By Debbonnaire Kovacs and several members of the Paw Paw (Michigan) Adventist Church, posted July 20, 2017     Photo: Paw Paw Pathfinders on their way to Pathfinder Fair last May. Used by permission.     When Adventist Today Executive Editor Dr. Loren Seibold first sent me a lead saying he’d found a church where […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs, July 12, 2017     In 2005, Ron Whitehead, Director of the Center for Youth Evangelism (CYE), Assistant Professor of Youth Ministry at Andrews University, and Director of Youth Ministry for Lake Union Conference, was talking with a group of soon-to-be graduates. They were sharing with him their frustration on the subject of finding […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs, with Dr. Mable Dunbar, July 6, 2017     Sometimes when a church prays, they’re not ready for what comes. I have personally seen more than one church pray for new members and then end up chasing away the ones who come, because they are not just like the congregation, and don’t exactly fulfill […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs, June 29, 2017     All too often, the conversation around the concepts of liberal vs. conservative Christianity becomes an exercise in finger-pointing. Liberals paint conservatives as more judgmental and less loving, while conservatives claim that liberals are all about cheap grace—“God loves everybody; it doesn’t matter what you do.” This week’s church profiles—really […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs, June 22, 2017    As many readers know, we have been featuring profiles of churches here at Adventist Today; churches which we believe to exemplify the loving communities Jesus had in mind when he sent out his followers to change the world. This story, about the Foster Seventh-day Adventist Church in Asheville, NC, […]

By Allan Martin, June 22, 2017:       “It great to know that Jesus is still a draw in 2017,” beamed Pastor Lola Moore Johnston, young adult ministries director for the Adventist denomination’s South Central Conference. “It was refreshing to be in a space with people, young and mature, who were excited to hear and speak about […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs, June 15, 2017 A company called Epic 4D, LLC, is trying to “end biblical illiteracy” by giving away 250,000 video games. The Great Bible Race is a game that was first published in 2011 and first written about here at Adventist Today in 2014. I have included the full text of that […]

By Kofi Adjei, Columbus Ghanaian Church Communications Director, posted June 7, 2017 Editor’s Note: I was present at the Ohio Camp Meeting when a group of (as I remember it) perhaps 30 Ghanaian Seventh-day Adventists, after singing some amazing African songs for us, announced their intention of founding a church just for Ghanaians in Columbus, […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs, June 1, 2017     It all began with about 45 people who wanted something different.  They might not have been completely sure what it was, exactly, that they wanted, but it had to be a different sort of church. And they, not a hired seminary-trained pastor, planned to be the ones to […]

By , May 18, 2017     [Editor’s Note: This week I got lucky—my interviewee wrote his own story for me and all I had to do was some minor editing! Binford is a master luthier (a maker of stringed instruments) and his story reminds me of the old one, “The Master’s Hands,” a story […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs, May 11, 2017     A recent report of a young Adventist woman who is the first black female to become a resident in Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s highly prestigious and extremely competitive neurosurgical department motivated us here at Adventist Today to learn more. I was able to talk by telephone with Dr. […]

This interview with Adventist legislator Marianne Thieme is the kind of thing you have come to expect from Adventist Today. Since this week is our Spring Fundraising drive, I invite you to click here to support our ministry of independent Adventist journalism! —Loren Seibold, AT Executive Editor. Marianne Thieme is a young Dutch Seventh-day Adventist animal rights activist who […]