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If I’m Doing the Lord’s Work, Why Are My Colleagues Idiots?
Anyone who has ever worked for a church institution has asked this question—usually silently, occasionally in prayer, and sometimes in the parking lot after a meeting that could have...
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Don’t Tell Me You’ll Pray for Me
“I’ll pray for you.”Ah yes—the Adventist version of thoughts and prayers. A phrase so versatile it can mean anything from “I genuinely care about...
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Would Adventist Leaders Be in Better Shape If They Actually Believed the Health Message?
Fellow Adventists, let’s talk—briefly and honestly.
We didn’t discover the health message; we systematized it. Long before Blue Zones were trendy, we were warning about...
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The 10 Commandments of Adventist Regifting
Thou shalt not regift within the same Sabbath School class.
(If they recognize the mug, the Sabbath School hour will be awkward.)
Thou shalt...
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Adventist Parents Shocked to Learn Their Kids Left Church After Being Raised on Fear, Charts, and Guilt
SPRINGDALE, ANY-CONFERENCE — In what church leaders are calling a “deeply confusing and unforeseeable outcome,” local Adventist parents expressed shock this week after discovering...
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The World Is Ready for a Bolder Adventism
Let’s say the quiet part out loud: too many Adventists are carrying around a strange religious inferiority complex. We lower our voices when we...
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Dear Adventists: Let’s Retire the Word ‘Worldly’ for Good
Let’s be honest: when Adventists say “worldly,” we’re not describing behavior — we’re drawing a boundary.
“Worldly” is our polite church way of saying,“You’re not...
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Let’s Make Adventism Weird Again—In the Best Possible Way
Adventism is supposed to be weird. Holy weird. Disrupt-the-status-quo weird. “Love your neighbor so hard it confuses people” weird. The kind of weird that...
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Why This Generation Is Ready for an Adventism That Actually Listens
Somewhere between the church board debates, the youth room beanbags, and the forty-third “We’ve always done it this way,” something shifted. A whole generation...
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How Should Adventists Engage LGBTQ People If We Genuinely Want to Look Like Jesus?
If Jesus showed up at church next Sabbath, a few well-meaning Adventists would probably rush over with a clipboard, whispering, “Um… Jesus… some of...
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We Can Build an Adventism Our Kids Don’t Need Therapy to Recover From
Look, most of us turned out mostly fine. Sure, we jump whenever someone says “Sunday law,” and some of us still aren’t sure if...