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Fiji’s Adventist Church Strategizes With Authorities To Fight Crime, Reoffense - 27 February 2020 | The Adventist Church in Fiji is partnering with the Fiji Corrections Service to both fight crime and reduce the rate of criminal reoffense in the country. The fijivillage news site reported that the Fiji Corrections Service has started work with various denominations to help address these issues in communities. The Corrections […]
News Briefs for February 28, 2020 - News reports from Loma Linda University Health; the Adventist Church headquarters in Germany; Pasadena, California; the Golden Crust food brand; the Today Show and the Kilimanjaro Marathon: Loma Linda University Health has shared the video of a Facebook Live session in which a panel of experts from the university and local county departments of public […]
Inter-European Division Leadership Responds to Adventist Pastor Signing Local Ecumenical Charter - From EUD News – 26 February 2020 | On Saturday, 25 January the pastor of a local church congregation in Italy signed a joint declaration with other faith groups which, while focused on respectful dialogue among and between different religious denominations, contained some statements which run counter to Seventh-day Adventist principles regarding inter-church relations. The […]
SUD Group Urges Reform for Transparency, Property - 26 February 2020 | A selected committee of Indian Seventh-day Adventists from the Washington, DC, area met to follow up on their February 9 meeting, previously reported by Adventist Today. The committee was chosen to help members address widespread concern that the Southern Asia Division (SUD) church is being managed badly, including allegations of corruption […]
US Supreme Court Turns Away Adventist Religious Bias Claim - 25 February 2020 | An appeal by an Adventist former Walgreens employee suing the pharmacy chain for religious bias was turned away by the U. S. Supreme Court this Monday. Lower courts had ruled that Darrell Patterson’s request never to work on Saturday placed undue hardship on Walgreens. Patterson was fired in 2011 for not […]
Coronavirus Outbreak Forces Closure of Adventist Churches in Italy - 24 February 2020 | The Italian Union of Churches Conference has asked the Adventist churches in five regions of northern Italy to close on Saturday, February 29. The drastic action by the Adventist leadership in the country joins extreme measures taken across Italy to halt the rapid spread of the coronavirus. Public events such as […]
Reflecting on the One Project Gathering in Boulder - by Sam Millen | 24 February 2020 | Last weekend I traveled to Boulder, Colorado, for my sixth One Project gathering. (There have been many more). You could say I’m a veteran by now, but only as an attendee. I’m not involved in any official capacity. IMHO (in my humble opinion), the One Project is […]
Loma Linda Expert on Whether Lung Disease Increases Coronavirus Death Risk - From a Loma Linda University Health news report – 23 February 2020 | Cases of people contracting the novel coronavirus — COVID-19 — have reached nearly 75,000 since the disease began its spread late last year. The quick nature of transition and unknown elements of the strain have led to many questions with few answers. […]
Israeli/Adventist Archaeologists Discover Rare Canaanite Temple - 20 February 2020 | A team of archaeologists led by Professor Yosef Garfinkel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology and Prof. Michael Hasel at Collegedale, Tennessee-based Southern Adventist University, have unearthed the remains of a Canaanite temple. Intermountain Jewish News reported today that the 12th century BCE temple was found in the […]
News Briefs for February 20, 2020 - News reports from Loma Linda University Health; The Cognitive Genesis study; the Lake Union; London, UK; Australia and Calexico Mission School: Loma Linda University Health, along with Adventist Health International, held its first global leadership conference in India, primarily serving healthcare administrators in the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Southern Asia and Southern Asia-Pacific divisions. Nearly 150 […]
In Puerto Rico, Adventist Schools Offer Free Enrollment in the Aftermath of Earthquakes - From ANN – 19 February 2020 | In the aftermath of a series of earthquakes, which have forced more than 800 public schools to close, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Puerto Rico is offering free enrollment to its church-operated schools across the island. “We are not sure when schools across the island will open again […]
“Illegal” Bibles Confiscated in Raid on Adventist Church in China - 18 February 2020 | Authorities in China seized “illegal” Bibles in a raid on a state-authorized Three-Self Seventh-day Adventist Church in December of last year according to the Christian Headlines website. Legal churches in China are designated as Three-Self congregations. The location of the Adventist congregation targeted by the December raid was not disclosed, although […]
Commentary
Sermons Don’t Help - by Jack Hoehn | February 27, 2020 | There is a problem with survival. The older you get, the longer you live, the fewer friends you have left. Because they keep dying off on you. I am a medical doctor and in my youthful practice I worked in constant life and death situations in mission […]
Does the Church Need to Apologize for Racism? - By Robbin Lewis | 26 February 2020 | It is an issue that is painfully visible, but still too hot to touch. Here we Adventists are in 2020, still separate. Our white churches still have white pastors, our black churches have black pastors. We even have separate administrative structures. Some believe, but rarely speak about, […]
Fat Tuesday - by Loren Seibold | 25 February (Shrove Tuesday) 2020 | “In the week immediately before Lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him as he then may hear by his deeds what he is to do in the way of penance.” —Ælfric of Eynsham, Ecclesiastical […]
Not So Lucky for the Rabbit - by Fred Cornforth | 21 February 2020 | God must be a Kansas City Chiefs fan—which will surely disappoint my San Francisco 49ers fan wife. Just listen to how many players give God the credit for touchdowns and games won on miraculous plays. Athletes receiving on-field glory clearly want to give the credit to someone […]
Hide or Seek - by Kris Stevenson | 20 February 2020 | A.D. 30 (+ or –) He was always too sharing, too trusting. The neighbor kids didn’t even have to bully him to get his lunch money. So it wasn’t a surprise when he admitted he had a sandwich when Jesus’ disciples started sniffing around. He and Mom […]
Will Adventists Ever Come to Terms with the Book of Daniel? - by André Reis | 19 February 2020 | As Adventists all over the world gather to engage with the book of Daniel this quarter, some of us wonder, “What would Daniel think about our creative readings of his book if he were present?” As last quarter ended and we began this one, I perused the […]
From Donkeys to Dodge Rams: Is Foot-washing Relevant? - by Justin Spady | 16 February 2020 | Read part 1 here Read part 2 here Read part 3 here My mom likes to keep her home as tidy as possible. Growing up, we always took our shoes off when we entered the house. My wife and I still do today. As a pastor, whenever […]
Making the GC Session Better - 14 February 2020 | In 2015, Ivan Rechter and Berit Elkjær represented the Danish Union as delegates to the San Antonio General Conference Session. Afterwards, they wrote a letter to the General Conference giving their suggestions for making the Session work better. “Unfortunately, we haven’t heard anything from the GC,” they wrote Adventist Today. “We […]
Adventist Traditions and Rituals - by Reinder Bruinsma | 12 February 2020 | Read part 1 here Read part 2 here Read part 4 here When speaking about rituals, we are confronted with a cluster of terms that are closely connected and are at times used interchangeably: customs, traditions, rituals, symbols. A custom is what people have become used to […]
Hermetically Sealed: Conspiracy Theories and Special Knowledge - by David Geelan | 9 February 2020 | Conspiracy theories and anti-science ideas are remarkably resistant to argument and evidence. There is a range of such ideas, and I will address only a few, but the pattern is consistent in how they are defended. Such ideas include anti-vaccine claims, climate change denial, suspicion of ‘big […]
The Real Reason for Religious Food Rules - by Loren Seibold | 6 February 2020 | The teaching concerning clean and unclean meats has been a remarkably enduring element of Seventh-day Adventism. I don’t know what the younger generation of Seventh-day Adventists thinks (what there is left of a younger generation to ask), but among their elders, it still has traction. Ask most […]
Zappos, Ritz-Carlton and the Church - by Steve Moran | 6 February 2020 | I am a Seventh-day Adventist Boomer who has a Pentecostal/Millennial heart. In my day job as a blogger/thought leader in the senior living industry, I am presently spending a lot of time thinking about and writing about how companies that provide housing and services to older people […]
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- Reflecting on the One Project Gathering in Boulder - by Sam Millen | 24 February 2020 | Last weekend I traveled to Boulder, Colorado, for my sixth One Project gathering. (There have been many more). You could say I’m a veteran by now, but only as an attendee. I’m not involved in any official capacity. IMHO (in my humble opinion), the One Project is […]
Sharing Scripture for February 23 – 29 - 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 Don’t We Invite People Home Anymore? - 21 February 2020 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Back when I was a child, and even after I began raising my family, it was common to bring people home after church for Sabbath dinner. Our church has potluck meals in the fellowship hall once a month, but no one invites anyone home anymore, and when I […]
Questioning the Truths I Was Taught - by Clyde McCulley | 20 February 2020 | I grew up a Seventh-day Adventist in the south in the 1950s. My mother was a faithful church member. My father was not. I went to a one-room church school for my mom, but each morning I ate bacon and drank coffee for my dad. I guess […]
A Multigenerational Black Experience on Film - by Dawnette Chambers & Christopher C. Thompson | 18 February 2020 | Do you ever think about your legacy? What do you plan to leave for your family, and how will you be remembered? Most people want the opportunity to share their life’s work, their passions and insight, with the next generation. However, many young […]
CrossWalk Church Creates Community Involvement, Attracts Young Adults - by Stefani Leeper | 18 February 2020 | We all need a little boost in the morning, and sometimes that boost comes in the form of a hot brown morning potion that many of us feign avoiding like the coronavirus. The congregation at CrossWalk Church combats this trend of dishonesty and shame with an inviting […]- Sharing Scripture for February 16 – 22 - 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 […]
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Book Review: Saying No to God - Saying No to God, by Matthew J. Korpman. Published by Quoir Press, Orange, California, 2019. 358 pages. Reviewed by TJ Sands When was the last time you said “no” to God? Is even the thought of that question preposterous to you? Or am I a heretic for even asking? Rarely do I turn the last […]- Sharing Scripture for February 9 – 15 - 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 […]
Poll Results: What Do You Hope For at the Next General Conference Session? - As you think about the upcoming General Conference (GC) Session in the summer of 2020, the highest decision-making body of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, what do you anticipate? What do you hope and pray for? The Adventist movement has been around for 175 years now. Some of the younger people elected to leadership at this […]- Sharing Scripture for February 2 – 8 - 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 […]
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- Fiji’s Adventist Church Strategizes With Authorities To Fight Crime, Reoffense - 27 February 2020 | The Adventist Church in Fiji is partnering with the Fiji Corrections Service to both fight crime and reduce the rate of criminal reoffense in the country. The fijivillage news site reported that the Fiji Corrections Service has started work with various denominations to help address these issues in communities. The Corrections […]
- Sermons Don’t Help - by Jack Hoehn | February 27, 2020 | There is a problem with survival. The older you get, the longer you live, the fewer friends you have left. Because they keep dying off on you. I am a medical doctor and in my youthful practice I worked in constant life and death situations in mission […]
- News Briefs for February 28, 2020 - News reports from Loma Linda University Health; the Adventist Church headquarters in Germany; Pasadena, California; the Golden Crust food brand; the Today Show and the Kilimanjaro Marathon: Loma Linda University Health has shared the video of a Facebook Live session in which a panel of experts from the university and local county departments of public […]
- Inter-European Division Leadership Responds to Adventist Pastor Signing Local Ecumenical Charter - From EUD News – 26 February 2020 | On Saturday, 25 January the pastor of a local church congregation in Italy signed a joint declaration with other faith groups which, while focused on respectful dialogue among and between different religious denominations, contained some statements which run counter to Seventh-day Adventist principles regarding inter-church relations. The […]
- SUD Group Urges Reform for Transparency, Property - 26 February 2020 | A selected committee of Indian Seventh-day Adventists from the Washington, DC, area met to follow up on their February 9 meeting, previously reported by Adventist Today. The committee was chosen to help members address widespread concern that the Southern Asia Division (SUD) church is being managed badly, including allegations of corruption […]
- Does the Church Need to Apologize for Racism? - By Robbin Lewis | 26 February 2020 | It is an issue that is painfully visible, but still too hot to touch. Here we Adventists are in 2020, still separate. Our white churches still have white pastors, our black churches have black pastors. We even have separate administrative structures. Some believe, but rarely speak about, […]
- US Supreme Court Turns Away Adventist Religious Bias Claim - 25 February 2020 | An appeal by an Adventist former Walgreens employee suing the pharmacy chain for religious bias was turned away by the U. S. Supreme Court this Monday. Lower courts had ruled that Darrell Patterson’s request never to work on Saturday placed undue hardship on Walgreens. Patterson was fired in 2011 for not […]
- Fat Tuesday - by Loren Seibold | 25 February (Shrove Tuesday) 2020 | “In the week immediately before Lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him as he then may hear by his deeds what he is to do in the way of penance.” —Ælfric of Eynsham, Ecclesiastical […]
- Coronavirus Outbreak Forces Closure of Adventist Churches in Italy - 24 February 2020 | The Italian Union of Churches Conference has asked the Adventist churches in five regions of northern Italy to close on Saturday, February 29. The drastic action by the Adventist leadership in the country joins extreme measures taken across Italy to halt the rapid spread of the coronavirus. Public events such as […]
- Reflecting on the One Project Gathering in Boulder - by Sam Millen | 24 February 2020 | Last weekend I traveled to Boulder, Colorado, for my sixth One Project gathering. (There have been many more). You could say I’m a veteran by now, but only as an attendee. I’m not involved in any official capacity. IMHO (in my humble opinion), the One Project is […]
- Sharing Scripture for February 23 – 29 - 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 […]
- Loma Linda Expert on Whether Lung Disease Increases Coronavirus Death Risk - From a Loma Linda University Health news report – 23 February 2020 | Cases of people contracting the novel coronavirus — COVID-19 — have reached nearly 75,000 since the disease began its spread late last year. The quick nature of transition and unknown elements of the strain have led to many questions with few answers. […]