by Michael Peabody | 30 June 2026 | Whenever a crisis strikes an Adventist constituency, such as the recent Ohio incident in which young camp counselors were reportedly abandoned at an urban transit station in the middle of the night, a predictable, exhausting pattern follows. Well-meaning advocates of alternative dispute resolution step forward. Trained in […]
by Shelley Curtis Weaver | 28 June 2026 | Every ounce of my being wants to rejoice at news that the North Pacific Union Conference has voted to seek equal ordination of female pastors. But then I remind myself that the resolution requests the worldwide approval by the General Conference in session. In 2030. A […]
By Alexander Carpenter & Bjorn Karlman This is the fourth report from our series based on our multi-week visit to Papua New Guinea. For much of Adventist media, the headline from Papua New Guinea (PNG) was a jaw-dropping baptism number that told a story of evangelistic success and denominational growth. Yet, as explored in our […]
by Robert Crux | 25 June 2026 | Throughout United States history Christians have, in various ways, sanctified the nation’s myths rather than telling the truth. From the colonial period onward, the gospel has often become entangled with whiteness, nationalism, and empire. Faith groups in America are now confronted with the current administration’s endorsement of […]
by Edward Reifsnyder | 23 June 2026 | “How should we understand the inspiration of Ellen White’s writings and their relation to the Bible principles of sola scriptura? She herself referred to her writings as the ‘lesser light’ shining on the ‘greater light’ of the Bible. They were given to help us understand the Bible […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 19 June 2026 | This year Pentecost was May 24. In many countries Pentecost is a public holiday, recognized by everyone. Yet it is also true that a major proportion of the population no longer has an inkling about its religious meaning, and those who do only have a vague idea […]
by Loren Seibold | 17 June 2026 | The picture isn’t mine. I found it in a pastors’ Facebook group I’m a member of. I don’t know who asked AI to make it, or why. But I didn’t find it offensive. My first reaction was to chuckle. That wasn’t the reaction of friends on my […]
by Nicole Brown-Dominguez | 16 June 2026 | A hit artist in the music industry made one of the best albums of the year by charting her rise from heartache and addiction to testimony of redemption in three acts, ending with a worship song. A murder mystery movie, starring a queer atheist detective and a […]
by Melody Tan | 11 June 2026 | As Seventh-day Adventists, we should be “in the world but not of the world”. This something I was taught very early, after I joined the church. Preachers would say it from the pulpit, church members would share it during Sabbath School, and well-meaning adults (I was in […]
by Jack Hoehn | 10 June 2026 | I recently wrote a personal letter and subsequent emails with all the male Seventh-day Adventist lead administrators in the North Pacific Union Conferences (NPUC= Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and my own Upper Columbia Conference, whose president I also met face to face) about permitting the gender neutral […]
by Jared Marsh | 9 June 2026 | I was a late convert to the fitness community. I had never set foot in a gym in high school, and very seldom in college. But when I started my career, I found I had enough time and motivation to develop a routine. I joined a local […]
By Alexander Carpenter and Bjorn Karlman On April 26, 2024, the PNG for Christ: Evangelistic Reaping Campaign began. It lasted for sixteen nights. Two days after it ended on May 12, an early report in the South Pacific Division’s (SPD) official organ, Adventist Record, stated that, “While official baptismal numbers are still being processed, the […]