I am not built for unprecedented times. Not many of us are giddy at the idea of a collapsing democracy or rising cultural tensions. But sometimes I fall into frantic anxiety. The usual platitudes about how it’s all in God’s plan and how we are living in the end times don’t provide comfort; they only […] Source: https://atoday.org/editorial-poetry-prayer/

by Shelley Curtis Weaver  |  14 March 2025  | I’ve lived long enough to recall a time when a preacher might have jokingly said, “We Adventists are a queer bunch!” Mostly, though we used a different word: we said we were a “peculiar people”—and we expressed a good deal of pride in our peculiarity.  Language […] Source: https://atoday.org/are-adventists-queer-enough/

by Melody Tan  |  13 March 2025  | My son used to take offense to Cyndi Lauper’s 1980s hit, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.” This, coming from a then-four- or five-year-old: “Are girls the only ones who can have fun? What about the boys?” he would say. As he got older and exposed to […] Source: https://atoday.org/do-girls-just-wanna-have-fun/