by Charles Scriven | 15 August 2024 | This essay will be the basis for our Adventist Today Sabbath Seminar, which you can join here. I stopped short when I read this from a Wendell Berry poem: “…only the dead are changeless.” In the margin I wrote: “Why would anyone want to imitate them?” And […]
by Melody Tan | 14 August 2024 | As I write this, I’ve not long returned from a three-week holiday with my son. We had gone to Singapore, country of my birth and where most of my extended family (including my mum) still live. Compared to Australia, Singapore’s costs for fun activities are significantly lower. […]
by Loren Seibold | 13 August 2024 | I was for many years a frequent writer of essays for mainstream Adventist publications. I learned what Adventist editors wanted me to say about most topics. Including about Adventist families. I would start with familiar Bible texts about what an ideal family should be, bulked up by […]
by Jim Burklo | 8 August 2024 | There’s a lot of talk about gender and sexuality in the news these days, as people escalate the culture war to whip up enthusiasm of the voter base for the election. A lot of it is kind of bizarre. Can we really be having a conversation anywhere […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 7 August 2024 | I see his name almost daily on the front page of my newspaper, and I hear from him, or about him, in practically every television news bulletin—at least at the time I am writing this blog—and it will probably remain the situation for some time to come. […]
by Edward Reifsnyder | 6 August 2024 | The State of Louisiana and the Seventh-day Adventist Church have something in common. We both hype the Ten Commandments. This June, Louisiana’s legislature passed, and the governor signed, a bill requiring all Louisiana public schools to display the Ten Commandments in all classrooms, from kindergarten to state-sponsored […]
by Shelley Curtis Weaver | 2 August 2024 The Bible has a fair amount of dirt in it. In Matthew 13, for example, is the familiar parable about sowing seed, and the growth in different types of soil. It’s an Adventist favorite. Sometimes it was presented as a cautionary tale: “Be good soil! Be deep, […]
by Hannele Ottschofski | 1 August 2024 | I am afraid. I’ve been looking over to the other side of the ocean, and I am frightened about what is happening in America. Many Americans are frightened, too. There appears to be such instability in the “land of the free”—so many things that could threaten freedom […]
by Jack Hoehn | 31 July 2024 | It was 2:30 am when from sound sleep I suddenly awoke with a feeling of anxiety, terror, and pounding in my chest I had never experienced before. In dark seconds I changed from doctor to patient. My most valued core organ was demanding attention. When our digestive […]
by David Geelan | 30 July 2024 | It’s a rude awakening: an uncomfortably loud whooping alarm, and a looping announcement: “Emergency, evacuate now.” I check the bedside clock and it’s 3:14 am. Suzie and I fumble to dress and stumble to the elevator, and head down to the lobby of our building. In a […]
by Loren Seibold | 26 July 2023 | Carmen and I occasionally reminisce about the first church where I served as a pastoral intern. We had just graduated from Walla Walla College, and in the space of a few weeks found ourselves married and dropped into a tiny, mostly elderly church in a small town […]
by Mark B. Johnson | 25 July 2024 | There was war in heaven (Rev. 12:7). This is one of the most startling texts in the Bible. So startling that brilliant theologians such as Martin Luther could not imagine it was true. So startling that many Christians still cannot accept it. But it reveals something […]
