by Reinder Bruinsma | 30 July 2025 | Professor Rik Torfs belongs to that small group of erudite people who have the gift of communicating their insights in accessible, enriching, and often surprising ways. He is a Belgian professor in canonical law. I became acquainted with him in 1997 when I was involved with the […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 27 June 2025 | Read part 1 here. Opening the third section of Reclaiming the Prophet, veteran Adventist historian George R. Knight recaps much of what he’s written in his other books about Adventist church history. He recounts how the original perspective on the ministry of Ellen White was, to a […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 26 June 2025 | I first became aware of Reclaiming the Prophet when I saw urgent warning to stay far away from it on the website of the far-right website Fulcrum7. It was clear from the description that the author of the short, ultra-negative piece had not read the book, but […]
by Mark Johnson | 25 February 2025 | Why don’t we just bite the bullet and admit it? We fell into the infallibility trap, and we now have a prophet problem. She may have lied about the authorship of much of her body of work. She might have done it all to enrich herself and […]
par Loren Seibold | 8 août 2024 | Imaginons – de façon purement hypothétique – qu’un jour vous preniez la Revue Adventiste et que vous y voyiez, en couverture, un article intitulé «La vérité sur les juifs». Supposons que l’article dise que les juifs ourdissent une conspiration secrète pour dominer le monde; que, parce qu’ils […]
SILVER SPRING, Maryland —— General Conference (GC) senior leadership rushed into an emergency meeting this morning after a researcher at the White Estate forwarded a memo claiming “irrefutable evidence Ellen White (EGW) thought Doritos were way better than Fritos in haystacks.” GC leaders are struggling with how to frame the new evidence given the fact […]
by Loren Seibold | 22 August 2024 | Let’s imagine—purely hypothetically—that one day you picked up the Adventist Review and saw, featured on the cover, an article entitled “The Truth About the Jews.” Suppose the article said that Jews had a secret conspiracy for global domination; that, because they’re in banking, they will soon take […]
By Matthew J. Korpman | 24 July 2024 | When Denis Fortin of Andrews University wrote the encyclopedia entry on Ellen White’s use of the Apocrypha in 2013, he noted what was the central issue involved in the discussion: “whether she considered the Apocrypha to be inspired Scripture.” He notes that “eight references to the […]
by Tuwan Ussery White | 18 January 2024 | Speaking to supporters on December 12, 2023, in Manchester, New Hampshire, Nikki Haley was asked about the cause of the Civil War. She said I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run, the freedoms and what people could […]
Excited Adventists everywhere are carefully wrapping Christmas presents and according to real-time data available from the General Conference Department of Questionable Expenditure, the most gifted item this year is the first-ever Ellen G. White action figure. Produced by the Ellen G. White Estate, an initial production run of 144,000 action figures of the Adventist cofounder […]
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 […]
5 October 2023 | Brazilian Adventist Education Network Recognized at G20 for Sustainability “The Adventist Education Network in the southern region of Brazil was recognized at the G20 (Group of 20—a forum that brings together the world’s largest economies) for its sustainability project aimed at installing photovoltaic panels to use solar energy in its schools.” […]