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Adventists in Trinidad Join Interfaith Rejection of Same-Sex Marriage - 20 June 2018 | The Adventist church in Trinidad and Tobago has joined an interfaith effort by Roman Catholics, Protestants, Hindus and Muslims to pressure the government to reject same-sex marriage. A group of religious leaders that claimed to represent almost 90% of the country’s population, held a June 11 press conference in the country […]- ADRA and World Food Program Collaborate in Uganda to Help Feed 85,000 Refugees - 19 June 2018 | The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is partnering with the World Food Program and the Ugandan government to help feed 85,000 refugees in the country. The partnership was agreed upon this month. According to an ADRA press release, the refugees that will receive the aid are based in the district […]
- Fourth International Bible Conference Under Way in Rome - 18 June 2018 | The Biblical Research Institute of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is currently hosting its fourth International Bible Conference in Rome, Italy. The June 11-21 conference is packed with over 100 theological presentations relating to eschatology (the branch of theology dealing with death, judgment, and the final destiny of humanity.) In […]
- Advocacy Groups Urge Adventist Church to Cancel Camp Meeting Featuring Coming Out Ministries - 17 June 2018 | Canada’s Maritime Conference of the Adventist Church is being pressured to cancel a camp meeting due to feature two speakers that are deemed controversial by LGBTQ advocacy groups. The Halifax Pride Festival and the Youth Project (a group supporting queer and transgender youth) object to two scheduled speakers from Coming Out […]
- Adventist Leaders Condemn the United States Government for Child Detention at Borders - 16 June 2018 | Late Sabbath afternoon, leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination on both coasts released public statements condemning recent United States government actions taking children from parents who arrive at the nation’s border entry points without visas and seeking asylum under international human rights law. Almost all other Christian denominations have taken similar […]
- News Briefs for June 15, 2018 - News reports from: Providence, Rhode Island; Oahu, Hawaii; Brazil; Southern Adventist University; Hermiston, Oregon; Windsor, Ontario; and Denver, Colorado The roof on a newly-built addition to an Adventist Church in Providence, Rhode Island collapsed on Sunday afternoon. Nobody was in Providence Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church during the collapse so no injuries took place. Pastor Nestor […]
- Larry Lichtenwalter Elected President of Lebanon’s Middle East University - 14 June 2018 | The Board of Trustees of Middle East University elected Dr. Larry Lichtenwalter as the institution’s new president on Sunday, June 10, 2018. Lichtenwalter accepted the position at the institution based near Beirut, Lebanon effective immediately. According to an announcement on the university’s Facebook page, Lichtenwalter had served as interim president since […]
- Evangelism Campaign in Tanzania Results in 19,000 New Adventists - 15 June 2018 | Using a television network to link more than 4,000 locations across the East Africa nation of Tanzania, the Revelation of Hope campaign has had more than 19,000 baptisms so far. It was an historic event both for its introduction of new technology and the impact on the general public in the […]
- ADRA Guatemala Helps Communities Destroyed by Volcanic Eruption - From ADP, 14 June 2018 | The outbreak of a volcano in Guatemala in early June in which more than 75 people died and more than 200 are missing, brought an emergency response from the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, ADRA Guatemala. Volunteers immediately distributed drinking water and food to those affected. “From the first […]
- ADRA’s First Water Kiosk Tested in Mozambique - 13 June 2018 | In a first for the organization, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has opened up a safe water kiosk in Mocuba, Mozambique. The water vending machine is being tested in a pilot scheme aimed at providing a reliable source of drinking water via a self-sustaining business concept as opposed to free […]
- Loma Linda University School of Nursing Celebrates 10,000th Graduate - 12 June 2018 | The 10,000th graduate of Loma Linda University School of Nursing received her diploma during the school’s June 10 commencement ceremony. Alyssa Vega received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree as part of the 210-strong class of 2018 earning bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degrees. According to a news report on the […]
- The Queen’s Birthday Honors List Features Bermudian Adventist - 11 June 2018 | Judith James, a Bermudian Adventist, was one of eight Bermudians recognized in the 2018 version of The Queen’s Birthday Honors List. The list celebrates the work of “extraordinary” people featuring public figures as well as lesser-known individuals who have done outstanding community work. According to Bernews, James taught for 47 years […]
Commentary
- Forever Young? - By Melody Tan | 27 June 2018 | An article on innovative business news website, Fast Company, is reporting that we are extremely close to finding the fountain of youth. More accurately, startup company Unity Biotechnology is working on developing a drug that will enable us not so much to live forever, but to feel […]
- Childish Gambino, the Fourth Seal, and Christian Responsibility - by Danielle Bernard | 18 June 2018 | I stared at the screen of my phone in utter shock at what I had just seen. “Disturbed” is the only word that even comes close to articulating how I felt on that Sunday morning in early May after I watched American rapper Childish Gambino’s latest music […]
- Porqué amamos nuestra gran y obesa administración - Por Loren Seibold | 18 de junio 2018 | En 2015 un estudio independiente comisionado por el Comité de Gobierno Eclesiástico de la División Norteamericana (NAD por sus siglas en inglés) reportó un hecho impactante en el Concilio Anual de la NAD. En ese momento (hace dos años y medio), el estudio descubrió que si eliminaban […]
- Dear God, Your People Hate Me… - by Christopher C. Thompson Terrorists, drug dealers, rapists, drug addicts, homosexuals… I’m trying to think of all the different types of people whom we consider to be cut off from God. I have long struggled with this given the fact that over the years it has been some of the very people on this list […]
- Has a General Conference Session Approved Female Church Elders? - 13 June 2018 | At the request of readers, Adventist Today has researched a statement on the General Conference website dated 17 November 2017 and published in the “Presidential Perspectives” section of the official GC website. It was published under the byline of Elder Ted Wilson, the president of the General Conference, answering a question […]
- Buy or Sell - by Alicia Johnston | 11 June 2018 | The Supreme Court recently decided an important religious liberty case, ruling against homosexual activists who don’t want Christians to be able to practice their beliefs. Or was the Masterpiece Cakeshop vs. Colorado Civil Rights Commission a decision about ending discrimination and giving gay and bisexual people the […]
- Why We Love Our Big Fat Church Administration - By Loren Seibold | 9 June 2018 In 2015 an independent study commissioned by the North American Division’s Church Governance Committee reported a rather astonishing fact at the NAD’s annual Year-End Meeting. At that time (2½ years ago, now) the study found that if we eliminated all North American Division conference offices, and administered pastors, […]
- Who Advises the Current General Conference President? - By Erv Taylor | 4 June 2018 | Introductory Note: My previous four commentaries have related conversations with a fictional character I’ve referred to as OV, or Our Visitor. Over the last six months, OV has visited Earth from time to time by traveling from a planet circling a star system we call Proxima Centauri. […]
- Who Owns Churches? - by Arthur Klym | 3 June 2018 | In February 2018 a petition for writ of certiorari (a request that it accept an appeal) was filed with the United States Supreme Court asking it to review the South Carolina Supreme Court’s decision regarding the ownership of 29 Episcopal church properties. The South Carolina Supreme court […]
- #metoochurch - by James Brauer | 2 June 2018 | I don’t really want to write this article. I’d prefer to just pretend the problem weren’t true. Speaking as a victim, I ask myself: Will anyone believe me? Will I be able to handle the negative reaction to my pointing fingers at important people for their having […]
- In Search of the Ideal Family - By Loren Seibold | 28 May 2018 | Hope for Today’s Families, by Willie and Elaine Oliver. Review & Herald Publishing Association, 2018. 96 pages Hope for Today’s Families is pretty much the kind of book I would have tried to write had I been asked to write a Missionary Book of the Year about […]
- Romanticizing Innocence and Ignorance in Women - By Lindsey Painter | 23 May, 2018 I’m sitting at my desk at work and a song comes on the easy listening station by One Direction. Here are the lyrics for part of the song. Baby you light up my world like nobody else The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed But […]
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- When the Adventist Church Sponsored an Ex-gay Ministry - by Ronald Lawson | 15 June 2018 | “The Troubled Career of an ‘Ex-Gay’ Healer: Colin Cook, Seventh-day Adventists, and the Christian Right.” Seventh-day Adventists had long assumed that they had no gay or lesbian members, even though there was a history of gay pastors, some in key posts, being discovered and fired, and gay […]
- Small Things - by S.M. Chen | 13 June 2018 “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” Confucius, aka Kong Qiu (551-479 BC), teacher, politician, philosopher I’m standing by the kitchen sink. As I lean over the garbage disposal, I hear a faint clink, metal on metal. I increase kitchen illumination, look around, […]
- Sermon: Working Like God - by John McLarty | 12 June 2018 | Sermon for Green Lake Church of Seventh-day Adventists for May 26, 2018 Texts: Deuteronomy 14:22-29, Exodus 20:8-11, John 5:8-19 Yesterday I was at Cypress Adventist School to present a chapel talk. Since I’m freshly returned from vacation in southern Utah, I told the kids about one of […]
- The Church and Its Homosexual Members - by Ron Lawson | 29 May 2018 | The chapter I wrote for the book, Christianity and Homosexuality: Seventh-day Adventist Perspectives, edited by David Ferguson, Fritz Guy, and David Larson, which was released in 2007, has been uploaded to my website, www.RonaldLawson.net. The title of the paper is “The Caring, Welcoming Church?: The Seventh-day Adventist […]
- Seventh-day Adventists and Polygamous Converts - by Ronald Lawson | 29 May 2018 | “Church-Sponsored Injustice: The Seventh-day Adventist Church and Polygamous Converts” addresses how Adventists have dealt with polygamously married converts in Africa, where the practice has been widespread. The policy long followed by other mission churches was to refuse to baptize converts who were polygamously married unless the male put away […]
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- Recent Adventist Today Articles by Jack Hoehn - ADVENTISM TOMORROW – by Jack Hoehn #1.) Reading Your Bible with Greater Care. #2. ) Open to the Openness of God. #3.) Against All Abuse, For all Love (the Bible and homosexual people.) #4.) Very Political. #5.) Rehabilitating Satan. #6.) Miltant Pacifism _______________________________________________ Other Recent Articles by Jack: “Death on St. Valentine’s Day, Slow Resurrection” […]
- Adventist Today Looks to Future During 25th Anniversary Celebration - 22 April 2018 | Two events marked the Loma Linda, California-based 25th Anniversary Celebration for Adventist Today on Saturday, April 21. Over 100 people attended the first event, a Commemorative Lectureship presented by David Neff, the former editor-in-chief of Christianity Today. The event was co-sponsored by AT and Loma Linda University’s Humanities Program. It took place […]
- Adventist Today’s 25th Anniversary Celebration To Take Place Tomorrow in Loma Linda - 20 April 2018 | Tomorrow, Saturday, April 21, Adventist Today editorial staff, members and friends will celebrate the independent journalism ministry’s 25th Anniversary in Loma Linda, California. Two events: a commemorative lecture and a banquet, will mark the milestone for the Adventist publication that was established to provide a source for independent journalism and innovative […]
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Poetry & Arts
- The Kingdom of Heaven - by John Bryan | 11 May 2018 | How would you explain color to a man who’s never seen before? With what words would you describe the sounds of music to someone who is deaf? Pingelap is a small circular island in the Pacific, an atoll, forming part of the country of Micronesia. A portion […]
- Somewhere: Spiritual Lessons from West Side Story - by S.M. Chen | 26 April 2018 | “There’s a place for us…” —from “Somewhere,” song in 1957 Broadway musical “West Side Story” One of the finer achievements of the late musician (conductor and composer) Leonard Bernstein was the music he composed for “West Side Story.” In collaboration with Stephen Sondheim, lyricist, he created for […]
- Revelation 2:17: A Poem - by Carolyn Shultz | 13 April 2018 | A smooth white stone. Mystery-white like Melville’ s whale? Alabaster— Or perhaps a new-made onyx Forged in the last prolific fires That purge and permute the once clean earth To Earth again. Inscribed, John says. Ur-Hebrew? Apocalyptic Greek? I think I’d fancy Strange new shapes and lines […]
- Lest We Forget - “Love is so short; forgetting is so long.” ~Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (1904-1973), Nobel laureate (1971) in literature “… before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.” ~Isaiah 65:24 I take a number of pills daily. These include a multivitamin formulation, chewable megavitamin C, vitamin D, L-lysine, and […]
- Something for the POTUS - by S.M. Chen | 23 February 2018 | I don’t know if Donald Trump reads USA TODAY. The back page of the first section of the 2/13/18 issue caught my attention. Someone named Tom Blair took out a full page ad entitled “Mr. President,” with the subheading: “In anticipation of Presidents’ Day (February 19) consider […]
- Ken Lauren: An Appreciation - by S.M. Chen | 12 February 2018 | Dr. Ken Lauren died not long ago of an injury sustained in Costa Rica, while he was working as a volunteer on the construction of a church. A report was posted here at Adventist Today. I visited Peru in 2005 at the invitation of my brother, taking […]
- Jesus’ Response to Nationalism & Racism - by Lars Justinen | 2 February 2018 | There was an immigration problem back in Jesus’ day. It seems the culture then was steeped in nationalism and racism. Especially hated in Israel were the “Muslims” of their day: the Samaritans. While sharing the same roots in Father Abraham, the Jews viewed the Samaritans as […]
- Doing Nothing Because You Can Do Only a Little? - by S.M. Chen | 22 January 2018 | “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” —Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish statesman and philosopher The story is told of an old man who walks the beach. He is in the habit of doing this before he begins […]
- Sunrise, Kapaa 1/11/18 - by S.M. Chen | 12 January 2018 | Some ancients bent a knee to sun. With outstretched arms they welcomed it And turned their face to catch its light And heat that warmed them to the bone, That took away the chill within. We, too, have shared the wonder of A rising sun in flaming […]
- More Rain - By S.M. Chen | 21 December 2017 | “The rain falls on the just And also on the unjust fella But mainly on the just Because the unjust steals the just’s umbrella.” —Heywood Broun, 20th century American journalist When, a few months ago, I wrote an essay, “Rain”, little could […]
- A Light to Lead Us Home - by Sharan Bennett | 20 December 2017 | Christmas, 2017 enters a chaotic and gloomy world that seems unprepared to receive it. But has our world every been much different? Ellen White says of the first Christmas: “The earth was dark through misapprehension of God.” (The Desire of Ages, p.22) And “While the light of […]
- On Learning from Bad Decisions - By S.M. Chen “There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.” – Abraham Lincoln “Every why hath a […]
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- Adventists in Trinidad Join Interfaith Rejection of Same-Sex Marriage - 20 June 2018 | The Adventist church in Trinidad and Tobago has joined an interfaith effort by Roman Catholics, Protestants, Hindus and Muslims to pressure the government to reject same-sex marriage. A group of religious leaders that claimed to represent almost 90% of the country’s population, held a June 11 press conference in the country […]
- Forever Young? - By Melody Tan | 27 June 2018 | An article on innovative business news website, Fast Company, is reporting that we are extremely close to finding the fountain of youth. More accurately, startup company Unity Biotechnology is working on developing a drug that will enable us not so much to live forever, but to feel […]
- ADRA and World Food Program Collaborate in Uganda to Help Feed 85,000 Refugees - 19 June 2018 | The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is partnering with the World Food Program and the Ugandan government to help feed 85,000 refugees in the country. The partnership was agreed upon this month. According to an ADRA press release, the refugees that will receive the aid are based in the district […]
- Fourth International Bible Conference Under Way in Rome - 18 June 2018 | The Biblical Research Institute of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is currently hosting its fourth International Bible Conference in Rome, Italy. The June 11-21 conference is packed with over 100 theological presentations relating to eschatology (the branch of theology dealing with death, judgment, and the final destiny of humanity.) In […]
- Childish Gambino, the Fourth Seal, and Christian Responsibility - by Danielle Bernard | 18 June 2018 | I stared at the screen of my phone in utter shock at what I had just seen. “Disturbed” is the only word that even comes close to articulating how I felt on that Sunday morning in early May after I watched American rapper Childish Gambino’s latest music […]
- Porqué amamos nuestra gran y obesa administración - Por Loren Seibold | 18 de junio 2018 | En 2015 un estudio independiente comisionado por el Comité de Gobierno Eclesiástico de la División Norteamericana (NAD por sus siglas en inglés) reportó un hecho impactante en el Concilio Anual de la NAD. En ese momento (hace dos años y medio), el estudio descubrió que si eliminaban […]
- Advocacy Groups Urge Adventist Church to Cancel Camp Meeting Featuring Coming Out Ministries - 17 June 2018 | Canada’s Maritime Conference of the Adventist Church is being pressured to cancel a camp meeting due to feature two speakers that are deemed controversial by LGBTQ advocacy groups. The Halifax Pride Festival and the Youth Project (a group supporting queer and transgender youth) object to two scheduled speakers from Coming Out […]
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- Adventist Leaders Condemn the United States Government for Child Detention at Borders - 16 June 2018 | Late Sabbath afternoon, leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination on both coasts released public statements condemning recent United States government actions taking children from parents who arrive at the nation’s border entry points without visas and seeking asylum under international human rights law. Almost all other Christian denominations have taken similar […]
- When the Adventist Church Sponsored an Ex-gay Ministry - by Ronald Lawson | 15 June 2018 | “The Troubled Career of an ‘Ex-Gay’ Healer: Colin Cook, Seventh-day Adventists, and the Christian Right.” Seventh-day Adventists had long assumed that they had no gay or lesbian members, even though there was a history of gay pastors, some in key posts, being discovered and fired, and gay […]
- Dear God, Your People Hate Me… - by Christopher C. Thompson Terrorists, drug dealers, rapists, drug addicts, homosexuals… I’m trying to think of all the different types of people whom we consider to be cut off from God. I have long struggled with this given the fact that over the years it has been some of the very people on this list […]
- News Briefs for June 15, 2018 - News reports from: Providence, Rhode Island; Oahu, Hawaii; Brazil; Southern Adventist University; Hermiston, Oregon; Windsor, Ontario; and Denver, Colorado The roof on a newly-built addition to an Adventist Church in Providence, Rhode Island collapsed on Sunday afternoon. Nobody was in Providence Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church during the collapse so no injuries took place. Pastor Nestor […]