by Terry Bottrell | 8 December 2023 | Paul’s wonderful discourse in I Corinthians 13 on unlimited, unconditional love also contains some statements on the limits and conditions surrounding human knowledge and perception. In verse 9 he says, “we know in part and prophesy in part.” Verse 12 continues, Now we see through a glass […]
by Jack Hoehn | August 7, 2023 | Elderly evangelist Mark Finley has wrinkles on his once-boyish face that even makeup artists at the Adventist Media Center can’t take away. But YouTube’s computer-generated artificial intelligence feeds me new videos they think I might be interested in, and put his face on my computer feed […]
by Mark Gutman | 31 May 2023 | Some years back, I drove 90 miles to a church to preach on Sabbath morning, only to learn that I was a week early. I checked my Day-Timer and discovered that I had misread it: I had squeezed my writing of the correct date under a different […]
14 April 2023 On the first day of the General Conference Spring Meeting (April 10), Elder Ted Wilson announced that he is creating a “Human Sexuality Task Force.” Said Elder Wilson, We’re going to talk to you about a very serious item for a few moments. We’re not going to spend a lot of time, […]
by Loren Seibold | 12 April 2023 | In the 1970s, an Adventist ex-pastor proposed to “cure” homosexuals of their same-sex attraction. Colin Cook was an Adventist clergyman from England, defrocked for having multiple sexual encounters with young men while he was a minister. Cook told church leaders that he had developed a program that […]
by Loren Seibold | 6 February 2023 | I’ve covered many Adventist meetings through the years—conference executive committees, union conferences events, General Conference executive committee meetings. A meeting I attended recently, though, gave me a greater feeling of accomplishment, because unlike denominational meetings, which are all focused entirely on promoting the institution, this one was […]
By Jack Hoehn | 21 January 2018 | On December 13, 2017, the General Conference chief administrator chose the Christmas season to remind the church of his opinion about homosexuals. His statement emphasized that unless they are lifelong celibate, he thinks homosexuals must be denied baptism, wedding, employment or membership in the Seventh-day Adventist church. […]
March 31, 2017: A survey of Adventists in the United States indicates that 86 percent support women serving as pastors and agree that these women should be ordained in the same way that men are. Less than 9 percent oppose the idea. Asked if they would support “having a female pastor in my own church,” […]
by Loren Seibold, November 6, 2015. I’ve been to a lot of church meetings. But there are none that compare to the marathon business sessions that happen at the Seventh-day Adventist World Headquarters at 12501 Old Columbia Pike. They can be a bit of an ordeal: this latest one stretched over 8 days. Like all business […]
Updated, November 3, 2015: Two papers centered on the topic of homosexuality were discussed at the annual meeting of the North American Division (NAD) of the Adventist denomination. Dr. Jiří Moskala, dean of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University, summarized a paper submitted by the seminary faculty entitled “An Understanding of the Biblical […]
By AT News Team, April 15, 2015: Seventh-day Adventist organizers have canceled the Holy Sexuality Conference, which was scheduled to take place in London at the end of April. Presenters from the United States were to speak on conversion therapy, a controversial counseling approach aimed at changing a person’s sexual orientation. The event’s website originally […]
By AT News Team, March 5, 2015: Ben Carson, the former neurosurgeon who may run for president of the United States of America, has apologized for comments he made this week about homosexuality. On a CNN television program, Carson told Chris Cuomo that being gay is a choice. Carson pointed to prison in order to […]
