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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