by Tyler Kraft | 14 January 2022 | Can I let you in on a secret? Pastors get angry at times. Well, maybe not all pastors. Perhaps there are some who are thoroughly spiritually enlightened. But I confess that I get angry on occasion. So do some of my pastor friends. That’s probably not too […]
by Stephen Ferguson | 13 January 2022 | Is Christmas more about Mary than Jesus? This Christmas, I had an interesting discussion with a Roman Catholic friend about the role of Mary, the Mother of Jesus. It occurred to me that as Christmas is the time of year when secular people seem open to discussing […]
by Hannele Ottschofski | 11 January 2022 | I attended a seminar at church once where the pastor was speaking about parenting. He quoted something that reminded me of what I had learned as a young girl: The king upon his throne has no higher work than has the mother. The mother is queen of […]
by Thandazani Mhlanga | 7 January 2022 | We in the western world have been greatly influenced by the ancient Greeks. Aristotle had strong opinions on gender, for example—women, in particular. He assigned them second-class status, and thought of females as “deformed males.” So the gender issues at the forefront of modern civil and religious […]
by Russ Spangler | 6 January 2022 Seventh-day Adventists believe that if we can just get people to read the Bible, they would see that God is real, and that God loves them. That hasn’t worked for everyone. A.A. Milne, the author of Winnie the Pooh, wrote: The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, […]
by Loren Seibold | 4 January 2022 | I have a vivid memory, from when I was about five, of going with my father to the auto parts store in Jamestown. While I waited I looked down (I was close to the floor in those days) and saw rolling around near my shoe a little […]
by Vinnie MacIsaac This time of year, everyone says they want to start new. Everyone says they want to start over. Everyone talks about the start of the year being a time for change. The problem is, most people are lying to themselves about all three of these statements. The truth is more like this: […]
by John McLarty | 30 December 2021 | “You are the light of the world.” Matthew 5:14 I woke late, well after dawn. Still, I walked up the hill to the park above our house and sat for a while in prayer and meditation. It was a turning point on the calendar, the first day […]
by David Geelan | 28 December 2021 | What is the ‘nature of sin’? Is sin something we do, or is sinners something we are? Is sin the transgression of the law, or is it a state of separation from God? These are questions guaranteed to spark furious (and often circular) debates among believers, and […]
by Loren Seibold | 25 December 2017 | I had a colleague (this was years ago) who was assigned to a small town church whose members opposed any celebration of Christmas. When December came, the church members would drive past and peer in the parsonage windows, to check whether the new pastor’s family had Christmas […]
by Jim Walters | 24 December 2021 | This op-ed, written by Adventist Today founder and professor emeritus of the LLU School of Religion Jim Walters, was originally printed on December 5 in the San Bernardino (CA) Sun. The Supreme Court’s likely ruling on Mississippi’s abortion law will surely exacerbate the growing gap between the […]
by Melissa Brotton | 20 December 2021 | “Even there Your hand shall lead me, And Your right hand shall hold me.” (Psalm 139:10) My windshield wipers cannot keep up with the pelting rain, and the streetlights are barely visible, though I am driving on a wide strip in a well-lit city. Only a half […]