INSIDEWINTER 2025


VOL. 33 NO. 1


AdventistToday


Executive Editor Loren Seibold


Executive Director Björn Karlman


Copy Editor Debra J. Hicks


Art Director Chris Komisar


Adventist History


6 Men of Muscle: Ellen White in Samoa By Matthew Lucio


8 Render unto Caesar: German Adventists and the Nazi State By Roland Blaich


12 The Strange Story of Walter Harper and His Wives By Amalia Goulbourne


15 How the Palestinian Barley Harvest Set the Judgment Date By Donald E. Casebolt


19 When Huldah Went to College By Warren C. Trenchard


24 The Talented Johannes de Heer and the 1902 Devastation of the Dutch Church By Reinder Bruinsma


27 Ellen White and Mirror of the Soul By Ronald D. Graybill


30 Ellen White and the Flat Earth By Loren Seibold


35 The Apocrypha Has “Light for the Remnant”: Have We Discovered a Lost Statement of Ellen White? By Matthew J. Korpman


DEP AR TMENT S


3 Editorial We Love Our History—But We Aren’t Trapped in It


By Loren Seibold


38 Barely Adventist News Briefs


39 Contributors


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Contributing Editors James Walters, John McLarty, Stephen Chavez, J. David Newman


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Governing Board Bill Garber (chair), Raj Attiken, Marit Case, Jan Cetti, Chris Daley, Ian Field, Sydney Freeman, Jack Hoehn, Mailen Kootsey, Kärt Lazic, Alvin Masarira, Chuck Mitchell, J. David Newman, Grace Oei, Gary Raines, Edward Reifsnyder, Gifford Rhamie, Elmar Sakala, Julie Scott, David Van Putten, John Vogt, Jim Walters


Bolded names are Executive Committee members.


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