by Herold Weiss | 23 February 2024 | Reading the above title literally requires some sophistication, because reading literally means recognizing that words may function differently when used metaphorically (to expand the intellectual horizon), ironically (to expose an inconvenient truth), exaggeratingly (to provide emphasis), or technically (to facilitate specialized communication), etc. A literal reading would […]
by Stephen Ferguson | 1 December 2023 | Is being left-handed a sin? I suspect with so many other issues today, this isn’t one you’ve given a whole lot of thought to. Yet, left-handedness goes to the core of what it means to be “normal.” The Australian charity Beyond Blue has produced an excellent advertisement […]
by Angus McPhee | 22 November 2023 | A history of Seventh-day Adventists would be incomplete without Ellen White’s role in their doctrines and institutions. She appeared on the scene as a teenager when her family attended Millerite meetings. Lisbon’s earthquake (1755), New England’s Dark Day (1780), and the Leonids (1833) had become signposts pointing […]
by Hannele Ottschofski | 26 May 2023 | Some evangelical churches in the United States teach a subject they call “biblical womanhood”: it’s about how (they believe) women should behave in light of the Bible. They see the patriarchal world in which women were subservient to men as God’s original will. The pattern is still […]
by Loren Seibold | 21 May 2023 | Had someone 40 years ago assigned to me the part of futurist, near the top of the list of things I wouldn’t have predicted would be the widespread popularity of tattoos. In my youth, skin art was associated with roustabouts in dockside bars, not educated professionals in […]
by Thandazani Mhlanga | 12 May 2023 | Interpretation preexisted canonization. What we have in our Bibles is evidence of a long and complex history of editions, redactions, and interpretations. The question is never whether one interprets the Scriptures or not—everyone does—but how or by what means do you do so? Because meaning-making is an […]
by Mark Gutman | 19 April 2023 | This piece was originally published on March 24, 2016. Scene 1: The judge explains to the jury that they were about to see and hear a lot of evidence. But no matter what they saw, she tells them, they should vote that the defendant is guilty. Scene […]
