by Monika Arnold  |  16 October 2020  | Dear Church: This is hard. I pray it lands gently, and that it’s an opportunity for reflection for all of us.   There are so many things I love about you, dear church; the traditional old-fashioned hymns, song service, kneeling for prayer, that you’re a multicultural group. I […]

by Edward Reifsnyder  |  15 October 2020  |   Does the Holy Spirit inhabit cyberspace? Can true Christian fellowship occur in electrons flying through wires? Can a Christian experience the blessings of meeting together with other Christians virtually? Can new and permanent fellowship groups form in with people across the globe, from Australia at one extreme, […]

By Denis Fortin  |  14 October 2020  | It should not come as a surprise to anyone anymore when we say that our denomination is a hierarchical institution. In an earlier article,[1] I argued that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is a hybrid form of episcopalism similar to that of the Methodist Church in the United […]

by Sonja DeWitt  |  11 October 2020  | Part 1 Part 2 The most notable reference in Ephesians 5:26 is to “the word.” Some commentaries have given the impression that the import of this phrase is that it’s the man’s duty to bludgeon his wife repeatedly over the head with Bible passages, until she gets […]

by Hannele Ottschofski  |  9 October 2020  |   I have followed Women of the Wall for some time now. This is a group of women who hold monthly prayer services for women on Rosh Hodesh at the Kotel (Western Wall) in Jerusalem early in the first morning of each new month, with singing, reading aloud […]

by Elle Berry  |  8 October 2020  | Bill Maher is not a favorite of mine.  If you’re not familiar with this late-night political comedian, I honestly can’t recommend that you become so now. It’s not that I don’t enjoy political comedy—in fact, in the last four years I’ve found humor to be a much […]

by Sonja DeWitt  |  5 October 2020  | Read part 1 here. Read part 3 here. Of the “curses” against women after Adam and Eve sinned, by far the most destructive has been, “You shall desire your husband.” A fish does not desire water. A person does not desire air unless he is being choked. […]

by Matthew Shallenberger  |  4 October 2020  | More details about the sex scandal involving the late Ravi Zacharias have been coming out. It first came to public attention back in 2017, whenLori Anne Thompson accused the world-renowned Christian apologist of sexting her inappropriately, and pressuring her to share erotic pictures with him. That situation was […]

by Rebecca Brothers  |  2 October 2020  | Back in my days as an Adventist, there were seven words I kept hearing all over the place—in church, in Bible studies, in Sabbath School classes and summer camps and college courses and office worships. I heard these seven words so often they began to seem like […]

By Loren Seibold  |  1 October 2020  |   Years ago Carmen and I made our first visit to the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists building in Silver Spring, Maryland, and as first-timers, we joined a tour of the building. I found the tour pleasant, if a bit anticlimactic. You can see only so many empty […]

by Sonja DeWitt  |  30 September 2020  | “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[b] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or […]

by Admiral Ncube  |  28 September 2020  | COVID-19 has come, and its effects on the church are evident. With job losses and business closures, contributions in form of tithes have been adversely affected. Prior to COVID-19, the church enjoyed phenomenal growth in membership, and financial contributions of over US$3.5 billion. In response to the […]