This article is reprinted from the Summer, 2018 Adventist Today magazine. If you would like to receive the quarterly magazine, become a member here. by Lindsey Painter | 12 November 2018 | We are in a social media age! At least, that’s what all the articles say that pop up on Facebook and Twitter (oh, […]
3 November 2018 | Many prophetic articles we receive are restatements of what has been said by Adventists for 150 years. We have chosen to give a forum here to a novel and untraditional view. The authors of this piece are scholars known to the Adventist Today editors, who have asked to remain anonymous. Knowing […]
by Steven Siciliano | 07 November 2018 | Most people who’ve been exposed to the Western cultural tradition know that Cain killed his brother Abel and that, before the murder, God had rejected Cain’s offering. Fewer individuals take time to consider exactly why Cain’s offering was rejected, or what his gift intended to accomplish in […]
by Jack Hoehn | 2 November 2018 | Shouldn’t Christian women just admit that they are born to lives of subservience? Paul has written things to the church in Corinth difficult to accept. But if Paul said it, and I understand it, doesn’t that settle it? Let’s journey with Jack to Corinth to see if […]
by Loren Seibold | 6 November 2018 | When the history of this church is written, the NAD Year-end Meeting of 2018 will be part of that history. Whether good or ill will probably depend on the historian. Some are already trotting out the entirely inapplicable tale of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. It’s not because […]
by Larry Downing | 5 November 2018 | On Sunday, November 4, 2018, I watched most of the morning North American year-end meetings. Unlike many other such sessions, this morning’s meeting countered what I, over the years, came to refer to as Walt’s Law. Walt’s Law had its origin in the late 1960s when Ed Zackrison […]
by Loren Seibold | 2 November 2018 | I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: what a difference between a General Conference (GC) meeting and a North American Division (NAD) meeting! When I first started going to these meetings, both were in the same building in Silver Spring. Even there it was apparent. […]
by the AT Reporting Team | 1 November 2018 | Anticipation is in the air for this year’s North American Division (NAD) Year-end Meeting. You can see it, hear it, and feel it. Typically there are around 300 members, invitees, and guests who attend the Executive Committee that oversees the ministries that serve Bermuda in […]
By Monte Sahlin | 29 October 2018 | In the late 1970s, I was a pastor in Pittsburgh and as part of the urban ministries program that I coordinated, I participated in community meetings at the Tree of Life Synagogue. For a while, I lived about a mile from the synagogue. Saturday night when I […]
by Melody Tan | 25 October 2018 | Last night, after my two-year-old forced me to repeatedly sing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” and “The A-B-C Song” (or “The Alphabet Song”), I made a startling discovery. For the first time in my almost 40 years of existence, it occurred to me that both songs have the […]
This article is reprinted with permission from the website of the Iowa-Missouri Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, published 25 October 2018. The author, Randy Harmdierks, is the communications director of the conference. On October 9 I published an analysis of what I believe was a problematic question and answer article from the General Conference communication department regarding the […]
A contemporary version of John 9:13-41, by Patricia Johnston | 26 October 2018 | Following instructions from their leader, who lived far away, certain church members wanting to be compliant to his orders reported to the Compliance Committee that a woman preacher had just baptized eight people. The Compliance Committee said, “This baptism cannot be ‘official’ […]