by Melissa Brotton | 21 June 2022 | Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand” (John 13:7). I watch the tortoiseshell kitten as she climbs to the top of the rope hanging in the middle of her large crate. She claws into the rope and hangs […]
by Andreas Bochmann | 17 June 2022 When I grew up in the city of West Berlin, it was still surrounded by the Berlin Wall, to “protect” Communist East Germany from all the dangers of the free world. It is this memory that flooded my mind after the General Conference (GC) session was over and […]
by Thandazani Mhlanga | 16 June 2022 | On July 23, 1983, Air Canada flight 143 left Montreal bound for Edmonton with 61 passengers and 8 crew on board. What seemed to be another routine flight turned out to be nothing of the kind: while cruising at 41,000 feet over Manitoba, the Boeing 767 ran […]
15 June 2022 | When Ted Wilson delivered his inaugural sermon twelve years ago, after his election as president of the General Conference (GC) a few days earlier, I sat in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta listening to him with growing uneasiness. It was, through and through, a conservative speech in which he left no […]
by Alicia Johnston | 14 June 2022 | A lot of Christians chafe at the idea of anyone describing themselves with the word “pride” as if it were a virtue. Pride has been the problem all along. Pride led to the fall of Lucifer, the first movement of sin in the universe. Pride is behind […]
by Loren Seibold | 13 June 2022 | A friend of mine, a pastor’s wife, wrote this to me a couple of days ago: Two of our members went as delegates to the General Conference session this week. These members texted me from the General Conference floor during the week. They were stunned. They saw […]
by Charles Scriven | 9 June 2022 | This study guide is to help you prepare for our Adventist Today Sabbath Seminar at 1:30 Eastern time on Sabbath. Click here for link and password. Let’s allow first that the word “progressive” is both a problem and a solution. In media culture the word is synonymous […]
by Samuel Jeudin & Christopher C. Thompson | 9 June 2022 | One of the greatest failures of the Christian church is that we spend so much time preaching that we haven’t cultivated the ability to listen. Given the depth and pervasive tragedies and injustices in our world, this failure borders on egregious, and in […]
by Loren Seibold | 7 June 2022 | Though I never thought that the General Conference (GC) was an oracle (a modern Urim and Thummim where every vote reflected the mind of God), in my younger years I did hope that important things—things that helped the church become better and more responsive to the world […]
by Hannele Ottschofski | 2 June 2022 | As the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begins, people in Britain look forward to a supplementary bank holiday and various celebrations commemorating the rule of their monarch. As a young woman, Elizabeth pledged to serve her country and the Commonwealth for as long as she lives […]
[This article is reprinted from our best-selling book ADVENTIST TOMORROW—Fresh Ideas While Waiting for Jesus by Jack Hoehn. Details on how to order your own copy are shown elsewhere on this page.] People knew Jesus. They knew his mother. They had seen him grow up in Nazareth. His followers knew him–a fantastic young man, riveting, […]
by Loren Seibold | 31 May 2022 | A while back I was reading an Adventist-run Facebook group about modesty in dress. The striking thing about this group is that it is organized and written mostly by men, yet is almost entirely about women. It is not unusual in this group to read a man’s […]