by Mark B. Johnson | 10 November 2019 | I have always been an Adventist. When our denomination’s current president was a child playing on the banks of the Nile River in Egypt, I was born upstream in an Adventist mission hospital in Ethiopia. My family was a “real” Adventist family. Medical missions, vegetarian diets, […]
by Sonja DeWitt | 8 November 2019 | “Making your way in the world today Takes everything you’ve got Taking a break from all your worries Sure would help a lot Wouldn’t you like to get away? “Sometimes you want to go Where everybody knows your name And they’re always glad you came You wanna […]
by Edward Reifsnyder | 8 November 2019 | I’ve become friends with Michael the Long-haired Pastor of the Lutheran church where I take an exercise class. Nice guy. We enjoy swapping perspectives. One day in class in the church social hall, I noticed a poster on the wall. Whoa! What? Can you do that? Can […]
by Larry Downing | 06 October 2019 | Dr. Jack Hoehn, and the other delegates to the September 15, 2019, Upper Columbia Conference (UCC) Constituency Meeting, learned that the General Conference (GC) did not approve of the UCC’s adopting its own constitution. It was, and is, the GC’s intent and desire that local conferences accept […]
by Deeply Committed | 31 October 2019 | My loneliest 90 minutes of the week begins when I step out of the children’s Sabbath School class I teach. In that 90 minutes I walk through a sea of people, a couple of whom might nod at me or even say hello, on my way to […]
By Robbin Lewis | 28 October 2010 | Cancer—the very word has always been an uncomfortable, unpleasant word in my lexicon. But in 2012, the word—and the disease—became a part of my life tapestry. On June 21, 2012, I was diagnosed with breast cancer—and not just any breast cancer. The diagnosis was triple negative breast […]
by Jack Hoehn | originally written December 17, 2013 | My first vision came at age 13. My regular sleep was interrupted with a meaningful dream of the second coming of Christ and the sensation of flying upward through the air and looking about and recognizing friends’ faces. The message and emotion not forgotten in […]
by Bill Davis | 25 October 2019 | What’s it like to face death? As a younger person I didn’t think about death very deeply. In my early years of ministry, as I performed funerals, I would talk about death and how it wasn’t something to be afraid of. In trying to give comfort to […]
by Dennis Meier | 23 October 2019 | I was in attendance in 2012 when my union conference (the North German Union Conference, or NDV) voted for equality in pastoral service. The motion was placed on the agenda by a single individual, though the Executive Committee seemed happy to bring it up for a decision. […]
by Melissa Brotton | 21 October 2019 | Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord! (Psalm 27:14, New King James Version) “That’s it, boy,” I say and snap the last rivet on the large, plastic dog-collar. Daylen casts me a doleful look. […]
By Loren Seibold | 22 October 2019 | Just one month ago, I published a piece about a rumor I’d heard concerning the discontinuance of the infamous compliance committees. I took my cue from two bits of information: some leaks we’d heard from an Adventist Today friend to the effect that Elder Wilson was having […]
by André Reis | 21 October 2019 | To Adventists everywhere, happy Great Disappointment Day! In this anniversary commentary on Millerite history, I deal with the day-year principle (or year-day principle)—of which Seventh-day Adventists are the main proponent—which posits that any time period found in biblical prophecy must be converted to days and then to […]