by Raj Attiken | 10 October 2023 | An Adventist Today reader sent in a summary of a sermon preached recently by an Adventist pastor. The pastor had asserted that climate change is a punishment by God for human sin, and that hope for Adventists is not in preventing the planet from increasing two degrees […]
by Ron Preast | 6 October 2023 | October has been named by someone as Pastor Appreciation Month. It isn’t that people shouldn’t always appreciate their pastor, but this is the month when they’re encouraged to say it. Usually congregations will usually take a few minutes during one of the church services for that. Since the month […]
by Denis Fortin | 5 October 2023 | That the Seventh-day Adventist Church is currently facing a governance crisis is an understatement. Ongoing conversations over women’s ordination have highlighted major differences of understanding of the role of various levels of organization in the decision-making process of the church. Since the beginning, the Christian Church has […]
by Alicia Johnston | 4 October 2023 | “I always used to look down on people who got divorced.” It was an offhand comment my friend made one day. She’s such a kind person. I didn’t imagine her looking down on anyone, but I guess we all have our little private judgments. “Oh yeah?” I […]
Robert Crux | 3 October 2023 | We live in a moment in history that’s been called an “infodemic.” Falsehoods spread like a virus. A tidal wave of media misinformation drowns out the truth. Perhaps no other falsehood is more dangerous right now than “the great replacement theory,” a central tenet of white nationalism that […]
by Danielle Simmons | 29 September 2023 | A handful of dust and a single rib. From these seemingly insignificant handfuls God has decided to build children, to become a divine parent. The object of parenthood, done properly, is to work yourself out of a job, to create beings strong and capable enough to go […]
by Linda Nottingham | 28 September 2023 | As a child growing up in a Christian home, I always had a clear sense of what Jesus looked like. The certainty of that belief was easy enough to explain: the many-times reprinted portrait of Warner Sallman’s head of Christ hung on the wall in my mother’s […]
Shelley Curtis Weaver | 26 September 2023 | About a month ago, I heard from someone with whom I’d lost touch in the course of busy lives, cross-country moves, and the passing of time. He’s a kind and trusted friend who has spent his career working in association with the Adventist church, making a meaningful […]
by Loren Seibold | 22 September 2023 I didn’t start out with any particular objection to women being pastors. Before I got to college, the idea had never crossed my mind. In our little country church in North Dakota I’d not seen any women pastors. We did have some extraordinary women, though, who shaped my […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 22 September 2023 | (Read part 1 of this series here, “The Most Extensive Evangelistic Outreach in Adventist History?”) The Christ for Europe initiative kicked off with a two-week evangelistic crusade in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. The campaign was conducted by none other than Ted N.C. Wilson, the […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 21 September 2023 | Adventist World announced in its July/August edition that an “unprecedented evangelistic initiative” would “run across Europe.” Duane McKey, the president of Adventist World Radio (AWR) and one of the main people behind this venture, declared that this Christ for Europe project involves dozens of countries in Europe […]
by Horace Alexander | 19 September 2023 | We are all aware that there is a long-standing cultural custom that the first son takes over the authority and property of the family. This has been well-attested through history in many instances, and is still seen in royal families today: the king of the United Kingdom […]