by Loren Seibold | 20 March 2019 | This piece was originally published on 19 March 2019, at the time of Des Ford’s death. Read part 1 here. Des, with the help of friends, set up an independent gospel ministry called Good News Unlimited. Though Des never regained the audience he’d had before, the church […]
by Loren Seibold | 26 March 2023 | This piece was originally published on 19 March 2019, at the time of Des Ford’s death. It was my first year after seminary, and we pastors were working at the campground, replacing broken underground plumbing in the RV park. (I remember this detail, because as one of […]
by Rich Hannon | 24 March 2023 | I’m a lover of biography. And, more foundationally, history. Not the dates-and-kings sort of history, but information that allows you to envision what it might be like to actually live in a certain time and place. How was society structured? What presuppositions did everyone accept? And crucially, […]
by Maury Jackson | 23 March 2023 | This essay is reprinted from the Winter 2023 Adventist Today magazine, whose theme was “Belated Adventist Apologies.” On Sabbath, March 25, Dr. Jackson will be teaching the Adventist Today Sabbath Seminar on this topic. I hold the greatest regard for my parents; they showed more courage and […]
by Thandazani Mhlanga | 21 March 2023 | Sex, Gender, Sexuality, and Being The case of Herculine Adélaïde Barbin, later known as Alexina or Abel Barbin, captures the timeless societal challenge of accepting those who do not fit the Judeo-Christian gender binary worldview. Alexina was assigned “female” at birth, then, by judicial order, reassigned “male” […]
by Arthur Sibanda | 17 March 2023 | There is something wrong with our modern understanding of how the Holy Spirit endows believers with spiritual gifts. It seems clear to me that we are not experiencing the full manifestation of the Spirit’s power—at least as the Spirit is described as working in the book of […]
by Alvin Masarira, | 16 March 2023 | According to the General Conference Statistics, the over 20 million members of the Seventh-day Adventist in over 200 countries worship in over 52,000 congregations. Each congregation is unique, and it would be difficult to know exactly how various church members across the world are relating to the […]
by Amy Nordhues | 8 March 2023 | The term “gaslighting” comes from the 1938 play (and later film) also named Gaslight, in which a husband commits a murder and attempts to throw his wife off his scent by making her think she is going insane. When she questions the noises she hears in the […]
by Joni Bell | 7 March 2023 | I may be the “queen of returns.” I am one of those people who expects to get exactly what is advertised. If I order it on Amazon and it isn’t the quality, color, or fit I expected, it will be returned. If that lettuce goes bad days before […]
by Shelley Curtis Weaver | 3 March 2023 | A modern parable: Two men went to the local church one Sabbath day. The first was an accountant. He had been top of his class at his Adventist university, and had married a good Adventist girl soon after graduation. He held a partnership in a successful […]
by Robert D. Crux | 2 March 2023 | In America’s culture wars, schoolchildren are now taking center stage. School boards, educators, and students have all been caught in the crosshairs of culture warriors. Across the nation parents, teachers, and school boards are squabbling over what ought to be taught in the nation’s public schools. […]
by Hannele Ottschofski | 28 February 2023 | We had planned to go to the top floor of the round tower at the Azrieli Center in Tel Aviv to see the panoramic view of the city. We found the elevator, but on that day there was no access. We could only admire the tall tower […]