Is It Hard to Understand the Bible on LGBTQ Questions?
by Alicia Johnston | 19 May 2021 | “The difference between you and me is that you think the Bible is hard to understand, and I think it’s easy.” This quote is from a dear friend from college. She was frustrated with me because of my theological explanations for why I affirm same-gender marriage and […]
The Causation of Salvation
by Richard W. Coffen | 18 May 2021 | Tuesday, November 9, 1965. It was nearly dusk as 10-year-old Johnny ambled toward home. At 5:30, he found a short stick, which he hurled at a nearby utility pole. It produced a metallic thud when it hit the pole. Instantaneously the light atop the pole went […]
Sharing Scripture — May 16-22, 2021
[symple_heading style=”” title=”Covenant Law” 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 you […]
Aunty, why can’t millennials get ahead?
17 May 2021 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Why is it so hard for people in my generation to “make it”? So many of my friends (I’m around 40) work hard, and no matter what we do, we just can’t get ahead. My parents and friends from the baby-boomer generation sometimes sound as if they’re blaming […]
Heirloom Seeds Turned Into Cash for Pandemic Victims
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, a Missouri-based business, has donated more than $430,000 to help bolster ADRA’s emergency COVID-fighting operations in India. The founder of the business, Jere Gettle, felt compelled to respond to the growing crisis by donating all the proceeds of a recent four-day sale to help ADRA supply life-saving oxygen generation systems to […]
Supererogation: Will Only Celibate Vegetarians Go to Heaven?
by Stephen Ferguson | 14 May 2021 | There is a dangerous idea held within most corners of Protestant Christianity today, from Seventh-day Adventists to Presbyterians. This idea, in my respectful view, is a major cause underpinning many of our culture-war debates. This dangerous idea is the misconception that God treats everyone and all behaviors […]
White Woman in a Black Town: The Jennie Ireland Story
By Jim Wibberding | 14 May 2021 | Jennie[1] sank into a window seat, placed the leather satchel at her feet, and smoothed her blue cotton dress. As the railcar lurched and screeched into motion, she squinted out at the early twentieth-century bustle. Jennie Ireland had poured ten years into this place, giving free healthcare […]
New Zealand Man Who Taught at Adventist School Accused of Illegal Sex Acts Involving Shoes
14 May 2021 | Malachai Scott Roger Wylie, a student teacher in New Zealand, is accused of what the country’s Stuff news site described as “sexual acts with other people’s shoes for fetish websites.” In addition to student teaching posts at other institutions, Stuff reports that Wylie had a placement at Longburn Adventist College (an […]
Brazilian Adventists Reach Out to Circus Performers Affected by Pandemic
14 May 2021 | Adventists from the Vicente Pires congregation in the Federal District (DF) of Brazil recently reported outreach efforts to circus performers connected to Circo Portugal in the Taguatinga area of the Federal District. The congregation, together with other Adventists, had been looking for ways to reach out to people suffering from loss of […]
ADRA and ACS Help Hundreds of Cash-Strapped Families in the Philippines Who Lost Homes in Residential Fire
On March 19, a deadly fire broke out in a residential area of Kawit, Cavite, and left approximately 80 percent of homes destroyed. About 1,079 individuals from 511 families were affected, and 450 survivors had their homes totally devastated by the fire. ADRA made the decision to implement a cash response so that survivors who lost […]