Comments of the Week November 11-17 “NAD: Adventist University enrollment is shrinking and we don’t know why! GC: Hurray! The Shaking is here!‘” –Shelley Curtis Weaver on one of the satire pieces Comments on the church changing, election lessons, a satire piece, This Is Resistance, and a University professor’s drug charges. EDITORIAL: Can This Church […]
It is likely that Adventist Today readers aren’t typical of most Seventh-day Adventists around the world. But inasmuch as we represent a rather significant portion of the church, it would seem in the denomination’s interest to make room for us. But can that happen? I’m not sure. Even if it were possible, it would be risky—and […]
13 November 2024 | Three weeks ago, October 22, 2024, marked 180 years since the Great Disappointment. The pioneers—James White, Joseph Bates, Loughborough, and others—would be aghast that we are still on earth 180 years later. Ellen White died 109 years ago. Over and over, from the American Civil War onward, Adventist writers have interpreted […]
11 November 2024 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I believe in the Saturday Sabbath. But I also have many Christian friends who regularly attend church on Sunday. Jesus, in his Jewish context, spoke often of the Sabbath, though sometimes he was critical of how the Jews regarded it. But where is the evidence in the rest […]
Comments of the Week Oct 28–Nov 3 “As a church musician, I wish Sister Pedersen luck. After all, one purpose of good music should be to bring people together. My own personal hope is that one day I will have an opportunity to do what one Church of England organist in the UK once did […]
9 November 2024 | A thing recently happened that didn’t go the way I wanted it to. I suspect I’m not the only one. What I want to do is crawl into a hole and stay there for a while. Or perhaps put my fingers in my ears and sing “lalalalala” whenever anyone tries to […]
by Pamela Maize Harris | 7 November 2024 | In a live YouTube meeting Monday evening, October 28, Concerned Oakwoodites (CO) demanded answers to persistent problems, including Oakwood University’s financial crisis; serious management problems such as declining enrollment and income; lack of response to questions (an October 17 formal letter to the board was ignored); […]
6 November 2024 | Since the 19th century, Adventists have regarded Roman Catholics as enemies. In this, they were not unlike many American Protestants: anti-Catholicism was common in Protestant America—not least because the many poor Catholic immigrants who were flooding into American cities led to a reactionary nativism. In this class, Dr. Bruinsma will recap […]
4 November 2024 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I’m feeling extremely anxious—so anxious that it is making me sick—about the American election tomorrow. The last decade or two has seemed to me to be a fraught time in our country’s history. Worse, the disagreements on the political level have reached their evil tentacles down into our […]
Comments of the Week Oct 28-Nov 3 Why does this church have to be dragged kicking and screaming into dealing effectively with sexual abuse? Why do people actually have to take such drastic steps for the church to hear? Wise up, people. The church is not as safe as we’d like to believe. –Pam Grootemaat […]
Imagine you are visiting a church for the first time, the sermon has ended, the postlude has concluded, and members approach you to extend an invitation to potluck. You accept and are ushered downstairs to an abundant array of food. The room is filled with people of all ages mingling. The atmosphere is jubilant and […]
30 October 2024 | Without the court-protected, faith-based, healthcare corporations of modern America, our healthcare non-system would collapse. So how do faith-based healthcare corporations manage the necessary conflicts between their religion’s doctrinal stance and caring for a diverse public? Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, a new era of approaching women’s reproductive rights and health […]