By Linda McCabe  |  22 March 2021  |   I have spent much of my life in small churches. As a 4th-generation Adventist, I have filled many roles in at least 35 different Adventist congregations. A child, a teenager in an academy church, a typical adult in the pews, 5 years in full-time evangelism, nearly 30 […]

by Melissa Brotton  |  19 March 2021  | “But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.” (Proverbs 4:18 ESV) Is it difficult for people who grew up in church to remember when they really saw Jesus for the first time? So many of […]

By Lindsey Abston Painter If you’re sitting in a group of young mothers and you want to drop a conversational bomb on the group, mention that you don’t believe in spanking.  People take parenting criticism very personally. Parenting is about doing what we believe is best for our kids, and criticism of parenting feels like […]

by Laurence A. Turner  |  14 March 2021  | This article will serve as background reading for our 20 March Adventist Today Sabbath Seminar. Discussions on the Flood narrative by conservative Christians frequently major on details found nowhere in the Genesis account. For example, despite frequent claims to the contrary, Genesis says nothing of Noah’s […]

by Edward Reifsnyder  |  14 March 2021  | With the disruptions of the COVID-9 pandemic, the issues of women’s ordination and church unity/discipline—issues that have caused such turmoil in the Adventist Church for decades, particularly the last decade—have gone quiet recently. The two postponements of the General Conference Session have contributed to the quietude. But […]

by Delores C.S. James  |  12 March 2021  |   I don’t know when the shift happened.   I started my position as a tenure-accruing assistant professor with the pressure to prove myself. To show that I belonged. To show that I was not an affirmative action hire.   After all, I had already published three peer reviewed […]

By Loren Seibold  |   11 March 2021  |   I love Victorian literature, and recently in my reading I came across an unusual and picturesque word. The term “shovelhattery” was coined by historian Thomas Carlisle in reference to the uniform of Victorian clergy. The shovel hat (a low-crowned hat with a long flat front brim and […]

By Steve Daily  |  9 March 2021  | Response to Alden Thompson Thank you, AT, for the opportunity to respond to Alden’s letter. It was curious that he was “stunned” that AT would interview me as the author of a book that clearly deserves dialogue and discussion within Adventism. If the “allegations” in the book […]

By Alden Thompson  |  9 March 2021  | Anyone familiar with Steve Daily’s previous writings on Ellen White, would likely be unprepared for the vivid language of Ellen White: A Psychobiography. Daily admits that he has always been captivated by Ellen White’s writings and experience. His MA thesis in history for Loma Linda University (How […]

by Sylvia Sioux Stark  |  5 March 2021  | I must have walked up on a heated political discussion. It was a handful of salt-of-the-earth-looking kind of folks—although unmasked and not socially distanced. They looked like the workaday kind of people one should feel comfortable sitting down with and passing the time of day. Though […]

by Elle Berry  |  4 March 2021  | Adventists aren’t the military, but growing up in the church I often observed a commitment to church standards which resembled a military level of conformity. While personality tests are only slightly more scientific than mood rings, for someone whose base personality is extremely independent, hates conforming to […]

by Thandazani Mhlanga  |  2 March 2021  | I understand that art, like anchovies or blue cheese, can be an acquired taste. I realize that some wouldn’t schedule art museums on their holiday itinerary.  Yet as I reminisce on the half day I spent among ancient Egyptian, Sudanese, and Nubian works at the British Museum, […]