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 […]

Intro by Debbonnaire Kovacs, worship tips by Nicholas Zork, May 4, 2017 Several years ago, I was privileged to attend the Music and Worship Conference at Andrews University. I reported on it to this magazine. Lately, I’ve been profiling churches whose names come to me as “safe places”—and isn’t that a sad thing, that we […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs, April 20, 2017     Most innovators would say that innovation begins with an unmet need and develops by thinking from a different direction than expected. Tim Allston would agree. He has written a unique book from a unique point of view for a unique audience he feels is underserved…and it all began with […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs, 4-13-17      [Editor’s note: This story was originally posted June 2012. I am reprinting for those who read this week’s feature and want to know more about Tony. DLK] “I’ve decided to leave the church. Please join me.” So reads an invitational email promoting Pastor Tony Romeo’s new venture, called “Reach […]

By Anthony Romeo; foreword by Debbonnaire Kovacs, 4-13-2017     This is a different kind of feature—a bittersweet one. Pastor Anthony Romeo is a one-of-a-kind Christian who takes the Sermon on the Mount (and all the rest of Jesus’ words) seriously. When Jesus said to love everybody, Tony assumed he meant everybody. At his church in Manhattan, […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs, April 6, 2017    Every year the Richland, Washington Seventh-day Adventist church meets together in the fall for a visioning process that will inform their ministry during the coming year. Len Harms, whose title is Executive Pastor/Head Elder, described this process for me: After lunch, and after both group and individual prayer, […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Mar 30, 2017     Many if not most churches count their growth in numbers of bodies in the pews. Not this one. In 2013 and 2014, the small Summerville, GA, Seventh-day Adventist Church was in crisis. Pastor Edward Skoretz described it this way (adding that he’s fuzzy on the chronology): Their head elder […]

If you would like more information about the refugee ministry at the Paradise Valley SDA church or Pastor James’ book on the topic, here are a list of links. See Quick Chat–Refugess Part 1: Refugees and Professing Christians here. Paradise Valley SDA Church Website Friendships for Hope Website The Joys of Partnering With God by […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs, March 23, 2017     In the five years I’ve written for Adventist Today, I have “met” (online or by telephone usually) many, many amazing people, and sometimes researching an AT story even makes me cry. Amistad International is one of those. “Amistad” is Spanish for “friendship” and that’s what it is—the kind of […]

By Debbonnaire Kovacs, posted July 14, 2016    [Photo: children sign “I love you.” Pixabay, public domain] The Australian Union Record reports that the Adventist church, for the first time, will be broadcasting a weekly church service signed in AUSLAN (Australian Sign Language). A church plant at Quaker Hill in the west of Sydney, in […]