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. […]
by Smuts van Rooyen | 14 March 2019 | A good while after Glacier View—I forget how long—Elder Duncan Eva from the General Conference (GC) suggested a meeting with the purpose of effecting reconciliation between the denomination and Good News Unlimited (GNU, the new ministry set up for Des Ford) to take place in San […]
by Smuts van Rooyen | 11 March 2018 To be dismissed from ministry is more like a divorce than the loss of a job. Overnight I was no longer an esteemed teacher of religion at Andrews University, but a nomad chasing sun devils across the desert. At this wind blown point in my life Des […]
by Richard W. Coffen | 8 March 2019 | Let’s begin with some significant historical high points in the development of deity: c. 51 centuries ago, the first pharaoh was proclaimed a god; c. 42 centuries ago, Naram-Sin was the first Mesopotamian king to be considered a deity; c. 34 or 33 centuries ago, the […]
by Elle Berry | 8 March 2019 | In the spring of 2011, I often found myself questioning my life choices. I was working at a Montessori school with around 80 nursery and preschool students. There were mornings I enjoyed this job. But there were at least an equal number of mornings where I could […]
by Alexander Samuel | 7 March 2019 | According to the 2017 annual statistical report published by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, there are 1.6 million church members and 4,514 congregations within the Southern Asia Division (SUD), most of which lies in the country of India. This translates into 345 members per church. This […]
By Sydney Freeman, Jr. | 7 March 2019 | A response to “Am I My Sista’s Keeper? Women’s Ordination and the Black Adventist Church” by Rebecca Davis. In October of last year, I co-authored an article on the Adventist Today website titled, Adventist History, Herstory, and Ourstory: Towards a Peoples’ History of the Origin of Black […]
by Natalie Alexander | 2 March 2019 | When we think of churches working for social justice, we often think of public or political action: activities to provide assistance or relief to people in need, as well as organizing and rallying, marching with signs, contacting our representatives, and voting. Yet these efforts are not always […]
By Rebecca Davis | 5 March 2019 | I readily admit I had every intention on writing this article to slam and bash black men for their apparent lack of involvement when it comes to injustices against women. OK—I probably wouldn’t have been that harsh, but the perspective and tone would have definitely been negative. […]
By Loren Seibold | 4 March 2019 | Right next to the Adventist church in the barely-there village of Cleveland, North Dakota, where I grew up, was a Methodist church of about the same size as ours. We knew a lot of the people in that church—they were our neighbors and friends. Back then I […]
by Loren Seibold | 1 March 2018 | We pastors care deeply for our church members. We think about you during the week, pray for you, and want to do whatever we can to give you spiritual comfort. But one pastor serves many parishioners, and not all of you are equally appreciative of a pastor’s […]
by Carrol Grady | 1 March 2019 | I was born in 1936, and grew up in Takoma Park, Maryland, then the headquarters of our church. It was a very legalistic time. I was told that my probation could close at any moment, and I wouldn’t know it, but if I had any unconfessed sin […]