by Jack Hoehn | 11 January 2024 | Science can bring us to worship the presence of God. Glorifying or worshiping God in our bodies may be familiar because of Adventist health teachings—don’t smoke, drink, eat pigs or between meals—because your body is God’s Temple. But there is a grander possibility for worshiping of God […]
by Edward Reifsnyder | 9 January 2024 I’ve never heard anyone say anything good about the way the Seventh-day Adventist Church selects the President of the General Conference (GC). Let’s be judgmental right up front, and affirm that the tithe-paying constituency should be comfortable with the process. One conference president who has served on the […]
by Aidis Tomsons | 5 January 2024 | We have ended 2023. Whenever we near the end of a year and begin a new one, people publish reviews of the past year, and come up with predictions for the next one. Some express concerns. Others offer hopeful wishes. In Adventist social media forums, and in […]
by Joni Bell | 4 January 2024 | I’m having a quiet evening sitting by the fireplace reading a good book. I enjoy some Chex-mix while I read. My husband sits near me engrossed in his book, and my kids are quietly studying in their rooms. Then I hear it: a shout outside, a call […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 2 January 2024 On Tuesday mornings I can usually be found in the basement of the office of the Netherlands Union of Seventh-day Adventists. I am one of a small number of volunteers who are steadily working on building and optimizing the denominational archive in our country. Documents from the past […]
by Stephen Ferguson | 29 December 2023 | In one of my favorite Jesus parables, the movie Man of Steel, a teenage Clark Kent (played by Dylan Spraberry) is finally told of his alien origins by adopted-father Jonathan Kent (played by Kevin Costner in one of his best-ever performances). Jonathan tells Clark he isn’t just […]
by Horace Alexander | 25 December 2023 | Birth has been described as the earliest miracle of human life, and before the science of fertilization, conception, and gestation were more completely understood, birth was seen as miraculous, a gift from God. Even with our scientific knowledge, birth is still full of wonderment and mystery. There […]
Ancients worshiped in places and buildings. Christians worship in their bodies. by Jack Hoehn In September, the Supreme Court of the State of New York ruled that a well-known businessman had multiple times for over 10 years deliberately and fraudulently overstated the worth of his possessions. Examples of this fraud show that his luxury apartment […]
by Christopher C. Thompson | 22 December 2023 | “It’s a populist irony—the strongman comes to power by making impossible and destructive promises to the disenfranchised. Do they actually have any intention of helping these people? Of course not. In fact, they´ll actively stymie any reforms that will actually make the system more fair. All […]
by Shelley Curtis Weaver | 21 December 2023 | This is the time of year when I remember my bewilderment over my first Advent calendar. I was young, but old enough to have absorbed “advent” as part of my religious identity. And I wasn’t sure how that word related to Christmas! It speaks to my […]
By Carl McRoy | 20 December 2023 | Read part 1 here. This piece was also published at ThreeFifthsOnline. James Brown: Santa Claus, Go Straight to the Ghetto The Temptations weren’t “too proud to beg” back in 1966, but by August 1968 James Brown said it loud, “I’m Black and I’m Proud!” This was a […]
by Carl McRoy | 18 December 2023 | I’m not that Christmasy of a person. But sometimes music makes me feel more festive when the songs have a non-traditional approach or an intriguing story behind them. Chuck Berry’s “Run Rudolf Run” has become a Christmas classic now, but it didn’t start that way—and there’s definitely […]