https://thecounterweight.net/en-usAdventist history, weighed against the Adventist record. https://thecounterweight.net/post/eighteen-rules-one-threat/ https://thecounterweight.net/post/eighteen-rules-one-threat/ Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:21:44 +0000 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 https://thecounterweight.net/post/god-scattered-them-to-reach-them/ https://thecounterweight.net/post/god-scattered-them-to-reach-them/ Thu, 05 Nov 2026 15:45:08 +0000 A recent Fulcrum7 essay opens there, with Islamic migrants and “far left agitators” in coalition and Italy, Belgium and Portugal behind them, and then… https://thecounterweight.net/post/the-brackets-were-never-an-assault/ https://thecounterweight.net/post/the-brackets-were-never-an-assault/ Thu, 05 Nov 2026 15:45:07 +0000 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… https://thecounterweight.net/post/the-sabbath-never-changed-the-tone-did/ https://thecounterweight.net/post/the-sabbath-never-changed-the-tone-did/ Thu, 05 Nov 2026 15:45:07 +0000 Gabie Ntaate beat six continental competitors for a Sauti Award, then took a Song of the Year in 2021. https://thecounterweight.net/post/the-messengers-and-the-machinery/ https://thecounterweight.net/post/the-messengers-and-the-machinery/ Thu, 05 Nov 2026 15:45:06 +0000 The denomination has spent a century telling itself it carries a message for the whole world. https://thecounterweight.net/post/the-church-said-it-first/ https://thecounterweight.net/post/the-church-said-it-first/ Thu, 05 Nov 2026 15:45:05 +0000 The food came through an agency founded by Seventh-day Adventists, and some of the money for it moved through the United Nations system. https://thecounterweight.net/post/the-fingerprint-was-already-ours/ https://thecounterweight.net/post/the-fingerprint-was-already-ours/ Thu, 05 Nov 2026 15:45:05 +0000 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… https://thecounterweight.net/post/stillness-was-ours-before-it-was-hers/ https://thecounterweight.net/post/stillness-was-ours-before-it-was-hers/ Tue, 03 Nov 2026 03:13:45 +0000 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.”… https://thecounterweight.net/post/the-churchs-own-editors-called-it-social-justice/ https://thecounterweight.net/post/the-churchs-own-editors-called-it-social-justice/ Tue, 03 Nov 2026 03:13:43 +0000 That is the whole logic of the warning in Galatians, and it is where the argument now circulating about social justice begins. https://thecounterweight.net/post/religious-tsunami-socialism-century-old-argument/ https://thecounterweight.net/post/religious-tsunami-socialism-century-old-argument/ Mon, 02 Nov 2026 02:37:27 +0000 Socialism is a synthetic faith that swaps the Creator for the collective and erases male and female, good and evil, and the Sabbath rest. https://thecounterweight.net/post/about-our-sources-why-we-cite-everything/ https://thecounterweight.net/post/about-our-sources-why-we-cite-everything/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:10:49 +0000 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. https://thecounterweight.net/post/the-church-theyre-describing-doesnt-exist-in-lagos/ https://thecounterweight.net/post/the-church-theyre-describing-doesnt-exist-in-lagos/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:10:49 +0000 A camp meeting in Ibadan, and the church a recent Fulcrum7 essay describes: what Adventist membership and growth actually look like in Nigeria. https://thecounterweight.net/post/coffee-machine-installed-in-nad-lobby-sunday-law-enforcement-to-begin-any-day-now/ https://thecounterweight.net/post/coffee-machine-installed-in-nad-lobby-sunday-law-enforcement-to-begin-any-day-now/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:10:49 +0000 ⚡ SATIRE — NOT REAL NEWS COLUMBIA, MD — A Keurig coffee machine was installed in the North American Division headquarters lobby on Monday, a development… https://thecounterweight.net/post/we-read-conrad-vines-entropy-footnotes-so-you-dont-have-to/ https://thecounterweight.net/post/we-read-conrad-vines-entropy-footnotes-so-you-dont-have-to/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:10:49 +0000 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. https://thecounterweight.net/post/the-quotes-they-leave-out-ellen-white-on-church-authority/ https://thecounterweight.net/post/the-quotes-they-leave-out-ellen-white-on-church-authority/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:10:49 +0000 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. https://thecounterweight.net/post/the-tithe-in-adventist-history-what-the-records-actually-show/ https://thecounterweight.net/post/the-tithe-in-adventist-history-what-the-records-actually-show/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:10:49 +0000 The claim that a member may redirect the tithe to channels he judges faithful — tested against what Adventist records say about who receives it. https://thecounterweight.net/post/what-the-counterweight-is-and-isnt/ https://thecounterweight.net/post/what-the-counterweight-is-and-isnt/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:10:49 +0000 What this publication is, what it isn't, and why Fulcrum7 is the first voice we hold to the record — with sources, in context. https://thecounterweight.net/post/a-letter-to-the-gc-president-what-the-record-shows/ https://thecounterweight.net/post/a-letter-to-the-gc-president-what-the-record-shows/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:10:48 +0000 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.