What is missing in this letter from the Lake Union is significant. They declined to state that MISDA is correct in their interpretation of the Manual, in their attempt to ban a local elder in his own congregation.
Read moreOpen Letter From Michigan Elders to The Lake Union Affirms Local Church Authority
Administrators with unchecked power should not be tolerated in the SDA Church; the Michigan Conference is repeating the same misguided actions of the Sanhedrin, Acts 5:17-40.
Read moreRon Kelly's Daughter Speaks About Her Father
I share all of this with you, because I am beyond appalled at the decision of the Michigan Conference to fire my father from the Village SDA Church.
Read moreThe Lake Union Constituency Meeting Was Held Yesterday, And It Was Interesting
Delegates need to remain alert. There are, it seems, always agents among the delegates seeking to centralize decision-making into fewer rather than more hands. The church is healthier with more power dispersed among members and delegates.
Read moreThe Priesthood of Experts?
In the Seventh-day Adventist Church, health is not a cordoned-off domain where lady justice, pink hair flying and nose rings flaring, bars God’s entry with flaming sword.
Read moreLake Union Herald, Please Retract the Call for Persecuting the Unvaccinated (Part 2)
To quote the NAD “Therefore, as Jesus did, we must stand with and for those who are marginalized.” Amen! And when in the last half century has there been a more marginalized group in American society than the unvaccinated are becoming right now?
Read moreLake Union Herald, Please Retract the Call for Persecuting the Unvaccinated (Part 1)
Religious liberty was a Christian doctrine very close to my heart before I knew it was an Adventist teaching, and I became all the more committed to it as I came into the Adventist faith.
Read moreDeclaring Independence Again: Coercion and Liberty of Conscience
There will be people in heaven who took the vaccine; and there will be people in heaven who did not take the vaccine. But there will be nobody in heaven who bowed down to the idol of coercion.
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