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Dr. Ron Numbers on Writing Prophetess of Health
Adventist Today editor Loren Seibold talked with Dr. Ron Numbers, whose article on once-Adventist, later media and sports mogul, John Fetzer will appear in the autumn edition of Adventist Today magazine. You have a distinguished pedigree with the Seventh-day Adventist church. According to family lore my great-grandmother, Mary Anne Dicky Branson, then living in southern […]
Adventists and HIV-AIDS
By Ronald Lawson | 21 June 2018 | To what extent should Adventists be concerned about people with HIV-AIDS? In the 1950s America suffered a polio epidemic. This was right down our alley as Adventists: we loved giving water treatments, massages, etc. Those affected were usually innocent young children, and our hearts went out to […]
When the Adventist Church Sponsored an Ex-gay Ministry
by Ronald Lawson | 15 June 2018 | “The Troubled Career of an ‘Ex-Gay’ Healer: Colin Cook, Seventh-day Adventists, and the Christian Right.” Seventh-day Adventists had long assumed that they had no gay or lesbian members, even though there was a history of gay pastors, some in key posts, being discovered and fired, and gay […]
Small Things
by S.M. Chen | 13 June 2018 “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” Confucius, aka Kong Qiu (551-479 BC), teacher, politician, philosopher I’m standing by the kitchen sink. As I lean over the garbage disposal, I hear a faint clink, metal on metal. I increase kitchen illumination, look around, […]
Sermon: Working Like God
by John McLarty | 12 June 2018 | Sermon for Green Lake Church of Seventh-day Adventists for May 26, 2018 Texts: Deuteronomy 14:22-29, Exodus 20:8-11, John 5:8-19 Yesterday I was at Cypress Adventist School to present a chapel talk. Since I’m freshly returned from vacation in southern Utah, I told the kids about one of […]
The Church and Its Homosexual Members
by Ron Lawson | 29 May 2018 | The chapter I wrote for the book, Christianity and Homosexuality: Seventh-day Adventist Perspectives, edited by David Ferguson, Fritz Guy, and David Larson, which was released in 2007, has been uploaded to my website, www.RonaldLawson.net. The title of the paper is “The Caring, Welcoming Church?: The Seventh-day Adventist […]
Seventh-day Adventists and Polygamous Converts
by Ronald Lawson | 29 May 2018 | “Church-Sponsored Injustice: The Seventh-day Adventist Church and Polygamous Converts” addresses how Adventists have dealt with polygamously married converts in Africa, where the practice has been widespread. The policy long followed by other mission churches was to refuse to baptize converts who were polygamously married unless the male put away […]