By Jack Hoehn, 07/23/2017 (This is part 2 of a series on Adventist involvement in health care. Read part 1 here.) I began these articles with the statement that kindly caring for sick people is one of the best things Adventists do. There are some 74 Seventh-day Adventist owned or operated hospital listed in the USA. […]

By Jack Hoehn, 07/21/2017 (Part one of a 3-part series on the Adventist church’s involvement with heath care.) I am retiring from the best things Seventh-day Adventists do for this old world.  The details of my retirement from medical practice are not that important,  but the “best thing Adventists do” I would like to explore.   This […]

by Mark McCleary, 07/18/2017 The apostle Paul asserted “Let everyone be persuaded” in the context of controversy about food and days, two Jewish practices that had become matters of contention for newly converted Gentiles (Romans 14:1-5, KJV). Seventh-day Adventists have embraced these two issues as important religious practices. The matters of food and time, while fundamental […]

by Dorcas Daboni, 07/11/2017 While my parents were on vacation recently they visited a church on Sabbath for worship. This church was in a popular tourist destination, so one would suppose a good portion of the attendees were visitors. The pastor asked everyone to lift their Bibles at the beginning of his sermon. My mother, lifted […]

This article was originally printed in the Winter 2010 issue of Adventist Today. By Loren Seibold For over a century, even before the publication of The Great Controversy, we Adventists have regarded the Roman Catholic Church leadership, typified in the first beast of Revelation 13, as our arch-nemesis, our bête noire, the enemy that takes […]

by Alicia Johnston Less than two months ago I came out as a supporter of LGBT sexuality and gender and as a bisexual person, ending my career as an Adventist pastor. My life since then has been a case study in attempts to express love in the midst of often intense disagreement. It’s also been […]

by Stephen Ferguson, July 5, 2017:    As I write this article, every newspaper and television news station in my country of Australia is leading with some variation of the same story: “Cardinal George Pell charged with historic sex offences” (Sydney Morning Herald); “George Pell charged on summons with multiple sex offences” (The Australian); “George Pell […]

by Christopher Thompson, 06/27/2017 A couple months ago I tore my achilles tendon while playing basketball. This entire experience has taught me so much. All the downtime has forced me to do a great deal of reflecting. And recently I discovered something about healing that’s been life-changing. A major injury takes a major toll on the […]

by Melody Tan, 06/27/2017 Every nine seconds in the United States, a woman is assaulted or beaten, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Which means by the time you reach the end of this paragraph, yet another woman has tragically become a victim of violence. What makes this statistic scarier is that some women […]

By Michael Peabody, June 27, 2017:      Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 that a state law that prohibited a church from participating in a state playground resurfacing grant program available to other nonprofits violated the Constitution because the laws discriminate against churches thus violating the church’s right to free exercise of […]

by Lawrence G. Downing & Robert M. Krone, June 26, 2017:     The contemporary political situations that rile nations and people have had profound and lasting change on the world’s governments, organizations and institutions. Our global community has been shaken to its core. Here in the United States, the violent acts of a few have had […]

It’s been a few days since the Unity Conference in London ended, and Carmen and I have been enjoying our memories of the wonderful fellowship there. I think assessing the personality of a group is difficult, but we felt it to be a very affirming, friendly, supportive gathering, of people who genuinely love the Seventh-day […]