Delta Variant Hits AdventHealth Florida Hospitals “Like a Freight Train”
12 August 2021 | The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported recently on the explosion of Delta variant cases that are stressing AdventHealth facilities and other hospitals in Florida to their limits. “This surge has come at us like a freight train,” said Neil Finkler, AdventHealth Central Florida’s chief clinical officer, as quoted by the WSJ. […]
Fundamentalism and the Rise of “Muscular Adventism”
11 August 2021 | Muscular Adventism, by Michael W. Campbell While attending some recent scholarly meetings, I was standing in line to visit the book exhibit. In front of me was a renowned Old Testament scholar whom I readily recognized. After I complimented him, telling him that I enjoyed his books and noting a relative […]
ADRA Ups the Ante on COVID-19 Education and Prevention in South Sudan
The agency will focus on COVID-19 safe-learning campaigns, increase of capital for vendors who lost their businesses, and social behavior interventions within school systems. 11 August 2021 | For the next nine months, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) will implement several initiatives in Maiwut, South Sudan, to tackle the pandemic that has impacted […]
On Visiting a New Church: A Tale Told by an Introvert
By Kara Wibberding | 9 August 2021 | I’m certain all of us have had the experience of visiting a new-to-us church on vacation. A one-time visit, never to return again. And while we do just fine visiting yarn shops and such places, churches are not the same. Churches are not businesses. They are communities. […]
Sharing Scripture — August 8-14, 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 […]
The Implicit Theology of Sacrificial Service
By Jim Wibberding | 8 August 2021 | Curly dark locks danced beside her round face and bright eyes. “Daddy! I saw another jackrabbit!” Alonzo Beauchamp felt the lump of cash in his pocket and smiled at his four-year-old girl. For Alice, the train ride from Kinsley, Kansas, to their new home out west was […]
Aunty, can we women trust physicians?
9 August 2021 | Dear Aunt Sevvy: I liked your answer to a woman who was asking about her declining libido, except for one point: you suggested that she could talk to her gynecologist. That comment brought to mind my own experience in talking to my physician about a sexual concern, and how she dismissed […]
In-Person ASI Convention Goes Ahead Despite State of Emergency
9 August 2021 | Orange County, Florida, has been under a state of emergency due to rising COVID-19 hospitalizations but that didn’t stop the in-person 2021 Adventist-laymen’s Services and Industries (ASI) International Convention from going ahead August 4-7. As of July 27, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that even vaccinated […]
ADRA Continues Aid in St. Vincent and the Grenadines Four Months After Volcanic Eruption
An estimated 23,400 people were displaced to the southern end of St Vincent Island and some neighboring countries due to the April 9 eruption. Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) declared an emergency category two response according to its global emergency response mechanisms and rapidly started providing food assistance to displaced people at nine shelters. […]