Universal Sunday Laws and Adventist...

Sunday Laws, if implemented as we conceptualize them, cast Seventh-day Adventists in the good-guy role. But what we wish for should not blind us to...
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Chaos, Nature and God in the Time of...

Lucretius’ poem “De rerum natura” remains helpful today because it reminds us that religions of any kind are not above critical assessment. They...
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Do I Matter to You?

Black lives matter too. It’s not sufficient to merely declare that “all lives matter” because the “all” in “liberty and justice for all” excluded...
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A Baffling Inconsistency

Some pastors and leaders know there are people in their churches who falsely believe that police brutality against Black people in this country is...
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When We Ignore Suicide We Share the...

Adventist messaging regarding suicide bears reexamination. We continue to promote heaven, a place “accessible” only after death, but reproach those...
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Institutions, Contingency and Decay In...

There is no true life without the possibility of some “black swan” (negative) or serendipitous (positive) components. Without them life becomes an...
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What if Jesus was Black?

Our society is conditioned to view Whiteness as the default and everything else as “other.” This tendency even invades Christianity itself.
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Learning From Dead People

For most of my adult life I’ve been a readaholic. And it has changed me in ways I cannot fully calculate. But I think much of my reading habit has...
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One Ask Behind

Racism and White supremacy are the original sins of our nation. And much like original sin, they continue to infect and affect us, even though many...
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Do Prophets, Including Ellen White,...

We are paralyzed regarding Ellen White's authority because we have not come to terms with the reality that her prophetic role did not confer...
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