23 June 2025 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, How can I be an LGBTQ ally without endangering my employment? Signed, Church Worker Dear Church Worker: Right now, as things stand in the church, you probably can’t—at least in most places. Be kind to your LGBTQ+ friends personally, but you dare not, if you want to keep […]
“Not only does hurry keep us from the love, joy, and peace of the kingdom of God—the very core of what all human beings crave—but it also keeps us from God himself simply by stealing our attention. And with hurry, we always lose more than we gain.” — John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of […]
20 June 2025 | On May 12, 2025, Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office and Central Anti-Corruption Bureau announced the arrest of five individuals charged with participation in an organized criminal enterprise, engaged in issuing falsified documents intended to get unearned diplomas, as well as accepting financial bribes ranging from 5,000 to 30,000 Polish złoty (abbreviated as […]
18 June 2025 | The praise group Elevation Worship in a beautiful song, O Come to the Altar (2016), sings that “Forgiveness was bought with the precious blood of Jesus Christ.” Some familiar gospel songs, such as “Jesus Paid it All” and “Nothing But the Blood of Jesus” express the same idea. Ellen White writes that […]
Comments of the Week June 9-16 “Will an anonymous observer from the GC Compliance Committee be taking names?” –Jim Hamstra, jokingly, on AToday’s Invitation to our readers to join us for lunch at the upcoming GC Session Meetings in St. Louis Comments on Aunt Sevvy, SATIRE: Michigan Conference Bans Sex on Sabbath—Says It’s Work, Lunch […]
16 June 2025 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Are there other denominations that interpret Daniel and Revelation in similar ways to Adventists? Signed, Curious About Prophecy Dear Curious, Daniel and Revelation, with their numbers and metaphorical beasts, have always been a rich field for speculation about the end times. One of the most famous works exploring […]
Are you attending this summer’s General Conference (GC) Session in St. Louis? If so, we’d love to meet you in person! Join us for a casual, complimentary vegetarian buffet lunch on Friday, July 11, at the Hotel Saint Louis, Autograph Collection (705 Olive St, St. Louis, Missouri)—just two blocks from the America’s Center. Your hosts […]
11 June 2025 | Despite extensive conversations about how to deconstruct one’s faith and how to recognize harm in religious or spiritual contexts, very little has been written about what helps people thrive after distancing from high-control religion. Some people stay in the faith communities in which they were born; others completely disconnect from institutional […]
Comments of the Week June 2–8 “Excellent and very true. Unless changes are made, the General Conference is only a reflection of gray-headed, American thought.” –Steve Tatum on St Louis, We Have a Problem! Comments on They Shall Deceive the Very Elect; Exploring the 2025 General Conference Agenda; St. Louis, We Have a Problem; Social […]
For there shall arise false christs and false prophets and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Matthew 24:24 I remember as a child reading about false christs and prophets. That last phrase, “They shall deceive the very elect” stuck in my brain. I […]
4 June 2025 | What makes something wrong? In his favorably reviewed book The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt challenges both the wisdom of the ages and our current ideas. Though a secular evolutionary psychologist, he argues that when we make moral decisions, instincts often triumph over reason. Haidt then presents real consequences for politics: for […]
2 June 2025 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I’m a baptized Adventist in Africa, and I have been wrestling with Adventist teachings: I think that we are too rule-based and treat Christianity more as a religion, and not a relationship with Jesus. And we are very judgmental of other Christian churches. I don’t want to leave […]