by Rich Hannon | 26 January 2024 | Adventism was born and raised with the self-image that we are a band of plucky truth-seekers. That’s not wrong, but neither is it wholly true. Over time, and certainly at present, the church seems to be less about seeking and more about preserving current orthodoxy. There is […]
by David Geelan | 06 June 2023 | It’s been a bit of a mantra of mine in online debates for decades. It sometimes annoys my friends, because I tend to simply drop these two words and not elaborate. The two words? “Truth matters.” What is important about telling the truth, and what is so […]
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 […]
by Jim Walters | 7 February 2023 | Are Adventists as honest about our religious lives as some newspaper columnists and movie-directors are about their lives? This question jelled in my consciousness, prompted by three incidents within 24 hours two weekends ago—viewing the movie The Fabelmans, reading a column in the Los Angeles Times (LAT) […]