by Loren Seibold | 3 July 2025 | All denominational meetings I’ve ever attended are a mishmash of three things. First, there is the business—the hiring, the committees, the Church Manual changes, the policy updates. Second, there are promotional items: that is, promoting things that the General Conference (GC) is doing to help us and […]
by Loren Seibold | 3 July 2025 | This is the first General Conference (GC) session I’ve ever attended. I always thought some conference, some time, would send me as a delegate. I thought I would have risen in the ranks, as many of my friends did, to be a conference or a union conference […]
by Christopher C. Thompson | 1 July 2025 | I was recently talking to a local politician who has grown to be a dear friend. As we talked and solved the problems of the world, she made a statement that has invaded the corridors of my mind ever since. She said, “I don’t need allies. […]
by Loren Seibold | 30 June 2025 | The Adventosphere—both the online and personal gossip variety—has been buzzing with questions about who the next General Conference (GC) president will be. I take a minority position: it shouldn’t matter. My diminished interest First, I doubt the selection will be a surprise. Don’t expect a Conclave outcome, […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 27 June 2025 | Read part 1 here. Opening the third section of Reclaiming the Prophet, veteran Adventist historian George R. Knight recaps much of what he’s written in his other books about Adventist church history. He recounts how the original perspective on the ministry of Ellen White was, to a […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 26 June 2025 | I first became aware of Reclaiming the Prophet when I saw urgent warning to stay far away from it on the website of the far-right website Fulcrum7. It was clear from the description that the author of the short, ultra-negative piece had not read the book, but […]
by Mark Johnson | 25 June 2025 | (Read part 1 of this series here.) (Read part 2 of this series here.) I wrote before about how the accreditation of Loma Linda propagated accreditation and higher education down the line, to our colleges, and eventually even to our seminaries. It was the theologians that struggled […]
by Mark Johnson | 24 June 2025 | (Read part 1 of this series here.) In this installment I’m discussing an idea of central importance to Adventists—one that has largely been sidelined. It’s called wholism. Our doctrine of wholism (and for my purposes, the “w” seems essential) has often fallen under the rather dreary heading […]
by Lindsey Abston Painter | 19 June 2025 | A white woman may seem an unlikely author for an article about Juneteenth. While there are others who have more authority to speak on such things, I find myself captivated by Juneteenth. Juneteenth is about the history of slaves being freed by Abraham Lincoln’s declaration—but many […]
by Melody Tan | 18 June 2025 | Growing up, the only overseas holiday my family could afford was a one-month visit to England when I was 16. Other than that trip, where I saw a different country through the tinted lens of a tourist, my birth country was the only culture I experienced for […]
by Mark Johnson | 17 June 2025 | Adventism is in a decades-long crisis. We are split into at least two different churches.2 Reinder Bruinsma and others have defined the widely differing categories into which we fall. New members pour into the church in some geographical areas while the disenchanted hemorrhage out the back door […]
by Loren Seibold | 12 June 2025 | Recently we read a rumor that a new book about Ellen White, published by Pacific Press, had been withdrawn from the market. A far-right Adventist website was the first to say that Reclaiming the Prophet had been pulled from both the shelves and the presses. Amazon lists […]