by Reema Dixit Sukumaran  |  23 April 2019  |   Read Part 1 here: Troubled Home, Trusted Mentor The next time I saw Pastor, at a school event, he acted like nothing had happened. I was unsure how to cope with this strange new reality. He was still himself: fun, loving and hugely charismatic. He was still […]

by Reema Dixit Sukumaran  |  22 April 2019  |   For most people, home is a comfortable and safe place. But the home I grew up in was like living on an island with an active volcano. My father’s unpredictable rage could explode at any minute. I remember once when my brother had finished in the […]

by Melissa Brotton  |  20 April 2019  |   “I come to the garden alone.” (C. Austen Miles, 1912) Those who walked in darkness have seen a great light (Is. 9:2). Resurrection and Creation: “Behold, I make all things new.” Jesus’s death and resurrection is forever tied to spring. This connection is no accident, as the […]

by Roger Lang  |  19 April 2019  | The Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting occurred at the Tree of Life, also known as the L’Simcha Congregation, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 27, 2018, during Sabbath morning services. The terrorist killed eleven people, and seven were injured. In February 2019, a centuries-old Jewish […]

by Sonja DeWitt  |  18 April 2019  | The Jewish Christians were suffering. The latter half of the first century was not an easy or pleasant time to be a Jewish follower of Jesus. As Christians and as Jews, these people suffered persecution from within and without—from their own people, the Jews, and from the […]

by Dawnette Chambers and Christopher C. Thompson  |  12 April 2019  |   SPOILER ALERT: Whereas it is not our intention to ruin the experience for those who intend to see the film, please be advised that what follows does contain information that may reveal some key plot details. Given the strong biblical image that provides […]

by Erv Taylor  |  31 March 2019  | A number of Adventist Today commentaries have directly and indirectly addressed the topic of the credibility of various parts of the theology and polity of the contemporary Seventh-day Adventist Protestant denomination. Here, we again take up the issue of credibility, but we address the question of the […]

By Loren Seibold  |  11 April 2019  | Just before the election in 2016, a long-time Adventist Today reader wrote an indignant letter to the editor. One of our website writers had mildly disparaged Donald Trump, then candidate for the office of President of the United States. This reader, a retired Seventh-day Adventist pastor, informed […]

10 April 2019 “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.”  —Tertullian The SDA church martyred Desmond Ford in 1980. His symbolically-spilled blood gave life to many toiling away in the shadows of perfectionism, brought “out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9). Luckily, I was one of them. Of […]

By Loren Seibold  |  2 April 2019  |   When in March I Cantori, a choir at Walla Walla University, sang the Bobby McFerrin setting of the 23rd Psalm, the indignation meter among a certain set in the Seventh-day Adventist Church kicked way over into the red zone. The presenting cause is that the song […]

by S M Chen  | 29 March 2019  | “Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned part of their narcissism.” —Sigmund Freud In Greek mythology, Narcissus, son of river god Cephissus and nymph Liriope, was noted for his comeliness. In Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” Book III, his mother was told by blind seer […]

by David Geelan  |  28 March 2019  | “Evolution is a fact” is something we tend to hear from one side in debates about origins. I’d argue that this statement reflects a misunderstanding of the roles of facts, theories and laws in science. At the same time, from the other side of those same debates, […]