The election of the first American pope gives every evidence of highlighting the prophetic interplay between the two symbolic beasts of Revelation 13.

Grace is the underlying and overarching theme of the Bible story, the heartbeat of its doctrinal and moral imperatives and the rationale of its prophetic revelations.

The recent and very public departure from Adventism of a prominent figure in Adventist media ministry has again raised the issue of the assurance of salvation and how it relates to the classic Seventh-day Adventist doctrine of the investigative judgment. What does the Bible say?

In a word, no. Genuine revival and reformation through a return to the inspired blueprint will rescue Seventh-day Adventist education with an impassioned recovery of the church’s doctrinal and practical mission, as set forth in Scripture and the writings of the Spirit of Prophecy.

The scope of grace and perfection is again in the spotlight. What does the written counsel of God say?

The church is not obligated to legally or publicly defend any sort of conviction or practice on the part of its members, merely because it is claimed that such convictions or practices are based on the conscience.  Only those conscientious choices, convictions, or practices sustained by the written counsel of God (Isa. 8:20; Acts 17:11) merit the public endorsement of the church and the commitment of church resources so far as the legal defense and protection of members’ conduct is concerned. 

A recent article on a leading liberal Adventist website makes the thoughtful reader wonder whether those so long inclined to criticize Ellen White’s eschatological worldview might soon be persuaded that her predictions are quite credible after all.

A new and growing urban legend in contemporary Adventism is the claim that the doctrinal authority of the Ellen G. White writings was not accepted by Ellen White herself while she lived, but was instead fabricated after her death by so-called “fundamentalists” in the church.  Is this correct?