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Does BarelyAdventist Hate the Church?

Between the satire, the memes, the open questions, the essays, the sharp takes, and everything else we publish, there are people who genuinely believe BarelyAdventist has an agenda against...

When Testimony Time Feels Like a Competition

Testimony time can be one of the most beautiful moments in church—a chance to witness God at work in someone’s life. But too often, it becomes a showcase of...

How Should Adventists Feel About Muslims?

Right now, Islam is everywhere in the news. With America’s strike on Iran, some Adventists cheer. Others are horrified. And that’s the point—we are all over the political spectrum as a...

Pathfinders Might Be the Best Thing We’ve Ever Done

For a surprising number of people who leave the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the one ministry they still speak about warmly is Pathfinders. Not the prophecy...

The Gap Between Truth and Connection: Why People Aren’t Feeling Adventism

Here’s a confession many Adventist leaders won’t make in public: we can be theologically right and relationally catastrophic at the same time. We have the...

ABC Stores Don’t Know What to Do With Leftover Carob

February 15th: chocolate’s gone, hearts are broken, and ABC stores are buried under a small mountain of carob. Carob hearts. Carob-covered raisins. Carob bars...

Local Deacon Reminds Wife Submission Would Improve Communication Flow

SPRINGDALE, USA — Local deacon Mark Halvorsen confirmed Tuesday evening that he had lovingly intervened in what he described as “a minor tonal disruption”...

Adventist Culture

Can This Church Tell the Truth About Itself Without Panicking?

Young Adventists aren’t asking a hundred different questions. They’re...

Church Shouldn’t Feel Like Walking on Eggshells

Somewhere along the way, church became a place where...

Why So Many Adventists Think They’re Being Loving—and Aren’t

Most Adventists genuinely believe they’re being loving. That’s what...

Adventist Food

The Dumbest Things You Can Do in a Church Business Meeting

Here is a non-exhaustive list of the dumbest things...

The Quiet Financial Anxiety So Many of Us Carry

  This isn’t the dramatic, headline-grabbing kind of money stress....

You Can Love the Church and Still Demand Better From It

You Can Love the Church and Still Demand Better...

Study Reveals: Nobody Believes Pastor When He Says “In Conclusion” on Sabbath Morning

Study Reveals—A new Sabbath-morning study confirms that no Adventist...

Sabbath Observance

What If Pastors Had Public Report Cards?

Every Adventist kid remembers report card day. The quiet...

When Ellen Put James on Ice

Forget the image of Adventist pioneers singing hymns on...

Is It Time to Say Goodbye to Ellen White?

There’s a question that feels increasingly unavoidable in Adventism’s...

How Does Adventism Look Without Americans in Charge?

Something quietly historic is happening in the Seventh-day Adventist...