20 September 2023 | Raj Attiken When the church of my childhood years organized a Pathfinder club, I became one of its early members. Our club meetings typically began with the recital of the Pathfinder Aim, Motto, Pledge, and Law. None of us questioned how doable the Aim was: “The Advent Message to all the […]
18 September 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, My middle-aged son and daughter-in-law are very involved in their Adventist church, and are generous and kind people with good children (all young adults out on their own). Recently I stayed with them at their home. After I’d gone to my bedroom I came back downstairs for a […]
Dear Aunt Sevvy, A Trip Into the Supernatural is a book by Roger Morneau that explores his personal experiences and beliefs regarding supernatural phenomena. This includes encounters with demons and his involvement in occult practices. Are there any indications that the author simply made it all up? In other words, was Morneau a fraud? Best […]
6 September 2023 | For thousands of years mankind has wrestled with the problem of human suffering. The book of Job is primarily concerned with this problem. The first two chapters are in prose and the last chapter is mostly prose. Sandwiched between these two prose passages are 39 chapters of poetry. If we take […]
4 September 2023 | Hi Aunty, We raised an orphan. She wasn’t from an Adventist home. When she was just a little child, she loved to participate in every church activity. Then we sent her to an Adventist university. After studying there, she has gone out of church. This is hard for us to accept. […]
by Carl McRoy | 31 August 2023 | While daydreamily watching the clouds, so fluffy and so cottony, From the back of my mind a question broke the monotony, He’s coming soon, but how soon is soon? Signs in the sun and signs in the moon, Signs of famine and signs of war, Signs of […]
30 August 2023 | A community cannot exist without general consensus about its goals and its self-identity, but responsible dissent is healthy for the future of the church. History shows that at times the church has been wrong and dissenters were often pioneers of renewal and reform. Dissent forces the community to re-assess its self-understanding. […]
28 August 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Have you noticed that pulpits—the high-built “sacred desks” that preachers once preached from—have in recent years been replaced by little satanic book stands? There is essential symbolism in the preaching of God’s Word from the grand elevated pulpit. Now many preachers speak from a tiny lectern, so we […]
16 August 2023 | In that phrase—“what language shall I borrow”—the translator of “O Sacred Head Now Wounded” captures the sense of speechlessness we experience when confronted with divine mystery. When we experience life’s greatest joys or sorrows, when we sense the Divine presence in church, in the natural world, or in our relationships, we […]
21 August 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Where I come from, Adventist pastors seem to love preaching about the Sunday Law, in both church services and evangelistic meetings. I always wonder why they preach about this. We have no Sunday laws here. No verse from Genesis to Revelation mentions the phrase “Sunday Law.” Why do […]
16 August 2023 | My title is not a misspelling or manufactured. The Sabbath among Adventists has primarily been seen as a divine commandment. What if this is a sin of omission, or at least a misperception? What will we say if, after putting the seventh day in our denominational name, it should turn out […]
14 August 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy. You talk like you know everything, but I’d like to see you come to the defense of the music being used in worship in many churches now. Everything has become the Vineyard or Hillsong kind of music, songs no one knows, repeated phrases over and over. They’re accompanied […]
