Coffee and Me
by Hannele Ottschofski | 3 September 2021 | I grew up as a good Adventist no-coffee-drinker. We never had coffee in my childhood home. My family was not big on hot drinks, anyway, so I didn’t know to miss it. But when I went somewhere where there was coffee, I loved the aroma. How could […]
Rwandan Union President Opposes Church Employment of Former Genocide Perpetrators
3 September 2021 | “Can the hand that raised a machete to kill now raise it to bless?” asks a JusticeInfo article on the rehabilitation of clergy convicted for their role in the Rwandan genocide of Tutsis in 1994. The piece looks at a number of ministers that were involved in the genocide and that […]
Pulitzer Center Profiles Loma Linda Adventists and Their Lifestyle
3 September 2021 | Last month the Pulitzer Center profiled Loma Linda, California-based Adventists and their lifestyles in an article titled ‘I Breathe Loma Linda’: How Seventh-Day Adventists in Southern California Are Living Longer. The piece identified the Adventist community in Loma Linda as one of the so-called blue zones identified by National Geographic Fellow […]
Major Adventist Hospital System Reinvents Itself to Focus More on Well-being
3 September 2021 | Adventist Health, the health facility system spread across the West Coast of the United States and Hawaii, is growing its focus from primarily treating the sick to investing in communities to help people live better and longer. Adventist Health acquired Blue Zones, a network that works to improve well-being and longevity […]
Loma Linda Professor Selected to Serve on National Academies Committee for Space Research
LLUSM’s Michael Pecaut, Ph.D., is one of 18 scientists selected to serve on the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences Research in Space 2023-2032 steering committee by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. For over three decades, Pecaut has been involved in spaceflight research, including multiple experiments on the Space Shuttle and […]
The Ministry Monsters
by Christopher C. Thompson | 02 September 2021 | Sometimes ministry kills. We ministers deal with healing words, but sometimes the work has a toxic and abusive impact—on those who are in the work. We need to talk about this. There have been several books written on this subject (Well-Intentioned Dragons and Clergy Killers come […]
Sharing Scripture for August 29 – September 4, 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 […]
News Briefs for September 2, 2021
News reports from Humboldt County, California; the Western Balkans; New Zealand; Southern Adventist University and Solomon Islands: According to Redwood News on August 31, a fire shelter in Willow Creek, Humboldt County, California, had to be evacuated as the Knob Fire in the area had burned through 1,000 acres with 0% containment. Evacuees were brought […]
South Pacific Adventist History Collection Under a Cloud
2 September 2021 | After months of speculation, the role of South Pacific Division’s Adventist Heritage Director has finally been filled. History teacher David Jones accepted the role in August, which curator and archivist Rose-lee Power vacated in May due to a forced redundancy. Sources close to Rose-lee say that she was surprised to be […]
Bryan Ness: Noah’s Flood vs. Science – 4 September 2021
4 September 2021 | Read the essay by Bryan Ness here. Excerpt: These are important questions because Adventists that are scientifically well educated often recognize that the scientific evidence does not support the existence of a worldwide flood, and if the church insists all must believe in a worldwide flood, or their salvation is at […]