by Arthur Sibanda | 29 May 2020 | I grew up in a culture where speaking about sex was taboo. Adults went out of their way to use indirect speech to explain how babies were born. Sexual organs were never called by their proper names. Even today I cannot mention genitalia, or even the simple […]
Category: Commentary
Why White People Must Grieve Ahmaud Arbery
by Loren Seibold | 26 May 2020 | I have an African American friend whom I hold in high esteem—a gentleman of wisdom and uncommon common sense. So when he says something, I listen. And recently he said something that kicked me in the head. It was about Ahmaud Arbery. Ahmaud Back in February Ahmaud […]
- May, 27
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The False Faith of Conspiracy Theories
by William McCall | 26 May 2020 | “Do not call conspiracy everything this people calls a conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it. The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread.” Isaiah 8:12,13 […]
- May, 26
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The Common Good
by S.M. Chen “No man is an island…” John Donne (1572-1631), Meditation XVII, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions Right at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the Los Angeles Times had a column mentioning various good things we can do during these turbulent times. They included: Continue to pay your house cleaner, dog walker, personal trainer […]
- May, 25
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What Will They Do with Girls Like Us?
By Debbie Hooper Cosier | 22 May 2020 | I was seated about halfway down the coach with a boy, all of us on a college outing. His friends, a motley crew from Avondale College’s boys’ dorm, seemed nice enough and I wanted to make a good impression on them. They all sat in the […]
- May, 22
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Shadows in the Fog
by Elle Berry | 19 May 2020 | I had not seen another person in over two hours. In fact, the last person I had encountered was only in passing, when I pulled over to use the facilities off Hwy 12. But now having made my way through White Pass, en route to Mount Rainier […]
- May, 19
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Trusting God When Black Lives Don’t Seem to Matter
by Sydney Freeman, Jr. | 15 May 2020 | Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday. —Psalm 37:4-6 English […]
- May, 17
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Why Jesus Isn’t Coming—Yet!
by René Bidstrup | 14 May 2020 | In an epic scene from the book of Isaiah, a messenger runs saying these words: “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, ‘Your God reigns.’” (Isaiah 52:7, NRSV) We […]
- May, 15
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When God Called Me into Isolation
by Misty Watson | 10 May 2020 | It has been two years since I stepped foot in a sanctuary to worship God and fellowship with other Adventists. God gave me much-needed spiritual rest when he called me away from the church to reconnect with him. He does that. He calls us away sometimes, to […]
- May, 10
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You Go to Heaven; I Think I’ll Stay
by John McLarty | 8 May 2020 | It was nice of you to ask me to come with you to heaven. You told me all about it, that everyone should go. In your heaven we’d chase our highest dreams, and taste our richest pleasures. In your heaven we’d bask in everlasting light and quaff […]
- May, 8
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Is There a Future for the Local Church in a Media World?
by Zack Payne | 7 May 2020 | Let it not be said that Seventh-day Adventists haven’t utilized media for ministry. I remember when growing up thinking how cool it was that the Seventh-day Adventist Church had magazines, radio stations, television channels and, later, websites dedicated to accomplishing Christ’s mission. I never really gave it […]
- May, 7
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Reassessing the Size of Mormons, Adventists and Witnesses Using Census Data
by Ronald Lawson | 7 May 2020 | This article compares the growth of three religious groups, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Seventh-day Adventists, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. All originated in America during the nineteenth century and have since globalized. It begins by using their official membership data to contrast their aggregate growth […]
- May, 7
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