by Loren Seibold  |  25 December 2017  | I had a colleague (this was years ago) who was assigned to a small town church whose members opposed any celebration of Christmas. When December came, the church members would drive past and peer in the parsonage windows, to check whether the new pastor’s family had Christmas […]

by Jim Walters  |  24 December 2021 | This op-ed, written by Adventist Today founder and professor emeritus of the LLU School of Religion Jim Walters, was originally printed on December 5 in the San Bernardino (CA) Sun.  The Supreme Court’s likely ruling on Mississippi’s abortion law will surely exacerbate the growing gap between the […]

by Melissa Brotton  |  20 December 2021  | “Even there Your hand shall lead me, And Your right hand shall hold me.” (Psalm 139:10) My windshield wipers cannot keep up with the pelting rain, and the streetlights are barely visible, though I am driving on a wide strip in a well-lit city. Only a half […]

By Loren Seibold  |  21 December 2021  |   A few months ago an acquaintance went on a rant on social media about why he wasn’t going to take the vaccine, and how foolish (indeed, anti-Christian) were those who did.  He had done “research,” he said.  Now, when I think of research, I picture a laboratory […]

Richard W. Coffen  |  17 December 2021  | The Bible! We reverently call it “God’s Word.” When we use this terminology, we imply that “word” does not denote a single term, such as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, or preposition, but a message. A synonym is “communication.” So let’s start by analyzing the process of […]

by Christopher C. Thompson  |  16 December 2021  | Lately, I have been thinking about a few of my dreams. You’re actually looking at one of them right now: the dream for a book about dreams is about ten years old. Long story. But the fact that you’re reading this is evidence that the book […]

15 December 2022  | “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” James 1:17 It’s gift-giving time! Who doesn’t like to get a present? Actually, it does concern some people. Because as you might be realizing during this shipping […]

By Loren Seibold  |  10 December 2021  |   Ponder for a moment about how much we Seventh-day Adventists have cooked and eaten and talked around the assumption that God is anxiously exacting about matters of food, more preoccupied about what goes into our mouths than about almost any other life decision that we make. It […]

by Clarence Pamphile  |  9 December 2021  |   When doing eschatology in the 21st century, we should no longer simply pick through the abundance of historical information for an incident here and another there, and lay these as foundations for our eschatological structure. It will no longer do to tweak the data to maintain a […]

by Victor Lee  |  7 December 2021  | So when they got out on the land, they saw a charcoal fire already made and fish placed on it, and bread. Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish which you have now caught.” So Simon Peter went up and hauled the net to land, […]

By Paul Priest  |  3 December 2021  | Nature is God’s creation and it should inform our interpretation of Scripture. Because it is impossible to deny the existence of hominid fossils, they demand to be part of our interpretation of creation. Can we form a model that incorporates both the hominids and Adam? The answer […]

by Loren Seibold  |  2 December 2021  | So, once again, this happens: A man[1] in a position of influence and trust does or says something harmful. Something a Christian—much less someone people look up to as a role model—shouldn’t say or do. It shouldn’t surprise us anymore. This is a truth about human beings—all […]