By Debbie Hooper Cosier  |  13 November 2019  |   The most significant topic to come out of the General Conference Autumn Council for many of us was the censure of North American and European union conference leaders. Because of their policies supporting equal treatment of females in ministry, David Weigley, Ricardo Graham, Johannes Naether, Bobby […]

“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.” —Anonymous The American College of Radiology, of which I am a member, recommends, among other things, that an ambulatory patient not have a preoperative chest x-ray (CXR) unless acute cardiopulmonary disease is suspected or unless there is a […]

by Stephen Ferguson  |  12 November 2019  | As a long-time reader of and more recent contributor to Adventist Today, I am regularly struck by how often someone raises the following sort of puritanical objection against an article they don’t like: “I feel saddened to think that some of us easily make puns out of […]

by Mark B. Johnson  |  10 November 2019  | I have always been an Adventist. When our denomination’s current president was a child playing on the banks of the Nile River in Egypt, I was born upstream in an Adventist mission hospital in Ethiopia. My family was a “real” Adventist family. Medical missions, vegetarian diets, […]

by Sonja DeWitt  |  8 November 2019  | “Making your way in the world today Takes everything you’ve got Taking a break from all your worries Sure would help a lot Wouldn’t you like to get away? “Sometimes you want to go Where everybody knows your name And they’re always glad you came You wanna […]

by Edward Reifsnyder  |  8 November 2019  |   I’ve become friends with Michael the Long-haired Pastor of the Lutheran church where I take an exercise class. Nice guy. We enjoy swapping perspectives. One day in class in the church social hall, I noticed a poster on the wall.  Whoa! What? Can you do that? Can […]

by Larry Downing  |  06 October 2019  | Dr. Jack Hoehn, and the other delegates to the September 15, 2019, Upper Columbia Conference (UCC) Constituency Meeting, learned that the General Conference (GC) did not approve of the UCC’s adopting its own constitution. It was, and is, the GC’s intent and desire that local conferences accept […]

by Deeply Committed  |  31 October 2019  | My loneliest 90 minutes of the week begins when I step out of the children’s Sabbath School class I teach. In that 90 minutes I walk through a sea of people, a couple of whom might nod at me or even say hello, on my way to […]

By Robbin Lewis  |  28 October 2010  |   Cancer—the very word has always been an uncomfortable, unpleasant word in my lexicon. But in 2012, the word—and the disease—became a part of my life tapestry.  On June 21, 2012, I was diagnosed with breast cancer—and not just any breast cancer. The diagnosis was triple negative breast […]

by Jack Hoehn  |  originally written December 17, 2013  | My first vision came at age 13. My regular sleep was interrupted with a meaningful dream of the second coming of Christ and the sensation of flying upward through the air and looking about and recognizing friends’ faces. The message and emotion not forgotten in […]

by Bill Davis  |  25 October 2019  | What’s it like to face death?  As a younger person I didn’t think about death very deeply. In my early years of ministry, as I performed funerals, I would talk about death and how it wasn’t something to be afraid of. In trying to give comfort to […]