16 November 2019 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Ever since the General Conference denied women pastors ordination, I’ve been furious. It has ruined my church experience. I know Adventists have the truth, I love my congregation, and all of my friends and family are in this church. But the failure to do the right thing on […]
Category: Features
Darrell Lindensmith Interview
Ron Pickell talks with Darrell Lindensmith about congregational ministry to secular campuses. To comment, click/tap here.
Sharing Scripture for November 10 – 16
This is a tool for you to use if you lead a Sabbath School (SS) class or small group. It is keyed to the Bible texts used in the current week’s Adult SS Lesson and includes a brief story from current news you can use to introduce the discussion and then a series of discussion […]
Sharing Scripture for November 3 – 9
This is a tool for you to use if you lead a Sabbath School (SS) class or small group. It is keyed to the Bible texts used in the current week’s Adult SS Lesson and includes a brief story from current news you can use to introduce the discussion and then a series of discussion […]
AT Interview: Paul Llewellyn on Small Churches
President Llewellyn discusses the future of small churches in North America. To comment, click/tap here.
A Powerful Statement on Women’s Ordination and Discrimination
This statement was made by NAD Excom member Marcia Moore on the floor of the NAD committee meeting today. I was so inspired by it that I asked her for a copy. LGS I am grateful to be a part of the Columbia Union, that has acted on conscience and principle. Based on the results […]
Aunt Sevvy, I have a habit I can’t overcome!
Dear Aunt Sevvy, How can I fight an addiction—I pick at my skin—and become a better person, like Jesus would like me to be? I can’t give up popping pimples. This has isolated me from others. I was born and raised an Adventist. But even if I moved to a new city and the people […]
Sharing Scripture for Oct. 27 – Nov. 2
This is a tool for you to use if you lead a Sabbath School (SS) class or small group. It is keyed to the Bible texts used in the current week’s Adult SS Lesson and includes a brief story from current news you can use to introduce the discussion and then a series of discussion […]
Sharing Scripture for Oct. 20 – 26
This is a tool for you to use if you lead a Sabbath School (SS) class or small group. It is keyed to the Bible texts used in the current week’s Adult SS Lesson and includes a brief story from current news you can use to introduce the discussion and then a series of discussion […]
Auntie, it’s been 175 years—why hasn’t Jesus returned?
Dear Aunt Sevvy, My great-grandfather was Ellen White’s gardener. He spent most of his adult life believing that the Second Coming was just over the horizon. So did his daughter, my grandmother. Her daughter, my mom, worried, even in her final dementia, about the soon return of Jesus. Now I have grandchildren who are learning […]
Abortion Statement: 2019 General Conference Executive Committee
by Loren Seibold | 18 October 2019 | I am not an expert on the ethical questions surrounding abortion, or on the history of this issue in the church. What I’m reporting here is what I heard in Monday’s meeting of the General Conference (GC) Excom, followed up, and the final version of the statement […]
More on Young People Leaving the Church
18 October 2019 | Dear Readers: I’ve had a number of responses to a recent short piece on why young people are leaving the faith. Here are a few of them. Thank you all for your interest! (As usual, with correspondence to Aunt Sevvy, we don’t use respondents’ names.) Dear Aunt Sevvy: Ask any senior […]