by Mark McCleary | 14 March 2018 | What is the source for doctrines such as the Trinity, the incarnation or grace? How did the various denominations such as Baptist, Quaker, Methodist, Pentecostal or Roman Catholic develop? What is theology, and what is tradition? Are these chicken or egg debates? The study of theological development […]
by Clifford Goldstein | 12 March 2018 | Antiochus Epiphanes, the little horn of Daniel 8? This argument makes me think of someone today, decades after the collapse of Soviet Communism, arguing in favor of the economic and social benefits of Stalinism. Been there, done that, no thanks. However, because Adventist Today, in its self-proclaimed […]
Por Loren Seibold | 8 marzo 2018 | Translated from English | La muerte de Billy Graham trajo a mi mente una historia de la primera iglesia donde serví como pastor. Recuerdo que estaba comenzando mi trabajo allí cuando escuché en una discusión durante la Escuela Sabática una afirmación interesante acerca de que, antes del […]
by Steven Siciliano | 7 March 2018 | Bible verses lifted out of context have a way of taking on a life of their own. Used in a colloquial sense they can often encapsulate helpful sentiments but can just as easily end up veering far from their original meaning. A particularly ironic example of this […]
By Stephen Ferguson | 7 March 2018 | Growing up as an Adventist in Australia during the 1990s-2000s Desmond Ford was something of a legend. By legend I mean he was like Voldemort in the Harry Potter series: the Dark Lord, never to be named.[1] For those who don’t know, Dr. Ford challenged the traditional […]
By Jack Hoehn | 5 March 2018 | The United States of America opened its political shrine to lay in honor the deceased preacher William Franklin “Billy” Graham Jr. For seven hours on Wednesday, February 28, 2018, presidents, the powerful, and their entourages stopped their business, management, pleasures, and pains to come and join the […]
By Melody Tan | 28 February 2018 | The white screen of my computer monitor has been glaring at me for the past two hours. The blinking cursor in Microsoft Word is poised, awaiting the words I will type into it, hit save and submit to Adventist Today. My fingers have lightly brushed my keyboard countless […]
by Larry Downing | 25 February 2018 | In the Adventist world of the early ‘60s, an extern was a man, often young, who, prior to the completion of his academic program, was hired by a conference and placed in a parish. In 1965 I enrolled in Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, to complete […]
by Loren Seibold | 23 February 2018 | Billy Graham’s death brought to mind a story from the first church where I served as a pastoral intern. I remember early in our tenure there hearing in a Sabbath School discussion the curious assertion that before the time of the end Billy Graham would accept the […]
by Danielle Barnard | 22 February 2018 | Saturday, February 17, 2018. The lights darken as the praise team walks off of the stage. I grasp the base of the round tall table several pastors use when speaking, and carefully balance my iPad, a blue candle that I call my “peace candle” and a box […]
By Jack Hoehn | 20 February 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 some of them. This article is the fourth in a series, available on […]
Editor’s note: This controversial article was written by retired pastor J. Alan Nash, and it is his story, told in his own words. Though this story does not flatter certain church leaders and presenters, we felt it was necessary to publish it because of two issues that have come up several times in the past […]