Adventist Review Podcasts

What happens when one Adventist heritage splinters into four factions in a single city? Kang Liang grew up in Wenzhou, China, amid more than forty years of division — the Old Faction, the New Faction, the Wheatfield, and the underground Wilderness Faction. Searching for a way to think about church unity, he turns to an unlikely guide: Cyprian of Carthage, a third-century bishop who fled persecution, weathered fierce criticism at home, and finally faced martyrdom among his own people. In this Perspectives column, Liang asks what such a figure can still teach Adventists about truth, humility, and division. Listen to the full article.

Would you walk into a nuclear facility without protective gear? Of course not. So why do so many of us step into a life-and-death spiritual struggle so casually unprepared? In this Discipleship of the Mind article, theologian John Peckham reads Paul's call to "put on the whole armor of God" in Ephesians 6 as a summons to a different kind of prayer, one that recognizes we live in the midst of a cosmic conflict over truth and trust. What does it mean to pray "without ceasing"? And if God already loves us, why ask at all? Listen to the full article and consider how you pray.

What happens when God answers your prayer, and then keeps going? A brain tumor vanishes the morning of surgery. A furious wife on a freeway sees a billboard that tells her to turn back. A pastor, sure he was only trying to help, finds himself wrestling with God before dawn. In this Lifestyle feature, retired pastor Jerry Page shares stories from decades of praying alongside his wife, Janet, stories in which the hardest healing wasn't always physical, and the answers didn't always come on schedule. What is prayer really for, and who does it change? Listen to the full article and find out.

Rick Remmers was just elected General Vice President of the General Conference, and he never saw it coming. Recorded in the GC atrium, this special edition of unScripted finds Shawn Boonstra talking with Rick about chairing Loma Linda University Health, wrestling with whether ministry was God's call or "a family script," and why One Voice 27 really matters. Rick also shares how an evangelistic series in Beatrice, Nebraska, where no one was baptized, eventually led his grandfather, his father, and Rick himself into ministry. "That evangelist probably has no idea."

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What can a children’s Bible do in a home filled with fear? In this Beyond Borders story, Sky Bridger recalls the night eight-year-old Bella sat in a dimly lit women’s shelter, clutching her Bible and asking to hear the story of the Red Sea. What began as a quiet friendship with a struggling young mother on her street soon led to police stations, a knife at the garden gate, and a family pulled between old loyalties and new hope. Could the small seeds planted in one little girl’s heart survive the voices telling her to let them go? Listen to the full story.

Ten minutes before boarding a flight home to Egypt, Pastor Sun Hwan Kim got a call that changed his life: he had been elected president of the North Asia-Pacific Division. At Annual Council 2026, Justin Kim sits down with him just days after the election. Pastor Kim shares how the news reached him, offers a pastoral word to Korean church members discouraged by recent financial loss, and describes leading a division that spans Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and South Asia. He also names three goals for his term and asks for your prayers. From unScripted, the Adventist Review video podcast.

“What’s the deal with the sanctuary? Does it really matter?” Over breakfast, a young, on-fire Adventist pastor fired off question after question, wondering whether the doctrine was just an artifact better left in the dustbin of history. Then one answer stopped him cold: “Say that again!” In this Theology feature, David Asscherick pulls up a chair and invites you into that two-hour conversation, tracing God’s longing to dwell with His people from Eden to Exodus to Revelation, and uncovering what a tent in the wilderness has to do with Jesus today. What did the young pastor hear that he’d never heard before? Listen to the full article.

What would you do if your neighbors piled their garbage at your door every single night? In this Lifestyle feature, Hatsarmaveth Venkaya tells of a missionary in the Middle East who faced exactly that, and chose a response few of us would expect. From the garden of Eden to a poor widow’s two copper coins and Mary’s broken alabaster flask, Venkaya traces what Scripture reveals about the true meaning of an offering, and why it may have far less to do with money than we think. What does it really mean to give the way God gives? Listen to the full article.

Annual Council 2026 is wrapped, and Shawn and Justin break it down from the General Conference atrium. They cover the leadership transition and a Korean financial situation that led a division president to step aside, the One Voice 27 and All Things New mission push, and plans to revise the church manual for the 2030 session. They also share membership numbers (24.7 million as of mid-2026), a 2028 plan to reach missing members, and the surprisingly entertaining auditors' video. Plus: the TED-style LEAD conference, morning worship in Daniel, and what the hosts saw behind the rumors. From unScripted, the Adventist Review video podcast.

The church's Working Policy turns 100 this year, and Shawn asks the questions you've wondered about. Joined by Hensley and Tami from the General Conference Secretariat, he explores why the church has policy, how a 63-page pocketbook became a worldwide book, and whether policy slows mission or helps it go faster. They explain policy variances, how a proposal travels from a local church to Annual Council, and why none of it is secret. Plus: Shawn tests it with hypotheticals like using work email for side sales, and the centennial celebration. From unScripted, the Adventist Review video podcast.