IT ONLY TAKES A SPARK TO GET A FIRE GOING
Joel Reyes – Grand Junction, Colorado … Excited and looking forward to the story they will hear and the new songs they will learn,…
EDITORIAL: EVERYTHING CHANGES
I was picking up folding chairs with the head elder of a small church after a service. A very small church. I was a…
THE BEGINNING AND THE END
DISCOVERING PRESENT TRUTH: REIMAGINING ADVENTISM
On Adventist Heritage Tours, one of my favorite places is in New Ipswich, New Hampshire. Leonard Hastings, a local farmer during Adventist beginnings, was…
ADVENTISM’S SELF-IDENTITY – WHAT ARE WE?
I grew up in the Netherlands in a small village some 20 miles north of Amsterdam. The population was almost equally divided between Roman…
OUT OF THE ADVENTIST SALT-SHAKER
I was speaking with a family who recently joined our church, having moved to Maine from another state, and I asked them what prompted…
JESUS: THE CHAMPION OF AUTHENTIC SPIRITUALITY
This topic explores the spiritual quality of discipleship in Christ’s well-known Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:1–12) and Ellen White’s description of the spiritual…
DEATH, OR SOMETHING LIKE IT
Another woman died because she wore her hijab incorrectly. I saw that in the news this week. It’s outrageous. It’s insane. It’s utterly evil.…
MELT AND FLOW
One of my favorite books from graduate school wasn’t even required. I found it by following a footnote to an appendix and a book…
WHAT IF…?
I didn’t win the $1.337 billion Mega Millions lottery. I’ll bet you didn’t either. I would assume, though, that many of us played the…