Do I need to be legally married to be welcome in the church?
10 January 2022 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, This is a real situation. I am a 3rd-generation Adventist (not recently active) with 16 years in the Adventist education system, and a widower after 40+ years of marriage to one Adventist wife. About four years after her death, I began a monogamous long-term relationship with a Christian […]
Church Building Collapses and Kills 5, Including Child, in Zambia
5 dead, 4 injured, when church building collapses on members during downpour. Collapse of building attributed to poor building materials used during construction. Tragedy comes just one week after six Adventist young adults drowned in Lake Kariba during an Adventist Youth camp meeting. 10 January 2022 | Five members of the Bethsaida Seventh-day Adventist Church in […]
No More Female Leaders. Just Leaders.
by Thandazani Mhlanga | 7 January 2022 | We in the western world have been greatly influenced by the ancient Greeks. Aristotle had strong opinions on gender, for example—women, in particular. He assigned them second-class status, and thought of females as “deformed males.” So the gender issues at the forefront of modern civil and religious […]
Omicron Surge Has Adventist Hospitals Breaking Records: ‘This Wave Is Unlike Previous Waves’
Unvaccinated people have been found to be 23 times more likely to become infected with Omicron, and 25 times more likely to require hospitalization than those who are fully vaccinated. Without a booster, the chance of becoming infected with Omicron is 70 percent. With the booster, the chance of contracting Omicron drops to 25 percent. […]
News Briefs for January 7, 2022
News reports from Andrews University, Germany, Oakwood University, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, United States Adventist Theological Schools Receive Pharmaceutical Money Andrews University and Oakwood University received substantial grants to develop pastoral resources and support ministerial training from the Lilly Endowment Inc. Andrews University (AU), located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, United States, received $997,444 (USD) […]
But God Said It—Didn’t He?
by Russ Spangler | 6 January 2022 Seventh-day Adventists believe that if we can just get people to read the Bible, they would see that God is real, and that God loves them. That hasn’t worked for everyone. A.A. Milne, the author of Winnie the Pooh, wrote: The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, […]
5 Dead, 1 Missing After Drowning Accident During Adventist Youth Camp Meeting in Zambia
6 believed to be dead after drowning accident in Lake Kariba, Zambia. The young adults were attending a youth camp meeting in the area. 5 bodies have been found, but 1 is still missing. 05 January 2022 | Six young men are believed to have drowned in Lake Kariba, Zambia, on Jan. 1, 2022, while […]
Navigating the Troubled Waters of the Adventist Church in China
5 January 2022 | In 1958, the Chinese Communist regime implemented a radical policy of homogenizing the Chinese Protestant population in the notion of “unified worship.” The policy banned all distinct denominational practices to give way for a united mode of Chinese Christian faith in a socialist setting. After the Maoist decades of hostile suppression, […]
Denmark High Court Upholds Firing of Adventist Teacher for Sabbath Observance
In 2019, the Danish Board of Equal Treatment had upheld an Adventist teacher’s claim that he had been illegally fired for not working on his Sabbath. In 2021, the Danish Western High Court found that it had been necessary for the school to require the PE teacher to work at the Saturday event. Consequently, the […]
Of Braided Hair, Gold, Pearls, & Costly Array
by Loren Seibold | 4 January 2022 | I have a vivid memory, from when I was about five, of going with my father to the auto parts store in Jamestown. While I waited I looked down (I was close to the floor in those days) and saw rolling around near my shoe a little […]