More than Prayers for Layla
by Kris Coffin Stevenson | 17 September 2021 | I pass her every morning as I drive to work. She sits in the shade on the bike path next to a six-lane road. Her shopping cart is piled high with Grinch-like bundles, and she’s wrapped herself in layers of gray clothing, a turban around her […]
AT1 — September 17, 2021
Fear is a natural human emotion. We all face fears on a regular basis. What we do with our fears is so important. Do we give them to God, and invite others to join us in praying that we can trust God to work it out, rather than us worrying or working on our […]
Haiti’s Adventist-Raised Prime Minister Banned from Leaving Country Amid Murder Inquiry
17 September 2021 | Ariel Henry, Haiti’s Prime Minister and the brother of Pastor Élie Henry, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America, has been banned from leaving Haiti amid an investigation into his alleged connection to the killing of the former president of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse on July 7. On Monday this week, […]
Russian Adventists Launch Pioneering Online-Only School
The online-only school was launched by the Education Department of the Western Russian Union. Classes are streamed from the Istok Christian School in Nizhny Novgorod. About 70 children and parents from Russia’s Kaliningrad to the Far East joined the live dedication of the school on September 1. From a Euro-Asia Division/ANN press release: On September […]
News Briefs for September 16, 2021
News reports from Loma Linda University Medical Center, Zambia, Australia, the South Pacific Division and Southwestern Adventist University: From a Loma Linda University Health Press Release: Physicians at Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) have completed 200 left atrial appendage closure procedures, more than any other healthcare institution across the Inland Empire. “It’s a sign […]
Apocalypse as an Unveiling
by Elle Berry | 15 September 2021 | I was eleven years old when I experienced my first apocalypse. During September of that year, I developed a rash, followed a few days later with a fever. Assuming this was the flu, my parents kept me home to rest, and things appeared to clear up towards […]
Vaccination Rift Lands Adventist Denomination in Jamaican Headlines
15 September 2021 | The Adventist Church in Jamaica is struggling with a vocal faction of the membership agitating against COVID vaccination. Jamaica’s The Gleaner reported this week that “conspiracy theories and anti-vaxxer sympathies are reportedly making inroads within the most populous denomination in Jamaica, chipping away at confidence in the national vaccination drive.” The […]
Sharing Scripture for September 12 – 18, 2021
This is a tool for you to use if you lead a Sabbath School (SS) class or small group. It is keyed to the Bible texts used in the current week’s Adult SS lesson and includes a brief story from current news you can use to introduce the discussion and then a series of discussion […]
Abortion Is Terrible, but Abortion Laws Are Worse
by Lindsey Abston Painter | 14 September 2021 | Only if you have been living under a rock would you not have heard that at the beginning of September the state legislators in Texas passed a draconian law criminalizing abortions past six weeks of pregnancy. Not only the woman who has an abortion will be […]
My unvaccinated son wants to come home for the holidays!
13 September 2021 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, We love our adult children and want to welcome them home during the upcoming holidays. Here’s the problem: one of our children has not gotten the vaccine, and believes he is not at risk because a colleague convinced him of the natural immunity theory. I’m sure many young […]