By Ronald Lawson | 21 June 2018 | To what extent should Adventists be concerned about people with HIV-AIDS? In the 1950s America suffered a polio epidemic. This was right down our alley as Adventists: we loved giving water treatments, massages, etc. Those affected were usually innocent young children, and our hearts went out to […]
Category: Features
Baptismal Vows
To comment, click here.
When the Adventist Church Sponsored an Ex-gay Ministry
by Ronald Lawson | 15 June 2018 | “The Troubled Career of an ‘Ex-Gay’ Healer: Colin Cook, Seventh-day Adventists, and the Christian Right.” Seventh-day Adventists had long assumed that they had no gay or lesbian members, even though there was a history of gay pastors, some in key posts, being discovered and fired, and gay […]
Small Things
by S.M. Chen | 13 June 2018 “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” Confucius, aka Kong Qiu (551-479 BC), teacher, politician, philosopher I’m standing by the kitchen sink. As I lean over the garbage disposal, I hear a faint clink, metal on metal. I increase kitchen illumination, look around, […]
Sermon: Working Like God
by John McLarty | 12 June 2018 | Sermon for Green Lake Church of Seventh-day Adventists for May 26, 2018 Texts: Deuteronomy 14:22-29, Exodus 20:8-11, John 5:8-19 Yesterday I was at Cypress Adventist School to present a chapel talk. Since I’m freshly returned from vacation in southern Utah, I told the kids about one of […]
The Church and Its Homosexual Members
by Ron Lawson | 29 May 2018 | The chapter I wrote for the book, Christianity and Homosexuality: Seventh-day Adventist Perspectives, edited by David Ferguson, Fritz Guy, and David Larson, which was released in 2007, has been uploaded to my website, www.RonaldLawson.net. The title of the paper is “The Caring, Welcoming Church?: The Seventh-day Adventist […]
Seventh-day Adventists and Polygamous Converts
by Ronald Lawson | 29 May 2018 | “Church-Sponsored Injustice: The Seventh-day Adventist Church and Polygamous Converts” addresses how Adventists have dealt with polygamously married converts in Africa, where the practice has been widespread. The policy long followed by other mission churches was to refuse to baptize converts who were polygamously married unless the male put away […]
Selective Conformity
To comment, click here.
Email with the Church Organist
To comment, click here.
Recent Adventist Today Articles by Jack Hoehn
ADVENTISM TOMORROW – by Jack Hoehn #1.) Reading Your Bible with Greater Care. #2. ) Open to the Openness of God. #3.) Against All Abuse, For all Love (the Bible and homosexual people.) #4.) Very Political. #5.) Rehabilitating Satan. #6.) Miltant Pacifism _______________________________________________ Other Recent Articles by Jack: “Death on St. Valentine’s Day, Slow Resurrection” […]
Adventist Today Looks to Future During 25th Anniversary Celebration
22 April 2018 | Two events marked the Loma Linda, California-based 25th Anniversary Celebration for Adventist Today on Saturday, April 21. Over 100 people attended the first event, a Commemorative Lectureship presented by David Neff, the former editor-in-chief of Christianity Today. The event was co-sponsored by AT and Loma Linda University’s Humanities Program. It took place […]
Adventist Today’s 25th Anniversary Celebration To Take Place Tomorrow in Loma Linda
20 April 2018 | Tomorrow, Saturday, April 21, Adventist Today editorial staff, members and friends will celebrate the independent journalism ministry’s 25th Anniversary in Loma Linda, California. Two events: a commemorative lecture and a banquet, will mark the milestone for the Adventist publication that was established to provide a source for independent journalism and innovative […]