By Zack Payne | 5 June 2020 | Four years ago I wrote an article for another publication entitled, “An Appeal To Fellow White American Adventists.” Across the nation we had just experienced a handful of painful reminders that we cannot ignore racial issues as though they were a thing of the past. Walter Scott, […]
Category: Commentary
What’s With the Demons?
by Lawrence Downing | 4 June 2020 | The front cover blurbs of the April 2020 Ministry magazine grab one’s attention. “And deliver us from evil…” it announces, followed by a quote from Selected Messages Book 2, page 53: “There is to be among God’s people no spiritual stupidity. Evil spirits are actively engaged in […]
- June, 5
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How Centralized Leadership Weakened the Inter-American Division
By Daniel Mora The financial situation of the Inter-American Division (IAD) is being challenged by the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. While part of the problem is how this health emergency has impacted the world economy, it is also revealing other weaknesses of the denominational model. The main one is a centralized leadership […]
- June, 3
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The Church Manual in Crisis
by Alvin Masarira | 03 June 2020 | Ellen White wrote in 1875: “Christ would have His followers brought together in church capacity, observing order, having rules and discipline, and all subject one to another, esteeming others better than themselves” 3T 445. However, the church leaders then were reluctant to produce a book of rules […]
- June, 2
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How the Church Fails at Dealing with Sexual Addictions
by Arthur Sibanda | 29 May 2020 | I grew up in a culture where speaking about sex was taboo. Adults went out of their way to use indirect speech to explain how babies were born. Sexual organs were never called by their proper names. Even today I cannot mention genitalia, or even the simple […]
- May, 29
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Why White People Must Grieve Ahmaud Arbery
by Loren Seibold | 26 May 2020 | I have an African American friend whom I hold in high esteem—a gentleman of wisdom and uncommon common sense. So when he says something, I listen. And recently he said something that kicked me in the head. It was about Ahmaud Arbery. Ahmaud Back in February Ahmaud […]
- May, 27
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The False Faith of Conspiracy Theories
by William McCall | 26 May 2020 | “Do not call conspiracy everything this people calls a conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it. The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread.” Isaiah 8:12,13 […]
- May, 26
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The Common Good
by S.M. Chen “No man is an island…” John Donne (1572-1631), Meditation XVII, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions Right at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the Los Angeles Times had a column mentioning various good things we can do during these turbulent times. They included: Continue to pay your house cleaner, dog walker, personal trainer […]
- May, 25
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What Will They Do with Girls Like Us?
By Debbie Hooper Cosier | 22 May 2020 | I was seated about halfway down the coach with a boy, all of us on a college outing. His friends, a motley crew from Avondale College’s boys’ dorm, seemed nice enough and I wanted to make a good impression on them. They all sat in the […]
- May, 22
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Shadows in the Fog
by Elle Berry | 19 May 2020 | I had not seen another person in over two hours. In fact, the last person I had encountered was only in passing, when I pulled over to use the facilities off Hwy 12. But now having made my way through White Pass, en route to Mount Rainier […]
- May, 19
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Trusting God When Black Lives Don’t Seem to Matter
by Sydney Freeman, Jr. | 15 May 2020 | Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday. —Psalm 37:4-6 English […]
- May, 17
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Why Jesus Isn’t Coming—Yet!
by René Bidstrup | 14 May 2020 | In an epic scene from the book of Isaiah, a messenger runs saying these words: “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, ‘Your God reigns.’” (Isaiah 52:7, NRSV) We […]
- May, 15
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