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 […]
by Jack Hoehn | 28 May 2025 | “Being made merely in the image of God, but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken for him by anybody but a very near-sighted person.” “I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.” —Mark Twain Mark Twain is noted […]
by Robert Crux | 27 May 2025 | Jesus, throughout his ministry, was on the side of the poor and exploited. Yet Christian politicians in 2025 America seem to have forgotten that. When political leaders use religion to try to justify policies that hurt women, children, immigrants, and the vulnerable; when Christianity justifies racism, xenophobia, […]
by Matthew Quartey | 23 May 2025 | At Sabbath School a few months ago, our class discussions strayed from the study topic and segued into funding and budgeting difficulties at Andrews University—problems that threatened to unleash deep institutional cuts. The question was whether the school’s longstanding funding model, which relies heavily on student fees […]
by Hannele Ottschofski | 22 May 2025 | On a recent visit to Helsinki, we learned that anybody can watch the Finnish Parliament working, either in person or online. We arrived at the correct entrance at the designated time and passed the security check. From the visitors’ balcony we observed the question time, and saw […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 21 May 2025 | Sometimes I am confronted with Bible passages that make me very uneasy. Here are three examples: Bald Elisha Recently I was working on a sermon about an incident in the ministry of the prophet Elisha. My topic was the story of the Shunammite woman in 2 Kings […]
by Richard W. Coffen | 20 May 2025 | Theologians have said that their main theological task is to speak well of God. In this essay, I’m going to address four commonly held reasons for prayer. I question them because it seems to me that they do not speak well of God. What do you […]
by Stephen Ferguson | 16 April 2025 | Should Seventh-day Adventists support reproductive technologies, including birth control and in vitro fertilization (IVF)? How about genetic counseling and gene-linked pharmaceuticals? Should I dye my graying hair? Can I wear glasses? Is it a sin to consume drinks with artificial sweeteners added, such as Diet Coke? How […]
by Melody Tan | 15 May 2025 | The camera operator turned to me. “This, right here, is church,” he declared. We were sitting at the outside area of a shopping mall, watching a group of women interact. Among them was a recent immigrant who had her first child not long after arriving, without any […]
by Davide Romano | 13 May 2025 | On Monday, April 21, at 7:35 a.m. Pope Francis’s death was announced. The news, as always when a pope dies, shook many people. And, as expected, it immediately set off the formidable media apparatus in Italy and the whole world. This significant event saddened Roman Catholics, and […]
by Loren Seibold | 9 May 2025 | Three religious bodies are choosing their leaders in about the same six-month period. Two of them are major world communions; the other imagines it is. Two of the leaders will have worldwide name recognition; the third will be known only to his own church of roughly 20,000,000 […]