9 July 2025 | The Adventist Today team has spent the week covering the events of the General Conference here in St. Louis. We’ve seen new leaders be elected and changes being made in Adventist policy. More important, we have brushed shoulders with lovely people from around the globe, talked with them, listened to them. […]
Comments of the Week June 30-July 6 “Thou shalt not make unto thee any cut out image.” –Tihomir Odorcic joking about the cardboard cutout photo of Doug Bachelor Comments on articles about the General Conference (GC) Session, as well as several photos of the Adventist Today (AT) staff goofing off working in St. Louis Loren […]
The image of a fox preaching to a flock of geese recurs throughout medieval history: in paintings, on pottery, in book illustrations, and sometimes even in carvings in churches. Generally the fox is dressed in a priest’s vestments or a monk’s habit. The sly fox is lulling the geese into a false sense of security […]
2 July 2025 | The Adventist publishing “industry” is 170 years old. Publishing was vigorous even before Adventist education and healthcare began to expand. In an effort to reach the whole world “in this generation,” publishing houses and journals were established all over the world, ever adding more languages whenever possible. Books and journals provide […]
Comments of the Week June 9-16 “Well done, Jescah Gesare, for carrying through with this case. Too many Seventh-day Adventists (SDAs) believe that it is wrong to take those who have wronged them to court, hiding behind the false belief it is ‘unchristian’ to do so. When treated illegally by an employer, it is the […]
Many love it. Many love to hate it. The 62nd General Conference (GC) Session of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is nearly upon us, set to unfold from July 3-12 in St. Louis, Missouri. Adventist Today will be on the ground to cover it. This gathering, held every five years (though the 2022 session was delayed […]
28 June 2025 | Conversation among different kinds of Adventists is often either a bit mean-spirited, or entirely non-existent. I will use both contemporary philosophy of knowledge and a key passage from Matthew to argue that failure by Adventists to interact across lines of convictional difference in vigorous, open-minded conversation is an egregious and tragic […]
23 June 2025 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, How can I be an LGBTQ ally without endangering my employment? Signed, Church Worker Dear Church Worker: Right now, as things stand in the church, you probably can’t—at least in most places. Be kind to your LGBTQ+ friends personally, but you dare not, if you want to keep […]
“Not only does hurry keep us from the love, joy, and peace of the kingdom of God—the very core of what all human beings crave—but it also keeps us from God himself simply by stealing our attention. And with hurry, we always lose more than we gain.” — John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of […]
20 June 2025 | On May 12, 2025, Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office and Central Anti-Corruption Bureau announced the arrest of five individuals charged with participation in an organized criminal enterprise, engaged in issuing falsified documents intended to get unearned diplomas, as well as accepting financial bribes ranging from 5,000 to 30,000 Polish złoty (abbreviated as […]
18 June 2025 | The praise group Elevation Worship in a beautiful song, O Come to the Altar (2016), sings that “Forgiveness was bought with the precious blood of Jesus Christ.” Some familiar gospel songs, such as “Jesus Paid it All” and “Nothing But the Blood of Jesus” express the same idea. Ellen White writes that […]
Comments of the Week June 9-16 “Will an anonymous observer from the GC Compliance Committee be taking names?” –Jim Hamstra, jokingly, on AToday’s Invitation to our readers to join us for lunch at the upcoming GC Session Meetings in St. Louis Comments on Aunt Sevvy, SATIRE: Michigan Conference Bans Sex on Sabbath—Says It’s Work, Lunch […]