by AT News Team “I am starting to lose patience in this matter,” Pastor Reidar Kvinge, president of the Norwegian Union Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, stated in an interview about the study of ordination being coordinated by the General Conference (GC). He thinks that women clergy are important for the denomination’s development in […]
by AT News Team The division between the conservative and moderate wings of Adventist religion scholars was evident as they convened for several days of annual meetings in Milwaukee and Chicago just prior to Thanksgiving. But there was ongoing conversation and more interchange than in the years immediately following the 1989 departure of the conservative […]
by AT News Team Pastor Leo Schreven, an ordained Seventh-day Adventist minister and president of All Power Seminars, is reported to have died on Sabbath, December 1. This has been announced in an Email by Pastor Stephen Carlile, senior pastor of the South Tulsa (Oklahoma) Adventist Fellowship, and on Schreven’s Facebook page. Schreven was an evangelist for the denomination […]
by AT News Team Walter Veith, a former zoology professor from South Africa who operates an Adventist independent ministry based in British Columbia, has been investigated by police in Germany in the aftermath of a recent speaking appointment there. Prosecutors are considering whether or not to charge him with making anti-Semitic remarks and incitement against […]
by AT New Team Updated November 30, 2012 (See update at the bottom of the story.) Angus T. Jones has been a child actor in a top-rated comedy show on CBS television for ten years. In the last year he joined a Seventh-day Adventist church in Los Angeles and over the last 24 hours he […]
by AT News Team Outreach is a magazine read by large numbers of Evangelical pastors across the United States and the latest issue includes an ad featuring Seventh-day Adventist pastor and television evangelist Doug Batchelor. It is selling his new book, A World of Wonder distributed by afbookstore.com. The book is a daily devotional […]
by AT News Team Leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church have announced a Day of Prayer and Fasting around the world this coming Sabbath (December 1) to protest the violation of the human rights of an Adventist pastor and a church member in the African republic of Togo. Adventist Today reported in early October on […]
by AT News Team When the official vote was finally released November 27 in Napa County (California) the initiative was defeated that would have restricted land development on property owned by Pacific Union College (PUC). Earlier there was confusion when conflicting reports were circulated and a complete count had not been finished in any of […]
by AT News Team The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Netherlands may not wait until after the 2015 General Conference (GC) Session to end gender discrimination in ordination. When two previous studies of the topic were conducted by the GC it was the intervention of top denominational administrators, not prohibitions from Scripture or Adventist heritage […]
by AT News Team In the wake of decisions by four other union conferences to end gender discrimination in ordination, the North Pacific Union Conference (NPUC) executive committee voted three steps at its regular, quarterly meeting on Wednesday (November 14). A careful process will (1) “inform and educate Northwest members of the rationale toward biblical […]
by AT News Team Pastor Ray Hartwell was re-elected on Sunday (November 11) as president of the Pennsylvania Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church despite the opposition of a small number of people on the nominating committee. A secret ballot among delegates at a regular constituency session voted at 4:30 p.m., 236 to 102 to […]
by AT News Team Former employees of several hospitals in Florida owned by the Adventist Health System have filed lawsuits under the “whistleblower” law, according to stories in the Orlando Sentinel. Marian Wilbanks, an attorney specializing in this kind of lawsuit represents these individuals and told the newspaper that they involve “tens of millions of […]