10 April 2023 | Today Aunty answers two very similar questions from readers: Dear Aunt Sevvy, It’s been awhile since I attended an Adventist church service, but I went recently for a musical event. It was interesting to me that the church didn’t have a cross anywhere in the sanctuary—but there was a prominently displayed […]
3 April 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, My problem is probably as old as the world, but I don’t know how to handle it. My mother-in-law absolutely dotes on her son. She fawns over him and compliments him. She tolerates me, but little digs (possibly she’s not even aware of them) aren’t uncommon. “You look […]
Dear Aunt Sevvy, I recently read an answer from you that made me think you believe God tolerates LGBTQ+ people. If so, why did God destroy Sodom and Gomorrah ? Signed, Not Me Dear Not Me: It has always astonished Aunty how many Christians are obsessed with what they believe happened at Sodom and Gomorrah. […]
13 March 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, My unmarried, unattached daughter recently came to my wife and me and announced that she’s going to have a baby. She says she’s had no luck finding a husband she wants to spend her life with, and she’s getting older, and she’s always wanted a child, so she’s […]
6 March 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN) had a miraculous birth, and for a time produced outstanding programming. Although it is an independent ministry, the Adventist Church appears to endorse it.. Yet available information indicates that the founder has had a tumultuous domestic life, and some say that his current […]
27 February 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, My spouse and I are having an uncomfortable discussion about an uncomfortable topic. We’re about to have a baby boy. My husband insists that the Bible requires male children to be circumcised. In the Old Testament it’s the mark of God’s chosen, he says, and in the New […]
30 January 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Given that our church teaches a short human history timeline, how does it explain such wide differences in racial features? Signed, Racially puzzled Dear Puzzled, You ask a question that is loaded with controversy—and the classic Adventist explanation is a bit embarrassing. It has to do with Noah’s […]
9 January 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Was the tabernacle in the wilderness a literal copy of one in heaven? Or is it all just symbolic? Signed, Really Wondering Dear Wondering: You pose a provocative question, because the difference between the real and the symbolic is an overdue discussion in Adventism. Seventh-day Adventist eschatology has […]
26 December 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I was married to an Adventist for 25 years of total mismatch—emotionally unavailable. Then I dated non-Adventists, and met my current husband of 4 years, a Jewish man. This marriage? Sexual betrayal. Pornography addiction. Narcissistic emotional abuse. I’ve spent over $30,000 in therapy to work on myself. Now […]
19 December 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Our Thanksgiving dinner was a disaster. We expected a happy gathering around the table with everyone feeling gratitude, but my father hijacked it by lashing out at the table with political topics and dumb conspiracy theories about vaccinations and the 2020 election. Several of us tried to change […]
12 December 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I keep hearing of more preachers who have bypassed theological training (undergraduate and seminary) and have somehow managed to be hired after a few months of an evangelistic training course. Some conferences hire only such candidates, which makes me wonder if there’s a reason—or if we are just […]
5 December 2022 | Dear Aunty I recently attended one of our churches where the majority of the congregation was of a different ethnicity than myself. The coldness was shocking. Not even a handshake was extended to me. I felt like some made a conscious effort to avoid me. Are we not all brothers and […]