Dear Aunt Sevvy: My husband is a wonderful man: kind, hard-working, a good father. But even though he and I both grew up in the church, now he won’t attend church with me. I hate sitting alone. We’ve had a few arguments about it, to the point where I just don’t bring it up anymore. […]
Commentary on “Among the Lampstands,” Lesson for January 5-11. by Werner E. Lange | 10 January 2019 | John saw a special “son of man” among seven golden lampstands in the vision that introduces the seven epistles to the seven churches (Rev 1:12-20). The identification of this “son of man” can be easily made on […]
by Ron Lawson, Ph.D. | 10 January 2019 | I am happy to report that we have just uploaded the first of a new series of my papers to my website. Unlike the most recent series, which featured my earliest papers about Adventism written in 1983-1984, this is the first of a very recent series […]
Commentary on tomorrow’s Sabbath School lesson by Werner E. Lange | 4 January 2019 | Probably many of us have personally experienced or observed the following situation. A woman tries to make something clear to her husband, but does not feel understood. The conversation goes back and forth. Finally the woman says frustrated: “You don’t […]
Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 24 December 2018 | When the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion was being prepared in the mid-1990s, I was invited to write the article on Adventism for it. A decade later, Robert Wuthnow, its publisher, decided that it was time for a second edition, and I was […]
by Jon Paulien | 20 December 2016 | A friend of mine, Werner E. Lange, has started a very interesting project in relation to the Sabbath School Lessons for the next quarter. He is the retired book-editor of the German Adventist Publishing House and has edited several of my books. I am excited about his […]
by John McLarty | 19 December 2018 | According to legend there were three. Old men living in Persia. Devout and philosophical. They saw a new star and understood it to be the sign of the birth of the Jewish Messiah, a divine king. Their convictions were so strong and their resources so deep they […]
by S M Chen | 17 December 2018 | “You just call out my name…” 1971 song “You’ve Got a Friend” by Carole King An e-pal posted a link to a recent BBC Earth 3.5’ video which, along with over 9 million other viewers, I watched with more than a little interest. Narrated by Sir […]
Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 17 December 2018 | In the past two weeks we have uploaded two of the first three papers written in 1983-84 under the aegis of my historical and sociological study of global Adventism. We have just uploaded the third of these, “The Future of Seventh-day Adventism.” You are invited to read […]
by Carolyn Shultz | 13 December 2018 | The angel Gabriel it was— the same whose flaming sword, in ancient lore, the gates of Eden barred to wayward Eve and all her wand’ring race— He it was, long after, said to second Eve in tones of shielding grace, “Fear not, O favored one. Through you the […]
Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 04 December 2018 | Last week I introduced the readers of the Adventist Today website to a paper on the conflicts that had raged in the Adventist church in the USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s that was written by my friend, Dr Maren Lockwood Carden, and me in […]