Reviewed by John McLarty, June 1, 2017: This anniversary edition also marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 theses and the Protestant Reformation with a historical introduction and notes by Denis Fortin. In the 1970s a revival swept the Adventist college campuses in the United States. At the center of this revival was the […]
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La Sierra University Stages “God’s Peculiar People” by Dr. Marilyn Loveless
By Jiggs Gallagher Riverside, CA May 11, 2017—Marilynn Loveless, director of the drama program at La Sierra University, wrote her first full-length musical play, “God’s Peculiar People,” which she also directed as the department’s spring offering. The light-hearted romp about tangled relationships has played to sold-out audiences during its run at the university. She was […]
The Shack: Much to Love—and A Few Things Not To
This careful and critical book review by Melody Tan is the kind of thing you have come to expect from Adventist Today. Since this week is our Spring Fundraising drive, I invite you to click hereto support our ministry of independent Adventist journalism! —Loren Seibold, AT Executive Editor. by Melody Tan When it was (self-) published 10 […]
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Finding Jesus in the Book of Revelation, by Steve Case & Daniel Wysong
Reviewed by Mike Fortune. Finding Jesus in the Book of Revelation, by Steve Case and Daniel Wysong. Involve Youth (2014), Paperback,180 pages Seventh-day Adventist commentaries on Revelation that emphasize the KJV, endorse historicism, condemn Catholicism, limit the Sabbath to the seal of God, Adventism as the remnant church and Ellen White as the Spirit of Prophecy […]
William G. Johnsson’s Where Are We Headed? Adventism after San Antonio
William G. Johnsson launches Where Are We Headed? Adventism After San Antonio straight from the shoulder. “San Antonio was a tipping point in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The General Conference Session of 2015 exposed and widened fault lines that had been developing for a long time. In later years the Session will […]
Gracism: The Art of Inclusion
Gracism: The Art of Inclusion, by David A. Anderson, IVP Books, Downers Grove, Illinois, 2007, 165 p, paperback. Reviewed by Ella M. Rydzewski I visited David Anderson’s multicultural ministry at Bridgeway Community Church in my hometown of Columbia, Maryland, a few years ago. Last fall I heard him speak again on inclusion at a local […]
Revised Edition of Book by Monte Sahlin Published through Amazon
One Minute Witness is a quick, practical read about how to share the good news of Jesus at a personal level in the contemporary, secular culture. The author is Monte Sahlin, executive director of the Adventist Today Foundation and well-known research scholar on faith in today’s context and developer of a number of innovative ministries […]
Book Review: America’s Secret Jihad: The Hidden History of Religious Terrorism in the United States
by Stuart Wexler, Reviewed by Edwin A. Schwisow, September 30, 2015: As an Adventist I spent most of my early years in the United States’ Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, in my case) and became strongly aware of the connection among Religion, Reformation, and (in a whisper, now) Racism. Adventists that we were, we lived […]
The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis (BOOK REVIEW)
Author: Garry Wills (Penguin Group, 2015): Reviewed by Edwin A. Schwisow, September 10, 2015: I was reared in an Adventist home where I was taught that “the Catholics” were shameless, truth-rejecting, alcohol-bibbing, commandment-breaking, idol-worshiping, violence-prone blasphemers who claimed the rights of God on earth and ultimately would try to kill those of us who refused […]
Judas and the Gospel of Jesus, Have We Missed the Truth about Christianity? (BOOK REVIEW)
by N. T. Wright, Baker Books Grand Rapids, MI, 2006. Reviewed by Ella M. Rydzewski, August 13, 2015: As a renowned scholar and the Bishop of Durham of the Church of England, Wright has authored more than 30 books. He wrote this one to shine the light of New Testament history on a Gnostic […]
Book Review: Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine
Reviewed by Edwin A. Schwisow, July 28, 2015: I live in a “liberal” state on the “Left Coast,” where the separation of Church and State is normally profound and sacrosanct. It is here that I became acquainted with several families who hold founding membership in the Followers of Christ Church, which prohibits its 1,000 or […]
BOOK REVIEW: Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
by Karen Armstrong (Alfred A. Knopf, Copyright 2014) Reviewed by Edwin A. Schwisow, June 9, 2015: I grew up in a devout Adventist family saturated with Bible stories and a very clear prime directive that our purpose in life was to export our faith and be found waiting with uplifted arms to receive the Lord […]