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David Geelan Talks about Adventist Today - Dear Adventist Today readers: I’m inserting this note to tell you that we are right now conducting our fall fundraiser. Adventist Today is largely a volunteer organization, but if we’re going to continue to provide you with stimulating news—often news you get nowhere else—and fascinating commentary by some of the best writers in the […]
After Being Sued, Catholic/Adventist Health System Requests Clarity on Colorado Suicide Law - 13 September 2019 | After being sued by a doctor that used to work at Catholic/Adventist Health system Centura, the hospital network is requesting clarity on a Colorado law that allows for assisted suicide. According to ReligiousLiberty.TV, Dr. Barbara Morris and Cornelius “Neil” Mahoney, one of her cancer patients, filed the lawsuit on August 21, […]
ADRA Denies Participation in Rohingya Camp Political Demonstration - 13 September 2019 | From APD – The Adventist Development and Relief Agency, ADRA International, published a statement on September 9 denying direct or indirect participation in a political rally in Kutupalong’s Modhurchhara refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Two aid organizations, ADRA and the Muslim AL Markajul Islami Sangstha, were said to have […]
What Is Happening with the Compliance Committee Process? - 12 September 2019 | What is going on with the “Compliance” regime voted by the Adventist denomination’s governing body last fall at the 2018 Annual Council? On Wednesday of last week (September 4) the website of the Association of Adventist Forums published a news note by Bonnie Dwyer, the editor of Spectrum, the journal for […]- News Briefs for September 12 - News reports from Rwanda; Newbold College; Northern Caribbean University; FixableLife; the Bahamas; Germany; Lacombe, Alberta; The 4th Annual Conscience & Justice Council (CJC) Convention; Adventist Community Services and Ethiopia From an ANN news release – More than 40,000 Seventh-day Adventists in Rwanda flocked to the Amahoro National Stadium, located in the capital city of Kigali, […]
Fake Degrees Trouble Indian Schools, Church - by Adventist Today staff, based on research by Bhasker Babu. M and C. James White A little over a year ago, an unfortunate scandal—top administrators at Spicer Adventist University were found to be claiming false, unearned doctoral degrees—caused widespread damage to the reputation of both the University and the Adventist church in India. The story […]- AT1 Group Rate Hotel Deadline Extended Until September 22 - Good news! The deadline for the reduced AT1 hotel rate at Embassy Suites Washington Square has been extended from September 11 to September 22 at 5 p.m. PDT. Space is limited at this rate, so please reserve your room today! Reservations can be made by calling 503.644.4000 and requesting the Adventist Today 2019 ATI Conversation group rate or the […]
- Doctor Fired after Suing Adventist/Catholic Hospital System over Aid-In-Dying Drugs - 12 September 2019 | Catholic/Adventist hospital network Centura has fired a doctor who sued the network for the right to dispense aid-in-dying medication. Her employment with the system forbade the doctor from encouraging suicide or euthanasia even though Colorado law allows for such treatment under the 2017 “Access to Medical Aid In Dying” act. According […]
Conference Will Reexamine Adventist Identity, Unity and Authority - 11 September 2019 | “Adventist Church for the 21st Century: Reexamining Church Identity, Unity and Authority” is the theme for the 2019 Keough Conference, September 20 and 21 at Washington Adventist University (WAU). The keynote speakers are Dr. Jiri Moskala, dean of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University, and Pastor Ray Tetz, director […]
Anonymous Twitter Account Shared Rape Accusations of Oakwood Community Members - 10 September 2019 | An anonymously authored Twitter account recently shared accusations that Huntsville, Alabama-based Oakwood University community members had perpetrated incidents of rape and sexual assault. In a statement to Adventist Today, Pastor Christopher Thompson, Communication Director for Breath of Life and Oakwood University Church, said that Twitter handle @OUmetoo1 published accusations the owner […]- Seminar Trains Congregation Leaders in Tanzania - The Sabasaba Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tarime, Tanzania, was filled with 5,000 pastors, local elders, deacons and deaconesses from the Mara Conference the week of 19 to 22 August for ministry training led by Pastor Anthony Kent from the General Conference and Pastor Mussa Mitekaro from the denomination’s East Central Africa Division (ECD). The event […]
- Bahamas: ADRA Prepares Food and Water Assistance to Help Families in the Bahamas - From ADRA- 9 September 2019 | Category 5 Hurricane Dorian left families stranded in their homes last week, knee-deep in high-rise water levels, while countless others are left homeless. “Seventy percent of the islands are covered in water and there’s no way to get to them right now,” said Leonardo Rahming, executive secretary of the […]
Commentary
- How Small Do You Want Me to Be? - By Kirsten Øster Lundqvist | 12 September 2019 | This is reprinted from the Spring 2019 Adventist Today magazine. I’ve never been petite. Nor dainty. Being of Viking stock, I never will be. And that should be fine. Diversity is good, we are told. As long it fits in the box. Sometimes it doesn’t. Size […]
- What I Learned from Discussing Lesbianism on Fulcrum7 - By Stephen Ferguson | 11 September 2019 | Conservative Christians routinely claim our more progressive members are no longer taking the Bible at face value. The quintessential example often cited is Leviticus 18:22: “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.” For some, failing to take a strong […]
- God Is Like a Cow - by John T. McLarty | 6 September 2019 | When I come out to the pasture The bull calf races about kicking up his heels cavorting A wild, rambunctious ballet. Even when I don’t come out He cavorts about, especially if his cousin joins in Though she’s getting a bit old for such folly. He […]
- “Know When to Hold ‘Em, Know When to Fold ‘Em” - by Raj Attiken | 5 September 2019 | Eating in restaurants tests my resolve to be temperate in my diet. I don’t always know how large the servings will be when I order from a menu. After I enjoy part of the meal and feel satiated, I realize that I probably shouldn’t eat any more. […]
- Dumbledore’s Doctrine for the Age of Woo-Woo - by Elle Berry | 3 September 2019 | As I was scrolling through Instagram the other day I happened upon a common kind of post. Pictured was a woman, blissfully twirling in a field of flowers, with a caption reading: Who would have known when I moved here, that I’d find the man I […]
- Why Some Christians Grasp for a Divine Legal Atonement - By Connie J French | 1 September 2019 | 1. The first reason why some Christians grasp for a divine legal atonement is because they don’t “get” the Gospel. Yes, there is a legal contract with God. Yes, there is a moral law. Yes, the law pronounces death to its transgressors. Yes, we are transgressors, […]
- Sabbath Revisited: How Our Family Returned to a Traditional Sabbath Observance - by Robbin Lewis | 30 August 2019 | I grew up in a fairly strict Adventist home. My parents were, if nothing else, consistent. We all knew the rules. Prepare your clothes on Thursday night for church. Prepare your food for Sabbath on “preparation-day Friday”—the goal was to have everything done before sunset. And of […]
- Does Faith in God Prevent Gun Crimes? - By Sonja DeWitt | 24 August 2019 | Mike Huckabee thinks he has a solution for the mass shooting problem. “’I would posit that the lack of thought and prayers is probably the single biggest factor in what is behind them,” Huckabee wrote. He also said that mass shootings will never stop until “kids are […]
- Modesty—from a Woman’s Perspective - by Lindsey Abston Painter | 24 August 2019 | A few months back Adventist Today editor Loren Seibold wrote a piece about modesty—about how it’s a man’s responsibility if he chooses to sin, and he should take responsibility for his own temptations, not blame women’s appearance. It was an excellent piece and made me want […]
- Leaving the Temple of Worry - by Melissa Brotton | 20 August 2019 “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” (Philippians 4:6) “He will perfect that which concerns me” (Psalm 138:8). What is the single thing that the elderly regret more than anything else when they look back? According to […]
- Sabbath School, Mass Shootings—and Deafening Silence - by Christopher C. Thompson | 16 August 2019 | I was serving as the interim pastor of a small church in Georgia not too long ago. On a Sunday morning the church leaders and I sat together to discuss the business of the church. It’s a small rural church, but given the trend of current […]
- Does the Church Have Authority Over Science? - by David Geelan | 15 August 2019 Eppur si muove, which translates as “And yet it moves,” is a phrase purportedly muttered by Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) as he was led away from his trial by the Inquisition for heliocentrism—the belief that the sun, not the Earth, is the center of the solar system. Galileo was […]
Features
- Why Are So Many Adventists So Unhealthy? - Dear Aunt Sevvy: For years, I was overweight and tired and lazy. Then I discovered the Adventist message of health. I’m not only healthier and happier, but I’ve found my purpose: to make everyone healthy! What bothers me is that I can’t seem to get other Adventists as excited about it as I am. So […]
- Sharing Scripture for September 8 – 14 - This is a tool for you to use if you lead a Sabbath School (SS) class or small group. It is keyed to the Bible texts used in the current week’s Adult SS Lesson and includes a brief story from current news you can use to introduce the discussion and then a series of discussion […]
- There’s a Drug Addict in Our Church! - Dear Aunt Sevvy: I just learned that a prominent woman in our church is a drug addict. It apparently started with prescription opioids for pain, and eventually she obtained them illegally. I have mentioned to our pastor that if anyone should be expelled from church membership it should be her, if for no other reason […]
- Sharing Scripture for September 1 – 7 - This is a tool for you to use if you lead a Sabbath School (SS) class or small group. It is keyed to the Bible texts used in the current week’s Adult SS Lesson and includes a brief story from current news you can use to introduce the discussion and then a series of discussion […]
- Aunt Sevvy, Should I Pay Tithe on This? - 30 August 2019 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I’m about to retire, and we are selling our house to move closer to our children. My wife says God expects us to pay tithe on the money we received for the house above its listed cost 30 years ago. But our house is really worth no more […]
- At the Table: Women in the Seventh-day Adventist Church - 30 August 2019 | Hannele Ottschofski, Mit am Tisch: Frauen in der Freikirche der Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten. 169 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1096263340, approx. $ 10.00 Reviewed by Andreas Bochmann How can one write about the controversial issue of the role of women in the Seventh-day Adventist Church? There are numerous books and scholarly publications on the question of […]
- Sharing Scripture for August 25 – 31 - This is a tool for you to use if you lead a Sabbath School (SS) class or small group. It is keyed to the Bible texts used in the current week’s Adult SS Lesson and includes a brief story from current news you can use to introduce the discussion and then a series of discussion […]
- Why are young people leaving the church? - Dear Readers: No question from a reader this week. But recently I came across this bit of wisdom from an AT reader, who gave me permission to share it. Church: Why are young people leaving the faith? Young people: Well, you see, we’re discouraged by the fighting about totally irrelevant issues while real crises are […]
- Sharing Scripture for August 18 – 24 - This is a tool for you to use if you lead a Sabbath School (SS) class or small group. It is keyed to the Bible texts used in the current week’s Adult SS Lesson and includes a brief story from current news you can use to introduce the discussion and then a series of discussion […]
- “That’s not your real hair color, is it?” - 16 August 2019 | Dear Aunt Sevvy: Not long ago at church one of the older women walked up to me and said, “This has been bothering me for a long time. That’s not your real hair color, is it?” At first I made a joke about covering my gray. But she gave me a […]
- Sharing Scripture for August 11 – 17 - This is a tool for you to use if you lead a Sabbath School (SS) class or small group. It is keyed to the Bible texts used in the current week’s Adult SS Lesson and includes a brief story from current news you can use to introduce the discussion and then a series of discussion […]
- I Just Lost My Dream Job. What’s God Doing to Me? - 9 August 2019 | Dear Aunt Sevvy: I took a degree in one of those liberal arts fields that people make fun of as leaving you unemployable. But about a year ago, as an answer to prayer, I secured my dream job! It used my interest in the arts, it was something I did well, […]
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- David Geelan Talks about Adventist Today - Dear Adventist Today readers: I’m inserting this note to tell you that we are right now conducting our fall fundraiser. Adventist Today is largely a volunteer organization, but if we’re going to continue to provide you with stimulating news—often news you get nowhere else—and fascinating commentary by some of the best writers in the […]
- Why Are So Many Adventists So Unhealthy? - Dear Aunt Sevvy: For years, I was overweight and tired and lazy. Then I discovered the Adventist message of health. I’m not only healthier and happier, but I’ve found my purpose: to make everyone healthy! What bothers me is that I can’t seem to get other Adventists as excited about it as I am. So […]
- After Being Sued, Catholic/Adventist Health System Requests Clarity on Colorado Suicide Law - 13 September 2019 | After being sued by a doctor that used to work at Catholic/Adventist Health system Centura, the hospital network is requesting clarity on a Colorado law that allows for assisted suicide. According to ReligiousLiberty.TV, Dr. Barbara Morris and Cornelius “Neil” Mahoney, one of her cancer patients, filed the lawsuit on August 21, […]
- ADRA Denies Participation in Rohingya Camp Political Demonstration - 13 September 2019 | From APD – The Adventist Development and Relief Agency, ADRA International, published a statement on September 9 denying direct or indirect participation in a political rally in Kutupalong’s Modhurchhara refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Two aid organizations, ADRA and the Muslim AL Markajul Islami Sangstha, were said to have […]
- What Is Happening with the Compliance Committee Process? - 12 September 2019 | What is going on with the “Compliance” regime voted by the Adventist denomination’s governing body last fall at the 2018 Annual Council? On Wednesday of last week (September 4) the website of the Association of Adventist Forums published a news note by Bonnie Dwyer, the editor of Spectrum, the journal for […]
- News Briefs for September 12 - News reports from Rwanda; Newbold College; Northern Caribbean University; FixableLife; the Bahamas; Germany; Lacombe, Alberta; The 4th Annual Conscience & Justice Council (CJC) Convention; Adventist Community Services and Ethiopia From an ANN news release – More than 40,000 Seventh-day Adventists in Rwanda flocked to the Amahoro National Stadium, located in the capital city of Kigali, […]
- How Small Do You Want Me to Be? - By Kirsten Øster Lundqvist | 12 September 2019 | This is reprinted from the Spring 2019 Adventist Today magazine. I’ve never been petite. Nor dainty. Being of Viking stock, I never will be. And that should be fine. Diversity is good, we are told. As long it fits in the box. Sometimes it doesn’t. Size […]
- Fake Degrees Trouble Indian Schools, Church - by Adventist Today staff, based on research by Bhasker Babu. M and C. James White A little over a year ago, an unfortunate scandal—top administrators at Spicer Adventist University were found to be claiming false, unearned doctoral degrees—caused widespread damage to the reputation of both the University and the Adventist church in India. The story […]
- AT1 Group Rate Hotel Deadline Extended Until September 22 - Good news! The deadline for the reduced AT1 hotel rate at Embassy Suites Washington Square has been extended from September 11 to September 22 at 5 p.m. PDT. Space is limited at this rate, so please reserve your room today! Reservations can be made by calling 503.644.4000 and requesting the Adventist Today 2019 ATI Conversation group rate or the […]
- Doctor Fired after Suing Adventist/Catholic Hospital System over Aid-In-Dying Drugs - 12 September 2019 | Catholic/Adventist hospital network Centura has fired a doctor who sued the network for the right to dispense aid-in-dying medication. Her employment with the system forbade the doctor from encouraging suicide or euthanasia even though Colorado law allows for such treatment under the 2017 “Access to Medical Aid In Dying” act. According […]
- Conference Will Reexamine Adventist Identity, Unity and Authority - 11 September 2019 | “Adventist Church for the 21st Century: Reexamining Church Identity, Unity and Authority” is the theme for the 2019 Keough Conference, September 20 and 21 at Washington Adventist University (WAU). The keynote speakers are Dr. Jiri Moskala, dean of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University, and Pastor Ray Tetz, director […]
- What I Learned from Discussing Lesbianism on Fulcrum7 - By Stephen Ferguson | 11 September 2019 | Conservative Christians routinely claim our more progressive members are no longer taking the Bible at face value. The quintessential example often cited is Leviticus 18:22: “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.” For some, failing to take a strong […]