8 May 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, How unChristlike were your comments about the founder and family of 3ABN! The devil is the accuser of the brethren. What I want to know is why denominational leadership changed our logo from the three angels to a logo that looks just like the Methodists and Presbyterians—without even […]
1 May 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Can you resolve a discussion a friend and I had this past Easter? She believes Jesus left his body and preached to the dead the Sabbath after His death, before His resurrection on Sunday morning. I have never heard this before. Can you shed some light, please? Signed, […]
24 April 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Our congregation has about 300 members, though many aren’t active. We have had the same pastoral couple for nearly 17 years. At the beginning they worked with the young people—we used to have a church school—but our congregation has aged. The elderly people have felt unseen by the […]
17 April 2023 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I met a man seven years ago. He was engaged to be married. He told me he had second thoughts about marrying, but he got married a month after we met, and is still married. I am totally in love with this guy. He comes once a week […]
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 […]