20 March 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I have always trusted my husband to take care of the finances. But he was always telling me that we’re running short, and I know we’ve been using more and more credit cards. One day I opened one of the credit card statements and saw some bills that […]
13 March 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, My unmarried, unattached daughter recently came to my wife and me and announced that she’s going to have a baby. She says she’s had no luck finding a husband she wants to spend her life with, and she’s getting older, and she’s always wanted a child, so she’s […]
8 March 2023 | The role of a chaplain is to be an agent of hope. The Adventist message can be a message of hope, but its hopeful notes are too often submerged under pessimism and paranoia. How can we recover and reemphasize the heart and soul of the early pioneers, who spoke and acted […]
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. […]
13 February 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, The young pastor of my church is an OK guy, but it bugs me to no end that he doesn’t dress up for church. Following some evangelical pastor who is his hero, he wears khaki slacks and Hawaiian shirts. I know I’m probably old-fashioned, but it robs church […]
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 […]