Adventist Review Podcasts

BETTER THAN OUR BEST (September 11, 2026)

So you’ve lived a good life, a moral life, a life of treating others as you wish you would be treated. You pay your taxes when they’re due. You let the elderly go first.

More than Modesty Rules—Beth Hill with Beth Thomas

What happens when the rules you were given for purity don't match the life you end up living? Beth Hill grew up inside purity culture's strict guidelines for dress, datin

Fighting the Star Chamber by Shawn Boonstra

What does a 380-year-old fight over censorship have to do with the Seventh-day Adventist Church? In 1644, the poet John Milton published a furious defense of free speech

Scripture Alone? by John Peckham

Drive in snow and overcorrect one way, and you'll end up in the ditch on the other side. Theologian John Peckham argues the same danger lurks around one of Christianity's

OUR CONFIDENCE IN GRACE (September 04, 2026)

Between this moment and the final triumph of God’s love, there will be many moments when the outcome may appear in doubt. Hard-edged, hard-hearted people flourish in a w

THE UNSTOPPABLE RIPPLE (August 28, 2026)

And you thought grace was just for individuals. When God’s mercy and affection are much-welcomed and deep-trusted, lasting impacts start to flow to all within the circle

Why God Shows Up Before the Missionaries Do | unScripted EP 27

3 billion people on Earth have never heard the name of Jesus — and most of them live in cities the Adventist Church has been quietly leaving for decades. Gary Krause, Di

Adventists Got Tobacco Right. We Missed This One. | unScripted EP 28

A minister who's raised his kids and an editor still in the trenches sit down over one question: what do you do when the most addictive thing your child will ever hold fi

Their Outreach Starts With People Who Hate the Church | unScripted EP 29

Three churches. Three continents. One thing they all figured out that most Adventist congregations still haven't. Shawn Boonstra opens the mission reports that reach the

What I Wish I'd Said Before My Friend Overdosed | unScripted EP 30

She once heard voices telling her she was about to hurt someone. Now she hosts one of Hope Channel's most-watched shows. This episode asks the question most Christian par

30 Years in Marketing. Now He Says the Church Measures Wrong | unScripted EP 31

Years ago Shawn Boonstra signed the guest book at a church that wasn't his own, just to see what would happen. They called him back in 32 hours. Meanwhile, interest cards

Is Adventism a Cult | unScripted EP 32

Shawn joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church six weeks before Waco burned. Justin comes from a country whose own society files Adventism as an official cult. So they too

When Faith Gets Hard by Yeseul Kim

Imagine sitting in biology class, staring at a diagram presented as settled fact—when a quiet voice whispers, what if they're right? For one pastor's kid, keeping faith i

THE PRODIGAL ELDER BROTHER (August 21, 2026)

Of all the stories Jesus told, this one is our favorite. An arrogant, entitled son demands his inheritance from his father, but wastes it in riotous living. When the mon

Who Vindicates the Character of God by Jean Carlos Zukowski and Iracéli Cristiani Hubner Zukowski

Does God need a perfect generation of humans to prove His critics wrong? In 1947 one Adventist theologian argued exactly that—launching a debate that still divides believ

The Giant White Hand by Dick Duerksen

Two red cars came screaming around a mountain curve at over 70 miles per hour—headed straight at Michelle and her friends, with a rock wall on one side and a hundred-foot

CONSISTENT AND PERSISTENT (August 14, 2026)

Yes, we remember all too well. The teacher whose volcanic mood made one day bright and hopeful while the next we hardly dared to draw a breath . . . The parent who turne

THE GRIP OF GRACE (August, 07, 2026)

If grace was as fragile as many believe it to be, we could never be truly confident that our lives have been fully redeemed and deeply restored. We would always be unsur

Purpose in My Heart by Onyx Daquila

Imagine publishing a book at twelve years old—one that started with nothing more than nature walks and a mother's simple question: "Where do you see God in that tree?" In

Why I Believe by Arris Berghan

Why do you believe what you believe? Because your parents told you? Because you grew up in church? The author says that kind of faith can crumble when life gets hard—and