by Reinder Bruinsma | 27 September 2024 | Read Part 1 here My conclusion in first part of this essay—that The Great Controversy belongs to an earlier age, and is out of context in our time—has been strengthened and amplified by a stream of publications about the person and ministry of Ellen White, beginning in […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 26 September 2024 | There were not many books in the home in which I grew up, but we did have a small library that was more or less standard in Adventist homes in the Netherlands. Seventh-day Adventists could be expected to have some quite voluminous, blue-gray tomes in a Dutch […]
by Jim Walters | 4 July 2024 | Pre-modern believers honestly believe God directly revealed to them final knowledge of sin’s origin and end, as I said in part one of this series. Modern Adventists reason that stories like TGC were written by fallible believers who did their honest best but may have been wrong—per […]
by Jim Walters | 3 July 2024 | (Read part 1 here.) Given the prominence of the theme of The Great Controversy (TGC) in Adventism, and how conditions have changed in society and in the church over the last 165 years, it’s reasonable to use the modernist tool of reason to examine the TGC’s relevance […]
by Loren Seibold | 28 June 2024 | Adventists (they weren’t Seventh-day Adventists yet) had a pretty good idea back in the 1830s and 1840s. They believed Jesus was returning, and they wanted to be ready for him. They were wrong—but they were sincerely and innocently wrong. And righteously wrong: they wanted Jesus to come […]
by Loren Seibold | 15 June 2023 | If you were running a big company, would you spend a billion dollars on an advertising campaign for which there is no evidence that it works? The Seventh-day Adventist Church is doing precisely that. Let me be more precise. No one actually knows if cold-mailing The Great […]
13 June 2023 | In light of the reactions from cities receiving The Great Controversy books around the nation, many have asked whether the project to disseminate 1 billion copies by 2024 is still worth the trouble. Critiques have included the cost of the project, the time expected from members to personally distribute the books, and the […]
18 May 2023 | Southern Adventist University Places Third in National Enactus Competition “The Enactus chapter at Southern Adventist University won third place at the 2023 Enactus United States National Exposition, ranking in the elite 1 percent of more than 300 teams in the country.” They presented on “Akuna Soap Industry’s production of natural, affordable […]
11 May 2023 | Adventist Pastor Wins Medal at World Transplant Games “A Seventh-day Adventist pastor from Victoria, Australia, has won two bronze medals at the 2023 World Transplant Games. Pastor Fraser Catton was among 150 athletes on Team Australia competing in the games, held April 15–21, 2023, in Perth, Western Australia.” Full story at […]
