by Raj Attiken | 25 August 2023 | On November 15, 2022, the World Population Clock recorded that the global population had reached the 8 billion mark. Five months later, India’s population was reported to be 1,425,775,850—surpassing the population of mainland China. The total population of the two nations—neither of them having but a tiny […]
by Christopher C. Thompson | 24 August 2023 | I’ve been thinking about the words and the works of Jesus a lot lately. For the sake of this conversation, for just a minute, let’s set aside his status as the Savior of the world. Let’s just focus on his words. At face value, the words […]
by Lawrence Downing | 22 August 2023 | Every congregation has at least one: the person who does not quite fit into traditional congregational life. When author Frederich Buechner was asked to speak at the 200th anniversary of the Rupert, Vermont, Congregational church, he began searching for history about the church. He discovered that in […]
by Loren Seibold | 18 August 2023 | Here’s something about the contemporary Seventh-day Adventist Church that completely puzzles me—so much so that, I confess, I’ve written about it several times before. But the leaders at the top of our church give me reasons to keep coming back to it. Why, when these men in […]
by AT Contributing Editor Stephen Chavez | We are not alone. That statement isn’t meant to reflect some universal or cosmological reality, it’s simply to say that we are not alone—we Adventists, I mean. For all our talk about the remnant, God’s true church, and the everlasting gospel, a quick look around reveals an undeniable […]
by David Geelan | 17 August 2023 | I recently presented a talk on lifelong learning to a group of older adults and talked about learning both for career purposes – many people now have four or five different jobs across their working lives rather than remaining in one, and that requires upskilling and retraining […]
by Loren Seibold, AT Executive Editor | A while back I received a note from a concerned Adventist Today reader. “You raise too many questions,” he wrote. “If you really loved the Lord you would be loyal to the church. You would teach everything that Adventists have always taught, and support everything our church leaders […]
by Alden Thompson | 15 August 2023 | One of the more recent entries into the “last generation theology” debate is Reinder Bruinsma’s book, In All Humility: Saying No to Last Generation Theology.[1] Chapter two of his book, “Last Generation Theology: What It Is and Where It Came From,” briefly describes the roots and the […]
By Loren Seibold | 11 August 2023 | Whenever I write something that is a little, um, adventurous, I get a scolding from some of the dear saints for not following the literal words of the Bible. For example, when I’ve said we should fully accept LGBTQ people, these precious readers remind me—with not inconsiderable […]
by Shelley Curtis Weaver | 10 August 2023 | My mother was the women’s ministry director when I was a young adult. I’m not sure exactly how that position came to be. During my childhood, there were only women at the helm of children’s divisions and the Dorcas Society. By the time our young family […]
by S.M. Chen | 9 August 2023 | I wish to relate something of potential interest—this is something that is ongoing. We are not yet to Act III. It has not played out. We do not know the dénouement. But that is all right. We each have a story to tell. All our stories are […]
by Jack Hoehn | August 7, 2023 | Elderly evangelist Mark Finley has wrinkles on his once-boyish face that even makeup artists at the Adventist Media Center can’t take away. But YouTube’s computer-generated artificial intelligence feeds me new videos they think I might be interested in, and put his face on my computer feed […]
