[This article is reprinted from our best-selling book ADVENTIST TOMORROW—Fresh Ideas While Waiting for Jesus by Jack Hoehn. Details on how to order your own copy are shown elsewhere on this page.] People knew Jesus. They knew his mother. They had seen him grow up in Nazareth. His followers knew him–a fantastic young man, riveting, […]
Category: Commentary
Men, Take Responsibility for Your Own Temptations!
by Loren Seibold | 31 May 2022 | A while back I was reading an Adventist-run Facebook group about modesty in dress. The striking thing about this group is that it is organized and written mostly by men, yet is almost entirely about women. It is not unusual in this group to read a man’s […]
- May, 31
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Does Our Church Want to Embrace Male Headship?
by Andreas Bochmann | 27 May 2022 | My pastor made me aware of it: an article on “headship theology” in the Adventist Review. Before I found it, a Facebook group I follow discussed it, with rather mixed opinions. When I read it I found it deeply disturbing. The piece I’m referring to was written […]
- May, 27
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The Rise and Fall of 1844 – Part Two
By Norman H Young | 26 May 2022 | Read part 1 of this series here. In his Letters to an American Lady, C. S. Lewis writes. I never could find out what the VIIth Day Adventists believe, tho’ I had a long talk with one the other day, a professor of electrical engineering from […]
- May, 26
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The Rise and Fall of 1844 – Part 1
by Norman H. Young | 24 May 2022 | In Fern Seeds and Elephants (p. 78–79) C.S. Lewis gently described one of Adventism’s most revered forefathers as “poor William Miller,” whom he took “to have been an honest fanatic.” Lewis deemed efforts to calculate the date of Christ’s return as vainly attempting to do what […]
- May, 24
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When Christians Play Fast-and-Loose With Science
by Rich Hannon | 20 May 2022 | With the historical ascent of science and its theories about the natural world, there has been a gradual but intensifying religion-driven conflict about science’s trustworthiness, as some conclusions have departed from traditionally orthodox Christian understandings. For example, believers have for centuries accepted the idea that the world […]
- May, 20
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Ellen White’s Vision of a Flawed Final Generation
by Alden Thompson | 19 May 2022 | Recently I came across some astonishing “last generation” comments from Ellen White in the chapter “Joshua and the Angel” in Prophets and Kings (582-592). As I pondered the chapter, I was startled but encouraged at how clearly Ellen White presents the case for a sinful people standing […]
- May, 19
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What Jesus Died For
by Loren Seibold | 17 May 2022 | “All of creation groans with pain, like the pain of childbirth.” Romans 8:22 (Good News Translation) “Was everything OK?” he asked. Yes, we said. As good as usual. Curious why our Cracker Barrel waiter was a middle-aged man, soft-voiced and serious, when usually they’re young people, students, […]
- May, 17
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Whom Does Abortion Kill?
by Richard W. Coffen | Morning news, noontime news, evening news—the media are reporting a leak of a legal opinion allegedly supported by the majority of the justices of the United States Supreme Court. Someone, somewhere, somehow has released to Politico, without authorization, a 98-page “Opinion of the Court” written by Justice Samuel Alito. The force […]
- May, 13
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Cancelling “Cancel Culture”
by David Geelan | 11 May 2022 | To be honest, I’m not 100% sure what I think about “cancel culture.” Often when I sit down to write for Adventist Today I have a fairly clear idea of the conclusion I hope to share, or at least the question I want to leave you with. […]
- May, 12
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Adventists and Interfaith Weddings
by Loren Seibold | 10 May 2022 | “Where’d you get married?” I asked. “In Jim’s church,” Terry said. Jim is a Seventh-day Adventist; Terry isn’t. “The Adventist pastor stood up in front with us and preached a sermon,” she said. “But he said he couldn’t marry an Adventist with a non-Adventist so we had […]
- May, 10
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Every Child Born Should Be a Wanted Child
by Lindsey Abston Painter | 6 May 2022 | My job is to train professionals who work with children and families in a variety of needs. One is the foster care system: I train new foster parents, seasoned foster parents, foster family case workers, social workers, and floor staff in group homes. In my work […]
- May, 6
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