by David Geelan | 25 October 2022 | Is it possible, or will it become possible with technological advances, to ‘record’ a human mind into a computer? This might seem like a science or science fiction question, more than one appropriate for Adventist Today. Once we delve past some science and technology, though, it quite […]
by Melissa Brotton | 17 October 2022 | “Hi, Siobhan,” Tim greets his colleague of five years, then stops abruptly. “Everything okay?” Siobhan looks up from her laptop briefly. “Yeah. Well, not really. I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed.” “Anything I can do?” Tim leans into Siobhan’s cubicle. “Not sure. It’s not that I feel incompetent, […]
by Carl McRoy & Christopher C. Thompson | 20 October 2022 | It was roughly 2,000 years ago that Jesus said, “God’s kingdom is coming, but not in a way that you will be able to see with your eyes” (Lk. 17:20 NCV). It is as if these words were spoken with the year 2022 […]
by John B. Hoehn, MD All the cells of a developing human live, die, and are replaced by different cells many times. This is as God designed it to be to create healthy humans in his image. Whether spontaneous abortion or medical abortion is a sorrow or a crime is a religious question with different […]
by Arthur Sibanda | 10 October 2022 | Over weeks since the death of the longest-serving British monarch, Elizabeth II, I have watched with keen interest the geopolitical arguments as people try to reflect on her legacy. Grief is of course to be expected from those who are directly related to her, as well as […]
by Ron Hessel | 8 October 2022 | I got my undergrad degree in theology in the last half of the ’70s. Lots of confusing stuff was happening in that era in the Adventist world, particularly around the investigative judgment doctrine. Reputations were teetering on the edge. Careers were at stake. I just ducked my […]
by Amy Nordhues | 6 October 2022 | Why is it that when a person is victimized, especially domestic violence or sex crimes, people are more likely to scrutinize the victim’s actions than those of the perpetrator? Psychologists describe this tendency to blame victims as the “just-world hypothesis,” and it stems from a deeply rooted […]
by Jim Walters | 4 October 2022 | Where was God in Hurricane Ian, one of the deadliest hurricanes to ever hit the US mainline? Here’s one view. According to “Captain” Lewis McDonald, God miraculously preserved his ocean-going, shark-hunting cruiser. The boat surged over still-standing electric power lines, ending atop mangled mangrove trees 600 feet […]
by Hannele Ottschofski | 30 September 2022 Yochi Rappeport’s blog in the Times of Israel on September 13 about role models led me to think about the influence of what we Adventists see and experience. Yochi writes about the influence that exclusively male teachers and rabbis had on her spiritual development as a teenager. If […]
by Carsten Thomsen | 29 September 2022 | Some of the most long-lived organizations are churches and religious groups. Some of the great world religions are thousands of years old, and Christianity has been around for 2,000 years. Adventism is less than two hundred years old, but has many characteristics of a long-lived, successful religion. […]
by Amalia Goulbourne | 27 September 2022 | In many Adventist spaces Ellen White’s books are referred to as “the Spirit of Prophecy,” as though her writings are a simple and all-encompassing rulebook and commentary; however, members can greatly benefit from studying the letters of advice she gave regarding real-life situations. One of the most […]
by Tuwan Ussery White | 23 September 2022 | We often think of white supremacy as the Ku Klux Klan and other violent groups. However, historical evidence shows that segregationism is a type of white supremacy too. In the year 1890 the Seventh-day Adventist church voted a policy of racial segregation that lasted for the […]