by Mark Johnson | 25 June 2025 | (Read part 1 of this series here.) (Read part 2 of this series here.) I wrote before about how the accreditation of Loma Linda propagated accreditation and higher education down the line, to our colleges, and eventually even to our seminaries. It was the theologians that struggled […]
by Mark Johnson | 24 June 2025 | (Read part 1 of this series here.) In this installment I’m discussing an idea of central importance to Adventists—one that has largely been sidelined. It’s called wholism. Our doctrine of wholism (and for my purposes, the “w” seems essential) has often fallen under the rather dreary heading […]
by Lindsey Abston Painter | 19 June 2025 | A white woman may seem an unlikely author for an article about Juneteenth. While there are others who have more authority to speak on such things, I find myself captivated by Juneteenth. Juneteenth is about the history of slaves being freed by Abraham Lincoln’s declaration—but many […]
by Melody Tan | 18 June 2025 | Growing up, the only overseas holiday my family could afford was a one-month visit to England when I was 16. Other than that trip, where I saw a different country through the tinted lens of a tourist, my birth country was the only culture I experienced for […]
by Mark Johnson | 17 June 2025 | Adventism is in a decades-long crisis. We are split into at least two different churches.2 Reinder Bruinsma and others have defined the widely differing categories into which we fall. New members pour into the church in some geographical areas while the disenchanted hemorrhage out the back door […]
by Loren Seibold | 12 June 2025 | Recently we read a rumor that a new book about Ellen White, published by Pacific Press, had been withdrawn from the market. A far-right Adventist website was the first to say that Reclaiming the Prophet had been pulled from both the shelves and the presses. Amazon lists […]
by Jim Burklo | 11 June 2025 | What is money? Cryptocurrencies push the question up in our faces. The “crypto” in cryptocurrency means “hidden” – obscured. But in a way, all money is cryptocurrency. What is a dollar, really? Ultimately a dollar is worth what people believe it is worth—it has little intrinsic value […]
by Lindsey Abston Painter | 10 June 2025 | I’m watching M*A*S*H for the first time. I know I’m late to the party—I was born in the ’80s, so I missed M*A*S*H in its heyday. It’s still funny and brilliant, at the same time fun and deeply moving. The character that has consistently drawn my […]
by Loren Seibold | 6 June 2025 | The 2025 General Conference Session agenda is out—and it’s a 94-page book. This document feels a bit like the credits at the end of a movie, or that software fine print that you click without reading: you know there is some important information there, but it’s not […]
by Admiral Ncube | 5 June 2025 | Sometime early this year, a friend of mine told me that he had been nominated to be a delegate at the 62nd General Conference Session in St Louis. He was excited! However, a few days ago when I talked to him, he was distraught. He had done […]
by Tyler Kraft | 3 June 2025 | When I was in high school, I struggled mightily with biology: it was a sea of confusing terms and concepts that never seemed to click. But I understood genetics: Punnett squares, dominant traits, and recessive genes all clicked. As a pastor I haven’t had much reason to […]
Loren Seibold | 29 May 2025 | I was interested to read of a recent (April) action by the Rushmoor Borough Council (a region southwest of London, England, that includes the cities of Aldershot and Farnborough) to restrict the activities of street evangelists. The ban included “Praying, whether with outstretched arms or otherwise, for anyone […]