Counterweight
The force that balances the fulcrum.
Archive
18 articles, newest first.
Editorial ·
Fulcrum7's comment policy is eighteen numbered rules, seventeen of them prohibitions, and exactly one of them a claim on a commenter's real name. It has be
Global ·
A recent Fulcrum7 essay opens there, with Islamic migrants and “far left agitators” in coalition and Italy, Belgium and Portugal behind them, and then climbs fast.
Investigation ·
In March 1958 a reader of the Review and Herald asked the editors why the words “For there are three that bear record in heaven” — the Trinitarian sentence at the center of 1 John 5:7 — had dropped out of the modern translations.
Editorial ·
Gabie Ntaate beat six continental competitors for a Sauti Award, then took a Song of the Year in 2021.
Scholarship ·
The denomination has spent a century telling itself it carries a message for the whole world.
Investigation ·
The food came through an agency founded by Seventh-day Adventists, and some of the money for it moved through the United Nations system.
Scholarship ·
Take the phrase “practicing the presence of God.” If those words mark a movement, if they are the fingerprint of a mystical stream that has crossed into the church, then the voice that uses them cannot be the voice of God.
Scholarship ·
A recent Fulcrum7 essay describes a Loma Linda University Health women’s retreat as an occasion of “not the mystery of God, but that of another spirit.” The retreat’s offense, on that telling, is its featured author, Ann Voskamp.
Scholarship ·
That is the whole logic of the warning in Galatians, and it is where the argument now circulating about social justice begins.
Editorial ·
Socialism is a synthetic faith that swaps the Creator for the collective and erases male and female, good and evil, and the Sabbath rest.
Scholarship ·
Why every Counterweight article cites publication, date, and page — how we check a quotation against the archive, and what we do when the record disagrees.
Global ·
A camp meeting in Ibadan, and the church a recent Fulcrum7 essay describes: what Adventist membership and growth actually look like in Nigeria.
Satire ·
⚡ SATIRE — NOT REAL NEWS COLUMBIA, MD — A Keurig coffee machine was installed in the North American Division headquarters lobby on Monday, a development that eschatologically-attuned observers say confirms the long-anticipated Sunday Law wi
Investigation ·
Quoted in a 2002 Journal of Asia Adventist Seminary: Ellen White on refusing to treat a handful of administrators as the voice of the church.
Editorial ·
In 1895 Ellen White told a General Conference session not to put the presidency in one man’s hands. What that sentence does, and does not, establish.
Scholarship ·
The claim that a member may redirect the tithe to channels he judges faithful — tested against what Adventist records say about who receives it.
Editorial ·
What this publication is, what it isn't, and why Fulcrum7 is the first voice we hold to the record — with sources, in context.
Scholarship ·
A 1951 Review and Herald warning that the work “should not rest upon two or three men” — what the denomination’s own weekly said about authority.