by Herold Weiss  |  12 August 2020  | From the ancient past until now, cultures have recognized that there is something fundamentally wrong with the human condition in this world. We are not really free to act according to our better judgment. We seem compulsively inclined toward evil. How did this come to be? Does […]

by Debbie Hooper Cosier  |  11 August 2020  | Fair warning: I can be a little over the top about animals. I have many domestic and wild critters living here on our rainforest property. They regularly feature in my social media feed, which makes me uncomfortably aware that I appear to some as a kind […]

by Kris Coffin Stevenson  |  02 August 2020  | When I was four or five, my mother did what mothers do, and posed my sister and me for a photo in matching outfits looking out our picture window. The photographer directed us to “Look at that beautiful tree.” Always one to insist on clarity, I […]

Reviewed by Jack Hoehn  | July 31, 2020 | There are many good people I would like to share this book with. I would love to share it with every young Adventist from high school to doctoral program who loves nature and wants to be a scientist. I would love to share it with every […]

by Loren Seibold  |  7 August 2020  | Recently a friend sent me a video link to an Adventist offshoot ministry that was criticizing a recent AT Aunt Sevvy column, one where Aunty had suggested, in response to a question about lard in pie crusts, that the ceremonial food rules of Leviticus can’t be regarded […]

by Arthur Sibanda  |  6 August 2020  |   My friend Antony and I had spent four years of high school studying Adventist teachings and watching video sermons together, and I felt I understood his theological views. Our spiritual bond deepened when, years later, I reached out to him at a time when I was a […]

by David Geelan  |  4 August 2020  |   Why do we make the choices we do, and how do we know that they are morally right ones? Moral reasoning is the process by which we arrive at answers to these questions. It is less about the specific solutions we arrive it, and more about the […]

by Jeanne Mogusu  |  31 July 2020  | At first I didn’t completely understand what was happening. The early videos showed a police officer with his knee on George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. They didn’t show all the other people on the scene. Later I saw videos that showed the other […]

by Hannele Ottschofski  |  30 July 2020  |   Life is at a halt. We are heeding the lockdown regulations, staying at home and social distancing. All the plans we had for traveling are cancelled. After months, we are still waiting for life to resume—with no real expectation when it will. We check the infection rates […]

by Alvin Masarira  |  29 July 2020  |   When the COVID-19 global pandemic started, there was a hope that this was a bump on the road over which we would pass, and we would all go back to our usual ways of doing things. But it’s becoming increasingly likely that this crisis is ushering in […]

by Marvin Moore  |  24 July 2020  |   I’m responding to the commentary piece by Loren Seibold on the Adventist Today website titled, “Is Probation About to Close?” I want to begin this response by saying that Loren Seibold is a very good friend of mine, but I have to take issue with much of […]

by Paul Priest  |  23 July 2020  | The investigative judgment debate has been a part of Adventism for many decades. I have been following it for years and am not satisfied with either of the main interpretations. Daniel 8:14 does not identify the sanctuary. It simply says: “then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” The […]