20 April 2018 | Tomorrow, Saturday, April 21, Adventist Today editorial staff, members and friends will celebrate the independent journalism ministry’s 25th Anniversary in Loma Linda, California. Two events: a commemorative lecture and a banquet, will mark the milestone for the Adventist publication that was established to provide a source for independent journalism and innovative […]
By Lindsey Painter | 13 April 2018 | In 1976 a terrible earthquake hit Guatemala. Thousands of people died and left thousands of children orphaned. Pastor Ken and Mrs. Alcyon Fleck’s hearts were so moved by the plight of these homeless children. They wanted to do something. Pastor Fleck took an early retirement, and with […]
by Ronald Lawson | 11 April 2018 | The paper I’m introducing you to here is titled “Sectarian Groups and Social Issues: Broadening Church-Sect Theory.” I have been working on a series of four books as the main product of my major study of global Adventism. When I was planning the second volume, tentatively titled […]
by Ronald Lawson | 23 March 2018 | Three more of my papers, two that were originally published in academic journals and one in Spectrum, have been uploaded to my website for you to read. Readers may find them both fascinating and important. One of these is “Church and State at Home and Abroad: The […]
Recently we noticed a Facebook group, administered by two Seventh-day Adventist men, called “Modesty: A Call to Stand Apart,” that had grown to over 3,000 followers. We asked Wyatt Allen, one of the originators of the group, to talk about it. Wyatt is an evangelist for Amazing Facts. Why did you feel a need to create […]
by Warren Nelson | 14 March 2018 | I’ve spent a lot of time, over the course of my life, thinking about various disasters that could befall my person and how I would react. Oliver Sack’s book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat was probably the most terrifying book I’ve ever read, […]
By Lindsey Painter | 28 February, 2018 | Eight years ago Chris Oberg made Adventist history by becoming the first woman to hold the position of lead pastor of a university church. She has been faithfully serving her church and her community since that time as lead pastor of the La Sierra University Church. “The church […]
by Ronald Lawson | 20 February 2018 | In 1945, when the regional conferences were created, Seventh-day Adventism in metropolitan New York was divided administratively into two conferences, one of which had an almost completely Caucasian membership, the other African-American. Both groups grew substantially in the following twenty-five years, but from 1968 onwards, when new […]