by Justin Spady  |  16 February 2020  |   Read part 1 here Read part 2 here Read part 3 here My mom likes to keep her home as tidy as possible. Growing up, we always took our shoes off when we entered the house. My wife and I still do today. As a pastor, whenever […]

14 February 2020  | In 2015, Ivan Rechter and Berit Elkjær represented the Danish Union as delegates to the San Antonio General Conference Session. Afterwards, they wrote a letter to the General Conference giving their suggestions for making the Session work better.  “Unfortunately, we haven’t heard anything from the GC,” they wrote Adventist Today. “We […]

by Reinder Bruinsma  |  12 February 2020  | Read part 1 here Read part 2 here Read part 4 here When speaking about rituals, we are confronted with a cluster of terms that are closely connected and are at times used interchangeably: customs, traditions, rituals, symbols.  A custom is what people have become used to […]

by David Geelan  |  9 February 2020  | Conspiracy theories and anti-science ideas are remarkably resistant to argument and evidence. There is a range of such ideas, and I will address only a few, but the pattern is consistent in how they are defended. Such ideas include anti-vaccine claims, climate change denial, suspicion of ‘big […]

by Loren Seibold   |   6 February 2020  |   The teaching concerning clean and unclean meats has been a remarkably enduring element of Seventh-day Adventism. I don’t know what the younger generation of Seventh-day Adventists thinks (what there is left of a younger generation to ask), but among their elders, it still has traction. Ask most […]

by Steve Moran  |  6 February 2020  | I am a Seventh-day Adventist Boomer who has a Pentecostal/Millennial heart. In my day job as a blogger/thought leader in the senior living industry, I am presently spending a lot of time thinking about and writing about how companies that provide housing and services to older people […]

by Arthur Sibanda  |  4 February 2020  |   I wrote letters with great urgency. I had to do my best to save everyone.  It was July of 1998, and Pope John Paul II had just written an apostolic epistle called Dies Domini, that sought to encourage Catholics to rediscover the importance of the “Lord’s Day”—Sunday. […]

by Steven Siciliano  |  30 January 2020  | Read part 1 here. Read part 3 here. I joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church about forty years ago, as a young person with little knowledge of the Bible. Among other things, I was told that Jesus had instituted foot washing as an “ordinance” that we should literally […]

by Richard W. Coffen  |  30 January 2020  |   “Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time” “A Psalm of Life,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It was my first day in the seminary class titled “New Testament Backgrounds.” The […]

by Loren Seibold  |  29 January 2020 |   I remember once listening to a conversation in a Sabbath School class, the thesis of which was, “We are so glad that we don’t have rituals like those Catholics do.”  I had a hard time keeping a straight face: I had just been through a conflict with […]

by Dean Waterman  |  28 January 2020  | Not much has been written about why many parents in the Adventist denomination commit to sending their children to a Seventh-day Adventist school. In a recent article published on Adventist Today, “Why Our Children Aren’t Attending an Adventist School Anymore,” the anonymous author (who chose anonymity to […]

by Loren Seibold  |  25 January 2020  | Seventh-day Adventists, from our very beginning, have believed God was interacting not just with individuals, but with an entire planet. The dark day, the blood moon, the falling stars, the Lisbon earthquake—these were events God was causing (or, say some, allowing—a distinction without a difference) in the […]