Official Adventist Allegorists

While many proponents of the General Conference’s so-called Adventist hermeneutic publish pages of historical references and grammatical observations...
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Salvation Is Shared: A Communal War Cry

The theological armor in Ephesians 6 equips the believer for communal action. Demythologizing the demonic and prophetic provides awareness that...
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A Slave to a Hermeneutic

How can one believe in biblical literalism while critically engaging the historical use of such texts to theologically justify the horrors of slavery...
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The Necessity of Submissional Equality

This week's commentary outlines why the principle of divinely inspired submissional equality must start immediately and extend all the way to the top...
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Immorality Is Selfish Individualism

Can warnings against immorality in Ephesians 5 be extended to religion as well?—Sabbath School commentary for discussion on August 19.
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On History, Memory, and a Missionary...

When clothed in God’s new life and accompanied by the Holy Spirit, compassion, love, and understanding are the transformative elements of a true...
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On Unity, Gender, and Power

This week’s lesson on Ephesians 4, unity, and diversity offers all members a clear way to judge community spiritual health. Just how harmonious is...
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Ecumenical Ephesians

If God can love imperfect families, do we have to wonder about the divine feeling toward the human quest for interspiritual understanding around the...
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Ephesian’s Present Pleroma, Paul’s...

Even though Paul and the anonymous author of Ephesians have different visions of what is the eternal plan of God, they agree that it is to give God’s...
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Ephesians and the Fullness of Life Here...

At its heart, Ephesians is about fullness, completeness, or in Greek pleroma. The letter’s author seems intent on showing readers that God’s...
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