by Thandazani Mhlanga   |  18 June 2021  | Before making a case for the retrial of ancestor veneration in the courts of Christian thought, maybe a brief contextual self-introduction detailing my connections with the subject matter is in order.  My name is Thandazani, which means in my native tongue “pray,” in the emphatic sense. I […]

by Kris Coffin Stevenson  |  17 June 2021  | Growing up I heard a lot of sermons about the five foolish virgins of Matthew 25 and about how their lack of preparation prevented them from entering the wedding celebration—heaven, basically. Adventists like to dwell on this story because we’re addicted to last day events. We […]

by Jack Hoehn  |  June 11, 2021  | One year ago today, I wrote an article I need to keep rereading. It was published June 20, 2020. It was the response of a white Adventist to the Black Lives Matter movement, and a recognition that all white people have a generational debt from our ancestors that […]

By Margaret Eunice Matthews  |  13 June 2021  |   Recently the news and social media erupted about a discovery at the Kamloops Residential School in British Columbia, a discovery which has agitated people and aroused compassion and sympathy.  The Kamloops Residential School first opened in 1893 and closed down in 1969, sometimes having as many […]

by Alvin Masarira  |  10 June 2021  | In October the General Council Annual Council voted “113-18G: Regard for and practice of General Conference Session and General Conference Executive Committee Actions.” It describes a process to enforce compliance with organizational policies, as well as actions voted at General Conference (GC) sessions and executive committee meetings. […]

by Marvin Moore  |  7 June 2021  | I am responding to Loren Seibold’s “Ellen White, the Bible, and Persistent Hermeneutical Confusion.” And while I agree with much of what Loren said, I do have some reservations. I’ll begin with the list of seven ways to regard the writings of Ellen White, none of which […]

by John Phiri  |  4 June 2021  |   “Things may come to those who wait, but only those things left by those who hustle”—Abraham Lincoln. A praying mantis is a fascinating insect, named because its prominent front legs are bent at an angle and held together in a way that suggests a prayer posture. Its […]

by Mark B. Johnson  |  3 June 2021  | The Academy Award winning movie City Slickers (1991) tells the story of three friends in New York City who are struggling with middle-age. Their work is unrewarding and each of them, to a varying degree, is having problems in his marriage. To get away from their trouble […]

by Richard W. Coffen  |  2 June 2021  | “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” Professor Leona Running, grande dame of the seminary, used to wear a shirt bearing that bon mot to classes she taught. Not all assertions about women have been as lighthearted: “Let women stay at […]

by Elle Berry  |  30 May 2021  | I’ve followed this person on Instagram for a while. She’s not someone I know personally, but she posts about her faith and her mental health, and I’ve sometimes thought that if I met her I think she’s someone I would want to be friends with.  A few […]

By Carl McRoy & Christopher C. Thompson  |  27 May 2021  |   What if radical abolitionists like Joseph Bates could hear the Muslim son of an Adventist mother proclaim a version of Revelation’s judgment hour message?  What if Malcolm Little had encountered the mid-19th century change-agents that birthed the Seventh-day Adventist Church instead of the […]

by S.M. Chen  |  26 May 2021  | “Each little flower that opens, Each little bird that sings, He made their glowing colors, He made their tiny wings.” —“All Things Bright and Beautiful” – hymn (lyrics: Cecil F. Alexander, 1848) The Australian Open, in February of this year, was chronologically the first of the four […]