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 sponsor on a mission…
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 passionate about the soon…
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 Catholics and Protestants. Most…
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 them to move to…
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 journey. The subject of…