size=”40″ text_align=”center” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”30″ color=”undefined” icon_left=”” icon_right=””] This is a tool for you to use if you lead a Sabbath School (SS) class or small group. It is keyed to the Bible texts used in the current week’s Adult SS Lesson and includes a brief story from current […]
by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. (see also www.RonaldLawson.net) | 10 May 2019 | This was a presentation originally developed for the Metro New York Adventist Forum This piece considers the ways in which the terms “cult,” “sect,” and “denomination” are used in everyday language, within Christian circles and in sociology, and tests the applicability of these […]