Alex Bryan is one of the founders of the One Project--an organization that seeks to integrate aspects of emergent spirituality with Adventism.
Read moreHow Christ and Christianity Elevated Women
Often lost sight of in the debate over female ordination and headship in the church is how Christ and Christianity have elevated women.
Read moreHow Would Jesus vote?
I am not political. Not at all. If I could vote I would only vote for issues and principled, temperate people.
Read morePope Francis, Two Beasts, and the Devil’s Deadly Mark (Part 3)
Brace yourself. You are about to discover strange things, but they are factual.
Read moreAdventists and Wine, Part 2
Elder Wilson has made revival and reformation his platform, and nowhere is reformation more urgently needed than on the question of strict temperance. Bring back the temperance pledge!
Read moreAdventists and Wine, Part 1
The founders of Seventh-day Adventism were not only for temperance—which they understood as total abstinence from alcohol—but considered alcohol so inimical to a well ordered society that they urged us to vote for prohibition
Read morePope Francis, Two Beasts, and the Devil’s Deadly Mark (Part 2)
"I [President Obama] welcome His Holiness Pope Francis’s encyclical, and deeply admire the Pope’s decision to make the case — clearly, powerfully, and with the full moral authority of his position — for action on global climate change … I believe the United States must be a leader in this effort … "
Read more"I Had a Whole Pack of Gum in There"
I hung up the phone and broke the news to my wife and children. Our youngest son Nathan took it the hardest. His grief was almost immeasurable.
Read moreThe Twin Institutions of Eden
The twin Edenic institutions of marriage and the Sabbath were designed for all mankind for all time. We must never undermine the rationale for either institution by compromising with unbiblical theories of origins or by blurring the distinctions between the sexes.
Read moreAn Eye for a Trump, The Missing Power of Forgiveness
Yesterday, during an interview with Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, Donald Trump was asked if he could forgive someone who had offended him.
Read moreAnglican Church Disciplines Anglican "NAD"
The fact that the Anglican Communion has imposed church discipline on what is its rough equivalent to the Adventist North American Division is striking.
Read moreA Response to Transsexualism and Gender Identity
We can no more rebel by substituting another sex for what He has given us than we can rebel by substitute Sunday for Sabbath. God’s sovereign choice in making us male or female is no more to be trifled with than is God’s sovereign choice in hallowing the Sabbath as the day of rest and worship.
Read morePope Francis, Two Beasts, and the Devil’s Deadly Mark (Part 1)
Dear reader, if Martin Luther, John Calvin, or John Wesley were alive today, they would all realize that during the week of September 22-27, the Number #1 representative of “the beast” system would be welcomed into America’s living room.
Read morePain Relief
Addictions can be a worship issue. Take pornography for instance—people need to understand why they are caught in this fantasy. For many, the addiction becomes an idol, and we tend to worship idols.
Read moreA Culture of Death
Last year at San Antonio, the delegates from First World asked the delegates from the Third World to allow an unbiblical practice to come into the Seventh-day Adventist Church. And for what? To bow to a failed culture of death.
Read moreBlowing Agent Busybodies
In the early 1980’s, as a young man, I observed a spray foam (SPF) roof being applied on a commercial building in Columbus Ohio. I discovered two things that day: It was magic (or so it seemed), and I was hooked.
Read moreOut of the Amish into Adventism: Daniel & Lydia Swartzendruber
Apostle Paul never thought he would be a Christian—after he saw the light he was different. We found a better way.
Read moreThe Prefix Christian
To add a prefix to the word “Christian” is to qualify the meaning of the word “Christian” by either attempting to clarify the meaning, or by altering, or modifying the meaning.
Read moreMy Journey out of Feminism
My journey into feminism began one night in 1972 as I watched Helen Reddy sing, “I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman, I can do anything, I can do anything.”
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