28 February 2018 | [To read this article in English, click here.] La Unión Noruega de la Iglesia Adventista ha pedido a la Asociación General que termine con sus inversiones en corporaciones que producen armas. El pedido fue realizado en una declaración del presidente de la Unión Noruega, Victor Marley. El pedido fue realizado luego […]
From ANN | 26 February 2018 | The Unity Oversight Committee appointed by the Adventist denomination’s General Conference (GC) recently provided an update on its activities to the members of the GC Executive Committee through the committee newsletter. The report stated that the process of gathering qualitative and quantitative data from the denomination around the […]
By Melody Tan | 28 February 2018 | The white screen of my computer monitor has been glaring at me for the past two hours. The blinking cursor in Microsoft Word is poised, awaiting the words I will type into it, hit save and submit to Adventist Today. My fingers have lightly brushed my keyboard countless […]
27 February 2018 | The Norwegian Union of the Adventist Church has called on the General Conference headquarters of the denomination to terminate all investments in corporations that produce weapons (English translation provided by AToday). The appeal was made in a statement by Norwegian Union President Victor Marley. The appeal follows the recent discovery that the […]
by Edwin Torkelsen | 28 February 2018 | It is always interesting to read the General Conference Executive Committee Newsletter (ECN). Since it was launched in January 2017 most issues have contained articles that defend and promote the present GC administration’s views of church authority, their interpretations of GC session votes and unity. The purpose […]
26 February 2018 | The South Caribbean Conference of the Adventist Church, which presides over the denomination in Trinidad and Tobago, has run a newspaper advertisement opposing homosexuality and same-sex marriage. The Jamaica Observer reported that the ad defined marriage as being “between a genetic male and a genetic female.” The ad also stated that […]
25 February 2018 | Vandals broke into an Adventist Church in Silverton, Oregon earlier this month causing damage estimated as being in excess of $50,000. Silverton Seventh-day Adventist Church has been temporarily shut down. It appears that the vandals broke through a classroom window at the church. They emptied fire extinguishers of their contents all […]
by Larry Downing | 25 February 2018 | In the Adventist world of the early ‘60s, an extern was a man, often young, who, prior to the completion of his academic program, was hired by a conference and placed in a parish. In 1965 I enrolled in Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, to complete […]
by Loren Seibold | 23 February 2018 | Billy Graham’s death brought to mind a story from the first church where I served as a pastoral intern. I remember early in our tenure there hearing in a Sabbath School discussion the curious assertion that before the time of the end Billy Graham would accept the […]
by Danielle Barnard | 22 February 2018 | Saturday, February 17, 2018. The lights darken as the praise team walks off of the stage. I grasp the base of the round tall table several pastors use when speaking, and carefully balance my iPad, a blue candle that I call my “peace candle” and a box […]
News reports from Uganda, Washington D.C., Jamaica, Columbia, Maryland; Yuba County, California; Thailand, Southern Adventist University and Loma Linda University Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni addressed a gathering of thousands of Adventists in the country last Saturday. In the presence of Elder Ted Wilson, the president of the General Conference headquarters of the Adventist denomination, Museveni […]
23 February 2018 | Esmond Bradley Martin, 76, an American conservationist who was stabbed to death in his home in Nairobi, Kenya, is said to have been in a legal battle with a powerful government minister before he died. British daily The Times, reported earlier this month that Martin had been battling efforts by Fred […]