News Briefs for July 8, 2021
News reports from Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Miami, Florida; Nigeria and Pacific Press: According to the Jamaica Observer, an (at press time) unidentified man was shot on Saturday, July 3, just outside Granville Seventh-day Adventist Church in the St James Parish of Jamaica. The man was the victim of a drive-by shooting. He was walking home […]
Laurence Turner: Revisiting the Strange, Controversial Witch of Endor
7 July 2021 | An Invitation to Visit the Witch of Endor Few biblical passages are more controversial than 1 Samuel 28:3-25. Here, Saul goes to the village of Endor and asks a medium (traditionally translated as “witch”) to raise Samuel from the dead so he can converse with him. And that is what the […]
Sharing Scripture — July 4 – 10, 2021
[symple_heading style=”” title=”Restless and Rebellious” type=”h1″ font_size=”40″ text_align=”center” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”30″ color=”undefined” icon_left=”” icon_right=””] 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 […]
ADRA’s BRAVE Program Involves Adventist Church and Interfaith Forums in Sri Lanka to Minimize COVID-19 Threat
ADRA created BRAVE (Building Resilience And Vaccine Awareness), a program to be run in collaboration with interfaith groups in Sri Lanka to fight COVID with factual information. The agency also initiated Know Your Reality, an effort in which faith groups, including the Adventist Church, establish an interfaith pandemic relief team (IPRT) to share COVID-related training […]
Bavarian Conference Asks South German Union to Ordain Women
5 July 2021 | At their Constituency Meeting on Sunday, July 4, 2021, the Bavarian Conference, among many other agenda items, considered the topic of women’s ordination. Two pastors, Ralf Hartmann from Landshut and Frederik Woysch from Wasserburg, presented three motions to the gathered delegates. The motions were formed by a group of 5 pastors […]
Aunty, will we eat meat in heaven?
5 July 2021 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Isaiah 25:6 makes it sound like meat will be served in heaven. But Isaiah 65:25 says the lion will eat straw like the ox. Why would a lion be vegetarian if people won’t be? There’s supposed to be no more death, so where would the meat come from? […]
Does the Lord’s Supper Require a Pastor?
by Kevin Kuehmichel Since the COVID-19 crisis began, there has been much discussion about how we hold the communion service for the church. This article seeks to address a key issue regarding officiating at the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper. I begin with this statement from the Handbook of Seventh-day Adventist Theology as my premise: […]
$2.8 Million Family Gift Funds Innovation Center at Andrews University
2 July 2021 | Andrews University has announced a $2.8 million gift from the family of Dr. Fay Bradley. The gift will fund a new Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. An article in the Lake Union Herald describes Bradley (who passed away in January of 2021) as a “Pittsburg State Law School graduate, physician, and […]
LLU School of Pharmacy Recognized Nationally for Community Response During Pandemic
The “Rookie Award” at the 10th annual 2021 Medication Adherence Team Challenge recognized the school’s community outreach during the pandemic. The award is part of the national Script Your Future public awareness campaign coordinated by the National Consumers League (NCL). The contest saw participation by 78 health profession schools in 13 states, and teams directly counseled nearly 150,000 […]
Time Magazine: Andrews Graduate Critiques School’s LGBTQ Stance
2 July 2021 | “During my time at Andrews, I faced discrimination and anti-queer prejudice,” said Andrews University graduate Eliel Cruz in a July 1, 2021 Time Magazine article titled “Most Christian Colleges Will Never Be a Safe Space For LGBTQ Students. But They Must Still Do Better To Affirm and Support Us.” Cruz claims […]