
Inside Track: Adventist Health Has New Software to Keep Tabs on Employees’ Vaccinations
Adventist Health’s new software allows its leadership to instantly view compliance tracking at every level of its organization. Nurses’ opposition to vaccine mandates has become a lightning rod throughout the pandemic, with some people staging protests in California and across the country. The Adventist denomination is an advocate of “responsible immunization.” 23 June 2022 | Adventist […]

News Briefs for June 23, 2022
News reports from Australia, Jamaica, North American Division Public Affairs and Religious Liberty Department (PARL). War Zone Ganoune Diop, director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty for the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church, examines the deep religious conflict behind the Ukraine-Russia conflict on Saturday, June 25, 2022, from 6-7 p.m. ET, during the webinar “Divisions in […]

Coming Into Focus: Photo of First Woman Licensed as Adventist Minister Discovered
Sarah Lindsey called the “foremost preacher” in New York and western Pennsylvania who rescued that area’s conference. On August 9, 1869, she received a ministerial license from the New York and Pennsylvania Conference. She is recognized as the first woman to receive a ministerial license in Adventist history. Her photograph was recently discovered in the […]

Ukrainian Church Reorganization & the Kaminskiy Letter
by Victor Czerkasij | 22 June 2022 | In a recent Aunt Sevvy column Aunty quoted a General Conference leader saying that the Ukrainian Union was separated from the Euro-Asian Division (ESD) because of the inconveniences in travel and handling of funds, caused by Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. These current problems are undeniable, making […]

Under Repair: Adventist Church Trying to Connect with Indigenous People
Staff at Adventist-run mission Mona Mona discouraged Aboriginal culture, punished children for speaking their native language from 1913-1962. Australian Union Conference (AUC) has a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) for Indigenous people that was approved in May 2022. Now, other Adventist Indigenous schools trying to incorporate culture into curriculum. 21 June 2022 | The Adventist Church […]

Trust Fall, and Other Lessons from Kittens
by Melissa Brotton | 21 June 2022 | Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand” (John 13:7). I watch the tortoiseshell kitten as she climbs to the top of the rope hanging in the middle of her large crate. She claws into the rope and hangs […]

Aunt Sevvy, did Ellen White “plagiarize” other authors?
21 June 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, People tell me that Ellen White didn’t plagiarize, because copying from other authors was a commonly accepted practice in Ellen White’s time. Is this true? Signed, Truth Seeker Dear Seeker, When in the 1970s Adventist scholars began to notice that significant amounts of Ellen White’s writings (in some […]

Love Thy Neighbor: ADRA Urges Observation of World Refugee Day
More than 100 million people have been forcibly displaced. As of March 2022, two million children had been forced to flee Ukraine. UNICEF estimated that more than 2.5 million children have been internally displaced within Ukraine. Less than 1% of all refugees are ever able to resettle and start a new life in safety and […]

Восточная Германия и Сент-Луис
Андреас Бохманн | 17 июня 1922 | Я вырос в Западном Берлине в то время, когда город был ещё окружен Берлинской стеной, чтобы «защитить» коммунистическую Восточную Германию от опасностей свободного мира. Именно эти воспоминания нахлынули на меня после окончания сессии Генеральной Конференции (ГК), когда у меня появилось время поразмышлять. Точки сравнения слишком очевидны, чтобы упустить […]
East Germany and St. Louis
by Andreas Bochmann | 17 June 2022 When I grew up in the city of West Berlin, it was still surrounded by the Berlin Wall, to “protect” Communist East Germany from all the dangers of the free world. It is this memory that flooded my mind after the General Conference (GC) session was over and […]