by Daniel A. Mora  |  3 August 2021  | In the prologue to John’s Gospel we find this statement: “He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him” (John 1:11 NIV). On reading that, we first think of the people of Israel—that it was the Jewish people who did […]

By Debbie Hooper Cosier  |  30 July 2021  |   There’s some debate about Goliath, the Philistine champion who terrorized the Israelites day and night in the Valley of Elah. According to unreliable conversions from ancient units of measurement, his height at ‘six cubits and a span’ was about ten feet. But Dead Sea Scrolls scholars […]

by Daniel A. Mora  |  27 July 2021  | The question of the authority of Ellen White’s writings continues to be a head-scratcher for Adventists. One traditional position can be seen in a recent article by Marvin Moore responding to Loren Seibold’s article, “Ellen White, the Bible, and Persistent Hermeneutical Confusion.” Moore’s observations affirm that […]

by Raj Attiken  |  23 July 2021  |   Two churches I am very familiar with, each with its own junior academy, decided to merge their schools following long and serious consultations. To avoid the appearance of one school shutting down and sending its students to the other (which might have been perceived as a “win-lose” […]

by Elle Berry  |  22 July 2021  |   I was twenty-six years old when I had my quarter-life crisis. Most people are probably familiar with the mid-life crisis, so the idea of a quarter-life crisis may be new to you. However, it is not for most Millennials. As it turns out this generation is so […]

by Mailen Kootsey  |  20 July 2021  | Jack Hoehn recently reviewed here on the Adventist Today website the latest book by prolific science writer Stephen C. Meyer, entitled Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe (New York: Harper One, 2021). Hoehn recommends this book as one […]

by Stephen Ferguson  |  16 July 2021  | As recently reported by CNN: “The US intelligence community on Friday released a hotly anticipated report on what it knows about a series of mysterious sightings of unidentified flying objects by Navy pilots and others. The report, which examined 144 reports of what the government terms “unexplained aerial phenomena” between […]

By Edison García-Creitoff  |  15 July 2021  |   Few will be surprised to hear me say that there is a tendency to inflexibility and rigidity in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The church “froze” in the 20th century, and is finding it difficult to adapt to the 21st. A false identity took hold: that what defines […]

by Kevin Kuehmichel Since the COVID-19 crisis began, there has been much discussion about how we hold the communion service for the church. This article seeks to address a key issue regarding officiating at the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper. I begin with this statement from the Handbook of Seventh-day Adventist Theology as my premise: […]