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Kenyan Politicians Denied Speaking Opportunity At Funeral Of Adventist Leader - 15 July 2019 | Politicians from the western Kenyan province of Nyamira were denied the opportunity to address mourners at the funeral of the former director of Stewardship and Church Development Activities at the East Kenya Union of the Adventist Church. The funeral for Pastor Shem Ngoko took place on Friday, July 5 at Miriri […]
Global Conference on Health and Lifestyle 2019 - Adapted from an ANN story – 14 July 2019 | From July 9 to July 13, 2019, the Health Ministries Department of the Seventh-day Adventist world church hosted its third Global Conference on Health and Lifestyle at Loma Linda University. The first Global Conference was held in Geneva in 2009 and has grown since. This […]
Proposed Adventist – Catholic Partnership Between Northern California Hospital Networks Generates Debate - 11 July 2019 | Catholic and Adventist hospital networks in certain Northern Californian counties are seeking to set up a joint operating company. According to the Napa Valley Register, ST Network LLC, would operate the Queen, Adventist Health St. Helena, and seven other hospitals in Lake, Sonoma, Solano, Mendocino and Humboldt counties. It is not […]
AT1 Speaker John McLarty Answers the Question “How Does Christ Challenge Culture?” - We can’t wait to hear former Adventist Today Executive Editor John McLarty speak for the AT1 gathering taking place October 4-6 in Portland, Oregon. John is Senior Pastor at Green Lake Church in Seattle, Washington and is Owner of Talking Rocks Geology Tours. As with all our presenters, we asked John to answer the question, […]
News Briefs for July 12, 2019 - News reports from the Potomac Conference, Loma Linda University Health, Peruvian Union University, Adventist University of the Philippines, Adventist Peace Fellowship and Southern Adventist University: From APD – The official news agency of the Adventist Church in parts of Europe: On the 29th of June, the Potomac Conference ordained Therezinha Barbalho for pastoral ministry. Barbalho […]
AT Pioneer Elwin Dunn Passes to His Rest - 10 July 2019 | Dr. Elwin Dunn, early supporter of Adventist Today, died last week. He was a 1958 graduate of the School of Medicine at Loma Linda University who practiced as a surgeon in southern California for 60 years, as well as an active member of the Seventh-day Adventist faith. Dunn served on the […]
What Christians Think About Church Dating Advice - 10 July 2019 | Valerie Y. Bernard-Allan’s 2016 PhD thesis, “It Is Not Good to Be Alone; Singleness and the Black Seventh-day Adventist Woman” was mentioned in a recent Christianity Today article about what Christians make of church relationship advice. The article, titled “What Christians Really Think About the Church’s Relationship Advice” is a book […]
ADRA Giving Away Humanitarian Pathfinder Pin at Oshkosh - From ADRA – 9 July 2019 | Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), the faith-based international humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, has created a one-of-a-kind humanitarian pin for Pathfinders to add to their uniforms. This pin will be offered for a limited time only at the 2019 International Pathfinder Camporee at Oshkosh, Wisconsin […]- Adventist Chief Justice of Kenya Supreme Court Speaks on Death of Telecom Pioneer - By Tysan, 8 July 2019 | The Honorable David Maraga, chief justice of the supreme court of Kenya, joined other national leaders in the east Africa country in mourning the death of Robert Collymore, the Chief Executive Officer of Safaricom. Maraga is an Adventist. “In his death we have lost a towering symbol of excellence […]
Mentally Ill Allegedly Ejected from Adventist Health Portland Emergency Room, Jailed - 9 July 2019 | Adventist Health Portland is part of a list of medical facilities in Portland, Oregon, accused of calling the police to remove mentally ill and homeless people on their property. The Lund Report states that those removed from the hospitals are often jailed by law enforcement. An investigation by Disability Rights Oregon […]
Los Angeles Mayor Talks Homelessness at Hollywood Adventist Church - 7 July 2019 | Eric Garcetti, the mayor of Los Angeles, recently addressed the homelessness crisis in the city during a talk at Hollywood Adventist Church. On the afternoon of Friday, June 14, Garcetti spoke to a high-energy meeting of freshly trained outreach workers that have been charged with helping to bring homeless people out […]
Jamaican Adventist Congregation Hosts Interdenominational Reggae, Dance-Flavored Charity Concert - 4 July 2019 | An Adventist church in Kingston, Jamaica is hosting an interdenominational charity concert featuring reggae and dance-inspired gospel music. Gospel artist and minister, Omari, will perform this Sunday at the event which is titled Mission Possible. The Gleaner reported that it would take place at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre in St […]
Commentary
- Love Your Enemies - by Leah Burns | 14 July 2019 | Forgiveness is a word defined by action: it is a conscious choice to let go of the hate or resentment we may feel toward the people who have wronged us, and be willing to forgive even if a person does not want or deserve our forgiveness. Forgiveness […]
- The Case for Ambiguity - By Elle Berry | 12 July 2019 | I was a bit nervous. It was my second quarter of general chemistry and I had a serious case of first-day jitters, coupled with a side of impostor syndrome. Growing up, I was the artistic writer musician kid who majored in classics and graduated university with a […]
- Struggling Boys, Broken Men - by Debbie Hooper Cosier | 11 July 2019 | The California sun is low in the sky, bathing the face of the 22-year-old in golden light as he records a message from the driver’s seat of his car. “Hi. Elliot Rodger here. Tomorrow is the Day of Retribution—the day I will have my revenge against […]
- Does God Love America the Most? A Post-July 4 Reflection - by Lars Doland | 10 July 2019 | I am not an American. My great-grandfather was, though later he moved to the United Kingdom. I am mostly of Scandinavian descent. I grew up in Denmark and now serve as a pastor of two churches in Norway. I have been to the United States only once. […]
- Why Doing “Your Own Pleasure” Isn’t Primarily About Swimming on Sabbath - By Olive Hemmings | 9 July 2019 | “If you keep your feet from trampling the Sabbath, from pursuing your own interests on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable; and if you honor it by not going your own ways and seeking your own pleasure […]
- Part Three: “As I Was Saying…”—A Valedictory Sermon - by Loren Seibold | 5 July 2019 | Read Part 1 here: “The Dream Job” Read Part 2 here. “The Sausage Factory” Every pastor, it’s said, has one especially loud string on his fiddle. No matter how much you try to be creative, flexible and wide-ranging, there are certain themes, certain ways of saying things, […]
- Why I Reject American Exceptionalism - by Lindsey Abston Painter | 3 July 2019 | I’ve always loved the Fourth of July. Everyone gets the day off from work or school. There’s a buoyant mood in the air. People prepare barbecues and pull out their swimsuits. Kids get to stay up late to watch fireworks and eat all the watermelon and […]
- Part 2: The Sausage Factory - by Loren Seibold | 2 July 2019 | Read Part 1 here. Read Part 3 here. You know the old saying that everyone likes sausage, but no one wants to see it made? I sometimes wish I didn’t know how the church works—that I could sit in my pew and assume that everyone was happy, […]
- Judgments, Perceptions and Discriminations - by Melody Tan | 21 June 2019 | “By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap,” the 2007 article from The Washington Post began. The author, Gene Weingarten, was writing about a busker’s experience on a Friday morning at a train station. […]
- Part 1: The Dream Job - By Loren Seibold | 25 June 2019 | On June 30, 2019, I take formal leave of the Seventh-day Adventist ministry, after 40¾ years as a church employee. I fall into that category of people who are entirely too introspective. Introspection is sometimes thought helpful for spiritual growth, but I fear it isn’t necessarily conducive […]
- When a Woman Made Jesus the Christ - by Gary McCary | 26 June 2019 | The Greek word christos is equivalent to the Hebrew word for messiah, mashiach, and means “anointed one.” In the 3rd/2nd century BCE, those who translated the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek (the Septuagint) translated mashiach as the Greek christos. When the authors of the New Testament used the […]
- The Day of the Lord Is Darkness, Not Light - By Sonja DeWitt | 20 June 2019 | Recently I have heard several versions of the following sentiment voiced by good pious Christians. Why should we care if children are placed in cages and shot in schools? Why should we care if Christians are misrepresenting God and trying to make America into a “Christian” […]
Features
- Creation and the Cross, by Elizabeth A. Johnson - Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril, by Elizabeth A. Johnson. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2018. 256 pages. Reviewed by Brent V. Buhler. In her most recent book, Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril, Elizabeth A. Johnson invites the reader to explore […]
- Single Mom: “Kids’ Screentime Is the Time When I Get Things Done” - Dear Aunt Sevvy, During these summer months I’m struggling with my kids and all the time they have. I’m working and I often take them to the office with me. But on the weekends I need to get stuff done around the house. I’m a single mom, so I don’t get any help. So while […]
- Sharing Scripture for July 7 – 13 - 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 […]
Adventists, War, and Oppressive Governments, WW1 to the Present - by Ronald Lawson, PhD | 5 July 2019 | The American Civil War forced the Adventist Church to grapple with the issue of military service just as it created its organizational structure in the early 1860s. After an open debate, and after the introduction of conscription in March 1863 obliged it to publicly embrace a […]- Moral Influence or Substitutionism? - 5 July 2019 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Recently a man preached at our church who explained the atonement as Jesus just showing how much he loves us. I was furious that someone would stand in our pulpit and preach this “moral influence theory” heresy, because the Bible clearly teaches that Jesus was killed to satisfy […]
- Sharing Scripture for June 30 – July 6 - 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 […]
- Good News Unlimited: Des Ford Special Edition - by Thomas Durst | 1 July 2019 | This special memorial publication from Good News Unlimited evoked deep emotions in me as I read it, for I was significantly impacted by the ministry of Dr Desmond Ford. In late 1979 a friend sent me Des’s PUC Forum lecture on the ramifications of Hebrews chapter 9 […]
- How Do I Get Through to My New Stepdaughter? - Dear Aunt Sevvy, I got divorced several years ago. The experience was embarrassing and discouraging, but in the intervening years I have rebuilt my life and relationships. I have met a wonderful woman and we have recently gotten married. The problem is, her oldest child is 12 years old and having trouble accepting that I’m […]
- Sharing Scripture for June 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 […]
- How Can I Find an Adventist Husband? - 21 June 2019 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I am a single Adventist woman. It is very difficult to find Adventist men to date who I feel comfortable with. I want to have someone in my life who shares my values and my faith, but there just don’t seem to be many options for me. Do […]
- Adventists, the Constitution and Same-Sex Relationships - by Ronald Lawson, PhD | 21 June 2019 | This paper was originally published in 2003 in the Kinship Connection. Two prominent Adventists have recently urged a reversal in our Church’s long held position of opposing the enactment of laws attempting to impose morality. They have urged that it take a public position against the […]
- Sharing Scripture for June 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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- Kenyan Politicians Denied Speaking Opportunity At Funeral Of Adventist Leader - 15 July 2019 | Politicians from the western Kenyan province of Nyamira were denied the opportunity to address mourners at the funeral of the former director of Stewardship and Church Development Activities at the East Kenya Union of the Adventist Church. The funeral for Pastor Shem Ngoko took place on Friday, July 5 at Miriri […]
- Creation and the Cross, by Elizabeth A. Johnson - Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril, by Elizabeth A. Johnson. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2018. 256 pages. Reviewed by Brent V. Buhler. In her most recent book, Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril, Elizabeth A. Johnson invites the reader to explore […]
- Global Conference on Health and Lifestyle 2019 - Adapted from an ANN story – 14 July 2019 | From July 9 to July 13, 2019, the Health Ministries Department of the Seventh-day Adventist world church hosted its third Global Conference on Health and Lifestyle at Loma Linda University. The first Global Conference was held in Geneva in 2009 and has grown since. This […]
- Love Your Enemies - by Leah Burns | 14 July 2019 | Forgiveness is a word defined by action: it is a conscious choice to let go of the hate or resentment we may feel toward the people who have wronged us, and be willing to forgive even if a person does not want or deserve our forgiveness. Forgiveness […]
- Single Mom: “Kids’ Screentime Is the Time When I Get Things Done” - Dear Aunt Sevvy, During these summer months I’m struggling with my kids and all the time they have. I’m working and I often take them to the office with me. But on the weekends I need to get stuff done around the house. I’m a single mom, so I don’t get any help. So while […]
- The Case for Ambiguity - By Elle Berry | 12 July 2019 | I was a bit nervous. It was my second quarter of general chemistry and I had a serious case of first-day jitters, coupled with a side of impostor syndrome. Growing up, I was the artistic writer musician kid who majored in classics and graduated university with a […]
- Proposed Adventist – Catholic Partnership Between Northern California Hospital Networks Generates Debate - 11 July 2019 | Catholic and Adventist hospital networks in certain Northern Californian counties are seeking to set up a joint operating company. According to the Napa Valley Register, ST Network LLC, would operate the Queen, Adventist Health St. Helena, and seven other hospitals in Lake, Sonoma, Solano, Mendocino and Humboldt counties. It is not […]
- AT1 Speaker John McLarty Answers the Question “How Does Christ Challenge Culture?” - We can’t wait to hear former Adventist Today Executive Editor John McLarty speak for the AT1 gathering taking place October 4-6 in Portland, Oregon. John is Senior Pastor at Green Lake Church in Seattle, Washington and is Owner of Talking Rocks Geology Tours. As with all our presenters, we asked John to answer the question, […]
- News Briefs for July 12, 2019 - News reports from the Potomac Conference, Loma Linda University Health, Peruvian Union University, Adventist University of the Philippines, Adventist Peace Fellowship and Southern Adventist University: From APD – The official news agency of the Adventist Church in parts of Europe: On the 29th of June, the Potomac Conference ordained Therezinha Barbalho for pastoral ministry. Barbalho […]
- AT Pioneer Elwin Dunn Passes to His Rest - 10 July 2019 | Dr. Elwin Dunn, early supporter of Adventist Today, died last week. He was a 1958 graduate of the School of Medicine at Loma Linda University who practiced as a surgeon in southern California for 60 years, as well as an active member of the Seventh-day Adventist faith. Dunn served on the […]
- Struggling Boys, Broken Men - by Debbie Hooper Cosier | 11 July 2019 | The California sun is low in the sky, bathing the face of the 22-year-old in golden light as he records a message from the driver’s seat of his car. “Hi. Elliot Rodger here. Tomorrow is the Day of Retribution—the day I will have my revenge against […]
- What Christians Think About Church Dating Advice - 10 July 2019 | Valerie Y. Bernard-Allan’s 2016 PhD thesis, “It Is Not Good to Be Alone; Singleness and the Black Seventh-day Adventist Woman” was mentioned in a recent Christianity Today article about what Christians make of church relationship advice. The article, titled “What Christians Really Think About the Church’s Relationship Advice” is a book […]