by Loren Seibold | 9 June 2023 | In the little country church where I grew up I remember, one Sabbath, sitting next to my friend Keith in the church service. This particular day he poked me with his elbow and passed his Bible over to me, pointing to 1 Kings 21:21. “Read that,” he […]
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 Horace B. Alexander | 24 May 2023 | Why would anyone need to ask, “Who killed Goliath?” Ask any Sabbath School child. The child would quickly tell you that it was “only a boy named David.” This beloved story has been enshrined in our Western culture, immediately coming to mind in any situation in […]
Shelley Curtis Weaver | 31 March 2023 | During a recent writing project for Adventist Today, editor Loren Seibold and I had a discussion about my use of the word “sublimation.” I was right, and he was right, but his was the “righter” right, because once an obscure word requires that level of discussion, using […]
by Steven Siciliano, 16 November 2017 “Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because […]
