By Loren Seibold | 7 September 2018 | Here’s a notion I keep hearing from friends who are unhappy with the decisions of the top leaders in our denomination. “The only way to get influence is with your money. If everyone quit paying their tithe, and instead gave their money to [the local church, the […]
by Elle Berry | 4 September 2018 | I am a proud member of the Mister Rogers generation. As a barely Millennial my childhood consisted of a sparse collection of tolerably-staticy television stations, which occasionally included PBS (at least, when my family’s rabbit ears would actually pick it up.) During this time, like most anyone […]
by Jack Hoehn | 2 September 2018 | There is a confluence of ideas coming from within and without the Seventh-day Adventist church, that suggest places this church can go with its theology and mission. Jack wants to talk with you about the need for a new understanding of Jesus necessary even for apostles. And […]
by Carrol Grady | 28 August 2018 | Has it really been 30 years since that unforgettable day that divided my life into before and after? That day when I learned one of my three sons was a homosexual? When I felt that my world had fallen apart? My minister husband and I had recently […]
Edwin Torkelsen | 28 August 2018 | The Adventist Global Youth Leaders Congress (GYLC) was held in Kassel, Germany, July 31 – August 4 under the motto “Pass It On.” Reports showed youth leaders, men and women, enthusiastically dedicated to their task. Chigemezi-Nnadozie Wogu reported in Adventist Review, “The meeting of more than 1,600 youth […]
By Denis Fortin | 27 August 2018 | That the Seventh-day Adventist Church is currently facing a governance crisis is an understatement. Recent conversations over women’s ordination have highlighted major differences of understanding of the role of various levels of organization in the decision-making process of the church. Since the beginning, the Christian Church has […]
By Loren Seibold | 24 August 2018 I didn’t start out with any particular objection to women being pastors. Before I got to college, the idea had never crossed my mind. In our little country church in North Dakota I’d not seen any women pastors. We did have some extraordinary women, though, who shaped my […]
by Danielle Barnard | 22 August 2018 | During my time as an undergraduate at Washington Adventist University, theology and religion majors had to take a course called “Biblical Spirituality for Ministry.” In this semester-long course we studied the spiritual disciplines, we formed accountability groups with other class members, we regularly journaled, and we committed […]
by Erv Taylor | 22 August 2018 | Author’s Note: Regretfully, it is again necessary to postpone a report of my concluding discussion with OV, “Our Visitor,” from a planet circling the nearest star group to our sun. Please see the end note for an explanation. In the meantime, another topic will be considered. Some […]
by Ronald Lawson | 15 August 2018 | I have been sharing here on Adventist Today papers on Adventism and a variety of social issues, including abortion, polygamy, homosexuality, and HIV-AIDS. But what of the most bitter social issue in the church, the position of women and their ordination to the ministry? I have just […]
by Richard W. Coffen | 14 August 2018 | “Nothing, save the selfish heart of man . . . lives unto itself. No bird that cleaves the air, no animal that moves upon the ground, but ministers to some other life.”[1]—Ellen White, The Desire of Ages. The Desert Speaks! While I was tromping in the […]
by David Hamstra | 13 August 2018 | Recent American presidents are known to have spritzed their worldview with a whiff of rhetorical essence distilled from biblical prophetic themes. Jimmy Carter worked for peace in the Middle East out of his conviction that the “establishment of the nation of Israel” was “a fulfillment of Biblical […]