by Mark McCleary John Donne, English cleric, said, “No man is an island unto himself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the mien.” Donne speaks to the individual and his social context as corollaries. This perspective of social life provides breadth and depth to conflict and its potential resolution. Conflict […]

Por George Knight En 31 de octubre de 1517, Martín Lutero clavó sus 95 Tesis en la puerta de la Catedral en Wittenberg, Alemania. Este año, el mundo protestante está celebrando el 500 aniversario de ese evento. El 8 de mayo, el presidente de la Asociación General, Ted Wilson, dirigiéndose a los profesores de la […]

By Gary Patterson, September 19, 2017:      In January this year the denomination’s General Conference (GC) administrators initiated a new communication venture with the members of the GC executive committee in the form of an online digital newsletter. Such attempts at information flow are to be lauded, given the distance which exists both physically and perceptually, […]

by Jack Hoehn, September 18, 2017:  There is a confluence of ideas coming from within and without the Seventh-day Adventist church that suggests places this church can go with its theology and mission. Jack wants to talk with you about some of them. This article is # 1 of a series, available on the Adventist […]

In 1919, shortly after Ellen White’s death, participants in a Bible Conference talked openly about the nature of Ellen White’s inspiration and her role in the church. Many were troubled by, and openly discussed, Ellen White’s borrowing and extensive use of writers and editors. The conversation was so candid that the notes from it were […]

By Woodrow W. Whidden Basic Assumptions and Principles While the Bible does not speak directly to the issue as to whether women should or should not be ordained, its seems clear that it does offer believers essential principles that call for the setting apart of women by the laying on of hands to confirm their […]

By Monte Sahlin, September 11, 2017:      Two of the biggest hurricanes on record have destroyed the homes of many people on a number of islands in the Caribbean, and in Texas and Florida. A major earthquake has destroyed cities in Mexico. And today many Americans remember the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington […]

by Finn F. Eckhoff A rewriting of Acts 15:1-18, based loosely on Eugene Peterson’s paraphrase The Message. It wasn’t long before some representatives showed up from GC insisting that no female pastors be ordained: “If you ordain female pastors and do not follow the GC Working Policy, you can’t be part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.” […]

by Edward Reifsnyder The funeral for my neighbor and friend Jeff was held in his church, a congregation of the United Church of Christ. As we sat quietly before the service, not knowing anything about that denomination, I did a search on my phone. The denomination has evolved over more than three hundred years by […]

by Winona Winkler Wendth, 09/10/2017                  On October 24, 1906, Hulda Stumpf, a forty-year-old stenography teacher at the Indiana Business College wrote to an administrator of the African Inland Mission and asked for an appointment to British East Africa, now Kenya. The African Inland Mission, a non-denominational Christian organization, […]

by Beverly J. Robinson-Rumble In her report to the church’s 2016 Spring Council, Heather-Dawn Small, director of the General Conference Women’s Ministries Department, presented items voted by the Women’s Ministries Advisory a few weeks earlier, including two statements prepared by official church study groups regarding Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Family Violence, and appealed for […]

By Stephen Ferguson Do Jesus and the Donald share a Weltanschauung? Is Donald Trump more like Jesus Christ than any other previous President in the history of the United States?[1] Please don’t misunderstand me. I am not suggesting there are any obvious similarities between this thrice-married 71-year-old billionaire from New York and the celibate 33-year-old […]