NZ Woman “Disgusted” Daughter Being Asked to Distribute Sunday Law Book on Paper Route
16 March 2021 | In a March 9 article, New Zealand’s Stuff news site published the complaint of a woman from Lower Hutt, a city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand’s North Island, whose 11-year-old daughter was being asked to distribute a religious book about the Sunday Law on her paper route. Haley Rivas […]
The Flood Narrative: Essence, Biblical Context, and the Character of God
by Laurence A. Turner | 14 March 2021 | This article will serve as background reading for our 20 March Adventist Today Sabbath Seminar. Discussions on the Flood narrative by conservative Christians frequently major on details found nowhere in the Genesis account. For example, despite frequent claims to the contrary, Genesis says nothing of Noah’s […]
Women’s Ordination: We Need Non-Zero-Sumness
by Edward Reifsnyder | 14 March 2021 | With the disruptions of the COVID-9 pandemic, the issues of women’s ordination and church unity/discipline—issues that have caused such turmoil in the Adventist Church for decades, particularly the last decade—have gone quiet recently. The two postponements of the General Conference Session have contributed to the quietude. But […]
Potomac Conference Selects Charles Tapp as Conference President
14 March 2021 | At today’s Potomac Conference Constituency Meeting, 15-year veteran Potomac Conference president Bill Miller was replaced in his position with Sligo Senior Pastor Charles Tapp. Tapp’s name was submitted early in the meeting by the nominating committee, but sent back by the constituency to the nominating committee for reconsideration. After a second […]
Aunty, another GC Session postponement? I’m suspicious.
12 March 2021 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I’ve heard complaints about the GC being postponed again, thereby lengthening Pastor Wilson’s term again without a vote. I’ve also heard rumors of votes being “bought” with promises of funding for certain third world missions, conferences and unions. Are there any facts to support such claims? Sincerely, Transparency […]
My Shift from Competent to Compassionate
by Delores C.S. James | 12 March 2021 | I don’t know when the shift happened. I started my position as a tenure-accruing assistant professor with the pressure to prove myself. To show that I belonged. To show that I was not an affirmative action hire. After all, I had already published three peer reviewed […]
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Claims Miami Hotel Unlawfully Fired Adventist
12 March 2021 | According to HRDIVE, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) claims a Miami hotel unlawfully fired an Adventist employee over her religious views. The Adventist woman was fired for refusing to work on Saturday. The EEOC says that in terminating the Adventist employee, Noble House Solé, LLC violated Title VII of […]
NPR Highlights Adventist Opposition to Equality Act
12 March 2021 | A March 10 article on the National Public Radio (NPR) website featured views of various religious groups on the Equality Act, a potential revision of US federal civil rights law that would extend protection to LGBTQ people. The Equality Act has twice passed the House but has been blocked by Republicans […]
Best Teacher in Spain 2020 Designation for Adventist Educator
12 March 2021 | Eva Cristina García Pérez, an Adventist pre-school teacher in Spain, won the Educa Abanca designation for “Best Teacher in Spain 2020.” Revista Adventista España reported the teacher ranked #8 of ten finalists awarded the prize in the Early Childhood Education category. Pérez attends Murcia Adventist Church in south-eastern Spain. She has […]
AT1–March 12, 2021
Are you willing to risk everything for Jesus? While we might readily reply, “Yes!”, because that seems to be the appropriate answer to give, are we REALLY willing to do that? The rewards of going all in with Jesus are transformative, but the journey can get a bit rough at times before we start […]