The Afternoon of Adventism
by Reinder Bruinsma | 30 April 2025 | After a day of preaching and teaching in Stuttgart, Germany not long ago, I was graciously presented with a copy of Tomáš Halík’s most recent book, The Afternoon of Christianity: The Courage to Change. Tomáš Halík (b. 1948) is a Czech Roman […]
ATSS: Michael Scofield, “The Golden Age of Adventist Missions”
30 April 2025 | Spreading the gospel to the whole world was a strong imperative in Adventism after 1870. But the number of missionaries leaving North America increased significantly between 1910 and 1940. These hardy folk endured isolation and a variety of dangers and hardships; their dedication (albeit sometimes coupled […]
Marketing Class at Southern Adventist University Raises Funds for International Nonprofit
30 April 2025 | The following is a press release written by Julia Juler, a junior English major at Southern Adventist University Each semester, students in the Principles of Marketing course offered through the School of Business at Southern Adventist University raise funds for an organization to learn event marketing. […]
Why AT Is So Important to Me
30 April 2025 – By AT Board and Executive Committee member Heather May | One of the main reasons Adventist Today is so important to me is because I enjoy hearty debate of Adventist topics, concerns, and diverse views. Along with that I treasure learning about new-to-me historical or current-day […]
The Lesson of Richard Rohr’s “Cosmic Egg”
by Colette Carr | 29 April 2025 | I am certain you know the feeling when reading something, you realize the author is clearly expressing what you have been thinking for a while. It is exciting and affirming. This is what happened to me when I came across the metaphor […]
La Comunidad Makes Space for Worship at Southern Adventist University
29 April 2025 | The service was devoid of all the regular features of a worship program. There was no sermon, nor offering. The service merely consisted of music and worship. Southern Accent, Southern Adventist University’s student newspaper, recently covered the “Night of Worship” hosted by Chattanooga Hispanic Community Seventh-day […]
Help Us Finish Strong! The AT Spring Fundraiser Ends Tomorrow.
Dear Adventist Today Readers, We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has given to our Spring Fundraiser, which ends tomorrow, April 30, 2025. Your support drives our mission, and we’re inspired by your dedication to a more generous and inclusive Adventism. Nothing encourages us more here […]
Aunt Sevvy, what denomination would Jesus be a member of?
28 April 2025 | Dear Aunty, If Jesus were physically present with us today, which denomination would he join? Signed, Looking for the Right Church Dear Looking, The concept of an organized religious denomination isn’t a biblical one. The Jews weren’t a denomination: they were an ethnic group bonded by […]
Comments of the Week April 21-27
Comments of the Week April 21-27 “NOOOOOOOO!!! Where will I get my Big Franks and Tender Bits???!!!!!! Ugh.“ –Robert Thomas on Loma Linda Foods Filing for Bankruptcy Comments on Viral Reddit Post, Satire pieces, ATSS, ICE Raids Threatening Andrews University, Loma Linda Foods Declares Bankruptcy, On Pope Francis, and Aunt […]
Editorial: The Truth About Our Church’s Troubles—& How to Fight Back
Adventism is unraveling, and it stings. A bloated church structure lets a few strongmen smother debate, block women’s ordination, and cram our dear church into a suffocating, General Conference-approved box. Honest dialogue? Routinely crushed. Conspiracy theories, anti-intellectualism, and contempt for “outsiders” fester in the pews. Evangelists wield fear and guilt […]
Adventist Hospital in Germany Retires Baby Hatch Due to Legislation
25 April 2025 | After 25 years of operation, Waldfriede Hospital, a Seventh-day Adventist health-care institution in Berlin-Zehlendorf, Germany, stopped operating its baby hatch in March 2025. The baby hatch was designed on April 8, 2000, by the Hamburg Sternipark Association. The decision to create the hatch was prompted by […]
Reddit Post About Adventist Church Board Harassment of Ex-Members Gets 27,000 Reactions
24 April 2025 | A Reddit post under the heading “Am I Overreacting?: Church member is harassing me” describes a threatening conversation with an Adventist church board member after a couple explains why they had left the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The Wednesday (April 23) post has received 27,000 reactions and […]
News from Loma Linda, Paraguay, Germany, and La Sierra
24 April 2025 | News from Loma Linda The 40th annual Children’s Day, hosted by Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital Child Life Department and presented by Farmer Boys, will occur on Wednesday, April 30, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. This year’s event will feature a teddy bear clinic, a […]
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Southern Student Presents Research at Global Mathematics Conference
7 May 2025 | The following is a press release from Southern Adventist University. Marinela Cruz, junior math and chemistry double major at Southern Adventist University, presented her research titled “Cycles in Grid Graphs and Toroidal Variants” at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, the largest mathematics conference in the world, earlier this semester. “I wanted to do […]
Commentary
Reverent Otherdoxy
by Jim Burklo | 7 May 2025 | Years ago, I hosted an event at the University of Southern California with Paul Woodruff, a philosopher at the University of Texas, who wrote a book that had a profound influence on me: Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue. He said that reverence doesn’t belong to any particular […]
Features
Comments of the Week April 28-May 5
Comments of the Week April 28-May 5 “Aunty, you’re stirring up my PTSDA!” –George R Brown on Aunt Sevvy’s Response to biblical evidence for the Sabbath & Sunday Conflict Comments on Aunt Sevvy, Why Is Our Church so Authoritarian?, Daniel 8:14 Is About the Gospel of Grace, The Afternoon of Adventism, and The Lesson of […]