On February 6, 2010, Doug Batchelor, the senior pastor of Sacramento Central Seventh-day Adventist Church and speaker-director of Amazing Facts preached an hour long sermon against women serving as elders and pastors.You can read more about it in our latest rep

On February 6, Doug Batchelor, senior pastor of the Sacramento Central Seventh-day Adventist Church in California and president of the international media ministry Amazing Facts preached a scath

SEATTLE -- Jimmy Hendrix worshiped at what he called the "Electric Church." He was talking about the positive spiritual effects that he believed psychedelic rock had on him and his fans. 

When I recently logged on to the Adventist Today website, I read the following:

An epiphany of sorts has descended on me in reading (and perhaps in writing) some of the more recent (and perhaps provocative) Adventist Today blogs, and their subsequent commentary.

Editor's note: Please welcome Kendra Perry—our newest blogger. This is her debut blog with Adventist Today.

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By Gary Walter

Malvina Reynolds's song, "Little Boxes," satirized the boxy houses that dominated suburban landscapes in the mid-20^th century, and the conformist spirit they symbolized: they were "all made out of ticky-tacky and they all looked just the same." Today, we'd see them as symptomatic of an even larger reality.

A while back I had the privilege of watching my favorite Los Angeles basketball team play a game during the most critical part of the season. It was an amazing experience to see a playoff game up close and join my voice with 19,000 other fans seeking to contribute meaningfully to a victory for our team. Sadly, my vocal efforts that day were all in vain due to an overtime defeat.

You may have heard someone say, after describing the way that they do things, "That's just how I roll." All of Scripture depicts how Jesus rolls.  In our human nature we frequently desire to control things and spirituality is no exception.  At the root of sin is self-dependence and so we frequently turn to ourselves to "find God" or attempt to appease God by proving to