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atoday.org | Loren Seibold
Features aunt sevvy 2 June 2025 |Dear Aunt Sevvy,I’m a baptized Adventist in Africa, and I have been wrestling with Adventist teachings: I think that we are too rule-based and treat Christianity more as a religion, and not a relationship with Jesus. And we are very judgmental of other Christian churches.
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1 week ago | 
atoday.org | Loren Seibold
Features editorial Not long ago I talked to a woman who had suffered a lot growing up as a Seventh-day Adventist. The abuse wasn’t physical. It was spiritual.
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1 week ago | 
atoday.org | Loren Seibold
News persecution, street evangelism, street preachers, The Great Controversy Loren Seibold | 29 May 2025 |I was interested to read of a recent (April) action by the Rushmoor Borough Council (a region southwest of London, England that includes the cities of Aldershot and Farnborough) to restrict the activities of street evangelists.
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1 week ago | 
atoday.org | Loren Seibold
ATSS, Features ATSS 28 May 2025Religious change seldom follows a predictable, linear path. Instead, it moves in cycles—shifting between intensity and routine, separation and accommodation, institutional authority and personal authenticity.
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1 week ago | 
atoday.org | Loren Seibold
christofacism, extremism, opportunism, poverty by Robert Crux | 27 May 2025 | Jesus, throughout his ministry, was on the side of the poor and exploited. Yet Christian politicians in 2025 America seem to have forgotten that.
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1 week ago | 
atoday.org | Loren Seibold
Features aunt sevvy 26 May 2025 |Dear Aunt Sevvy,I am so discouraged by the backbiting and manipulative behavior of Adventists, that I want to just get away from it all. You’ve been a part of this denomination longer than I have, Aunty—how do you survive? I want to be a part of a loving Christian community. Does that even exist?
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2 weeks ago | 
atoday.org | Loren Seibold
CONSERVATIVES, DISPARITY, LIBERALS, stewardship, WEALTH by Matthew Quartey | 23 May 2025 |At Sabbath School a few months ago, our class discussions strayed from the study topic and segued into funding and budgeting difficulties at Andrews University—problems that threatened to unleash deep institutional cuts.
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2 weeks ago | 
atoday.org | Loren Seibold
ATSS, Features ATSS 21 May 2025 |Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers. 3 John 2We Adventists say that we’re very interested in health. The extensiveness of Adventism’s hospital system is rivaled only by its educational system.
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2 weeks ago | 
atoday.org | Loren Seibold
american politics, fear, germany, hope, Ukraine by Hannele Ottschofski | 22 May 2024 | On a recent visit to Helsinki, we learned that anybody can watch the Finnish Parliament working, either in person or online. We arrived at the correct entrance at the designated time and passed the security check.
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2 weeks ago | 
atoday.org | Loren Seibold
bears, biblical interpretation, elisha, flood by Reinder Bruinsma | 21 May 2025 | Sometimes I am confronted with Bible passages that make me very uneasy. Here are three examples:Bald ElishaRecently I was working on a sermon about an incident in the ministry of the prophet Elisha. My topic was the story of the Shunamite woman in 2 Kings 4 whose only child had died of heat stroke.
