Years ago, I learned this new word: orthopraxy. It’s not a particularly friendly or familiar word, but it’s something I believe in.  You know what “orthodoxy” means of course. It means holding to the commonly-held set of beliefs of an organization. Churches—that is, denominations—are obsessed with orthodoxy. Orthodoxy is an easy thing to define: here […] Source: https://atoday.org/editorial-orthopraxy/

Look, Ellen White never asked to be your denominational baseball bat. She straight-up said her stuff was a “lesser light” pointing to the Bible—the actual greater light. But somewhere between the potluck and the Pathfinder drills, we turned her into the ultimate gotcha machine. She warned us herself: “God wants us all to have common […] Source: https://atoday.org/when-ellen-white-becomes-a-weapon-instead-of-a-guide/

By Loren Seibold  |  10 July 2026  | Back in the late 1980s, I was a new pastor in the San Francisco Bay Area. At a church event I met sociologist Ron Lawson, who was researching a book on Seventh-day Adventists. Ron told us of a still relatively new organization called Kinship, a gathering for […] Source: https://atoday.org/my-return-to-kinship-kampmeeting/

9 July 2026  | Why had John Andrews not followed the tried and tested “American Model” for his mission to Europe in 1874?  General Conference leaders in the late 1870s developed serious doubts about the wisdom and the effectiveness of the mission strategies he had adopted, and they criticized him publicly in the Review. Andrews vigorously […] Source: https://atoday.org/atss-gil-valentine-john-andrews-a-disputed-legacy/

par Shelley Curtis Weaver  |  9 juillet 2026  | Tout mon être aspire à se réjouir de la nouvelle selon laquelle l’Union du Pacifique Nord a voté en faveur de l’ordination des femmes pasteures sur un pied d’égalité avec les hommes. Mais je me rappelle aussitôt que cette résolution doit être approuvée au niveau mondial […] Source: https://atoday.org/maman-puis-je-etre-une-pasteure-consacree/