By Monte Sahlin, August 22, 2017: Up through the early 1990s only seven or eight percent of Americans told survey interviewers that they were not affiliated with any religion, but from 1996 to 2016 that proportion has more than doubled to one out of four Americans. Throughout most of the 20th century Europe, Canada, Australia […]
By Jack Hoehn Günter Bechly, PhD, is a German scientist. He was raised agnostic or atheist by his family, his schools, his culture. Given no religious training or exposure, this was a scientific, rational, non-superstitious world to him and his family. He was an excellent student and graduated summa cum laude (that means very smart!) […]
by Ervin Taylor Adventist Today readers interested in what appears to be a permanent debate within First World Adventism (North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand) on the topic of Creationism/creationism, may be interested in obtaining and reading God Is Here to Stay: Science, Evolution, and Belief in God. [Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2014. ISBN 13:978-1-62564-232-2]. The […]
by Alicia Johnston, 08/15/2017 It started in college, when I first started reading books about how to understand the Scriptures. Everyone began with the admonition that the most important part of understanding the Bible was reliance on the Holy Spirit. This, they would adamantly state, was the most important part of understanding […]
By Ricardo Graham, August 17, 2017: A young woman is dead in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her name is Heather Heyer. She was killed while protesting against a gross corruption of the American vision. She was protesting against hatred, against the idea that America belongs to one race, the white race, and one religion, the Christian religion. […]
by Sydney Freeman, Jr., Ph.D., CFD, COI Authors Note: This article, part 3 of 3, is an excerpt from sermons delivered at Moscow Seventh-day Adventist church in Moscow, Idaho in February 2016, and Bethany Seventh-day Adventist church in Montgomery, Alabama in February 2015. Read part 1 here. Read part 2 here. Blacks Adventist ministers have […]
by Lindsey Painter When I was asked to write this article I hesitated. I have never publicly written something so political before. America is divided. Perhaps never more so than since the Civil War. Many of my family and friends are on a different side of the political divide than I am. And when we […]
by Sydney Freeman, Jr., Ph.D., CFD, COI Authors Note: This article, the second of three parts, is an excerpt from sermons delivered at Moscow Seventh-day Adventist church in Moscow, Idaho in February 2016, and Bethany Seventh-day Adventist church in Montgomery, Alabama in February 2015. Read part 1 here. The early contributions of people of African […]
By Chester Hitchcock, 08/14/2017 Should pastors preach sermons that seem politically charged or should they avoid any topics that may lean toward one political view over another? There is an old maxim that suggests that friends, if they wish to remain so, should avoid conversation about religion or politics. Clearly, friends might strongly disagree on either […]
by Sydney Freeman, Jr., Ph.D., CFD, COI Authors Note: This article, in three parts, is based on sermons delivered at Moscow Seventh-day Adventist church in Moscow, Idaho in February 2016, and Bethany Seventh-day Adventist church in Montgomery, Alabama in February 2015. Last year as I was checking my facebook statuses I learned about a film […]
By Christopher Thompson You’re probably not going to like what I’m about to say, but I’ve thought long and hard about this and I’m convinced it’s true. I hope you’re sitting down. Here it goes. Cultural Adventists are jerks. I’m not sure where I first heard the term Cultural Adventist, but I think it encapsulates […]
Lawrence G. Downing, D.Min. & Robert M. Krone, Ph.D. Part II. Part 1 can be read here. MORAL LEADERSHIP The Adventist educational and ecclesiastical systems face the challenges inherent in the 21st century that any other contemporary organization must address. It is a particular imperative, as a world-wide religious entity, that the Adventist church establish […]