By Debbie Hooper Cosier  |  22 September 2019  |   The fourteen-year-old stayed back at the end of class and asked to speak privately with me. She picked at the rubber sole of her school shoe for a long time before she eventually spoke: “Miss, I’m gay.” Because this was an Adventist school, we both knew […]

By Loren Seibold  |  20 September 2019  |   Elder Wilson’s first sermon to the world church in 2010 was predictive of the kind of leadership he would practice. Beyond a few manufactured trivialities (reading non-Adventist authors, meditation) he showed that his leadership style would involve enforcing upon the church his personal understanding of Adventist orthodoxy. This […]

by Rebecca Brothers  |  18 September 2019  |   Whenever we read Philippians 3:4-6 in church, I have to chuckle. Granted, it’s not a particularly humorous passage. Paul is describing how his qualifications are flawless: “If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, […]

by Andrew Dykstra  |  18 September 2019  |   But he said to them, “Not everyone can accept this teaching, but only those to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are eunuchs who have made […]

By Jack Hoehn | September 15, 2019 | I am a lifelong member of the Seventh-day Adventist church, an ordained elder, a Sabbath School teacher. I am also a delegate from my church to the September 15, 2019, Constituency Session of the Upper Columbia Conference (UCC) of Seventh-day Adventists. I am asking questions raised by […]

By Kirsten Øster Lundqvist  |  12 September 2019  | This is reprinted from the Spring 2019 Adventist Today magazine. I’ve never been petite. Nor dainty. Being of Viking stock, I never will be. And that should be fine. Diversity is good, we are told. As long it fits in the box. Sometimes it doesn’t. Size […]

By Stephen Ferguson  |  11 September 2019  | Conservative Christians routinely claim our more progressive members are no longer taking the Bible at face value. The quintessential example often cited is Leviticus 18:22: “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.” For some, failing to take a strong […]

by John T. McLarty  |  6 September 2019  | When I come out to the pasture The bull calf races about kicking up his heels cavorting A wild, rambunctious ballet. Even when I don’t come out He cavorts about, especially if his cousin joins in Though she’s getting a bit old for such folly. He […]

by Raj Attiken  |  5 September 2019  |   Eating in restaurants tests my resolve to be temperate in my diet. I don’t always know how large the servings will be when I order from a menu. After I enjoy part of the meal and feel satiated, I realize that I probably shouldn’t eat any more. […]

by Elle Berry  |  3 September 2019  | As I was scrolling through Instagram the other day I happened upon a common kind of post. Pictured was a woman, blissfully twirling in a field of flowers, with a caption reading:             Who would have known when I moved here, that I’d find the man I […]

By Connie J French  |  1 September 2019  |   1. The first reason why some Christians grasp for a divine legal atonement is because they don’t “get” the Gospel. Yes, there is a legal contract with God. Yes, there is a moral law. Yes, the law pronounces death to its transgressors. Yes, we are transgressors, […]

by Robbin Lewis  |  30 August 2019  | I grew up in a fairly strict Adventist home. My parents were, if nothing else, consistent. We all knew the rules. Prepare your clothes on Thursday night for church. Prepare your food for Sabbath on “preparation-day Friday”—the goal was to have everything done before sunset.  And of […]