Haitian Adventists Celebrate Safe Release of Abducted Members
All four kidnapped church members that were kidnapped on April 1 have been released. They were originally kidnapped during a live online worship program. Church leaders in the country are encouraging members to be especially cautious about minimizing security risks given the high number of kidnappings in the country. From Inter-America Division/ANN – 6 April […]
Are We God’s Favorite Team?
Rebecca Brothers | 6 April 2021 | About fifteen years ago, the Adventist Sabbath School Quarterly featured a story about the American bomber Bockscar, which was tasked with dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Kokura on August 9, 1945. Frustrated by a layer of clouds that obscured the bomb’s target, the pilot […]
Sharing Scripture for April 4 – 10, 2021
[symple_heading style=”” title=”Covenant Primer?” 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 […]
A Strong Community Knows No Bounds
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The Guardian: “Allergic Reaction” to US Religious Right Driving Decline of Religion
5 April 2021 | “Many Americans – especially young people – see religion as bound up with political conservatism, and the Republican party specifically,” said David Campbell, professor and chair of the University of Notre Dame’s political science department and co-author of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. “Since that is not their […]
The Case for Easter Saturday
by Loren Seibold | 3 April 2021 | Years ago, in the week before Easter, I saw my next door neighbor in the yard. He said, “Hey, Loren: Are you going to be celebrating Good Thursday this week?” “Good Thursday?” I couldn’t figure out what he meant. He said, “Don’t you Adventists do everything a […]
Who’s Walter Veith, Aunty, and what’s he all about?
2 April 2021 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I’ve been listening to Dr. Walter Veith, and the things he says trouble me. His talks appear to be mostly about conspiracies. What do you think? Slightly Suspicious Dear Suspicious, Walter Veith (pronounced with a long “i”, like “rice”) is a popular Adventist speaker and writer from South […]
Miami Herald: Another Seventh-day Adventist Kidnapping in Haiti
2 April 2021 | The Miami Herald reported today that members of the Seventh-day Adventist Gospel Kreyòl Ministry Church in Diquini, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, were performing live on Facebook and YouTube in a studio on Thursday night when they were abducted by heavily armed men. The abductees included two technicians, Steven Jérôme and Francisco Dorival, Pastor Audalus […]
Holy Week, part 3: A Superhero for All Time
by S.M. Chen | 2 April 2021 | Most of the time when I was growing up, my father cut my hair. I would sit in a high black and chrome vinyl chair in the kitchen with a sheet draped around my shoulders as he applied the clippers. I think sometimes he placed a bowl on my […]
NAD Ministerial Conference Grapples With Decline in Church-Going Habits/Rise of Conspiracy Theories
2 April 2021 | Members have gotten out of the habit of going to church, and conspiracy theories are running rampant after a year of COVID restrictions on public worship and life in general. Complex realities brought on by the pandemic consumed much of the focus of this year’s (March 8-9) eHuddle, a gathering of […]