by Hannele Ottschofski  |  3 September 2021  |   I grew up as a good Adventist no-coffee-drinker. We never had coffee in my childhood home. My family was not big on hot drinks, anyway, so I didn’t know to miss it.  But when I went somewhere where there was coffee, I loved the aroma. How could […]

by Christopher C. Thompson  |  02 September 2021  | Sometimes ministry kills. We ministers deal with healing words, but sometimes the work has a toxic and abusive impact—on those who are in the work. We need to talk about this. There have been several books written on this subject (Well-Intentioned Dragons and Clergy Killers come […]

by Ben Kreiter  |  31 August 2021  | COVID, Coercion & Conscience, a much-talked-about conference on the weekend of August 20-21 sponsored jointly by the Berrien Springs Village Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Liberty and Health Alliance, was billed as “neither an anti-vaccination, nor pro-vaccination event, rather it is a call to the full engagement […]

By Loren Seibold  |  27 August 2021  |   Adventists (they weren’t Seventh-day Adventists yet) had a pretty good idea back in the 1830s and 1840s. They believed Jesus was returning, and they wanted to be ready for him.  They were wrong about the date. But they were sincerely and innocently wrong. And righteously wrong: they […]

By Edison Garcia-Creitoff  |  26 August 2021  |   When in March 2020 a pandemic hit forcing a lockdown in most of the world, Puerto Rico, a United States territory, wasn’t spared. In December 2020, the Inter-American Division passed along a statement from the General Conference Ministries of Health, the General Conference Biblical Research Institute, and […]

by Admiral Ncube  |  24 August 2021  | Having been expelled from their former churches and rejected by other adventist groups, early Seventh-day Adventist church leaders were understandably hostile towards creeds. The Bible alone, they said, is our rule of faith and practice. Their comments in those early meetings show that they feared that those […]

By Thandazani Mhlanga  |  20 August 2021 Christianity—Protestantism, in particular—is built on a foundation of theological and moral absolutes. These absolutes are at the heart of why we have so many denominations; we seem to have made a tacit agreement that we cannot peacefully coexist unless we have the same absolutes in common.  This agreement, […]

by Melissa Brotton  |  19 August 2021  | “A time for every purpose under heaven.” (Ecclesiastes 1:1) There can hardly be any doubt that we live and move at a frenetic pace in our culture. Even those who live outside of cities say so. A day at work can seem like a week at times, […]

By Loren Seibold  |  13 August 2021  |   In the past year a number of Seventh-day Adventists, including me, have raised questions about whether Adventist eschatological details, such as Sunday laws or the close of probation or predictions of imminent persecution, are the necessary interpretations of Bible prophecy. We have suggested that you cannot come […]

by Arthur Sibanda  |  12 August 2021  | The Bible says that when God created Adam and Eve, there was no need for them to cover themselves with clothing.  Ellen White adds that they were enveloped with the same glorious light that enshrouded God Himself (see Psalm 104:2). (The theory isn’t original to her: Jewish […]