Becky, Farewell!
BLACK SUIT, WHITE SHIRT, AND A BLACK TIE
Religion is at its best when it makes us ask hard questions of ourselves. It is at its worst when it deludes us into…
THE DARK ARTS OF SNOBBERY
If you’ve ever tried to buy a hotdog in Chicago, you know that the fastest way to get kicked out of a hotdog joint…
ADVENTIST UNIQUE WITNESS
On October 22, 1844, a young girl, who was 16 years old and less than a month from her 17th birthday sat waiting, fully…
JESUS: THE SOURCE OF AUTHENTIC ADVENTISM
In 1995, Martin Weber wrote a book entitled Who’s Got the Truth?: Making Sense Out of Five Different Adventist Gospels. Weber claimed his primary…
DECIPHERING “AUTHENTIC” ADVENTISM?
A few years ago, our congregation decided to recruit Adventists from around North America to move to our city to help us participate in…
SEARCH FOR AUTHENTICITY AND THE ADVENTIST FAITH
In his book Life of the Beloved and Our Greatest Gift, Henri Nouwen shares the experience of befriending a young secular journalist named Fred…
AUTHENTICALLY ADVENTIST: DISCOVERING JESUS
For me, it was showing up at the neighborhood Bible study. Ostensibly, it was so that I could trade baseball cards and play street…
TRADEMARKS OF ADVENTIST AUTHENTICITY
What does it mean to be an authentic Seventh-day Adventist? At first glance, answering that question seems easy. It is all in our name,…
SABBATH HOPE GRACE-PEOPLE
Seventh-day Adventism is a particular faith. When formalizing the organization of the church in 1863, the Adventist pioneers chose to put that peculiarity and…