By Kris Coffin Stevenson | 7 December 2018 | It was the children’s fault that my picture of God was ruined. If they hadn’t gotten their smeary fingers on it, it might have stayed exactly the way I envisioned it. And that would have been worse. All of this paradigm-shifting happened when I attended a […]
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An Interview with Dan Wysong
Dan Wysong was pastor of the Chico, California, Seventh-day Adventist Church, a 750-member congregation in the denomination’s Northern California Conference. Chico is a city of 93,000 about 100 miles north of Sacramento. There has been considerable controversy around this congregation’s accepting an LGBTQ person for baptism into church membership. Among the outcomes is that Wysong […]
Desmond Ford’s Historic Glacier View Document, Republished
By John Rosier | 29 November 2018 | Recently one of the most famous documents in the twentieth-century history of the Adventist faith was republished in a new edition with some recent annotation and documentation. “Daniel 8:14, the Day of Atonement and the Investigative Judgment” was written by Dr. Desmond Ford, then a visiting professor […]
Seventh-day Adventists in Conflict
by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 27 November 2018 | During the first half of the 1980s, conflict within Seventh-day Adventism received a great deal of attention in the press. The titles of some of the articles included “The Shaking Up of Adventism?” [Christianity Today, 1980a]; “Theologian Told to Defend His Views” [Los Angeles Times, 1980a]; […]
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Urgent Apocalypticism in Adventism
by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D | 22 November 2018 | October 22 this year was the 174th anniversary of what Adventists know as “The Great Disappointment.” It also means that Adventists have been proclaiming urgently that Jesus is returning “soon” for 174 years. After that many years, what does “soon” mean? How soon is “soon”? If the […]
A Thanksgiving Reading
by William Law | 22 November 2018 | There is no state of mind so holy, so excellent, and so truly perfect as that of thankfulness to God, and consequently nothing is of more importance in religion than that which exercises and improves this habit of mind. A dull uneasy complaining spirit, which is sometimes […]
Adventist Apocalypticism
by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 13 November 2018 | The paper just uploaded to my website, which you are invited to read, was, like the previous paper, originally written at the request of the editor of an encyclopedia. In this case it was an article simply titled “Seventh-day Adventism” that was published in the Encyclopedia […]
Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism: Seventh-day Adventism
by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 06 November 2018 | During the period from about 1995 through 2007, several American publishers prepared and published encyclopedias that focused on various aspects of religion. Libraries were an important portion of the market that they had in mind when they considered marketing these volumes. Editors were appointed who were […]
Donors Initiate Legal Inquiry into the Hope Center Project
by Rita Corbett | 1 November 2018 | The story of Hope Center is a story of committed members who joined hands to build a conference center to promote the message of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Andhra Pradesh, South India. It now seems that in the larger frame of things that God alone knows, […]
The Trial of Elder Hernandez, part 17
Hailing from a country in one of two hemispheres, Sabine Dürer is a recent fifth-generation convert to Adventism. He or she may or may not have been Adventist-educated through college, or work for a major SDA institution, but perhaps not. Sabine enjoys spending time outdoors in his or her urban rural community, cooking sweet, salty, sour, […]
An October 22 Prank and Object Lesson
by Ryan Becker | 22 October 2018 | In 2013, while working at Forest Lake Academy, Ben Kreiter and I had a wonderful idea to celebrate Great Disappointment Day. That morning, we told all the seniors there would be free pizza in the Campus Ministries office at lunch. They spread the news around, eventually growing […]