Richard W. Coffen | 27 October 2020 | For decades, Bible lovers, like feral rabbits, have produced numerous explanations of scriptural apocalyptic passages: times for the Second Advent, predicted from Jesus’ own words; identity of the sanctuary referenced in Daniel 8:14—an objective place on earth or in heaven, or subjective experience; “little horn”—friend or foe […]
23 October 2020 | My wife asked at the end of last week, “Are you going to do your own personal reflection article on the Annual Council meeting, like you used to do when you attended in person?” My first reaction was “no.” But then I had to step back and wonder why I was […]
by Raj Attiken | 22 October 2020 | “We do many of them. We don’t do enough of them. We don’t have funds to do all of them. We are unable to complete some of them. We cannot even begin a number of them.” This, in essence, was the report from the General Conference Auditing […]
22 October 2020 | by Jim Walters and Nathan Schilt This dialogue is reading for the Adventist Today Sabbath Seminar of 24 October. Nate to Jim: I sometimes ask myself a question when my passion for earthly justice threatens to produce more judgment and negativity than love and compassion: How much have the truly important […]
by Monika Arnold | 16 October 2020 | Dear Church: This is hard. I pray it lands gently, and that it’s an opportunity for reflection for all of us. There are so many things I love about you, dear church; the traditional old-fashioned hymns, song service, kneeling for prayer, that you’re a multicultural group. I […]
by Edward Reifsnyder | 15 October 2020 | Does the Holy Spirit inhabit cyberspace? Can true Christian fellowship occur in electrons flying through wires? Can a Christian experience the blessings of meeting together with other Christians virtually? Can new and permanent fellowship groups form in with people across the globe, from Australia at one extreme, […]
By Denis Fortin | 14 October 2020 | It should not come as a surprise to anyone anymore when we say that our denomination is a hierarchical institution. In an earlier article,[1] I argued that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is a hybrid form of episcopalism similar to that of the Methodist Church in the United […]
by Sonja DeWitt | 11 October 2020 | Part 1 Part 2 The most notable reference in Ephesians 5:26 is to “the word.” Some commentaries have given the impression that the import of this phrase is that it’s the man’s duty to bludgeon his wife repeatedly over the head with Bible passages, until she gets […]
by Hannele Ottschofski | 9 October 2020 | I have followed Women of the Wall for some time now. This is a group of women who hold monthly prayer services for women on Rosh Hodesh at the Kotel (Western Wall) in Jerusalem early in the first morning of each new month, with singing, reading aloud […]
by Elle Berry | 8 October 2020 | Bill Maher is not a favorite of mine. If you’re not familiar with this late-night political comedian, I honestly can’t recommend that you become so now. It’s not that I don’t enjoy political comedy—in fact, in the last four years I’ve found humor to be a much […]
by Sonja DeWitt | 5 October 2020 | Read part 1 here. Read part 3 here. Of the “curses” against women after Adam and Eve sinned, by far the most destructive has been, “You shall desire your husband.” A fish does not desire water. A person does not desire air unless he is being choked. […]
by Matthew Shallenberger | 4 October 2020 | More details about the sex scandal involving the late Ravi Zacharias have been coming out. It first came to public attention back in 2017, whenLori Anne Thompson accused the world-renowned Christian apologist of sexting her inappropriately, and pressuring her to share erotic pictures with him. That situation was […]