By Paul Perez  |  11 May 2021  |   Being a man of 40 and deciding to return to school after 16 years is difficult. And, I’m a Roman Catholic which is, frankly, sometimes difficult too. The moment I utter the word “Catholic” I brace myself for the typical response: “oh.”  And this last was especially […]

by Joni Bell  |  7 May 2021  |   I’ve always felt accepted, loved and valued in my religious community. My dad was a much-loved pastor all his life and my husband a respected leader in our denomination, and I know I rode on their coattails for much of my early life.  I came into my […]

By Loren Seibold  |  6 May 2021  |   Recently I participated in a Facebook discussion in which one of our pastors reminded us of the threat of Sunday laws.  This in itself wasn’t surprising: Sunday laws have been hanging over our heads for as long as I can remember. In my childhood church we had […]

By Lindsey Abston Painter  |  30 April 2021  | Some years ago when Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, I wrote a piece for Adventist Today about believing women who share their stories of sexual assault.[1] Though I’ve written many controversial articles, about everything from gun control to my own divorce, the […]

By Carmen Seibold  |  2 November 2018  |   Like a lot of my generation, it didn’t occur to me when I was a child that women could be pastors. But when it was suggested to me, perhaps some time when I was in college, there didn’t seem to me to be any reason why they […]

By Loren Seibold  |  23 April 2021  | Around the turn of the 20th century entire industries were poised to disappear. They just didn’t know it yet. After the introduction of reasonably reliable and affordable automobiles, most industries that relied on horse transportation began to suffer: harness makers, wheelwrights, wood crafters, traditional blacksmiths, brass workers, […]

By Danny Handoko  |  22 April 2021  | Many Seventh-day Adventists are excited to study the Bible’s prophetic books. In Indonesia, where I grew up, the primary evangelistic programs were Revelation Seminars. Ellen White’s The Great Controversy played an important role in my spiritual formation, especially the chapters on end-time prophecy; that book may have […]

by David Geelan  |  20 April 2021  | Somewhere between 40 and 50 people leave the Seventh-day Adventist church for every 100 who join it, and that rate has increased in recent years. Obviously, this is an important issue for the church. Understanding why people leave might help the church to prevent some of the […]

by Christopher C. Thompson  |  16 April 2021  |   “To be a Negro in this country, and to be relatively conscious, is to be in a rage almost all the time.” —James Baldwin On Thanksgiving Day 2019, I spent the majority of the day on the road. I left home fairly early with my wife, […]

by Melissa Brotton  |  13 April 2021  | “Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit” (John 15:2 ESV). I am sitting in a Sabbath afternoon seminar on how to grow stone fruit trees, the outcome of a […]

by Thandazani Mhlanga  |  13 April 2021  |   One of my pandemic readings was a book about Winston Churchill, in the context of World War II. I came across this statement that stopped me in my tracks. “In wartime,” Mr. Churchill said, “truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard […]

By Loren Seibold  |  9 April 2021  |   Recently I read about the retirement of one of the church’s most beloved leaders, Dr. G.T. Ng, Secretary of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Ng has served as the warmer, more comedic sidekick to the sincere but charisma-challenged Ted Wilson. People looked forward to G.T’s jokes, […]