by Davide Romano | 13 May 2025 | On Monday, April 21, at 7:35 a.m. Pope Francis’s death was announced. The news, as always when a pope dies, shook many people. And, as expected, it immediately set off the formidable media apparatus in Italy and the whole world. This significant event saddened Roman Catholics, and […]
by Loren Seibold | 9 May 2025 | Three religious bodies are choosing their leaders in about the same six-month period. Two of them are major world communions; the other imagines it is. Two of the leaders will have worldwide name recognition; the third will be known only to his own church of roughly 20,000,000 […]
by Shelley Curtis Weaver | 8 May 2025 | Now seems to be the time to talk about it. Alumni Weekend at Walla Walla University (WWU) is over. The former students and prospective donors have flown or driven home. The WWU newspaper, The Collegian, has now published their response to a March 14 vespers program, […]
by Jim Burklo | 7 May 2025 | Years ago, I hosted an event at the University of Southern California with Paul Woodruff, a philosopher at the University of Texas, who wrote a book that had a profound influence on me: Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue. He said that reverence doesn’t belong to any particular […]
by Paul Priest | 1 May 2025 | And he said unto me, “Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” Daniel 8:14 KJV “You must lay your preconceived…opinions at the door of investigation. If you search the Scriptures to vindicate your own opinions, you will never reach the truth.” […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 30 April 2025 | After a day of preaching and teaching in Stuttgart, Germany not long ago, I was graciously presented with a copy of Tomáš Halík’s most recent book, The Afternoon of Christianity: The Courage to Change. Tomáš Halík (b. 1948) is a Czech Roman Catholic priest and theologian who […]
by Colette Carr | 29 April 2025 | I am certain you know the feeling when reading something, you realize the author is clearly expressing what you have been thinking for a while. It is exciting and affirming. This is what happened to me when I came across the metaphor of The Cosmic Egg as […]
“Love doesn’t die with death. Love is like liquid; when it pours out, it seeps into others’ lives. Love changes form and shape. Love gets into everything. Love wins every single time. Love wins by lasting through death. Love wins by loving more, loving again, loving without fear. ― Kate O’Neill by Jack Hoehn There […]
by Loren Seibold | 21 April 2025 | It seems necessary, as a Christian who was raised in a tradition where the pope often seemed as central to my church’s story as Jesus was, to make some kind of response to the death of Pope Francis. My Adventist upbringing would tell me that Pope Francis […]
by Stephen Ferguson | 18 April 2025 | Recently I was discussing the beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church with some non-Adventist friends. The question arose about whether we Adventists could really claim to be Christians. After all, they asked, don’t Adventists teach Jesus was just a created being called Michael the Archangel? This is […]
by Jim Walters & Elber Camacho | 17 April 2025 | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) has been criticized—appropriately, it seems to me—for trivializing a decision about ultimate reality by likening it to a wager, as though it were a Las Vegas bet. However, this nearly 400-year-old devisement does at least provide a vehicle within the context […]
by Melody Tan | 16 April 2025 | I heard the story of a Rwandan pastor who survived his country’s genocide back in 1994. He and some of his church members were having a small group meeting at home when they were rounded up by the Hutus. Forced on their knees in the front yard, […]