It was with significant interest and with some degree of concern that I read the article “Why I Think an All-Powerful God Might Not Exist” by Stephen Ferguson dated 16 May 2018 published in the May 18, 2018 issue of Adventist today. He asks a question asked by many others for many centuries. How can […]
Category: Letters
“Dear Elle”: 91-Year-Old on Her Life as a Church Employee
14 May 2018 | Dear Elle, Thank you for writing “The Day My Church Broke My Heart.” I have read it with interest. Perhaps you would like to hear my story along these lines. Since I am 91 now, I don’t claim to remember all the details exactly right. But I will do my best […]
Researcher Asks for Help in Languages Other Than English
Pastor Milton Adams has been asked to write a scholarly paper and he is asking for help from Adventists who have access to the book Desire of Ages by Ellen White in languages other than English. He asks, Would you be wiling to look up page 822? I’ve pasted in the English below so you […]
What Consequences for Corruption in the Treasury?
Letter to the Editor | March 30, 2018 | On January 31, Adventist Today published an interview between the Executive Editor Loren Seibold, and Victor Pilmoor, who served three terms as British Union Treasurer. The editor had received a note from an Adventist lay member in a developing country. Through a family member working in a conference […]
The Absolutely Final Comment on the Little Horn of Daniel 8
André Reis Responds to Cliff Goldstein’s “The Little Horn of Daniel 8” | 16 March 2018 | McHarg’s article on the “little horn” of Daniel 8 has elicited a heated debate. Clifford Goldstein’s piece is the latest iteration of what will perhaps continue to pester Adventist theology. Antiochus is, after all, a four-letter-word in Adventism. […]
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The Penultimate Comment on the Little Horn of Daniel 8
Winston McHarg’s Response to Clifford Goldstein’s “The Little Horn of Daniel 8” | 16 March 2018 | THE PARALLEL NATURE OF THE VISIONS – THE MISSING ROMAN BEAST. Goldstein finds a major key for the meaning of the little horn of Daniel 8 in the parallelism of chapters 2,7 and 8. While stressing the similarities […]
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Response to “Samoa’s Sabbath Wars” (Adventist Today Magazine Fall 2017)
6 March 2018 Dear Editor, We are grieving and feel betrayed by your article, Samoa’s Sabbath Wars (Fall 2017 magazine), in which writer Bjorn Karlman, added his personal defence of Seventh-day Adventist Sunday keeping by stating as facts, “the lost day,” “the seventh day now called Sunday,” and “Saturday became the sixth day.” The very […]
A Response to Marvin Moore on the Little Horn of Daniel 8
This is the response by Angus McPhee to Marvin Moore’s article, “Why the Little Horn of Daniel 8 is Much More Than Antiochus Epiphanes” Moore: The three prophecies that concern us here are found in chapters 2, 7, and 8. McPhee: Why insist on including Daniel 2 and 7 in a discussion of Daniel 8, […]
Love Is Important, but It Isn’t Enough
I read with interest and respect “A Simple Roadmap from San Antonio”, by Glenn Sackett. Of the message about being loving in all situations, I heartily agree. There has been much suspicion and acrimony on all sides of all issues in the church. This ought not so to be. But I cannot separate that love […]
Larry Downing on 1919 Bible Conference Participants
This Letter to the Editor responds to the video interview with Aage Rendalen, who inadvertently “outed” the minutes of the 1919 Bible Conference. Information related to that Conference is of special interest to me for the following reasons: I knew and have spent considerable time with two of the participants of that conference, and neither […]
Smuts van Rooyen on the Blessing of the Reverend Canon Tutu
December 16, is a national holiday in South Africa intended to celebrate ethnic unity and harmony. It’s called the Day of Reconciliation. In 2015 it was marked by protest rallies in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape town, and Port Elizabeth. There was a strident call for president Jacob Zuma to step down. What sparked the demonstrations was […]
Is the Church Too Fossilized to Attract People?
A response to Monte Sahlin’s “How Should Adventists Respond When Many People Reject Organized Religion?” As a lifelong Adventist who struggled to fit in with organized religion I can relate to the attitudes of the people described in the article. I liked the Beatles, not hymns. I liked TV and novels, not the Sabbath School […]