by Stephen Chavez | 10 February 2022 | “You can’t handle the truth!” That’s the stunning assertion near the end of the film A Few Good Men. Marine lieutenant Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise), cross-examining Colonel Nathan Jessup (Jack Nicholson), shouts: “I want the truth!” Jessup’s reply—“You can’t handle the truth!”—reveals that if we knew everything, […]
by David Garner | 8 February 2022 | Since their early days, Seventh-day Adventists articulated principles of health based on biblical principles and backed up by medical science of the day. Collectively these principles are known as the health message. At times there have been conflicting studies about specific aspects of the health message—science is […]
By Loren Seibold There’s a myth that I’m tired of hearing. It’s time to quash it. The wine referred to in the Bible was not fresh grape juice. It was fermented wine, with alcohol in it. The myth that the Greek word oinos refers to fresh grape juice has led to some preposterous theories to […]
by Maury Jackson and Alba Ruth Prato | 3 February 2022 | “The principal objective [of biblical hermeneutics] is not to interpret the Bible, but to interpret life with the help of the Bible.”[1] This statement by Dutch theologian Carlos Mesters asserts that hermeneutics (the art, science, mechanics, and study of interpretation) is not particular […]
by Thandazani Mhlanga | 1 February 2022 | Since the completion of the human genome project in April of 2003, scientists have, in their own way, been spiritually in awe of the wonder and beauty of life. Physicist Riccardo Sabatini captured this wonder in his 2016 TED Talk with this illustration: that the genetic code […]
by Victor Lee | 27 January 2022 | I visited a church I am familiar with in Sydney for Christmas. I had just arrived from being stranded in Brunei for two years. I was wearing a pair of jeans, a borrowed old shirt, and my two-year long hair tied in a man bun. The male […]
Walter Veith is many things… but a “Flat Earther” isn’t one of the descriptions we usually associate with the controversial professor. Watch Bible scholar Matthew Korpman react to Veith’s refusal to call the earth round! PS: Adventist Today is excited to be sponsoring Matthew’s latest YouTube videos. His stuff is thoughtful, informative and funny. We […]
by David Hamstra | 24 January 2022 | There’s a speech going around Seventh-day Adventist circles right now by Adventist Frontier Missions head Conrad Vine, that alleges that the denomination’s 2015 position statement on immunization should be retracted because it was released by a small circle of church bureaucrats that exceeded the mandate given to […]
by Jim Wibberding | 21 January 2022 | I hate church. For one reason. I served as a pastor for seventeen years. I now serve as a professor at an Adventist college. I still hate church. All right, I am overstating the point, but the exaggeration tells the truth about my experience getting ready for […]
by Joni Bell | 20 January 2022 | I occasionally journey to Southern California to visit my childhood home and catch up with my cousins still living in the area. A few days of reflection on my roots helps me think again about my choices, my life, my purposes. And yes, it is a great […]
by Richard W. Coffen | 19 January 2022 | His name was Ibex (a.k.a. Terah), and he lived in Mesopotamia. His occupation involved creating images of deities to sell. When he was 70 years old (Genesis 11:26), Terah became the father of triplets: Sire-of-A-Crowd (a.k.a. Abram; Abraham), Sanctuary (a.k.a. Haran), and Snorting (a.k.a. Nahor). According […]
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 […]