“WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO FOR YOU?”
I was sitting in a doctor’s office one afternoon in 1978, flipping through Sports Illustrated. One article caught my eye. Sebastian Coe, a British middle-distance runner, was quoted…
DO YOU PLAY THE ADVENTIST LANGUAGE GAME?
When I lived in England and watched the part of the BBC news in which the results of the day’s cricket matches were announced, I was totally lost.…
I CAN STOP ANYTIME I WANT TO. I JUST DON’T WANT TO.
Do you know why people smoke crack? It’s the same reason why people smoke cigarettes, or weed, or shoot heroin, or do meth, or drink excessive amounts of…
REFLECTION ON BEING A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
During one of my recent presentations, the interviewer posed the question: Do you consider yourself a liberal or conservative Seventh-day Adventist? Momentarily, the spontaneous and direct question stopped…
GOD, WE BE ADDICTED TO RELIGION?
I recently watched the story of a Seventh-day Adventist couple in my area who was kicked out of their local Adventist congregation for promoting anti-trinitarian views. The YouTube…
OUR FUNDAMENTALIST KNOTS
Two of the most interesting books of Adventist history published in the past year offer alternative views of the relationship between Adventist faith and fundamentalism. It is one…