by Lindsey Abston Painter  |  20 January 2021  | Growing up Adventist, I learned that I should never swear—especially I must never use words that take the Lord’s name in vain. Even saying “Oh my gosh” was not acceptable because it was just a slightly sanitized version of “Oh my god”—and this last was simply […]

by Rebecca Brothers  |  17 January 2021  | When I moved to a farm last spring, my neighbors gave me a week or two to settle in. Then they started coming over to introduce themselves. My neighbor across the road, whom we’ll call Mike, was the first. He’s a retired Army scout who used part […]

by Michael W. Campbell  |  18 January 2020  | Today is a day to honor the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., and an opportunity to meaningfully reflect about race. I’m reminded that most of our Adventist schools in North America (Oakwood excepted) were segregated even after the Civil Rights Movement and did not change […]

By Loren Seibold  |  15 January 2021  |   White Adventism (apart from a few institutional congregations) isn’t what it used to be. When I grew up every little town, even in the relatively empty plains states where there wasn’t a patch of dark human skin to be discovered, had its own Adventist church, and those […]

By Jeanne Mogusu  |  13 January 2021 Though Americans aren’t always aware of it, American politics and policies have an enormous impact on what happens in other countries around the world. Therefore, it was with utter fascination and some disbelief that all our eyes were fixed to our television screens as the events on January […]

by Admiral Ncube  |  11 January 2021  | Adventism globally is enjoying phenomenal growth, with membership now in excess of 22 million. While acknowledging that numbers—be they demographic or financial—are not an indicator of spirituality or faithfulness, the numerical growth of Adventism globally should be celebrated. Statistics on accessions through baptism and profession of faith […]

by Danita Rasmussen  |  8 January 2021  |   I love stories. And while I was growing up, nothing pleased me more than being able to listen to a story on a cassette tape. Whether I was in the car, in my room, or carrying the story with me on my Walkman, I loved to listen!  […]

By Jonathan Butler  |  6 January 2021  | Too often these days “The Second Coming,” William Butler Yeats’s prescient poem, comes to mind. It echoes The Book of Revelation and the world outside our windows. It’s as if the poem haunts every aspect of our social, political, economic, and religious lives: the “falcon cannot hear the […]

by S.M. Chen  |  4 January 2021  | Pastor Mark McWilliams was killed and 2 others injured in a shooting Sunday in an east Texas church, about 100 miles from Dallas, after McWilliams confronted Mytrez Woolen, who had hidden from police in the church overnight. McWilliams, pastor of Starrville Methodist Church, discovered Woolen hiding in […]

by Loren Seibold  |  31 December 2020  | Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And […]

by Elliot Pinero  |  30 December 2020  | For most of my life, I have not only believed that those who commit suicide will not be saved, but also found myself preaching as much. I felt sorry for those individuals, who according to my beliefs, were eternally lost and could never do a thing about […]

by Melissa Brotton  |  28 December 2020  | “Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.” (Ps. 42:11) Sometime during my college graduation weekend, my mother presented me with the gift […]