By Loren Seibold  |  9 April 2021  |   Recently I read about the retirement of one of the church’s most beloved leaders, Dr. G.T. Ng, Secretary of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Ng has served as the warmer, more comedic sidekick to the sincere but charisma-challenged Ted Wilson. People looked forward to G.T’s jokes, […]

by Richard W. Coffen  |  8 April 2021  | Holy Week and Easter are over. At church the choir’s, “The Old Rugged Cross” anthem has been shelved until next spring. The echoes of “He Lives” are already fading. Sermons about the road to Emmaus will be temporarily forgotten. Perhaps, therefore, the time has arrived to […]

by Kris Coffin Stevenson  |  7 April 2021  |   I was talking with a friend who told me her church is considering in-person meetings again. “I don’t know if I’m going,“ she said. “I haven’t really missed it.” After 35 years in pastoral ministry, it’s a real temptation to feel that we’ve wasted our whole […]

Rebecca Brothers |  6 April 2021  | About fifteen years ago, the Adventist Sabbath School Quarterly featured a story about the American bomber Bockscar, which was tasked with dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Kokura on August 9, 1945. Frustrated by a layer of clouds that obscured the bomb’s target, the pilot […]

3 April 2021  | Years ago, in the week before Easter, I saw my next door neighbor in the yard. He said, “Hey, Loren: Are you going to be celebrating Good Thursday this week?” “Good Thursday?” I couldn’t figure out what he meant. He said, “Don’t you Adventists do everything a day early?” He earned […]

by S.M. Chen  |  2 April 2021  | Most of the time when I was growing up, my father cut my hair.  I would sit in a high black and chrome vinyl chair in the kitchen with a sheet draped around my shoulders as he applied the clippers. I think sometimes he placed a bowl on my […]

by Lars Dorland  |  31 March 2021  | Why did Jesus die for us? What did his death actually accomplish? The Bible gives us a plain and simple reason: “Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures” (1 Cor 15:3). The challenge is to unpack this statement. What does it mean to die […]

by Mike Fortune  |  31 March 2021  |   “In the climax to Charles Dickens’ novel A Tale of Two Cities, Sydney Carton glimpses a chance to do something heroic. He himself is smitten with love for Lucie Manette, but she hopes to marry Charles Darnay; and Darnay is going to the guillotine. ‘It is a […]

By Samantha Nelson  |  30 March 2021  |   It happens all over the world, in every faith community, in every denomination, in every church, synagogue, temple, mosque, parochial school, and counseling office. Clergy sexual abuse is a scourge of all faith communities. Whether by members of the clergy, faith-based educators and counselors, youth leaders, evangelists […]

By Arthur Sibanda  |  26 March 2021  | My memories of primary school include episodes of competitive bragging with my friends. It might have been that my dad was stronger than everyone else’s dad, or even that the buses in our part of town were faster than those in other parts of town!  And then […]

by Stephen Ferguson  |  25 March 2021  | The Bible’s favourite metaphor for death is sleep. The analogy is used by Daniel (Dan. 12:2), Job (Job 3:11-17), David (Ps. 13:3), Luke (Acts 7:59-60), Paul (1 Cor. 15:20; 1 Thess. 4:15-17), and a host of other prophets and biblical authors. The most famous user of this […]

by Alvin Masarira, PhD   |  24 Mar 2021  | The previous organization I worked for was a global mining company operating both underground and surface mines, as well as ore-processing plants in various parts of Africa, South America and Australia. Mining operations are characterized by activities that pose high risks of injury and even fatality […]