by Larry Downing  |  22 March 2019  | Harold Marshall Sylvester Richards Sr. holds high place among the giants of Adventist pioneers. In 1926, on a central California radio station, Richards first aired what would morph into a nationwide radio ministry. In the years following that first venture into mass communication, The Voice of Prophecy […]

  by Jack Hoehn  |  March 20, 2019  | My library has at least three shelves stuffed with books attempting to define, defend, deny, or destroy the theory of life that Charles Darwin began to write about (noted especially by Adventists) in 1844. It is possible that this definitive book may be the last one […]

by Roger Lang  |  22 March 2019  |   “Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy.  Six days you shall labor [melakhah] and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, […]

by Loren Seibold  |  20 March 2019  | Read part 1 here. Des, with the help of friends, set up an independent gospel ministry called Good News Unlimited. Though Des never regained the audience he’d had before, yet the church was changed because of Des and the questions he raised. Adventist theology went underground. When […]

by Stephen Ferguson  |  14 March 2019  | Dedicated to the memory of Dr.Desmond Ford The problem of when a trial is punishment. Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton was wrongly imprisoned for three years for the alleged murder of her baby daughter Azaria in 1980 while camping in the Australian Outback. Later forensic evidence proved the baby had […]

By Christopher C. Thompson  |  14 March 2019  |   Usually these meetings come and go without anyone’s even noticing. But not this time. It started with the announcement that for the 2018 General Conference Annual Council (GCAC18), male leaders were encouraged to grow extravagant beards to pay homage to the great graybeards of Adventist antiquity. […]

by Smuts van Rooyen  |  14 March 2019  | A good while after Glacier View—I forget how long—Elder Duncan Eva from the General Conference (GC) suggested a meeting with the purpose of effecting reconciliation between the denomination and Good News Unlimited (GNU, the new ministry set up for Des Ford) to take place in San […]

by Smuts van Rooyen  |  11 March 2018 To be dismissed from ministry is more like a divorce than the loss of a job. Overnight I was no longer an esteemed teacher of religion at Andrews University, but a nomad chasing sun devils across the desert. At this wind blown point in my life Des […]

by Richard W. Coffen  |  8 March 2019  | Let’s begin with some significant historical high points in the development of deity: c. 51 centuries ago, the first pharaoh was proclaimed a god; c. 42 centuries ago, Naram-Sin was the first Mesopotamian king to be considered a deity; c. 34 or 33 centuries ago, the […]

by Elle Berry  |  8 March 2019  | In the spring of 2011, I often found myself questioning my life choices. I was working at a Montessori school with around 80 nursery and preschool students. There were mornings I enjoyed this job. But there were at least an equal number of mornings where I could […]

by Alexander Samuel  |  7 March 2019  | According to the 2017 annual statistical report published by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, there are 1.6 million church members and 4,514 congregations within the Southern Asia Division (SUD), most of which lies in the country of India. This translates into 345 members per church. This […]