6 March 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN) had a miraculous birth, and for a time produced outstanding programming. Although it is an independent ministry, the Adventist Church appears to endorse it.. Yet available information indicates that the founder has had a tumultuous domestic life, and some say that his current […]
27 February 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, My spouse and I are having an uncomfortable discussion about an uncomfortable topic. We’re about to have a baby boy. My husband insists that the Bible requires male children to be circumcised. In the Old Testament it’s the mark of God’s chosen, he says, and in the New […]
23 February 2023 | The big challenge with studying Jesus in Revelation is this: how do you reconcile “the revelation of Jesus Christ” (Rev 1:1) with narrative horrors like the fifth trumpet (Rev 9:1-11)? What do events like the fifth trumpet have to do with Jesus? In this class we will dig below the surface […]
21 February 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I was disappointed by your response to Bruised and Battered. This letter writer should have been titled Mrs. Courageous, because it took much courage for her to speak out—especially against the church which employs and enables her own abusive husband! Oh, I am very glad you published her […]
20 February 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, My husband is a Seventh-day Adventist pastor. He regularly hits me when he is upset with me. I have had bruises on many parts of my body. I have told many lies to the people in church about tripping on a step or walking into a doorframe. I’m […]
15 February 2023 | The crisis in Adventist eschatology is due to its reliance on Millerism’s faulty methodology and falsified prophetic predictions. Ellen White taught that Father Miller’s sole authority was Scripture and a concordance, that his interpretations were literal commonsense, and, most importantly, that God had originated his date-setting conclusions by repeated angelic guidance. […]
12 February 2023 | Although helping 1,000 blind people to see is usually considered a positive thing for society, many on Twitter are mad that the viral YouTuber “MrBeast” has made a video about it or that society required his generosity at all. Some have called his video and him demonic, and others have even […]
25 January 2023 | by Maury Jackson Paul wrote to Timothy, “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” But many Seventh-day Adventists struggle with fear: fear of end-time events, fear of not being saved, fear of rejection by God. Maury Jackson […]
by Loren Seibold | 6 February 2023 | I’ve covered many Adventist meetings through the years—conference executive committees, union conferences events, General Conference executive committee meetings. A meeting I attended recently, though, gave me a greater feeling of accomplishment, because unlike denominational meetings, which are all focused entirely on promoting the institution, this one was […]
Are the Jews trying to curse those who read Scripture? Can Christians intermix with Jews, or is this forbidden by God? These are the sorts of strange questions that got Walter Veith banned from some European Adventist conferences. Join Professor Korpman as he reacts to and highlights some of the most disturbing comments that Veith […]
30 January 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Given that our church teaches a short human history timeline, how does it explain such wide differences in racial features? Signed, Racially puzzled Dear Puzzled, You ask a question that is loaded with controversy—and the classic Adventist explanation is a bit embarrassing. It has to do with Noah’s […]
25 January 2023 | by Bryan Ness Christianity, which heavily influenced Western culture, has been frequently blamed for being the cause of our current environmental crises. As acknowledged by Christians, when God created humans, He gave them dominion over all things: “God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill […]
