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The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica is disassociating itself from comments made by one of its clergy at the PNP mass rally in Half-Way-Tree Sunday night. View the full article

Glad you also mentioned Bono - some truly profound spiritual messages from a most unlikely source. I have gravitated to mostly non-Adventist authors for my spiritual and theological reading. I find the spiritual insights to be refreshing and inspired, even some that would raise eyebrows among some Adventists. Sadly I have found many Adventist authors more interested in rehashing the same old tired ideas and themes with very little in the way of fresh and new thoughts or even new ways of expressing old truths. I am also current reading through a collection of classic books that are exclusively by non-SDA authors... The collection is commonly known as the Bible.

Amen, Pam. Other great authors - Joseph Prince, Bill Johnson, Leif Hetland, Smith Wigglesworth, John Bevere. All of these people point to a relationship with Jesus Christ - not a relationship with a religion - as the path to redemption. Bono once said that religion is what you are left with when the Holy Spirit leaves the building.

​No. Just read it. Then if you have disagreements with what is said in it bring them up here for discussion. This is a frequent problem here. People come here to argue. When they are pointed to the resources available to answer their objections an arguments they won't take the time to become informed on things that have been hashed and rehashed here and elsewhere many times already. Folk understandably get weary of repeating themselves. If you are sincerely wanting to learn - read and study the resources we point you to.