by Ed Dickerson At the recent North American Division Ministries Conference, George Knight remarked that the church in North America is not growing. Wintley Phipps, in a presentation at Oakwood College said that fully one-third of NA congregations are first generation immigrants. Among the indigenous population—regardless of race or ethnicity—the church is shrinking, […]
by Nathan Brown A few years ago I was teaching university English classes part-time. In a second-year Modern Literature class, one of the most interesting students was a young gentleman who worked hard on his image: torn black T-shirts, camouflage pants, ragged haircut and multiple piercings. He regularly stood out from the rest of the […]
by Stephen Foster There is a recurring question that I have with regard to theism which no one ever seems to want to address. How does it make sense to believe that the God of the Bible exists at all, if you do not believe that what the Bible says about the God of the […]
by John McLarty On Sunday night I was at a dinner party. A psychiatrist asked me about some friends of hers: They called themselves Christians, but they did not believe in the Trinity. How could they call themselves Christians? They saw Jesus as more of a teacher and guide for life. I accepted the question […]
by Stephen Foster As we write this, former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) is basking in the afterglow of his near victory in the Iowa Caucuses, pursuant to his party’s presidential nomination. After having staked his campaign on a strong showing in the state, Santorum came within eight votes of winning the Caucuses. He […]
by Charles Eaton By way of an introductory statement, I am a college student attending Oakwood University, a Seventh-day Adventist institution which is also an HBCU (Historically Black College or University). Academia notwithstanding, the real learning takes place at the midday lunch tables in the café. Here different perspectives, various represented majors, and diverse […]
by AT News Team Reports in newspapers in Uganda “took the liberty to extend my statements to suggest what I did not say or imply,” said Pastor Blasius Ruguri, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in East-Central Africa, in a news release from the official Adventist News Network (ANN) on Friday (Dec. 21). Since 2009 […]
by AT News Team U.S. News & World Report ranked Andrews University (AU) number 11 on its list of “Overperforming Colleges and Universities in the Nation.” This concept measures the degree to which an institution’s overall position in the rankings exceeds or falls short of its undergraduate academic reputation rank. The magazines “Best Colleges of 2013” include […]
by AT News Team Despite the public attention given to apocalyptic themes this week, a survey of sermon topics on a random sample of Seventh-day Adventist Church web sites shows that few pastors plan to speak about the end of the world this Sabbath (December 22, 2012). When the Sabbath begins on Friday night, December […]
by AT News Team “More and more people describe themselves as ‘unaffiliated and unattached’ in terms of religion,” reflects Gregory Nelson, a life coach who once was senior pastor of the Collegeview Seventh-day Adventist Church on the campus of Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska. “Former Adventists I am meeting feel this way too.” His […]
by AT News Team Friday as word spread about the tragic gunning down of 20 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Adventists began to respond. In the early afternoon Pastor Michael Fortune, senior pastor of the First Seventh-day Adventist Church of Toledo, Ohio, decided to set aside the sermon he had planned for the next […]
by AT News Team New research soon to be published shows a significant correlation with a vegan diet and lower rates of cancer. Also, lacto-ovo vegetarian diets “seem to confer protection from cancers of the gastrointestinal tract,” says an article by a research team at Loma Linda University (LLU) to be published in the journal […]