by Marcos D. Torres[1]* | 20 December 2023 | (This essay is in English here.) To najwspanialszy czas w roku. Dla niektórych. Dla innych to najgorszy czas w roku. Możesz być pewny, że ludzie ci sprawią, iż będziesz o tym wiedział. Ich profile w mediach społecznościowych są pełne memów oraz filmików o prawdziwych, pogańskich korzeniach […]
by Mark Gutman | 12 December 2023 | What are we supposed to do with the command, “Judge not, that ye be not judged” (Matthew 7:1, KJV)? It is commonly quoted, but not commonly “unpacked.” When you stop to think about it, it seems like an unrealistic order. We presume it means that we shouldn’t […]
by Stephen Ferguson | 1 December 2023 | Is being left-handed a sin? I suspect with so many other issues today, this isn’t one you’ve given a whole lot of thought to. Yet, left-handedness goes to the core of what it means to be “normal.” The Australian charity Beyond Blue has produced an excellent advertisement […]
by Denis Fortin | 5 October 2023 | That the Seventh-day Adventist Church is currently facing a governance crisis is an understatement. Ongoing conversations over women’s ordination have highlighted major differences of understanding of the role of various levels of organization in the decision-making process of the church. Since the beginning, the Christian Church has […]
by Alicia Johnston | 4 October 2023 | “I always used to look down on people who got divorced.” It was an offhand comment my friend made one day. She’s such a kind person. I didn’t imagine her looking down on anyone, but I guess we all have our little private judgments. “Oh yeah?” I […]
by Loren Seibold | 22 September 2023 I didn’t start out with any particular objection to women being pastors. Before I got to college, the idea had never crossed my mind. In our little country church in North Dakota I’d not seen any women pastors. We did have some extraordinary women, though, who shaped my […]
by Loren Seibold | 10 September 2023 | This piece was published for the first time in 2016 in Elder’s Digest. I wrote it at a time when I was working as a parish pastor. I still think the points here ring true. We pastors care deeply for our church members. We think about you […]
By S M Chen | 5 September 2023 | “A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.” –J. P. Morgan (1837-1913), American financier and banker I was a youngster of perhaps six when I first became aware of the word “motive.” Late one afternoon, when […]
by Nathan Brown | 29 August 2023 | Some years ago I was teaching university English classes part-time. In a second-year Modern Literature class, one of the most interesting students was a young gentleman who worked hard on his image: torn black T-shirts, camouflage pants, ragged haircut and multiple piercings. He regularly stood out from […]
by Mark Gutman | 3 August 2023 | I once heard a story of two businessmen, fellow church members, who met for lunch at a crowded restaurant. After their orders were set in front of them, one asked the other, “Well, shall we scratch eyebrows?” He was referring to the uncomfortable feeling of knowing that […]
by Nathan Brown | 25 July 2023 | Prayer is a lot like radio. We seat ourselves alone — perhaps in a small room — and talk to the wall in the hope that someone, somewhere, is listening. Through a process and technology we barely understand, we try to reach out to the unseen listener. […]
by Mark McCleary | 20 July 2023 | Back in 2015, a congregation with which I was associated set up a committee to research preparing, serving, eating or allowing meat products on church property. As the pastor, I thought it not robbery to do my own research of this topic. I wasn’t a member of […]
