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…
WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT WE DON’T (KNOW)
As churches and denominations, we tend to spend quite a bit of time writing down, debating, defining, and then re-defining what we say we…
CAN INSPIRED PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKES?
THE CLOSETS Having come into Adventism from the outside world, there are some distinct advantages. That is to say, in the area of assumptions.…
REDEFINING ADVENTISM
The very title, “Redefining Adventism,” is provocative to some, and a “hair-on-fire” threat to others. So, let me define how I see redefining. First…
DISAPPOINTMENT REVISITED
When asked to imagine the Adventist Church in 2022, my mind mysteriously jumped to 1976. In 1976, when I was 7, the United States…