By Loren Seibold | 11 April 2019 | Just before the election in 2016, a long-time Adventist Today reader wrote an indignant letter to the editor. One of our website writers had mildly disparaged Donald Trump, then candidate for the office of President of the United States. This reader, a retired Seventh-day Adventist pastor, informed […]
10 April 2019 “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.” —Tertullian The SDA church martyred Desmond Ford in 1980. His symbolically-spilled blood gave life to many toiling away in the shadows of perfectionism, brought “out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9). Luckily, I was one of them. Of […]
By Loren Seibold | 2 April 2019 | When in March I Cantori, a choir at Walla Walla University, sang the Bobby McFerrin setting of the 23rd Psalm, the indignation meter among a certain set in the Seventh-day Adventist Church kicked way over into the red zone. The presenting cause is that the song […]
by S M Chen | 29 March 2019 | “Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned part of their narcissism.” —Sigmund Freud In Greek mythology, Narcissus, son of river god Cephissus and nymph Liriope, was noted for his comeliness. In Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” Book III, his mother was told by blind seer […]
by David Geelan | 28 March 2019 | “Evolution is a fact” is something we tend to hear from one side in debates about origins. I’d argue that this statement reflects a misunderstanding of the roles of facts, theories and laws in science. At the same time, from the other side of those same debates, […]
by Larry Downing | 22 March 2019 | Harold Marshall Sylvester Richards Sr. holds high place among the giants of Adventist pioneers. In 1926, on a central California radio station, Richards first aired what would morph into a nationwide radio ministry. In the years following that first venture into mass communication, The Voice of Prophecy […]
by Jack Hoehn | March 20, 2019 | My library has at least three shelves stuffed with books attempting to define, defend, deny, or destroy the theory of life that Charles Darwin began to write about (noted especially by Adventists) in 1844. It is possible that this definitive book may be the last one […]
by Roger Lang | 22 March 2019 | “Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor [melakhah] and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, […]
by Loren Seibold | 20 March 2019 | Read part 1 here. Des, with the help of friends, set up an independent gospel ministry called Good News Unlimited. Though Des never regained the audience he’d had before, yet the church was changed because of Des and the questions he raised. Adventist theology went underground. When […]
By Loren Seibold | 19 March 2019 | It was my first year after seminary, and we pastors were working at the campground, replacing broken underground plumbing in the RV park. (I remember this detail, because as one of the young cohort, I was always put on the handle end of a shovel, while the […]
by Stephen Ferguson | 14 March 2019 | Dedicated to the memory of Dr.Desmond Ford The problem of when a trial is punishment. Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton was wrongly imprisoned for three years for the alleged murder of her baby daughter Azaria in 1980 while camping in the Australian Outback. Later forensic evidence proved the baby had […]
By Christopher C. Thompson | 14 March 2019 | Usually these meetings come and go without anyone’s even noticing. But not this time. It started with the announcement that for the 2018 General Conference Annual Council (GCAC18), male leaders were encouraged to grow extravagant beards to pay homage to the great graybeards of Adventist antiquity. […]