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Freedman Elected President of the North Pacific Union Conference - Corrected September 27; September 26, 2016: Pastor John Freedman, president of the Adventist denomination’s Washington Conference, was voted president of the North Pacific Union Conference (NPUC) yesterday (September 25) by the constituency delegates at the session held every five years. Despite an unprecedented effort against his election by a network opposed to women serving as […]- Church Leaders Address Ordination Challenges - September 26, 2016: Differences over ordination and gender continue to be viewed differently by Adventists in various denominational units around the world and this has led to two new documents released over the weekend by the denomination’s General Conference (GC) secretariat. Labeled “Church Governance and Unity,” one document is a 50-page study from the Bible, […]
- Black Suffering and White Silence - by Christopher C. Thompson This month marks fifteen years since that fateful day when airplanes struck the World Trade Center Towers in New York City. I along with countless other Americans can recall almost to the moment where we were and what we were doing when the news story broke. I was a sophomore theology […]
- Neighbors - by Winona Winkler Wendth On a sunny afternoon about thirty-five years ago, my family and I visited one of the most interesting women in Adventist publishing history: Ruth Wheeler, “The Dinosaur Lady.” We were living in Angwin, California, only a mile or two from Pacific Union College, and had been invited over to Mrs. Wheeler’s […]
- News Briefs for September 23, 2016 - Stories from the Ozarks, Zimbabwe, Oakwood University, Papua New Guinea, Ohio, Ghana and California ….. The Ozarks Sustainable Living Festival was convened Sunday (September 18) by the Next Step Seventh-day Adventist Church in West Plains, Missouri. Local farmers and businesses offered natural health products, plants native to the region, energy alternatives and information, reported the […]
- Nine-Year-Old Wants to Raise Money for Children’s Cancer Research - By Susan Onuma, posted Sept. 22, 2016 by D Kovacs This story struck me immediately. It has kids! It has kids who are sick and a kid who wants to help! What’s not to like? However, it’s not what it first appears. You might assume that April Wall, who is hoping to raise $5,000 for […]
- Every Seed-bearing Plant… - Photo by Heather Gutman, posted 9-22-2016 by D Kovacs Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in […]
- The Lure of Divine Sanction - By S M Chen. “If God be with us, who can be against us?” Rom. 8:31 A year or so ago I viewed some of the award-winning Ken Burns 11.5 hour documentary, THE CIVIL WAR, which initially aired for 5 consecutive nights on PBS stations in September 1990, 25 years ago, at which time 40 […]
- Sabbath and Social Justice in a Psalm? - By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Sept 22, 2016 1 Hallelujah! Praise the Lord, O my soul! I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. 2 Put not your trust in rulers, nor in any child of earth, for there is no help in them. 3 When […]
- Police Shoot African-American Teen Outside Prayer Meeting at Adventist Church - September 21, 2016: The Central Seventh-day Adventist Church in Columbus, Ohio, was having the regular Wednesday night prayer meeting last week (September 14) when 13-year-old Tyre King was shot by police in front of the church building. Pastor John Boston was preaching when the gunshots were heard. The group saw the flashing lights of police […]
- GC Officers Announce Search for Budget Cuts, Ask Employees to Help - September 21, 2016: Yesterday the world headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination held a special staff meeting during which Pastor Ted Wilson, the president of the General Conference (GC), and Juan Prestol-Puesan, the chief financial officer, asked the staff to help find ways to reduce costs. It appeared to some observers that this was a […]
- Adventist Forum Promotes Moving Away from Violence to Christ-centered Lives - By Jack Hoehn, September 20, 2016: The Association of Adventist Forums met last weekend (September 16-18) in Takoma Park, Maryland, the old home town of the denomination’s General Conference (GC). The theme of this annual conference was “Non-Violence and the Atonement” and there were about 100 in attendance for the largest association of Adventist academics […]
News
- Freedman Elected President of the North Pacific Union Conference - Corrected September 27; September 26, 2016: Pastor John Freedman, president of the Adventist denomination’s Washington Conference, was voted president of the North Pacific Union Conference (NPUC) yesterday (September 25) by the constituency delegates at the session held every five years. Despite an unprecedented effort against his election by a network opposed to women serving as […]
- Church Leaders Address Ordination Challenges - September 26, 2016: Differences over ordination and gender continue to be viewed differently by Adventists in various denominational units around the world and this has led to two new documents released over the weekend by the denomination’s General Conference (GC) secretariat. Labeled “Church Governance and Unity,” one document is a 50-page study from the Bible, […]
- News Briefs for September 23, 2016 - Stories from the Ozarks, Zimbabwe, Oakwood University, Papua New Guinea, Ohio, Ghana and California ….. The Ozarks Sustainable Living Festival was convened Sunday (September 18) by the Next Step Seventh-day Adventist Church in West Plains, Missouri. Local farmers and businesses offered natural health products, plants native to the region, energy alternatives and information, reported the […]
- Police Shoot African-American Teen Outside Prayer Meeting at Adventist Church - September 21, 2016: The Central Seventh-day Adventist Church in Columbus, Ohio, was having the regular Wednesday night prayer meeting last week (September 14) when 13-year-old Tyre King was shot by police in front of the church building. Pastor John Boston was preaching when the gunshots were heard. The group saw the flashing lights of police […]
- GC Officers Announce Search for Budget Cuts, Ask Employees to Help - September 21, 2016: Yesterday the world headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination held a special staff meeting during which Pastor Ted Wilson, the president of the General Conference (GC), and Juan Prestol-Puesan, the chief financial officer, asked the staff to help find ways to reduce costs. It appeared to some observers that this was a […]
- Adventist Forum Promotes Moving Away from Violence to Christ-centered Lives - By Jack Hoehn, September 20, 2016: The Association of Adventist Forums met last weekend (September 16-18) in Takoma Park, Maryland, the old home town of the denomination’s General Conference (GC). The theme of this annual conference was “Non-Violence and the Atonement” and there were about 100 in attendance for the largest association of Adventist academics […]
- News Feature: A Needs-based Approach to Community Outreach in a Botswana Suburb - By Alethia Nkosi, September 20, 2019: In a suburb of Gaborone, the capital of Botswana, the Bontleng Seventh-day Adventist Church began to operate four months ago as a church plant of the Gaborone Central Adventist Church. It started with a core group of 15 and has grown to about 40 members, a very youthful congregation. […]
- News Feature: U.S. Civil Rights Commission Report Gives Free Exercise of Religion Secondary Status - By Michael D. Peabody, September 15, 2016: In a stunning report released last week by the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Martin Castro, the chairman, attacked the Religious Freedom Restoration Act at both the state and federal level, challenged the term “religious liberty” as code for intolerance. He said that free exercise rights should […]
- News Briefs for September 16, 2016 - Corrected: Stories from Ghana, Solomon Islands, Nigeria, California, La Sierra University, Jamaica and Australia Ghana should make major investments in education and agriculture to build prosperity, Jonathan Duffey, president of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International, told journalists when he arrived there Tuesday (September 13). He is in the African nation to review […]
- Fall Meeting of the Society for Free Church Research in Germany - From APD, September 15, 2016: The Adventist denomination in Germany is part of the “free church” tradition, which differentiates it from the Lutheran Church and the Roman Catholic Church, the two largest Christian bodies in the country. Adventist scholars participate in the twice-yearly meetings of the Society for Free Church Studies, which met last weekend […]
- Adventist Remains Prisoner of Conscience in Kazakhstan - September 12, 2016: Yklas Kabduakasov is an Adventist serving a two-year prison term in Kazakhstan for personal witnessing activities which are supposed to be protected by the religious rights law in the former Soviet republic in central Asia. He is being held in a prison camp in Pavlodar and wishes to be transferred to a […]
- New Novel Deals with Issues of Adventist Women, Science and Faith - September 12, 2016: Ella Rydzewski has given a career to Adventist publications, serving as an editorial assistant for a number of years at both the Adventist Review and Ministry magazine, among others. She says that she always wanted to write a novel for women over 40 in the introduction to Starting Over in the Past, […]
Commentary
- Black Suffering and White Silence - by Christopher C. Thompson This month marks fifteen years since that fateful day when airplanes struck the World Trade Center Towers in New York City. I along with countless other Americans can recall almost to the moment where we were and what we were doing when the news story broke. I was a sophomore theology […]
- Neighbors - by Winona Winkler Wendth On a sunny afternoon about thirty-five years ago, my family and I visited one of the most interesting women in Adventist publishing history: Ruth Wheeler, “The Dinosaur Lady.” We were living in Angwin, California, only a mile or two from Pacific Union College, and had been invited over to Mrs. Wheeler’s […]
- Orion Rising - By Jack Hoehn, September 19, 2016: I woke during the night as I often do, but this time it was summer and I was in a cabin at the edge of Lake Wallowa, in northeast Oregon. Wallowa Lake is 7 miles long, a perfect glacier-carved moraine lake with both sides of the lake a 400-foot-high dam of […]
- Who is Monitoring the Fourth Estate? - By Mark McCleary, September 15, 2016: As a man thinketh in his heart [mind], so is he (Proverbs 23:7). God created us with the ability to think, speak and write. These are ways of communicating our subjective cogitations, and the primary means for expressing ideas that have local and global significance. The above text calls […]
- Christians and Competition - By Nathan Nelson Last month it would have been hard to miss that the Olympics were on. All over the news were stories of courage, of heartbreak, of scandal, of sportsmanship. It’s all pretty standard by now, something we’re used to seeing every few years. While the networks bemoan that viewership is down, very few people didn’t […]
- Ages of the Earth, Life and Humans: No Answers in Genesis or Ellen White–Part IV - by Ervin Taylor, September 5, 2016: The question posed at the beginning of this series was “Why would the leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist (Adventist) denomination at the General Conference (GC) level insist on supporting a fundamentalist interpretation of the Genesis creation narratives?” A related question that was later posed was “What historical factors are […]
- Seven Adventist Mythologies That Are Delaying Christ’s Second Coming - By Pastor Tom Hughes, September 6, 2016: For over a century the Seventh-day Adventist Church has proclaimed a message based on the three angels of Revelation 14. The first angel symbolizes God’s last message of warning to a world that is soon to be ending when Jesus comes again. The Adventist Church sees itself as […]
- What Does God Call Us To When Everything is Changing? - By Monte Sahlin, August 30, 2016: I have never seen as much change as is exploding all around us right now, despite the fact that I was born in the post-World War II Baby Boom and was a teenager in the 1960s. I have lived through the TV generation, the Civil Rights Movement, the turmoil […]
- Less of More and More of Less - by Lawrence G. Downing, August 29, 2016: In the course of her May 6, 2016, interview with 2006 Southern Adventist University graduate and KUSC FM[1] on-air host Brian Lauritzen, Spectrum writer Alita Byrd asked Lauritzen whether he considered himself an Adventist still. For those of us who are part of, and care for, the Adventist […]
- People Under Construction - By Juleun A. Johnson, D.Min. I have a true confession for you. I love church. I enjoy the music, the fellowship, the preaching, and the worship experience. I am a Seventh-day Adventist preacher’s child that became a pastor. Matter of fact, recently I realized I have been working for the church for 15 years. But […]
- Undeniable–Douglas Axe - UNDENIABLE– How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed Douglas Axe, 299 pages by HarperOne, 2016. (Hardcover $25.99, less on Amazon.com) A new book reviewed by Jack Hoehn. The slipcover to the book is a close-up photograph of the fantastically colored, intricately designed, mosaic-like art of a chameleon’s tail. Every little scale in turquoise, green, […]
- If I Could Design the Church, Starting from Scratch… - by Melody Tan I would make it a worldwide church just as it is now There is a certain sense of kinship amongst Seventh-day Adventists around the world, best displayed when you walk into an Adventist Church in a foreign country without knowing a soul or even speaking the same language. It isn’t only because […]
Announcements
- New Comment Software to be Installed on the Adventist Today Web Site - By Monte Sahlin, September 14, 2016: One of the purposes of Adventist Today is to provide a “free speech area” for our readers. The primary way this is provided is through the Comments feature at the end of each article. Recently several major news organizations have stopped allowing comments on their Web sites. There is […]
- Adventist Today Executive to Speak in Maryland August 5-6 - Monte Sahlin, who is the chief executive officer of Adventist Today, has served the Seventh-day Adventist Church for nearly five decades as a community worker, pastor, author and research analyst. Much of his ministry has focused on the urban mission challenge of the Adventist faith, and his three presentations the weekend of August 5 and […]
- Thank You for Your Service - Thank you to all who serve(d) God and country. Your sacrifice is appreciated.
- Geology Field Trip to Explore Issues in Science and the Bible - From News Release, March 9, 2016: A traveling seminar organized by Adventists will provide opportunities to track dinosaurs, study living sand dunes made up of sand eroded from fossil sand dunes, investigate a lava flow perched on a ridge of sandstone in the middle of a canyon, check out petrified trees and investigate evidence of […]
- Adventist Today Appeal - This Christmas Adventist Today rejoices in the outpouring of support received in 2014. But the budget will be tested as more news staff come aboard in anticipation of General Conference and we include the expenses of operating for 10 days or more from San Antonio. If you have been looking toward to making a regular […]
- Where to Send Donations and Correspondence - The mailing address for the office of the Adventist Today Foundation is P.O. Box 1135, Sandy, Oregon 97055-1135. You can reach the staff by telephone at (503) 826-8600.
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