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Should Women be Ordained as Adventist Pastors?

The Seventh-day Adventist Church has wrestled with women’s ordination for decades. At the 1990 General Conference Session in Indianapolis, delegates voted against approving the ordination of women to the...

Is it a Sin to Eat Out on Sabbath?

Seventh-day Adventists take Sabbath seriously—from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset. Official guidance from the General Conference urges avoiding restaurants: buying goods and eating out generally conflicts with true rest...

Is God Convinced When We Call Ourselves the Remnant?

Adventists have used that word for generations. The remnant. The faithful few. The people with “the truth.” And while there’s something inspiring about believing God has called us for a purpose,...

Who feels most uncomfortable in our churches—and why?

  Be honest. If your family’s been Adventist for generations, there’s a quiet assumption that creeps in: we’ve been here the longest, so we belong...

Flood Ruins Short-Term Mission Trip/Vacation

by Our Pastoral Correspondence Staff Noah Zark MISSION COORDINATOR Elder Sterling Glass has broken down while describing how a "catastrophic deluge" of actual rain in the...

Why Be Adventist When the Church Drives You Crazy?

Honest answer? You probably have a list of reasons to leave. Most of them are valid. The institutional self-protection. The debates that never land anywhere....

Which Sins Get Adventists Judged—and Which Get Them Promoted?

In Adventist circles, we all know that not all sins are created equal. Get caught in adultery or stealing from the church, and you’re out...

Adventist Culture

What If the Three Angels Actually Had Good News?

We’ve turned the Three Angels’ Messages into the theological...

Pastor Delivers Entire Sermon On Grace, Ends With 11-Point Checklist

In what attendees are calling “a spiritual experience with...

How Worried Should You be that Your Congregation isn’t Growing?

Look, let’s be real for a second. If your...

Bible Study Circle Quietly Reviews Anointing-Oil Contingency Plans

Last Tuesday, as news of the U.S. naval blockade...

Adventist Food

Silver Spring Is Not Heaven. Fortunately, That’s Not the Point.

If you’ve spent any time watching the General Conference...

Forty-Two Percent of Everyone Who Joins Us Eventually Leaves. Let’s Talk About That.

That’s not a rounding error. That’s a pattern. Since 1965,...

Doubt Doesn’t Break Your Faith. Pretending Does.

Nobody leaves Adventism because they asked too many questions. They...

Prayer Is Not a Prescription. (God Made Therapists Too.)

Somewhere along the way we decided that struggling Christians...

Sabbath Observance

Wishing for the World to End is Selfish

Wishing for the World to End is Selfish In Adventist...

The Cost of Being Right All the Time

  One of the real strengths of Adventism is that...

Adventism’s Hidden Class System: Who Gets Heard and Why

Every church says it listens to everyone. But every...

Is Adventism in Decline?

For generations, many Adventists assumed the church was destined...