SILVER SPRING, MD — In a scene reminiscent of Black Friday chaos, local Adventists swarmed the Adventist Book Center (ABC) on Christmas Eve, desperate to secure the season’s hottest gift: the “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Jewelry” collection. The controversial gift set, which includes a variety of adornment-adjacent items, has taken the Adventist world by […] Source: https://atoday.org/satire-last-minute-shoppers-flock-to-abc-for-i-cant-believe-its-not-jewelry-gift-sets/

23 December 2024  | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Why do people have Christmas trees, when Jeremiah 10:3-4 clearly warns against them? For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with […] Source: https://atoday.org/aunty-doesnt-jeremiah-10-ban-christmas-trees/

by Nicole Brown Dominguez  |  23 December 2024  | In my grandparents’ church, there is a member who refuses to enter the sanctuary for the entire month of December. Why? Because the platform has a Christmas tree on it. I briefly was the moderator of the General Conference Instagram account. I once suggested doing an […] Source: https://atoday.org/missing-the-forest-for-the-christmas-tree/

Comments of the Week December 9-15 “Why did our pioneers make it all about us, when it was clearly about the people who read it back then? This is the best “unpacking” of Revelation in terms of the first century I’ve ever read.” –-Loren Seibold on Revelation Comments on Revelation, Pagan Christmas, Aunt Sevvy, and […] Source: https://atoday.org/comments-of-the-week-dec16-22/