By Edison García-Creitoff | 30 September 2021 | To read in Spanish, click here To read in Portuguese, click here It is May 1863. Hiram Edson, James White, his wife Ellen, John Andrews, and John Norton Loughborough, and many others, are meeting to define the course of a movement that took root around 1840 with […]
by Amyas Mvunelo | 28 September 2021 | Christianity accounts for about 2.3 billion people globally, 50% of whom are Catholic. Adventism is about .3% of the world population. We have been less than 1% globally in most parts of the world for a very long time with little movement above that number. There are […]
By Loren Seibold | 24 September 2021 | I was given a blessing in regard to LGBTQ+ people when I was younger, though I didn’t understand it at the time, nor realize how it would shape my ministry. I grew up in the narrow world of rural North Dakota. Questions of sexual orientation were not […]
by Arthur Sibanda | 22 September 2021 | This year’s global Women’s Ministries Week of Emphasis used the theme Bringing Peace Home: Addressing youth violence at the roots. Women’s Ministries is a department I initially viewed with suspicion through my patriarchal lenses. Yet the Women’s Ministries department has continued to demonstrate excellence in giving voice […]
by S.M. Chen | 21 September 2021 | “The art of losing isn’t hard to master.” —Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), American poet: “One Art.” It is noon. Not High Noon, the 1952 film in which actor Gary Cooper, a lone sheriff in a cowardly town, faces the prospect of fighting a band of outlaws by himself […]
by Kris Coffin Stevenson | 17 September 2021 | I pass her every morning as I drive to work. She sits in the shade on the bike path next to a six-lane road. Her shopping cart is piled high with Grinch-like bundles, and she’s wrapped herself in layers of gray clothing, a turban around her […]
by Elle Berry | 15 September 2021 | I was eleven years old when I experienced my first apocalypse. During September of that year, I developed a rash, followed a few days later with a fever. Assuming this was the flu, my parents kept me home to rest, and things appeared to clear up towards […]
by Lindsey Abston Painter | 14 September 2021 | Only if you have been living under a rock would you not have heard that at the beginning of September the state legislators in Texas passed a draconian law criminalizing abortions past six weeks of pregnancy. Not only the woman who has an abortion will be […]
by Kirsten Øster-Lundqvist | 13 September 2021 | Seeing the news coming out of Afghanistan is heart-breaking. Whatever your political leanings, there is no denying that this is a devastating event for everyone in Afghanistan—especially the women. “They will come and kill me,” Afghanistan’s first female mayor told the Sydney Morning Herald. Zarifa Ghafari, 29, […]
by Jack Hoehn | 9 September 2021 | Timothy R. Jennings MD is a prominent Chattanooga psychiatrist who graduated from University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine in 1990 and did a psychiatry residency at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Atlanta. He has been especially noted for treating depression with […]
by Loren Seibold | 7 September 2021 | Shortly after 9/11, I rushed out a book on the event for Pacific Press, which they titled badly and promoted poorly, and it didn’t sell. (Lesson: writing a book isn’t an automatic path to fame. I’ve often wondered if anyone read it—aside from Mrs. Hooper, my academy […]