by Loren Seibold | 11 December 2024 | When I was a young pastor, I remember saying to an another pastor who thought like I did, “Won’t it be nice when our generation takes over and the church will be more open-minded, more progressive? When it can at least accept people across the spectrum of […]
by Benjamin Cremer | 9 December 2024 | I grew up as a conservative Christian. I pastored for the majority of my adult life in conservative churches. I have always heard staunch advocacy for the lives of the unborn—yet such advocacy seems to stop with the unborn alone. Then I watched with great embarrassment and […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 5 December 2024 | Recently I had a very pleasant visit with Dr. Arjan Plaisier, who was the secretary-general of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands between 2008 and 2016. I first met Dr. Plaisier in 2001 at a congress for Adventist ministers in Europe. I had invited him—at the time, […]
by Solomon Renati | 3 December 2024 | History is not free of misconceptions. For example, some still say that Christopher Columbus “discovered” America in 1492. That’s not exactly true. Nor did Amerigo Vespucci, who gave the continents of the western hemisphere his name. A Viking explorer named Leif Erikson landed in America about five […]
by William Law | 28 November 2024 | There is no state of mind so holy, so excellent, and so truly perfect as that of thankfulness to God, and, consequently, nothing is of more importance in religion than that which exercises and improves this habit of mind. A dull, uneasy, complaining spirit, which is sometimes […]
by Jack Hoehn | 27 November 2024 | “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands… Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything…” (Acts 17:24,25) People take oxygen (O2) for granted because it […]
by Loren Seibold | 26 November 2024 | William Law was an English clergyman who wrote in the early 18th century. His most famous book, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, is one of the classics of the Christian faith—a book you can put on the same shelf with Mere Christianity and Steps […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 20 November 2024 | Recently I read part of a book written by Father Dale Tupper, whose title fascinated me: The Postmodern Catholic (Phoenix, AZ: Lionine Publishers, 2020). The topic of postmodernism has long intrigued me, and therefore I decided to order this book from Amazon. Unfortunately, its content disappointed me, […]
by Stephen Ferguson | 19 November 2024 | At the time I’m writing this, the Australian Broadcasting Committee has had a special documentary and podcast dedicated to the risk of Andrew Tate. If you are over the age of 30, you might have never come across this guy. By way of background, as reported by […]
by Jim Walters | 15 November 2024 | The elephant and its rider is psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s graphic illustration of how one’s inner, visceral life trumps one’s intellect in either/or situations. In his The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, he portrays the powerful elephant as finally determining the direction […]
by Christopher C. Thompson | 14 November 2024 | It rained a lot this week. It rained pretty consistently throughout the day Wednesday and on Thursday. Then, because of the rain clouds, it was dark much earlier than normal. I spoke to a friend hours away. It was raining there too. I spoke to a […]
by Melody Tan | 13 November 2024 | There’s a lot happening in the world right now that isn’t right. Russia. Ukraine. Israel. Palestine. Lebanon. Cost of living. (To name a few.) I first started writing about parenting issues back around 2016 when I, well, gave birth to my qualifications. While I only had a […]
