La crisis verdadera de la identidad adventista
Por Daniel A. Mora | 25 Octubre 2021 | Google translation into English En un reciente artículo publicado en la Revista Adventista de la División Sudamericana[1] (DSA) en julio, el autor Marcos Blanco hizo una serie de duras críticas del efecto que el contexto social contemporáneo está teniendo sobre la identidad adventista. Algunos miembros, dice […]
Aunty, I think vaccines are persecution!
25 October 2021 | Dear Aunty Sevvy, I don’t believe in vaccines, especially the Covid vaccine. Why are people being forced to be vaccinated, or they lose their jobs in the hospital, or can’t visit their families in the nursing home, or maybe won’t even be able to go shopping? Isn’t this a form of […]
War of the Words: SDA Kinship President Challenges GC President’s Statements
Floyd Poenitz, president of SDA Kinship, International, objected to the LGBTQIA+ community being associated with adultery and fornication. Poenitz: People don’t have to have sex to identify as LGBTQIA+. Poenitz: No one has been able to change the attraction and the longing they have for the same gender. 25 October 2021 | SDA Kinship, International […]
Like Mother, Like Daughter: Adventist Family Has 2 Centenarians in 2 Different Generations
“Lola Francisca” Montes-Susano turned 124 on Sept. 11, 2021. Her daughter, Magdalena, turned 101 in May 2021. Mother and daughter credit their long lives to healthy lifestyles, their faith in God, and God’s faithfulness. 25 October 2021 | From the Southern Asia-Pacific Division: Life is short, they say, but there are a privileged few who […]
A Tumultuous, Confusing Love
by Smuts van Rooyen | 22 October 2021 | Even a life lived in a dysfunctional family can be rewarding and wonderful, although unpredictably so. Some might call that euphoric recall—that is, over-remembering only the good times. Maybe so, but for me dysfunction has not been an unmitigated disaster. Both my father and my mother […]
John McLarty: How the Poor in Spirit Trouble the Church
21 October 2021 | Read this essay in preparation for this class. Excerpt: Thirty years ago, in my church in New York city, it was schizophrenic, homeless Alex who troubled our conception of ourselves. Radical Christians, people who see themselves as the special forces of the kingdom of heaven, gladly opened the door for Alex […]
How the Poor in Spirit Trouble the Church
by John McLarty | 21 October 2021 | Blessed are the poor in spirit; theirs is the kingdom of heaven.—Matthew 5:3 In the 1980s I pastored a church on New York’s upper east side, now called Church of the Advent Hope. It was a cool church. We were young and quick, smart and devout. But […]
After Staff Allegedly Sought Fraudulent Vaccine Exemptions, Kempsey Adventist School Closed Due to Covid-19 Cases
Kempsey Adventist School in recent news reports for some of its teachers allegedly seeking fraudulent vaccine exemption certificates. 2 members of the school community have tested positive for COVID-19. School is in lockdown until Friday, Oct. 22, 2021. 21 October 2021 | Kempsey Adventist School (KAS), a co-educational Seventh-day Adventist school in New South Wales, […]
Central States Conference Calls for “Christian Deportment” Over Women’s Ordination
Kimberly Bulgin set to be ordained this Sabbath, Oct. 23, 2021. Internet outrage over her ordination was so great that the Central States Conference issued a statement. Roger Bernard, president of the Central States Conference, said he fully supports Bulgin. 21 October 2021 | After news came out that the Mid-America Union would be ordaining […]
News Briefs for October 22, 2021
News reports from ADRA, CBE International, the Geoscience Research Institute, Jamaica, La Sierra University Dino-mite! Documentary about Adventist Paleontologist Might Blow Your Mind The documentary Seeking Understanding: Arthur Chadwick revolves around Adventist paleontologist Arthur Chadwick and his exploration of a dinosaur graveyard on a Wyoming ranch in the United States. The film also tells the story […]