28 May 2025  | Religious 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. Institutions oscillate between radical fervor and bureaucratic stability, while individuals navigate periods of deep commitment and disengagement. Generational shifts increasingly reflect a move from institutional belonging […] Source: https://atoday.org/atss-landon-schnabel-there-and-back-again-religious-change-from-sectarian-roots-to-spiritual-quest/

BATTLE CREEK, Michigan — An Adventist husband, who declined to be named, expressed disappointment that describing his wife’s teeth as “a flock of shorn sheep” and her breasts as “two baby deer,” while calling her endearing terms such as “my sister, my bride,” did not result in the action he was hoping for on a […] Source: https://atoday.org/satire-adventists-attempts-at-seducing-wife-with-song-of-solomon-end-with-night-on-couch/

by Jack Hoehn  |  28 May 2025  | “Being made merely in the image of God, but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken for him by anybody but a very near-sighted person.” “I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.” —Mark Twain Mark Twain is noted […] Source: https://atoday.org/what-does-it-mean-to-be-gods-temple-made-in-his-image/