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  • North American Division Issues Statement On Christchurch Shootings- 22 March 2019 | The Adventist denomination’s North American Division issued the following statement regarding the Christchurch, New Zealand, shootings last week that claimed the lives of 50 Muslims: The leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America is shocked and saddened by the recent violence that took the lives of 50 worshippers as […]
  • News Briefs for March 22, 2019- News reports from Indonesia, Andrews University, the United Kingdom (UK), Loma Linda University, Mozambique and Malawi From ADRA – On March 16, flash floods and mudslides hit the eastern Indonesian province of Papua near the subdistrict of Jayapura. Reports are the flood waters left at least 104 dead, 60 missing, 74 injured, and displaced more […]
  • AT1 Speaker Joey Oh Answers the Question “How Does Christ Challenge Culture?”- We are excited that Joey Oh, Associate Pastor for Administration at Loma Linda University Church, will be one of our speakers for the AT1 gathering which is taking place October 4-6 in Portland, Oregon. We asked all our presenters to answer the question, “How Does Christ Challenge Culture?” We gave them 80 words or less […]
  • Global Youth Day 2019 Challenges Participants to Adopt People, Causes to Serve- From ANN – On Saturday, March 16, Adventist young people around the world mobilized to serve as the hands and feet of Christ in their communities for Global Youth Day 2019 (#GYD19). The theme for the annual service Sabbath was “Adopt.” Regional reporting stations around the world took turns sharing stories about everything from Adventist […]
  • Cyclone Idai: ADRA Continues to Provide Aid in Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe- From ADRA – 19 March 2019 | As swiftly as it came, Cyclone Idai barreled through Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe over the weekend, leaving thousands of people displaced. Reports also now estimate that 84 people are confirmed dead in Mozambique, but according to Mozambique’s president, Felipe Nyusi, the death toll could likely rise to nearly […]
  • New Clinic in Fire-Devastated Paradise Announced by Adventist Health- 18 March 2019 | On April 1, Adventist Health will open a new walk-in clinic serving the community of Paradise, California, that was severely damaged by the Camp Fire that ravaged the area late last year. An Adventist Health press release said that the clinic “provides a convenient way for patients to access a primary […]
  • Mozambique and Malawi: ADRA Responds to “Extremely Dangerous” Tropical Cyclone Idai- From an ADRA press release 18 March 2019 | “Electricity has been cut off for more than 500,000 civilians in the city of Beira, one of Mozambique’s largest cities, and communications have been severed,” says Mario de Oliveira, emergency management director for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA). “Houses and trees were destroyed also.” […]
  • Global Youth Day: Impact on New York City- 15 March 2019 | Global Youth Day is an event promoted by the denomination’s youth department. It is scheduled for tomorrow. The idea is that teens and young adults go out and do acts of kindness and community service after a brief worship on Sabbath morning that focuses on Christ’s many commands for such activity […]
  • Beloved Loma Linda Pediatrician Recognized for Lifelong Dedication to Children and Families- 14 March 2019 | From a press release by Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital — Richard Chinnock, MD, chief medical officer for Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital, was recognized with the Outstanding Clinician Award at the 26th Annual Foundation Gala on Thursday, February 21, for his lifelong dedication and distinguished service provided to children and […]
  • News Briefs for March 15, 2019- News reports from Global Youth Day, Loma Linda University, Oakwood University (two reports) and Southern Adventist University Starting on Friday at 10PM EST, Global Youth Day will air LIVE on its Facebook page (Global Youth Day) the GC Youth Ministries Facebook page, YouTube (General Conference Youth Ministries), the GYD website (www.globalyouthday.org) as well as on […]
  • The AT1 Gathering – Focused on Christ and Grace- We’re excited that more and more people are registering for the October 4-6 AT1 gathering in Portland, Oregon. This week we’re talking about two of the most important things about AT1: our Christ Challenges Culture theme and our fundamental, ground-level, starting point of the grace of God which infuses everything to do with this event. […]
  • Church Leader Calls on Drug Lords to Back Off Youth in Malawi- 14 March 2019 | A female Adventist leader in Malawi has made a public appeal for drug lords in the country to stop targeting youth in drug sales. Edith Mkawa, head of the denomination’s Department of International and National Alcohol and Drug Dependency (INADD), made the call in the country’s Mzuzu zone during a March […]
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  • Sabbath Work and Rest:  Melakhah vs. Menuchah - by Roger Lang  |  22 March 2019  |   “Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy.  Six days you shall labor [melakhah] and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, […]
  • Part 2: How the Church Changed Because of Desmond Ford- by Loren Seibold  |  20 March 2019  | Read part 1 here. Des, with the help of friends, set up an independent gospel ministry called Good News Unlimited. Though Des never regained the audience he’d had before, yet the church was changed because of Des and the questions he raised. Adventist theology went underground. When […]
  • How Des Ford Changed Us, Part 1: Why Des Had to Go- By Loren Seibold  |  19 March 2019  |   It was my first year after seminary, and we pastors were working at the campground, replacing broken underground plumbing in the RV park. (I remember this detail, because as one of the young cohort, I was always put on the handle end of a shovel, while the […]
  • Roman Double Jeopardy and Why I Believe in a Pre-advent Investigative Judgment, but Not a Saints’ Trial- by Stephen Ferguson  |  14 March 2019  | Dedicated to the memory of Dr.Desmond Ford The problem of when a trial is punishment. Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton was wrongly imprisoned for three years for the alleged murder of her baby daughter Azaria in 1980 while camping in the Australian Outback. Later forensic evidence proved the baby had […]
  • Is Ted Wilson a Racist?- By Christopher C. Thompson  |  14 March 2019  |   Usually these meetings come and go without anyone’s even noticing. But not this time. It started with the announcement that for the 2018 General Conference Annual Council (GCAC18), male leaders were encouraged to grow extravagant beards to pay homage to the great graybeards of Adventist antiquity. […]
  • Christ the Eschatos: A Meeting with GNU and the General Conference- by Smuts van Rooyen  |  14 March 2019  | A good while after Glacier View—I forget how long—Elder Duncan Eva from the General Conference (GC) suggested a meeting with the purpose of effecting reconciliation between the denomination and Good News Unlimited (GNU, the new ministry set up for Des Ford) to take place in San […]
  • “Peace in the Wounds of Christ”: Remembering Des Ford- by Smuts van Rooyen  |  11 March 2018 To be dismissed from ministry is more like a divorce than the loss of a job. Overnight I was no longer an esteemed teacher of religion at Andrews University, but a nomad chasing sun devils across the desert. At this wind blown point in my life Des […]
  • An Oversimplified Account of Deity- by Richard W. Coffen  |  8 March 2019  | Let’s begin with some significant historical high points in the development of deity: c. 51 centuries ago, the first pharaoh was proclaimed a god; c. 42 centuries ago, Naram-Sin was the first Mesopotamian king to be considered a deity; c. 34 or 33 centuries ago, the […]
  • Confessions of a Daughter of Eve- by Elle Berry  |  8 March 2019  | In the spring of 2011, I often found myself questioning my life choices. I was working at a Montessori school with around 80 nursery and preschool students. There were mornings I enjoyed this job. But there were at least an equal number of mornings where I could […]
  • Can World Church Membership Statistics Be Trusted?- by Alexander Samuel  |  7 March 2019  | According to the 2017 annual statistical report published by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, there are 1.6 million church members and 4,514 congregations within the Southern Asia Division (SUD), most of which lies in the country of India. This translates into 345 members per church. This […]
  • Am I My Sista’s Keeper? Part 2- By Sydney Freeman, Jr.  |  7 March 2019  | A response to “Am I My Sista’s Keeper? Women’s Ordination and the Black Adventist Church” by Rebecca Davis. In October of last year, I co-authored an article on the Adventist Today website titled, Adventist History, Herstory, and Ourstory: Towards a Peoples’ History of the Origin of Black […]
  • Empathy and Social Justice- by Natalie Alexander  |  2 March 2019  | When we think of churches working for social justice, we often think of public or political action: activities to provide assistance or relief to people in need, as well as organizing and rallying, marching with signs, contacting our representatives, and voting. Yet these efforts are not always […]
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  • March, 1991: When the General Conference Sued SDA Kinship- by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D.  |  15 March 2019  | The following account was written in March, 1991. Kinship was formed in 1976. Shortly afterwards, through a ballot among our members, we chose the name “Seventh-day Adventist Kinship International” as best describing our members and constituency. SDAKI was incorporated as a not-for-profit religious corporation in California […]
  • When My Pastor Becomes an Atheist, Must I Get Rebaptized?- 15 March 2019  | Dear Aunt Sevvy, My husband and I were baptized by a popular and charismatic Adventist pastor, who we deeply admired. Not long after our baptism, though, that pastor quit the ministry and declared himself an atheist. My husband feels like it’s left a tainting of our baptism, and he’d like to […]
  • David Trim Answers Questions about World Membership Statistics- 14 March 2019  | Recently Alexander Samuel wrote in Adventist Today about possible problems with claimed membership in the Southern Asia Division. Alex reached out to Dr. David Trim, Director of Archives, Statistics, and Research at the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, who answered some of the questions he had about membership and how it […]
  • Gay Activists in the Churches: Seventh-day Adventist Kinship, International, Inc.- by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D.  |  07 March 2019  | This month I will be uploading four articles, one each week, to my website (RonaldLawson.net) that address the situation of LGBTQ Adventists in their church. This week’s article, written in the late 1980s to present to a meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of […]
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  • Aunt Sevvy and the Secret Lasagne Ingredient- Dear Aunt Sevvy: I may have done a terrible thing. I always make and freeze homemade lasagne hamburger casseroles for my family, and vegetarian ones for church potluck. On a recent Sabbath I pulled one out of the freezer and took it to church, where I heated it up and set it on the serving […]
  • Does the United States Speak Like a Dragon?- By Werner E. Lange This commentary corresponds with “Satan and His Allies,” Sabbath School lesson for February 23-March 1. The Adventist interpretation of the second beast in Revelation 13 is unique. Adventist interpreters, starting with John N. Andrews in the 1860s, have it identified as the United States of America. This second beast rose from […]
  • Seventh-day Adventists and the U.S. Courts: Road Signs Along the Route of a Denominationalizing Sect- by Ron Lawson, Ph.D.  |  28 February 2019  | Seventh-day Adventists have been involved in a number of landmark court cases bearing on both the Free Exercise and Establishment clauses of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and on statutory law. The main issues have included security of employment for Sabbath observers, the right […]
  • Aunt Sevvy and the Spanking Enthusiast- Dear Aunt Sevvy: Our pastor was preaching recently on Christian families, when he suddenly went off on the topic of spanking. He didn’t just mention it as an option of last resort, but talked about it at length and with enthusiasm, almost as though he took joy in spanking children. My spouse and I don’t […]
  • To What Extent Has Adventist Sectarianism Resulted in Its Being a Prophetic Minority, with a Witness for Peace, Justice, and Humility?- by Ronald Lawson   |   22 February 2019   | This was an answer to a question posed by Gerald Winslow for a Metro New York Adventist Forum meeting in April of 2010. A sect is defined by Stark and Bainbridge as having high tension with society, marked by separation/exclusivity, difference, and mutual antagonism. Early Adventism was […]
  • Revelation DIY: The Secret of Overcoming Satan- By Werner E. Lange  |   This commentary corresponds to “Satan, a Defeated Enemy,” Sabbath School lesson for February 16-22 Some Christians fear the devil as a fierce opponent. But Revelation 12:11 reveals the secret of how he can be overcome: “by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.” Christ has […]
  • Ted Wilson and the Trajectory of the Adventist Church- by Ronald Lawson  |  13 February 2019  | We have uploaded two closely-related papers to my web-site. The title of the first is “From Sect Towards Denomination: Tracing the Trajectory of Seventh-day Adventism in the USA over Time.” Many Adventists become upset when Adventists are referred to as a “sect.” (One such uproar occurred on […]
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  • Sabbath Work and Rest:  Melakhah vs. Menuchah - by Roger Lang  |  22 March 2019  |   “Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy.  Six days you shall labor [melakhah] and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, […]
  • North American Division Issues Statement On Christchurch Shootings- 22 March 2019 | The Adventist denomination’s North American Division issued the following statement regarding the Christchurch, New Zealand, shootings last week that claimed the lives of 50 Muslims: The leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America is shocked and saddened by the recent violence that took the lives of 50 worshippers as […]
  • News Briefs for March 22, 2019- News reports from Indonesia, Andrews University, the United Kingdom (UK), Loma Linda University, Mozambique and Malawi From ADRA – On March 16, flash floods and mudslides hit the eastern Indonesian province of Papua near the subdistrict of Jayapura. Reports are the flood waters left at least 104 dead, 60 missing, 74 injured, and displaced more […]
  • AT1 Speaker Joey Oh Answers the Question “How Does Christ Challenge Culture?”- We are excited that Joey Oh, Associate Pastor for Administration at Loma Linda University Church, will be one of our speakers for the AT1 gathering which is taking place October 4-6 in Portland, Oregon. We asked all our presenters to answer the question, “How Does Christ Challenge Culture?” We gave them 80 words or less […]
  • Global Youth Day 2019 Challenges Participants to Adopt People, Causes to Serve- From ANN – On Saturday, March 16, Adventist young people around the world mobilized to serve as the hands and feet of Christ in their communities for Global Youth Day 2019 (#GYD19). The theme for the annual service Sabbath was “Adopt.” Regional reporting stations around the world took turns sharing stories about everything from Adventist […]
  • Part 2: How the Church Changed Because of Desmond Ford- by Loren Seibold  |  20 March 2019  | Read part 1 here. Des, with the help of friends, set up an independent gospel ministry called Good News Unlimited. Though Des never regained the audience he’d had before, yet the church was changed because of Des and the questions he raised. Adventist theology went underground. When […]
  • Cyclone Idai: ADRA Continues to Provide Aid in Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe- From ADRA – 19 March 2019 | As swiftly as it came, Cyclone Idai barreled through Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe over the weekend, leaving thousands of people displaced. Reports also now estimate that 84 people are confirmed dead in Mozambique, but according to Mozambique’s president, Felipe Nyusi, the death toll could likely rise to nearly […]
  • How Des Ford Changed Us, Part 1: Why Des Had to Go- By Loren Seibold  |  19 March 2019  |   It was my first year after seminary, and we pastors were working at the campground, replacing broken underground plumbing in the RV park. (I remember this detail, because as one of the young cohort, I was always put on the handle end of a shovel, while the […]
  • New Clinic in Fire-Devastated Paradise Announced by Adventist Health- 18 March 2019 | On April 1, Adventist Health will open a new walk-in clinic serving the community of Paradise, California, that was severely damaged by the Camp Fire that ravaged the area late last year. An Adventist Health press release said that the clinic “provides a convenient way for patients to access a primary […]
  • Mozambique and Malawi: ADRA Responds to “Extremely Dangerous” Tropical Cyclone Idai- From an ADRA press release 18 March 2019 | “Electricity has been cut off for more than 500,000 civilians in the city of Beira, one of Mozambique’s largest cities, and communications have been severed,” says Mario de Oliveira, emergency management director for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA). “Houses and trees were destroyed also.” […]
  • March, 1991: When the General Conference Sued SDA Kinship- by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D.  |  15 March 2019  | The following account was written in March, 1991. Kinship was formed in 1976. Shortly afterwards, through a ballot among our members, we chose the name “Seventh-day Adventist Kinship International” as best describing our members and constituency. SDAKI was incorporated as a not-for-profit religious corporation in California […]
  • Roman Double Jeopardy and Why I Believe in a Pre-advent Investigative Judgment, but Not a Saints’ Trial- by Stephen Ferguson  |  14 March 2019  | Dedicated to the memory of Dr.Desmond Ford The problem of when a trial is punishment. Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton was wrongly imprisoned for three years for the alleged murder of her baby daughter Azaria in 1980 while camping in the Australian Outback. Later forensic evidence proved the baby had […]

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