By Debbonnaire Kovacs, posted May 11, 2016 On March 2, 2016, we reported on the astonishing story of an upper-grade class at Upper Columbia Academy Elementary School in Spangle, WA, who had taught themselves to create prosthetic hands. You can remind yourself of the details of that story here. Well, the moment we have all […]
By S M Chen, posted May 11, 2016 by D Kovacs. “Where there is love, there is life.” Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) [photo Pieta by Michelangelo Buonarroti. Vatican. In public domain.] Much of my life I believed that what you know is more important than whom you know. But, as I get farther from life’s inception and […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, May 11, 2016 The last time you read of Harris Home for Children, (HHC) in Huntsville, Alabama, was clear back in January of 2013. I thought perhaps it was time for an update, called to talk to Director Antonio McGinnis, and learned that HHC is, in fact, in need of help right […]
Posted by Debbonnaire Kovacs, May 11, 2016 Psalm 104:25-35, 37 25 O Lord, how manifold are your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. 26 Yonder is the great and wide sea with its living things too many to number, creatures both small and great. 27 There move the […]
By Jim Walters, May 10, 2016: Adventist Today reported last week about a petition, a demonstration and at least one public letter from an alumna raising concerns about the handling of sexual misconduct and at La Sierra University (LSU). the Adventist institution in Riverside, California. A reporter was sent to cover a “Town Hall” meeting […]
From APD, May 8, 2016: Yesterday the Adventist denomination’s Danish Union Conference had a service at its annual camp meeting setting aside four young pastors with prayer and laying on of hands. It was not an ordination service, although it looked like one to some observers. The four pastors were “appointed,” announced Pastor Thomas Muller, […]
From ANN, May 8, 2016: A Seventh-day Adventist congregation in the U.S. state of Alabama has presented two cars as gifts to single parents and expects to give away five more vehicles by year’s end. The car giveaway at the First Seventh-day Adventist Church in Huntsville may be the first initiative of its kind […]
From ANN, May 7, 2016: Leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination in Canada are closely monitoring a wildfire in Ft. McMurray, Alberta, that caused the local government to declare a state of emergency and forced more than 80,000 residents to flee their homes. A mandatory evacuation order was issued on May 4 when wildfires […]
Stories from the Kentucky Derby, Kenya, secular campus ministry in North America, Barbados, Walla Walla (Washington), Guadeloupe and Oakhurst (California) A horse named Adventist may run in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday night (May 7) in Louisville. Because the famous race is limited to 20 horses and Adventist ranks 22, it will not run unless […]
May 5, 2016: Tuesday hundreds of students demonstrated on the campus of La Sierra University (LSU), the Adventist institution in Riverside (California), and more than 600 individuals have signed a petition expressing concern about the handling of a case of alleged rape and sexual harassment. Dr. Donna L. Carlson, an alumna of LSU who served […]
From ANN, May 5, 2016: The state of religious freedom worldwide has deteriorated over the past 12 months, according to a report released May 1 by an independent United States advisory body. The 270-page report compiled by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) documents continuing abuses in 33 countries and regions, […]
From ANN, May 5, 2016: A Memorandum of Understanding signed last week between administrators of Health City Cayman Islands and Adventist Healthcare Services Inter-America (AHS-IA) will seek to provide free cardiac surgeries to children and minimally-invasive surgeries at affordable costs across Adventist-operated hospitals in the Caribbean. Health City Cayman Islands (HCCI) is an accredited […]