by Robert Crux | 6 December 2022 | Past generations used Christianity as a prop to support slavery and segregation. It turns out that what was once old has become new again. With the recent rise of Christian nationalist ideas merging into mainstream American politics (especially over the last two decades), we now see Christianity […]
by Norman H Young | 1 December 2022 | The title of this essay is borrowed from a British comedy TV panel show. The show begins with two teams of three members each. A member of team one shares some bizarre personal incident, and the members of team two interrogate her in an effort to […]
by Rich Hannon | 28 November 2022 | Seventh-day Adventists have historically self-identified as the “people of the book.” That phrase is meant to convey the idea that we take the Bible as our sole rule of faith and thus would diligently study scripture to uncover its truths. Indeed, Adventist Fundamental Belief #1 states, in […]
by William Law | 23 November 2022 | 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 Terry Bottrell | 22 November 2022 | Our children learn about literary devices such as hyperbole and similes when they study literature in school. They also investigate different literary genres such as poetry, drama, and narrative, as well as different approaches to drawing meaning from a text. These lessons are important not just for […]
by Esther Loewen | 18 November 2022 | While I am transgender and a woman married to a woman, I am also white, educated, conventionally abled, Christian, fertile, and socially well-networked. I own my own home and vehicles, I am in my 40s, and I speak and write fluently in English. All this is to […]
by Hannele Ottschofski | 17 November 2022 | I am slowly waking up to the realization that the church that I belong to, and where I have grown up, with which I have identified myself for my whole life, has changed. It is no longer the church I joined when I was baptized 60 years […]
by Rajaratnam Jones | 11 November 2022 | I was born and brought up in a village in India where almost 100% of the population was Christian. Missionaries from England had come here about 250 years ago and evangelized this area. My grandfather’s parents had been Hindus. Seventh-day Adventist missionaries came to Mukuperi, a very […]
by Richard W. Coffen | 10 November 2022 | The field of theology includes a subcategory called theodicy—the defense of God in light of the existence of evil. I’ve read several books on the topic and am currently reading another. I generally find myself arguing with their arguments. After all, who authorized a mere finite […]
by Thandazani Mhlanga | 8 November 2022 | At midnight on November 14, 1960, Robert Raymond Cook made the fateful trip to the gallows from his cell in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta—the last man to be hanged in the province of Alberta. Because of how the trial seemed to have been argued on circumstantial evidence, much […]
by Paul Priest | 4 November 2022 | In previous articles here I have argued that Genesis 1 and 2 represent two separate creations. I have suggested that one speaks of the creation of life, the other the elevation of the previously created hominins to humankind. Genesis 4 and 5 introduce two interesting terms that […]
by Nerida Taylor Bates | 3 November 2022 | I’ll never forget something that I saw when coming out of my kindergarten Sabbath School when I was five years old. The hall under our small church was completely empty except for a young woman with teased hair, go-go boots, and short mini skirt, kneeling in […]