April 24, 2016: The world was shocked last week when a superstar of popular music known simply as “Prince” died in his home in the suburbs of Minneapolis. Questions about his death and the work of the medical examiner continue, but a number of journalists have reported that Prince Rogers Nelson was “raised a […]
By Jack Hoehn (The Last of a series of five articles on how we can know the age of the earth and when life was created. Part 4, on radioactive clocks, can be found here.) The pre-supposition of these five articles is scriptural: “A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three […]
By Monte Sahlin What is a “cultural Adventist” and why is it a term worth considering? It is a sociological concept borrowed from Judaism to differentiate between “observant” Jews who connect with the Jewish faith, and people who were born and raised with Jewish ethnicity but no longer believe in God. It emerged in the […]
Stories from Nigeria, Ecuador, Los Angeles, Australia, Adventist Health System (United States), Zambia, North America and the Philippines Adventists have urged lawmakers to not adopt a proposed law to regulate religious preaching in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Pastor Francis Daria, president of the Northern Nigeria Union Conference, stated that “the proposed law is against the provisions […]
From ANN, April 21, 2016: The South American country of Ecuador has declared a state of emergency after the 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck at 6:58 p.m. Saturday, killing at least 413 people and injuring more than 2,500. The earthquake caused widespread destruction in the country, including four local Adventist churches. Pedernales, a city of about […]
By Jack Hoehn (Fourth in a series of five articles on how we can know the age of the earth and when life was created. Part three, on DNA, can be found here.) After the sundial, early clocks were made of hand-carved gears and movements like the Black Forest cuckoo clocks that could be accurate […]
From ANN, April 20, 2016: The Seventh-day Adventist denomination baptized 4,012 new members during an evangelistic celebration in Caracas, Venezuela, on April 16, 2016. More than 20,000 witnessed the baptisms in the metropolitan city’s Estadio Universitario de Caracas (Caracas University Stadium), marking the culmination of eight months of intense evangelistic efforts across the East […]
Photo by Cheryl Morrow, posted 4-20-2016 by D Kovacs God makes my feet like hinds’ feet and sets me upon my high places. Psalm 18:33.
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, April 20, 2016 Acts 11:1-18—a paraphrase Now the leaders and the believers who were in Pure Small Town, where The Blueprint was followed faithfully and all believers were vegans and had a small home and a large garden, heard that the Big City Urbanites, who lived piled on top of each other […]
By S M Chen, posted 4-20-2016 by D Kovacs We are indeed ‘fearfully and wonderfully made.’ – Ps. 139:14. One of the important (but by no means salient, in that patients can survive for prolonged time periods by tube feeding) bodily functions is swallowing. Deglutition is a complex process initiated in the brain and brainstem, […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Apr 20, 2016 [Many photos here.] Generally, in this department, I seek out stories of creative, sometimes unusual ministries, but it is worth repeating that there have been three things Adventists as a people have done well from the beginning: education, music, and health and medical ministries of various kinds. My […]