by Loren Seibold | 12 April 2023 | In the 1970s, an Adventist ex-pastor proposed to “cure” homosexuals of their same-sex attraction. Colin Cook was an Adventist clergyman from England, defrocked for having multiple sexual encounters with young men while he was a minister. Cook told church leaders that he had developed a program that […]
by Arthur Sibanda | 11 April 2023 | And she bare Moses a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land. Exodus 2:22 Not long ago, I decided to leave the local congregation I’d been attending, and find a new church home. The one […]
by Cindy Tutsch | 10 April 2023 This essay was originally published on January 3, 2012. Last weekend my 92 year-old dad and I attended his high school alumni reunion in the little ranching community of Ritzville, Washington. It’s been 73 years since he graduated, and he and his buddy Chet were the only ones […]
by Loren Seibold | 9 April 2023 | This essay was originally published in August of 2020. Ever since I began writing, there’s a response I know I’ll get to certain articles, a response as reliable as wildfires in California in August. If I write something that challenges a doctrine or practice of the Seventh-day […]
by Loren Seibold | 7 April 2023 | I’m very disappointed in my church right now. Over the last several weeks two important things happened in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, both of them reported by Adventist Today. On March 21, the Ugandan parliament in Africa passed a draconian anti-LGBTQ+ law. It demands life in prison […]
by Mark Gutman | 7 April 2023 | This essay was originally published on November 30, 2014 Liberal Republicans have often been termed RINO’s by more conservative Republicans. RINO (pronounced “Rhino”) stands for Republican in Name Only, and the name caller is usually accusing the alleged RINO of failing to hold the party line in […]
by Herbert Douglass | 6 April 2023 | This essay was originally published on 29 December 2012 . I know, this question may appear to be a joke! But it has caused me to think for more than a mere few minutes. Most people reading these words would call themselves “Christian.” That is, Jesus Christ […]
by S.M. Chen | 6 April 2023 | I lived in an Islamic country for two years in the late 1960s. I have a small prayer carpet I got there, in the front hallway of my house. It contains deliberate flaws in its geometric pattern. There is a Muslim saying: “Only Allah is perfect.” The carpet, […]
by John McLarty | 5 April 2023 | This essay was originally published on March 17, 2016. No. I will not. Don’t bother asking. I will not do it. I know what the rule book says. I know about tradition. I know all the Bible texts. I know that those who are urging me to […]
by Ron Hessel | 4 April 2023 | A friend told me, “Ephesians 5:22 in the original Greek doesn’t tell women they have to ‘submit.’ The word isn’t there.” “That can’t be true,” I thought. “It’s right there in the text!” So I pulled my Nestle-Aland edition of the Greek Bible off the shelf (the […]
by Steven Siciliano | 3 April 2023 | This essay was originally published on 4 April 2017 | In all my years as a Christian, the difference between the old and new covenants was most often explained along the following lines: “The righteous, moral law of God is eternal, and we are expected to keep […]
by Loren Seibold | 2 April 2023 | This essay was first published on 9 June 2018. Nothing has changed. In 2015 an independent study commissioned by the North American Division’s (NAD) Church Governance Committee reported a rather astonishing fact at the NAD’s annual Year-End Meeting. At that time the study found that if we […]