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 from the New York…
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 hockey with my friends…
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, right? Seventh-day refers to…
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 particularity in the name…
THE GRACE OF ESSENTIALS
Sabbath has been a constant in my life from childhood. Everything about it in the beginning was odd until I got used to it and then it was…
CONFESSIONS OF AN IGNORANT AND CONFUSED ADVENTIST
The gentleman in Western Tanzania was drop dead drunk, but his dull red eyes brightened. He flashed a toothless grin when he heard I was an Adventist. “So…