by Gary E. Fraser | 16 February 2018 | The motivation for this piece was Adventist Today’s news story about the fact-checking site Snopes.com’s casting doubt on the idea that vegetarians live longer than meat eaters. Most of us do not think several times each day about quarks, neutron stars or acetylcholine esterase. Yet when it comes […]
by Lars Justinen | 2 February 2018 | There was an immigration problem back in Jesus’ day. It seems the culture then was steeped in nationalism and racism. Especially hated in Israel were the “Muslims” of their day: the Samaritans. While sharing the same roots in Father Abraham, the Jews viewed the Samaritans as […]
31 January 2018 | Editor’s note: Recently I received a note from an Adventist lay member in a developing country. Through a family member working in a conference office, he said he’d discovered that unions and conferences in his region handle church money in some highly irregular ways: that they have in effect a two-ledger system, […]
By Ronald Lawson | 21 January 2018 | “Seventh-day Adventist Responses to Branch Davidian Notoriety” was published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion in 1995. On Feb. 28, 1993, the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) carried out a raid on the compound of an urgently millenarian sect near Waco, […]
19 January 2018 | Editor’s note: Dr. Ronald Lawson has been a friend of ours for over 30 years, and an active contributor to both the Adventist church and sociological research. We’re interviewing him to introduce you to his new website, RonaldLawson.net, which will have many of his papers about the sociology of religion. Adventist […]
by Sabine Dürer Hailing from a country in one of two hemispheres, Sabine Dürer is a recent fifth-generation convert to Adventism. He or she may or may not have been Adventist-educated through college, or work for a major SDA institution, but perhaps not. Sabine enjoys spending time outdoors in his or her urban rural community, cooking […]
By Lindsey Painter | 26 December 2017 | Up in the cold wilds of Canada, Pastor Walter Rogers, the Children’s Pastor at Church in the Valley, had an idea. He wanted to have a ministry that reaches community kids. His previous ministry experience was in the inner-city streets of Benton Harbor, Michigan. There, his ministry […]
See part 1 of “Guarding the Edges” here. Hailing from a country in one of two hemispheres, Sabine Dürer is a recent fifth-generation convert to Adventism. He or she may or may not have been Adventist-educated through college, or work for a major SDA institution, but perhaps not. Sabine enjoys spending time outdoors in his or […]