by Norm Young | 18 June 2024 | It was a crisis; a test of faith. King Nebuchadnezzar himself had arranged that the daily provisions for Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah would be supplied from his own table and from his festive wine (Dan 1:5–6). The arrangement confronted these young Jews with a problem regarding […]
by Milton Hook | 4 June 2024 | Paul’s letter to the Romans is one of his most iconoclastic. Writing after many years of being immersed in rabbinic law, in Romans he appears to turn his back on the sacred cows of the culture he once proudly owned and defended. Here are the seven sacred […]
by Loren Seibold | 3 May 2024 | Awhile back a friend sent me a video link to an Adventist offshoot ministry that was criticizing an Aunt Sevvy column where Aunty had suggested, in response to a question about lard in pie crusts, that the ceremonial food rules of Leviticus can’t be regarded as of […]
23 July 2020 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Recently at a stand where I buy delicious fruit pies, an older clerk who was waiting on me took a phone call. The side of the conversation I could hear went like this: “Religious reasons, you say? Oh. OK, I’ll check.” She left to talk to the bakers […]
by Loren Seibold | 6 February 2020 | The teaching concerning clean and unclean meats has been a remarkably enduring element of Seventh-day Adventism. I don’t know what the younger generation of Seventh-day Adventists thinks (what there is left of a younger generation to ask), but among their elders, it still has traction. Ask most […]