By Loren Seibold | 23 June 2020 | This happened many years ago (if it happened at all), long before mobile phones. A youth pastor drives up to a gas station way out in the country, rushes inside, obviously flustered and upset, and asks the clerk, “Did you see a bus filled with young people […]
By Paul Priest | 23 June 2020 | Much of Adventist origins theology is based on a young earth view of creation, which can be summarized with the following points: The earth was created about 6,000 years ago. It was created in 6 days. It was created perfect. Adam and Eve were the first humans. […]
by David Geelan | 19 June 2020 | “People say to me, ‘Science doesn’t know everything’. Science knows it doesn’t know everything… otherwise it would stop!” Irish comedian Dara O’Briain joked in one of his shows. Unfortunately, people sometimes either (a) think that science does know everything or (b) think that science thinks it knows […]
by Kris Coffin Stevenson | 17 June 2020 | My bookcase is attached to the wall with an earthquake strap. I can see the strap poking up above the top of the bookcase. Every time I look at the bookcase, I remind myself to find a decorative item to put on the top to hide […]
By Lindsey Abston Painter | 12 June 2020 | When I got divorced I discovered a new community of people: divorced women. In the beginning, I relied heavily on this community for support, for clarity, and for emotional comfort. Now, years later, I still find them to be a deep well of wisdom and friendship. […]
By Victoria Pendleton | 12 June 2020 | A friend of mine tells a story of going to a gallery show of abstract artworks by an artist friend of his. One of the large canvases he found especially striking. It had a white background, and some very flowing, vigorous figures in the foreground that, he […]
by Clyde McCulley | 9 June 2020 | I am 79 years old, and I have experienced an awakening these past few weeks that has surprised me. I, like millions of others around the world, watched the 8-minute-and-46-second killing of a black man. I watched the other policemen standing by and doing nothing to stop […]
By Zack Payne | 5 June 2020 | Four years ago I wrote an article for another publication entitled, “An Appeal To Fellow White American Adventists.” Across the nation we had just experienced a handful of painful reminders that we cannot ignore racial issues as though they were a thing of the past. Walter Scott, […]
by Lawrence Downing | 4 June 2020 | The front cover blurbs of the April 2020 Ministry magazine grab one’s attention. “And deliver us from evil…” it announces, followed by a quote from Selected Messages Book 2, page 53: “There is to be among God’s people no spiritual stupidity. Evil spirits are actively engaged in […]
By Daniel Mora The financial situation of the Inter-American Division (IAD) is being challenged by the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. While part of the problem is how this health emergency has impacted the world economy, it is also revealing other weaknesses of the denominational model. The main one is a centralized leadership […]
by Alvin Masarira | 03 June 2020 | Ellen White wrote in 1875: “Christ would have His followers brought together in church capacity, observing order, having rules and discipline, and all subject one to another, esteeming others better than themselves” 3T 445. However, the church leaders then were reluctant to produce a book of rules […]
by Arthur Sibanda | 29 May 2020 | I grew up in a culture where speaking about sex was taboo. Adults went out of their way to use indirect speech to explain how babies were born. Sexual organs were never called by their proper names. Even today I cannot mention genitalia, or even the simple […]