Lotus
by S M Chen Photo by S M Chen submitted February 13, 2014 Lotus, China, 1980 “Even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” Matthew 6:29
2014
Pacific Union College Tensions Described in Major Secular News Journal
by Monte Sahlin By Adventist Today News Team, February 13, 2014 How much freedom should professors in Adventist colleges and universities have to discuss issues related to sexuality with their students? This fundamental question has evidently been key to a behind-the-scenes tension in recent weeks between administration and the faculty at Pacific Union College […]
Adventist Hospital in New Jersey to be Turned Over to a Local Nonprofit Organization
by Monte Sahlin By Adventist Today News Team, February 12, 2014 Adventist HealthCare, the hospital system affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist denomination in Maryland, has announced that Hackettstown Regional Medical Center is being turned over to Atlantic Health System, one of the largest non-profit health care systems in New Jersey which is based in […]
The Great Divide
by Cindy Tutsch I watch him stand at the microphone and begin a speech that simultaneously assaults my ears and raises my hackles. Beside me sits an extraordinarily gifted female pastor whose spiritual journey I’ve followed closely since she committed all her spirit, energy, and talent to her Lord Jesus […]
A New Path
by Cindy Tutsch By Cindy Tutsch, February 10, 2014 “I will lead blind Israel down a new path, guiding them along an unfamiliar way. I will make the darkness bright before them and smooth out the road ahead of them.” (Isaiah 42:16, NLT) The Seventh-day Adventist church is not the first to debate important […]
The One Project has Gathering Number 12 this Week in Seattle
by Monte Sahlin By AT News Team, February 9, 2014 More than 750 individuals are pre-registered for The One Project event that begins tomorrow morning (February 10) at the Westin Seattle, 1900 Fifth Avenue, in the North Tower, Level 4. The One Project was started by a group of pastors and campus chaplains in […]
“And What of God’s Mercy?” Reflections on Lamentations 3:19-33
by Lawrence Downing By Lawrence Downing, February 10, 2014 Children’s bedtime stories do not include passages from the Book of Lamentations. Mothers do not find it satisfying to tell their children the terrors that fell upon Jerusalem and the agony the destruction of this great city brought to its inhabitants. Where is the […]
Sudden Pope-ularity
by Stephen Foster By Stephen Foster, February 6, 2014 Let me begin with an unfortunately necessary disclaimer, especially on what is a site dedicated to the free exchange of ideas and information related to topics of contemporary interest to Adventists of every ideological stripe: I know that some may conceivably be uncomfortable discussing certain […]
Kuna, Idaho Church Finding out a Little Child Can Really Lead!
by Debbonnaire Kovacs by Debbonnaire Kovacs Submitted February 5, 2014 “The kids saw the cameras in church, and thought, ‘Hey, that might be cool—I’d like to do that!’” says Pastor Randy Maxwell of the Kuna, Idaho, Seventh-day Adventist church. “We had adult camera operators, but we started having problems keeping the schedule full. Sometimes we […]
The No of Adventism
by Greg Prout By Greg Prout, February 4, 2014 Nothing robs a person of the “abundant life” more than the doctrine that this life is only a preparation for the next, that now is simply a training ground for the hereafter, that everything has value only as it relates to eternity. Raised and nurtured […]
You Want a Piece of Me…at?
by Danny Bell By Danny Bell, February 4, 2014 I don’t quite remember all the details of how I felt, but in 1985 when I came to Christ, I quit a lot of stuff. Alcohol, pot, acid, cussing, smoking, trouble with the law, satanic music, debauchery, evil friends, sexual promiscuity—the list goes on… and, oh […]
Noted Protestant Author’s New Book is about the Sabbath
by Monte Sahlin By AT News Team, February 4, 2014 One of the most widely read contemporary Christian authors, Walter Brueggemann has released a new book that focuses on the meaning of the Sabbath. In Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now, Brueggemann argues that Christians have distorted the meaning of […]