By Jack Hoehn 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 # 2) of a series available on the Adventist Today website, and […]
Each quarter, Adventist Today publishes a journal on a particular topic. Here’s an article from our Summer 2017 issue. If you’d like to receive our quarterly journal, click here. In the meantime, enjoy this article by Adventist Today Executive Editor Loren Seibold. To comment, click here.
By John McLarty, November 16, 2017: A leading Adventist creationist, the biologist Leonard Brand, argues that nearly all animal tracks in the Coconino Sandstone go up hill. In public lectures, he and fellow scientist, Art Chadwick, extrapolate from this “fact” to claims that both the Coconino Sandstone and the Navajo Sandstone were formed originally as […]
by Steven Siciliano, 16 November 2017 “Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because […]
by Larry Downing, 15 November 2017 A ministerial colleague sent me links to two articles that he believed have application to events within the contemporary Adventist church. The first, “Leadership Malpractice” by Barbara Kellerman, James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, is from the November 21, […]
By Dr. Keisha McKenzie, November 14, 2017: Some Seventh-day Adventists are doctors or clinicians and live in regions where church members have robust, public conversations about the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Those Adventists might not have many questions about the church’s relationship with people living with HIV or AIDS. But […]
by Stephen Ferguson, November 12, 2017: I have a particular fascination for what many would consider the fringes of religion. I especially love religious documentaries, such as Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends, which has examined televangelists,[1] UFO-ologists,[2] Black Hebrew Israelites,[3] Indian gurus,[4] Jewish ultra-Zionists,[5] the Church of Scientology,[6] and the Westboro Baptist Church (considered the most […]
By Edward Reifsnyder, 9 November 2017. The conversation took place in the Office of the General Counsel of the General Conference. (NOTE: The conversation was with a former General Counsel, several decades ago, not the current General Counsel.) I can’t recall what prompted it, but I recall the key message. I asked the General Counsel […]
by Mark McCleary, 8 November 2017 The world and the church need good leaders. Are they born or developed? Ellen White says that while men are looking for better methods, solutions, and programs, God is looking for persons who “cannot be bought or sold”, and who do what is right “though the […]
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by Winona Winkler Wendth, 3 November 2017 “You have power over my body but the Lord Jesus hath power over my body and soul.” During the early spring in 1638, Anne Hutchinson stood before a tribunal led by Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop. Hutchinson was answering to a crime : “ […]
by Loren Seibold, October 31, 2017 Because our website was down yesterday, this final day’s report wasn’t put up until now. I apologize for its being so late! On the last day of NADYEM17, the room rather emptied out. I confess, I too left early—only a half hour—to head for home, so I could be […]