21 June 2019  | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I am a single Adventist woman. It is very difficult to find Adventist men to date who I feel comfortable with. I want to have someone in my life who shares my values and my faith, but there just don’t seem to be many options for me. Do […]

by Ronald Lawson, PhD  |  21 June 2019  | This paper was originally published in 2003 in the Kinship Connection. Two prominent Adventists have recently urged a reversal in ­our Church’s long held position of opposing the enactment of laws ­attempting to impose morality. They have urged that it take a­ public position against the […]

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 […]

Dear Aunt Sevvy, My wife and I just moved from southern California to a small city in the Midwestern plains—a work transfer. We’re very Adventist. So we went to church (the only church for an hour in any direction). Almost everyone was old. The Sabbath School class plodded through the lesson, though with criticism of […]

by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. |  11 June 2019  | A summary paper written in 2002 Although Adventism experienced an astonishing rate of upward mobility in the New Guinea Highlands, especially the Southern Highlands, during this period, much of the rest of (PNG) Adventism, especially in the villages, remained poor in income, lifestyle, and level of […]

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 […]

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 […]

Dear Aunt Sevvy, I’ve been married for over a decade. We’re in our 70s and are very happy together. My husband and I were both widowed. However, my husband’s late wife was the woman he left his first wife and kids for. His first wife never remarried. For what it’s worth, my husband was not […]

by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D.  |  31 May 2019  | Read this article and others on Dr. Lawson’s website here. The Seventh-day Adventist Church, like many conservative denominations, has officially rejected homosexuality and its members who practice homosexuality. The Seventh-day Adventist Church Manual states that “…homosexual practices and lesbian practices are among the obvious perversions of […]

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 […]

Dear Aunt Sevvy, When I went to an academy reunion recently, one of the first questions people asked me was, “”Where do you live now?” Then the second question was, “Oh! Cool! And where do you go to church?” Here’s my problem. I don’t attend church anymore and haven’t for 25 years. So after a […]

by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D.  |  26 May 2019  | This paper was presented at the meeting of the Religious Research Association, 2008. Adventists viewed themselves as “God’s Remnant People,” who, as the bearers of “present truth,” were charged with delivering God’s final warning message in the last days. Other Protestant groups were “apostate” and had […]