by Loren Seibold | 9 July 2025 | A collection of thoughts and ideas and observations that have been piling up on my mental desk: I have seen my church… …and it’s not white anymore. All ya gotta do is walk around this building, and you’ll see mostly faces of some shade of brown. Prepare, […]
by Loren Seibold | 8 July 2025 | Please forgive me: I’m going to whinge a bit. Because I’m fed up. The General Conference (GC) Session brings people from all around the world into one place. These are, presumably, some of the most faithful, generous, mission-minded Seventh-day Adventists in the world, which is why they […]
by Loren Seibold | 7 July 2025 | This is a big noisy meeting in an inferior space—spread out and confusing and noisy with bad acoustics. But as I look around, I’m moved by people from all over the world—not the big conference and union and division people with fancy suits and ties, but the […]
by Loren Seibold | 6 July 2025 | We started out today with an “orientation” session for the delegates by Hensley Moorooven. Good solid principles—but this is the 4th day of the event, so ya gotta wonder why this wasn’t done first thing. Hensley quotes this interesting passage from the Church Manual: “It is not […]
by Loren Seibold | 4 July 2025 | This afternoon kicked off with the report from General Conference (GC) treasurer Paul Douglas. Short version: the church is making good money. Slightly longer version, courtesy of Bjorn: World tithe is up about 16% over the last five years. World tithe is over $3 billion annually. Douglas […]
by Loren Seibold | 4 July 2025 | Happy Independence Day, Americans! We kicked off the morning with the anti-vaxxers trying to bring up the same stuff they lost on yesterday. This was a result of Elder Wilson’s backpedaling on what he said yesterday. Indeed, he was correct in—but he was also wrong, because what […]
by Loren Seibold | 30 June 2025 | The Adventosphere—both the online and personal gossip variety—has been buzzing with questions about who the next General Conference (GC) president will be. I take a minority position: it shouldn’t matter. My diminished interest First, I doubt the selection will be a surprise. Don’t expect a Conclave outcome, […]
26 March 2025 | “The last GC session was revolutionary in the digital media sphere,” said Sam Neves, associate director of communication at the General Conference (GC) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. “This year’s session will be evolutionary.” According to the General Conference publication Adventist News Network (ANN), the communication department plans to utilize social […]