by Admiral Ncube | 6 August 2023 | The defense of religious liberty within our church goes back to the late 1880s, when Adventists played a pivotal role opposing Sunday laws in the United States. Their argument was that allowing the government to impose a day of rest is a violation of religious freedom and […]
by Mark Gutman | 3 August 2023 | I once heard a story of two businessmen, fellow church members, who met for lunch at a crowded restaurant. After their orders were set in front of them, one asked the other, “Well, shall we scratch eyebrows?” He was referring to the uncomfortable feeling of knowing that […]
by John McLarty | 3 August 2023 | The poem: I signed up with the guru when I was three because I wanted to be good. Somewhere between toddler and teenager I added truth to my reasons for devotion. And now? Seven decades on, now? I still want to be good. And truth still beckons. […]
by Jim Walters | 1 August 2022 | “Happy Sabbath! How would you like your coffee?” That, or a similar Sabbath morning greeting, is now heard in some congregations across Adventism: At the avant-garde Crosswalk (CW) church in Redlands, California, or at its secondary campuses in Los Angeles, Portland, Chattanooga, Sacramento, or Massachusetts—where CW Coffee […]
by Loren Seibold | 28 July 2023 | Many years ago I arrived in a new church district and began visiting my church members, including those (every church has them) whose names are listed but no one is quite sure who they are. So I pull into the driveway of an ordinary but neat house, […]
by Thandazani Mhlanga | 27 July 2023 | I once knew some folks who believed—a belief they held quite militantly—that the King James translation of the Greek and Hebrew scriptures was holy and uncorrupted, unlike all other translations. For them, acceptable public prayers and presentations had to reflect the holiness of God’s word; thus, they […]
by Nathan Brown | 25 July 2023 | Prayer is a lot like radio. We seat ourselves alone — perhaps in a small room — and talk to the wall in the hope that someone, somewhere, is listening. Through a process and technology we barely understand, we try to reach out to the unseen listener. […]
by James A. Ayars | 25 July 2023 | Historically, Seventh-day Adventists equated the two-horned lamb-like, dragon-speaking beast rising from the earth in Revelation 13:11-18 with the United States. The two horns represented Protestantism and Republicanism. The earth represented a wilderness area from which the United States arose. The United States would be “lamb-like” in […]
Nerida Taylor Bates | 21 July 2023 | Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress. James 1:27 Care for widows and orphans is a strong Biblical imperative. So it may come as a surprise that the Adventist Church does little to […]
by Rich Hannon | 20 July 2023 | It is official Seventh-day Adventist doctrine that God made the heavens and earth recently, in “six literal days that together with the Sabbath constituted the same unit of time that we call a week today.” (Fundamental Belief #6) Not all church members accept this, but I think […]
by Mark McCleary | 20 July 2023 | Back in 2015, a congregation with which I was associated set up a committee to research preparing, serving, eating or allowing meat products on church property. As the pastor, I thought it not robbery to do my own research of this topic. I wasn’t a member of […]
by Solomon Renati | 18 July 2023 | India, the world’s largest democracy, has recently surpassed China, its Asian neighbor, as the world’s most populous country. This demographic transition could very well determine India’s future, but also the future of the Southern Asia Division (SUD) of Seventh-day Adventists, where India accounts for 99% of the […]