Ephesians Got Slavery and Women Wrong

The Sabbath School Study Guide missed the opportunity to consider serious issues in Ephesians, leaving stock answers that contemporary readers should...
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John Locke's Commitment to Freedom...

Obsession with order is a constant danger, perhaps more perverse than disorder. And what happens in politics and societies unfortunately also happens...
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For Christians, Halloween Is Year-Round

Halloween can be scary. But not half as scary as when Christians exhibit rampant unchecked ignorance. 
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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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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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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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