I read an article in a well-known Adventist magazine that explained it is was a good thing to go out to eat at restaurants on the Sabbath because it saved Adventist women the work of food preparation and clean up in the kitchen and made the Sabbath a more enjoyable day for them.
Read MoreReligious McCarthyism
McCarthyism isn’t just a secular political phenomenon. It is a religious one also.
Read MoreHow to avoid malapropisms
Unfortunately, Daniela’s beach was spelled with an “itch,” and nobody who knew better was around to tell her the difference.
Read MoreThe real problem of pain
Yes, it is true that the innocent suffer in our world, but when humanity makes God the problem, instead of the solution, we only prolong our pain.
Read MoreThe month of love
The two stories you are about to read are both painful and profound to me. Painful in that they are borne out of real life experiences.
Read MoreFive years of indoctrination
It is with considerable reluctance that I write this analysis of the theology that is being promoted in Adventist World.
Read MoreSons of God
God tells us through His prophet that we are to "Meditate on the Scriptures until the understanding, the gate to the door to the heart, is opened to comprehend its requirements and our dependence."
Read MoreEvolve with the best
In this article, I have tried to present the actual mechanism that drives evolution. I have glossed over many scientific arguments and new developments such as epigenetics, but I have written the analogy this way because biology textbooks still teach that natural selection, acting on mutations produced by an unguided process, are responsible for the diversity of life on earth.
Read MoreIdentity crisis in the church
There is an identity crisis in God’s church today. It is causing frustration, guilt and defeat.
Read MoreLook to Jesus
I have met a large number of Seventh-day Adventists over the past few weeks that have access to the same material that I do, yet do not value the same things that I do.
Read MoreFive lessons from a campfire
As I watch the fire this morning it surprises me how much the physical can teach us of the spiritual, the seen of the unseen.
Read MoreMedia in the church: curse or blessing
I want to focus solely on how we use media in the church. We all know that radios and television are not evil of themselves.
Read MoreLessons learned from one presidential campaign
I had watched a couple of his speeches online. I have even seen him speak at my high school during my freshman year at Portland Adventist Academy.
Read MoreFour reasons a Christian should not buy lottery tickets
For the last number of days we’ve been hearing a lot of hoopla about a massive lottery, offering the possibility of winning over 2 billion dollars.
Read MoreFinishing the work?
Mark this and mark it carefully. There is no plan greater than Jehovah's. Nothing is better than the instructions He has given.
Read MoreDictators and church unity
North Korea's recent claim that it tested a hydrogen bomb set off a firestorm of controversy around the world, and, according to government controlled media outlets, renewed a sense of nationalistic unity and pride among its citizens.
Read MoreDishonest pastors: does your church have one?
The recent passing of Robert Folkenberg (a retired GC president of the Adventist world church), reminded me of my time at Avondale and the unsettling events I witnessed as a theology student in the early 1990’s.
Read MoreThe timing of the Sabbath day
Do the Sabbath hours begin on Saturday morning? Recently a concerned individual wrote me regarding a website that promotes the idea that the Sabbath should be observed from Saturday morning until Sunday morning.
Read MoreResetting your spiritual default
Human beings are creatures of habit. We generally have an aversion to changing our habits of thinking and how we live our lives.
Read MoreSupport ADvindicate's continuation
What a successful year ADvindicate.com had in 2015! Over 390,000 unique visitors stopped by our site, so compared to the 155,000 visitors in 2014.
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