A Visit to the Cedar Lake Seventh-day...

Pastor Harris’s appeal loomed over my mind as I wondered, do any adjustments need to take place in my life or my church for people to feel welcome as...
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Connection to Draconian Uganda Bill...

Fundamentalist Christians, Adventist leadership included, have become political actors in the evolving war against diversity and democracy.
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Acceptance

I want to be in a church that calls people to do and be better, but does not see shame as the primary instrument of that change. My hope is that...
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Why We Should Reform How We Elect...

There have been past musings about changing our church leadership electoral process. This is due to concern that our current method is susceptible to...
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Twelve Things the Book of Revelation...

The Book of Revelation is a long letter that was not written to me. As long as I keep this in the back of mind, as I should when I’m reading any New...
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From Our Desk: Changing Minds and...

Reflecting on the second day of the Adventist Bioethics Conference at Loma Linda University and on Daneen Akers’s new book, “Dear Mama God.”
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Does Adventism Need Political Thought?

In spite of itself, the Adventist Church is a political institution. Historically, Adventism has articulated its politics as driven by eschatology....
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From Our Desk: On Beauty, Solidarity,...

Greetings from the seventh annual Adventist Bioethics Conference in Loma Linda, California. Plus, the beginning of Teacher Appreciation Week and the...
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Becoming a Lifelong Unlearner

There are a number of traditional understandings that many of us unquestionably support. Yet we may hesitate to pull on the threads of these precepts...
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Case by Casebolt: Was the Midnight Cry...

Examining S. S. Snow’s life and Ellen White’s first vision, during which she claimed that Snow’s date-setting midnight cry was divine “glorious light...
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