“Assimilate into Mainstream Culture, or Else!”
By Margaret Eunice Matthews | 13 June 2021 | Recently the news and social media erupted about a discovery at the Kamloops Residential School in British Columbia, a discovery which has agitated people and aroused compassion and sympathy. The Kamloops Residential School first opened in 1893 and closed down in 1969, sometimes having as many […]
Brazilian Adventist Students Make Recycled Soap and Promote Environmental Awareness
11 June 2021 | A Seventh-day Adventist educational initiative organized by the denomination in Brazil is aiming to teach students about environmental preservation and sustainability. In Cariacica, Espírito Santo, the “Environment: Educating to Preserve” program has been focused on teaching sustainable development. In the area, Adventist educators have taught families to use cooking oil to […]
Australian Adventist Launches Greeting Card Line With Aboriginal Theme
11 June 2021 | Dana Garlett, a Seventh-day Adventist Australian with a strong Aboriginal heritage, launched a very specialized card line during the coronavirus lockdown. Her business is called Paperbark Prints, and the cards are designed to connect people to Aboriginal Australia. The cards are designed using colors found in nature and they feature minimalistic […]
NPR Interviews AdventHealth Leader on Pulse Shooting Survivors and His AT Article
11 June 2021 | NPR stations WMFE and WMFV ran an interview with AdventHealth’s Director of Mission and Ministry, Dr. Juleun Johnson, on June 9. Five years ago, Johnson was serving as a hospital chaplain with Florida Hospital in Orlando and was ministering to victim’s families and survivors of the June 12, 2016, Pulse nightclub […]
AT1–June 11, 2021
God loves to connect with humans. As far as God is concerned, no one has sinned so much that they cannot be reached. Oh, we humans love to judge a person as “having gone too far” and then feel justified at putting up barriers to enjoying friendship and fellowship with them. But not God; […]
Church Leadership Accountability
by Alvin Masarira | 10 June 2021 | In October the General Council Annual Council voted “113-18G: Regard for and practice of General Conference Session and General Conference Executive Committee Actions.” It describes a process to enforce compliance with organizational policies, as well as actions voted at General Conference (GC) sessions and executive committee meetings. […]
News Briefs for June 10, 2021
News reports from Sweden, Walla Walla University, Loma Linda University School of Pharmacy, Fiji and Southern Adventist University: The Swedish Union of Churches Conference recently hosted an “End it Now” conference aimed at protecting children and adults who have experienced domestic abuse. According to TED News, over 160 people from 27 countries participated in the […]
Jim Walters: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
9 June 2021 | This week’s ATSS conversation is based on Jim’s reading of David Bentley Hart’s book, That All Shall be Saved: Heaven, Hell and Universal Salvation. You can read a more lengthy report on the Hart’s ideas here. Excerpt: David Bentley Hart argues for an admittedly minority position in this book. But is his […]
Your cover was ugly, and the paper too expensive
9 June 2021 | To the editor, Re your Spring 2021 issue of Adventist Today: It was interesting reading about the “Hamburg Seers” because I was living in Hamburg at that time and remember the meeting to decide about them. I was young then, and everything seemed a little spooky to me. I had not […]
Sharing Scripture–June 6-12, 2021
[symple_heading style=”” title=”New Covenant Sanctuary” 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 […]