The Benefit of the Doubt
The Dutch Adventist Church creates a magazine, Contact, that goes to about 3000 people who are interested in the Bible. As some of these people have been receiving this magazine for quite a few years, the editors wanted to have arecurring theological column, meant for the long-time readers. This article should match the theme of the edition. The […]
Zorgen voor anderen
The Dutch Adventist Church asked me to write the main article for the March edition of their magazine Advent.
Dutch Column on Adventist Faith 4
The Dutch Adventist Church asked me to do a quarterly column running through the Fundamental Beliefs of the Adventist Church. I generally try to discuss one or two of the fundamentals per quarter. This time the Holy Spirit and, for Adventists a very hot topic, Creation. Click on the image to download.
Mankind Sees | See the man
The Dutch Adventist Church creates a magazine, Contact, that goes to about 3000 people who are interested in the Bible.
Dutch Column on Adventist Faith 3
The Dutch Adventist Church asked me to do a quarterly column running through the Fundamental Beliefs of the Adventist Church
‘No’ in the Bible
The Dutch Adventist Church creates a magazine, Contact, that goes to about 3000 people who are interested in the Bible.
Providence in Danish
A while ago the editor of Adventnyt, the church magazine of the Danish Adventist Church, messaged me in some stress. He needed an article on divine providence, and he needed it now. Something about another author falling through at the very last moment. So, on a very hot Sunday afternoon in Galilee, I wrote an article on divine […]
Doyouunderstandwhatyouarereading?
Earlier this year, the Dutch Adventist church asked me to write a short booklet on biblical hermeneutics in Dutch. It was meant to be about 6000 words, easy to understand for any member, that will be distributed in Holland: one for each household. The timeframe was ridiculously short: writing, designing, printing and distributing within three weeks! […]
Monsters publication in Dutch
The classicists in Leiden have their own quarterly magazine: Frons. Their Summer special on metamorphoses includes an article about Monsters that I wrote. I blogged an English variant of the same article recently on Angels and Apes, an often-more-than-weekly-blog, maintained by Megen de Bruin-Molé, a PhD researcher at Cardiff University.
Dutch Column on Adventist Faith
The Dutch Adventist Church asked me to do a quarterly column running through the Fundamental Beliefs of the Adventist Church. I plan to discuss one or two of the fundamentals per quarter. As you might guess from the picture of the egg, this column discusses the Trinity and God the father. Click on the image to […]
Time in the Bible
The Dutch Adventist Church creates a magazine, Contact, that goes to about 3000 people who are interested in the Bible. As some of these people have been receiving this magazine for quite a few years, the editors wanted to have a recurring theological column, meant for the long-time readers. This article should match the theme of the […]
Dutch Column on Adventist Faith
The Dutch Adventist Church asked me to do a quarterly column running through the Fundamental Beliefs of the Adventist Church. I plan to discuss one or two of the fundamentals per quarter. Here is the first, about the preamble and the Bible. Click on the image to download.
Refugees
Refugees are a hot topic at the moment. The first Advent (the Dutch church magazine) of 2016 was about refugees, and included a title article by me ‘Op de vlucht’. The article discusses the topic of refugees, immigrants and aliens from a biblical perspective. Subsequently Spectrum Magazine published it online to highlight their first edition of 2016, […]
Translated book published
The Dutch Adventist church decided to translate and publish the book on women’s ordination that I wrote for the Trans-European Division. There should be a copy for every household in the Union, about 4000 in all. As far as I am concerned, the book looks a lot better in Dutch. With a better cover and […]
Begrijptuookwatuleest?
The Dutch Adventist church recently asked me write a short booklet on biblical hermeneutics. It was meant to be about 6000 words, easy to understand for any member, that will be distributed in Holland: one for each household. The timeframe was ridiculously short: writing, designing, printing and distributing within three weeks! But, we made the […]
How Forbidding Incest Ruined the Church Manual
After the General Conference last year, Adventist Today contacted me. They wanted a retrospect on the meetings from various viewpoints. I suggested an article that even I thought was pretty out of the box. The article would be entitled ‘How Forbidding Incest Ruined the Church Manual.’ This was based on my reflections on the changes […]
Focus on Adventists
Every five years or so the British Adventist church publishes an evangelistic magazine called Focus. This year they asked me to write an article about why I am an Adventist. That’s a very hard question, and the best answer I could come up with is ‘I like to believe that there’s a God.’ That was a […]
The person of the future in the church of the future
The theme of the Dutch Adventist church’s autumn edition of Advent was ‘The church of the future’. I reworked my That’s So Meta article from Adventist Today to fit the magazine. If you speak Dutch, you can read it here!
Popular Article on Equality in Advent
The Dutch Seventh-day Adventist Church publishes a quarterly magazine Advent, which gets sent to all its members. The June edition was on respect, equality and human rights and I wrote the main article. It is called In zijn beeld: discriminatie en gelijkwaardigheid (In His Image: Discrimination and Equality). You can get the article in Dutch, or read […]
That’s So Meta
I arrived home today to find an exciting bit of post: three copies of the latest Adventist Today. It is apparently the GC Session Special. It’s twice as thick as usual, and has been sent to all the GC Session delegates, as well as the normal subscribers. The exciting part is that it contains an article […]
Ministry, Mission and Ordination [updated]
This last year has turned into my annus mirabilis for publications. In the last six months I published my PhD, a theological book on the New Testament, and a number of articles. Yesterday, I just received a copy of my book on ordination that I wrote for the Trans-European Division: Ministry, Mission and Ordination. I am the first to […]
Two popular articles in Advent
The Dutch Seventh-day Adventist Church publishes a quarterly magazine Advent, which gets sent to all its members. One of my many tasks for the church, is that I am the editor-in-chief of the magazine. The most recent edition (march 2015) contained two articles by my hand: one on Easter and one on the environment.
Council of Churches
Just a short note to say: My book is mentioned on the website of the Dutch Council of Churches!
The Post-Postmodern Church
I recently returned from The One Project gathering in San Diego, where I gave a talk about what the future holds for Christians in Europe and the US alike. A longer version of that talk (adjusted for print) just went up on The One Project’s official website. Catch the first few paragraphs here, or download the […]
Bruinsma discusses my book
Colleague and author dr Reinder Bruinsma recently read and discussed my book Avontuurlijk Wandelen in his weekly blog. I must say I am very honoured by the words he writes. I think my favourite sentence is: Books like that of Tom de Bruin will be warmly welcomed by many readers, because of their fresh perspective on […]