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 […]
11 April 2024 | The General Conference (GC) Spring Meetings began day two of business on April 10th in Silver Spring, Maryland. These meetings included a series of presentations, updates, reports, and discussions on future plans for the Adventist Church, providing key insights into the church’s strategic direction. The following are a few key notes […]
by Jack Hoehn | October 27, 2023 | My wife Deanne claims that when I am winning a game, I am talkative and want to discuss every play; when I am losing, I am quiet and sullen and bored and soon “want to do something else.” She is competitive enough that I can’t deny her […]
by Mark Gutman | 7 July 2023 I enjoy bowling. That will hardly startle anybody now, but it would have raised some eyebrows among many Adventists when I was a teenager. Back then, I somehow picked up that bowling was bad. Well, maybe bowling itself wasn’t bad, but bowling alleys were tantamount to taverns, which […]
by Loren Seibold | 30 April 2023 | A version of this essay was published in October of 2019. When I grew up on the farm in North Dakota, my family had green John Deere farm tractors, not red International Harvester tractors. As a child, this seemed an important loyalty, and I remember arguing with […]
by Jenniffer Ogden | 26 April 2023 This piece was originally published 26 May 2016. Let’s talk about sex. Birds and bees. Song of Solomon level passion. Intercourse. Where babies come from. Neural pathways that solidify connection with each sexual encounter. Let’s discuss intimacy and vulnerability. Let’s talk about sex. Uncomfortable yet? Yeah, me too. […]
by Steven Siciliano | 3 April 2023 | This essay was originally published on 4 April 2017 | In all my years as a Christian, the difference between the old and new covenants was most often explained along the following lines: “The righteous, moral law of God is eternal, and we are expected to keep […]
by Loren Seibold | 30 March 2023 | For a long time I’ve been noticing what I call “folk theologies”—notions that are commonly assumed among believers, though no one can show any evidence for them. These are simplistic concepts that come about for reasons that have little to do with the Bible, but take up […]
by Loren Seibold | I just read that the death toll of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria is estimated to have passed 46,000. It may be more. 46,000 people perished in a matter of minutes. Or maybe they wished it were minutes: for some, it was days of suffering, dying of thirst or slow […]
by Carsten Thomsen | 10 February 2023 | I am enthralled by magnificent minds’ discussing the endlessly deep layers of theology. They dare to raise existential questions and deduce fascinating theories as they strive to understand the incomprehensible divine. But in the past ten years or so, something has happened in my mind. After the […]
by Jenniffer Ogden Please welcome Jenniffer Ogden as a new columnist for Adventist Today. Jenn is the Children & Family Pastor at the Walla Walla University Church. A recent transplant to the Walla Walla Valley, Jenn loves the wonders of academia, locally grown produce and PNW beards. Having recently finished visiting all 50 states, she is now anticipating […]