by Rebecca Brothers  |  14 June 2019  |   Prior to serving a ten-month stint as an Adventist student missionary, I learned a popular evangelistic tactic called “friendship evangelism.” The theory was that to draw people to the Adventist church, you make friends with them first. You show them hospitality, and wit, and good humor. You […] Source: https://atoday.org/what-scares-me-about-evangelism/

Dear Aunt Sevvy, My wife and I just moved from southern California to a small city in the Midwestern plains—a work transfer. We’re very Adventist. So we went to church (the only church for an hour in any direction). Almost everyone was old. The Sabbath School class plodded through the lesson, though with criticism of […] Source: https://atoday.org/our-discouraging-small-church/

by David Geelan  |  14 June 2019  |   Science and its colleague technology have done much, throughout human history, to expand our understanding and control of the world around us and to enable us to enhance our lives. This is true for both high and low technology. I’m writing this on a computer much more […] Source: https://atoday.org/scientism-and-other-grand-narratives/