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Adventist Today @atoday • 30m A Great Cradle #EGWchildhood,WINTER 2016 • WWW.ATODAY.ORG #paternalism,Adventist #epilepsy Adventist Today @atoday • 1h Today 100 Years After Ellen White. #centurylater, #propheticvoice, #tiredofwaiting Adventist Today @atoday • 2h Desmond Ford, Olive Hemmings, Jenniffer Ogden, Loren Seibold, Alden Thompson, Gilbert M. Valentine, Winona Winkler Wendth, Zane Yi INSIDEVOL. 24 NO. 1 AdventistToday Executive Editor Loren Seibold Copy Editor Debra J. Hicks Contributing Editors James Walters John McLarty J. David Newman Art Director Chris Komisar Online Editors Managing Editor: Jeff Boyd Features: Debbonnaire Kovacs Commentary: Mark Gutman Poetry and the Arts: Debbonnaire Kovacs Reviews: Edwin A. Schwisow Web Coordinator: Heather Gutman Facebook Editor: Emmy Halvorsen Executive Director Monte Sahlin Executive Secretary of Development features Edwin A. Schwisow FOUNDATION BOARD Nate Schilt, Jim Walters, Monte Sahlin, Andrew Clark, Keith Colburn, Chris Daley, Larry Downing, 4 She Kept Us Protestant 18 A Great Cradle John Hoehn, Edmond Jones, Mailen Kootsey, Keisha By Loren Seibold By Winona Winkler Wendth McKenzie, Chuck Mitchell, Jim Nelson, Warren Nelson, Chris Oberg, Gene Platt, E. Gary Raines, Paul Richardson, Sasha Ross, Dan Savino, Loren Seibold, 7 How Ellen White Went From 20 The Jesus Christ Estate: J. Gordon Short, James Stirling, Eldon Stratton, Inspired Guide to Final Word A Speculative Parable Ervin Taylor, David Van Putten, John Vogt SENIOR LIFETIME ADVISORS By Gilbert M. Valentine By Carey Constantine (a pseudonym) ($25,000+) Elwin Dunn, Patricia & Douglas Ewing, Kathi & Richard Guth, John Hoehn, Judy & John Jacobson, Al Koppel, 10 Ellen White, Virgin Mary, and the 22 Ellen White on Ellen White Joan Ogden, Lori & Thaine Price, Judy & Gordon Rick, Feminization of the Church J. 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POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Adventist Today, P.O. Box 1135, Sandy, OR 97055-1135. Copyright © 2016 by Adventist Today Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering open dialogue in the Adventist community. 2 ADVENTIST TODAY • WINTER 2016 EDITORIAL Introducing a New Editor: Loren Seibold By Monte Sahlin The publishers are very pleased to announce that digital newsletter for the Ministerial Association of Dr. Loren Seibold is the new executive editor for the North American Division. Adventist Today. He replaces J. David Newman as the From 1995 to 1998 he was a regular commentator primary editor of the magazine but will have a wider on KQED, the public radio station in San Francisco, range of responsibilities for the full menu of paper, while he was pastor of the Adventist church in Palo digital, and social media that we publish. Alto and earning a Doctor of Ministry degree at Both Loren and his wife, Carmen, are Seventh-day San Francisco Theological Seminary. Prior to that, Adventist ministers. He is a church pastor in Ohio. he was a pastor in the Dakota Conference and was She is a hospital chaplain currently on staff with creator and editor of Praxis, a journal for pastors Mount Carmel Hospice. sponsored by the Mid-American Union. Both grew up in the Adventist faith, he on a The mission of Adventist Today continues to be farm in North Dakota and she in Cuba and then the same: to provide professional journalism for We received California (where my mother was Carmen’s fourth- the wider Adventist community, focusing on the grade teacher!). The international family that is the Adventist faith with a full range of information many global Adventist community brought them together and opinion for our readers. Unlike other congratulations at Walla Walla College. Carmen completed the publications and media, we have no institutional or M.Div. at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, organizational interests, no constituency or ideology from readers California, and Loren earned his M.Div. at Andrews or agenda. We exist for one reason only: to serve our once the word University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. They are readers. both dedicated gardeners, readers, and travelers. In a recently completed survey of our readers, went out this Loren’s byline is well known among Adventists more than 7 out of 10 said, “I am an Adventist fall that he and in wider circles. He has been published in by faith and care about the future of my church.” Reader’s Digest, Christianity Today, Signs of the Another one in five indicated that they are not had joined the Times, Leadership, Virtue, Liberty, the Adventist currently active Adventist church members but are Review, the Adult Sabbath School Quarterly, regular readers because of family history, friends and Adventist Today Ministry, Adventist Heritage, Insight, Quiet Hour, relatives, or an interest in trends in the Adventist team. and Spectrum. He has even written about gardening movement. for The American Rose Society. His book titled A Asked what they expect Adventist Today to do for God We Can Trust, published by Pacific Press, is a them, our readers indicated a very strong demand reflection on the Christian response to the terrorist (76 to 90 percent) for three things: (1) Provide attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., on objective, honest journalism; (2) Publish responsible Sept. 11, 2001. We received many congratulations opinion from a wide range of Adventist viewpoints; from readers once the word went out this fall that he and (3) Monitor trends and long-term issues in the had joined the Adventist Today team. development of the Adventist movement. I am still Comfortable with the creation of digital media, sifting through hundreds of specific suggestions that Loren was from 2007 through 2012 the founding readers took the time to offer through this survey. editor of Best Practices for Adventist Ministry, the Continued on page 28 WWW.ATODAY.ORG 3 FEATURE It seems significant to me that so much of The Great Controversy, the book that more than any other shapes our Seventh- day Adventist sectarian identity, is devoted to the Protestant Reformation. Though it often uses the Reformation to accuse SHE KEPT US Roman Catholicism, it also shows Protestantism as a moving, evolving faith, from a place of religious formalism and cruel certainty to a lively interaction with God. The Great Controversy, at least in its first part, makes a compelling case for progressive truth. One faithful movement succeeds another, each fighting against PROTESTANT religion’s natural tendency to smugness under authority and, at the by Loren Seibold same time, challenging Christians to new depths of understanding from the Holy Scriptures and (crucially) applying faith to life under the guidance of the Spirit. In the first chapter of The Kingdom of God in America, H. Richard Niebuhr reminds us that Protestantism