28 November 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Why is Christmas never as relaxed and enjoyable as it is portrayed in the movies and sung about in popular songs? I was introduced to family Christmas when dating my now-husband. I quickly learned that the preparations are stressful, and the tension rises. The family dinner seems to […]
23 November 2022 | Spiritual abuse is a sensitive and largely neglected topic in the church. We are accustomed to talking about it in the context of cults, such as the infamous Waco group. For some, any criticism of the church seems like cutting the branch we are sitting on. So to even suggest that […]
Reviewed by Ronald Graybill Donald E. Casebolt, Child of the Apocalypse: Ellen G. White (Eugene, OR, Wipf & Stock, 2022). Donald E. Casebolt, Father Miller’s Daughter: Ellen Harmon White (Eugene, OR, Wipf & Stock, 2022). If you were persuaded by Numbers’ Prophetess of Health that Ellen White borrowed erroneous health teachings from secular sources, Don […]
22 November 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, What do you think about the mass mailings of The Great Controversy? Or the “mission trips” where they leave the book on people’s doors? I’m not convinced it’s an effective witnessing technique. People don’t need new fears of the end times as much as they need reassurance. Why […]
14 November 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Would it be better for me to marry a Seventh-day Adventist man even if he’s not my ideal man, or a man who isn’t Seventh-day Adventist but has the qualities I’m looking for? Signed, Searching Dear Searching, When Aunty was young, she was told that Adventists should always […]
13 November 2022 | The treasurer of the Metropolitan Conference of Panama, Mr. Ovidio Abdiel Guerra, has been removed from his position after being accused of a misappropriation of funds. In a Zoom meeting on Sunday, September 11, 2022, conference president Eluvinio Castrellon explained the departure of the treasurer to the church elders of the […]
9 November 2022 | Read this essay in preparation for this Adventist Today Sabbath Seminar (ATSS) class. by Thandazani Mhlanga I find the story of Uzzah in 1 Chronicles 13:1-11 and 2 Samuel 6:1-8 still as puzzling and perplexing as the first day I heard it. After all, if it weren’t for Uzzah, the ark […]
7 November 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I like our pastor, and his wife is a nice person, except for this: she doesn’t help out enough in church. I asked her once why she doesn’t always bring food for fellowship dinner, and why she won’t teach an occasional children’s class, and she said that being […]
2 November 2022 | by Bryan Ness When I started my biology education in 1980, I was confident that the creation story in the Bible could stand up to scientific scrutiny. As a third-generation Adventist educated in Adventist schools from first grade through high school, I had been taught that the earth was young (about […]
2 November 2022 | The following four ATSS presentations are now available for your viewing. Heidi Campbell | 15 October 2022 Who do you think Mary Magdalene was? A woman with a scandalous past? The sister of Lazarus and Martha? First witness to the resurrection? A rich heiress? An evangelist and miracle worker? Heidi Olson […]
31 October 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Genesis 3:6 says that Eve gave the forbidden fruit to her husband who was with her. Patriarchs & Prophets (pp. 53-56) paints a different picture: that Eve wandered away from her husband and his sensible control over her, so that she was alone at the tree—and when she […]
26 October 2022 | Do you have family members, friends, neighbors, or co-workers who deny, or don’t know, or don’t seem to care, if God exists? How do you maintain and grow your own faith and spiritual life in a culture that actively promotes unbelief? Do you ever find it difficult to connect with God […]