by Eugene Gerasimov | 9 December 2018 | There is a widely quoted statement by Karl Marx that “Religion is the opiate of the people.” We who love our faith will disagree that religion has a narcotic effect. But you should know that religion can be very dangerous. Serious faith is risky, like having a […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 7 December 2018 | For a few weeks the supermarket close to the apartment building where we live is open on Sundays. Sunday shopping has long been a hotly debated issue in local politics. Until recently the influence of the religious parties was strong enough to frustrate the attempts by the […]
Richard W. Coffen | 4 December 2018 | Paul’s claim that during the Second Advent “God will bring with him” those “which sleep in Jesus” (1 Thessalonians 4:14) has been the proverbial fly in our state-of-the-dead doctrinal ointment. If we take the text just as it reads, then dead Christians are presently in heaven but […]
by Jack Hoehn | 29 November 2018 | Jack’s wife Deanne’s family home, his sister-in-law’s homes, and the Adventist hospital, church community and school that the Dean Hoiland family helped found in Paradise, California, were destroyed or seriously damaged by the unprecedented town-destroying Camp Wildfire disaster. Alaska too has had everything now shaken. When everything […]
by Elle Berry | 29 November 2018 | I never thought of myself as an angry person. In my childhood, I veered so far toward the tender-hearted side of things, you might have thought I was auditioning for Mother Teresa. I was the kid who took in blind cats and rescued orphaned rabbits. It was […]
by Alexander Samuel | 29 November 2018 | An Open Letter to Pastor Ted Wilson Dear Elder Wilson: I have heard that you will be going to India in June of 2019—not your first trip to India as a president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist Church. About 30 years ago, I saw your […]
by John Phiri | 26 November 2018 | Emile Durnkheim, one of the founders of modern sociology, argued that “God is nothing more than a symbol representation of the collective energy and dominant values of the society that worships Him.” Any image of God, according to Durkheim is characterized by those traits which the society […]
If Trump Is the Little Horn, Is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi the King of the North? By Stephen Ferguson | 23 November 2018 | I was fascinated to read Adventist Today’s recent article, “A New Interpretation of the Little Horn of Daniel 7”. To recap: the article suggested, amongst other matters, “the little horn of Daniel […]
by Lindsey Abston Painter | 22 November 2018 | Today on the internet I came across a video that was said to be “created by lay members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church” and “produced in partnership with the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.” It was about women’s ordination, unity, and the infamous compliance document voted […]
By Benjamin Baker | 19 November 2018 | I was pleased to see the article “Adventist History, Herstory, and Ourstory: Towards a People’s History of the Origin of Black Adventism” by my friends and brothers Sydney Freeman and Maury Jackson. I’d like to respond here to their call for a reassessment and reconceptualization of black […]
by Erv Taylor | 16 November 2018 Author’s Note: Readers may recall that OV (“Our Visitor”) is from a planet circling the nearest star to Earth, other than our sun. We call his star Proxima Centauri. It is about four light years away. That means that traveling at the speed of light (which obviously is […]
by Lizwi Alpha Ntuli | 14 November 2018 | The Adventist church in Africa is sometimes regarded in the West as the ideal and model of true conservative Adventism—and in some ways it is. Adventists in Africa tend to take the Bible as it reads. They believe Ellen White is a prophet of God. I […]