Sinful Envy: Reframing Our Role as the...

If the prodigal son can go out and live the way he was living, then come back and get more than what the older brother ever had, what is the point?
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The Three Angels’ Messages: A Critique

After 180 years of warning against Babylon, when does it begin to sound like we’re crying wolf? We risk being perceived by non-Adventists as arrogant...
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Spinoza's Treatise on Freedom, and...

Adventism struggles with balance between freedom and order, and our defense of freedom is too often ambivalent. Spinoza reminds us that, without full...
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It Bears Repeating

We need to deprogram both men and women out of the belief that women being domineered is “the natural order." Instead of seeing “yes” as default, we...
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Ellen White and Prophetic Authority

If you assume Ellen White is never wrong, you can treat her like an incarnate Urim and Thummim, searching her writings for pronouncements on whatever...
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The Unintended Consequence of Misplaced...

Christianity in America needs to divest itself from the lust of political influence and become a place where people can find community, love, healing...
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Are Other Worlds Watching Us? Ellen...

Whoever is watching Earth's atrocities play out, angels or other beings, should have had their fill of this horrific spectacle long before now.
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As Fish in the Water: Orfilia Salazar...

Does a family (or culture) go wrong if we fail to achieve that paternal archetype of success and efficiency? Or might it also go wrong even if we...
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Popularity and Accountability

When people are harmed, even by someone popular, influential, or powerful, they shouldn't be rejected for speaking their truth and should be able to...
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The Function of a Conjunction

It’s said that the word “but,” in a sentence, can negate everything that came before it. I would love for our church to focus on the things that are...
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