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 […]
by Larry Downing | 22 February 2019 | On occasion one sets about to compose a tightly connected essay, only to have it fragment or spiral to an abrupt, disjointed end. I fear this piece, upon which I have set myself, illustrates the point. Despite such a fate, welcome aboard and perhaps, with a bit […]
Benjamin Baker, PhD | 20 February 2019 | There is something about the combination of being black and Adventist that leads to awesomeness. Although small in number, black Adventists have had an outsized impact on their communities, their church, and their world. Enjoy the awesomeness! William J. Hardy is the first black elected to office […]
By Ronald D. Graybill | 22 February 2019 | Katy was curious. As Archivist for the Pacific Union College library, while sorting through oddly shaped documents in a map drawer, she came across a handwritten letter. Someone had scrawled the name “E. G. White” upside down at the top of the letter, but the handwriting […]
David Geelan | 22 February 2019 | I talk often about faith with my Christian and atheist friends, and less often with my Muslim and Buddhist friends (but I learn a lot when I do). I think that perhaps when the Christians and atheists talk, they somehow both over-simplify what faith means. For the atheists, […]
by Jack Hoehn | February 14, 2019 | “Let us make humans in our image, male and female” is the religious answer to why sex exists. With no adequate evolutionary explanation for the origins of sex, something intentional in the Mind behind creation is as strong an answer as any other. Reproduction requiring a giver […]
by Christopher C. Thompson | 15 February 2019 | I’m not sure exactly when it happened for me, but I have long been enamored with super-seniors. Particularly for me there is something about the builder generation (those born around 1925-1945). My mom’s mom was a builder. A block away from my grandmother lived another builder […]
By Sven Östring | 13 February 2019 | I am delighted and encouraged to read that John McLarty is committed to being a lifelong student and enquirer after truth. This is evident from his careful and fairly accurate observations regarding the spectrum of creationist positions within the Seventh-day Adventist church. It is also evident from […]