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 […]
News Briefs for March 11, 2021
News reports from Tanzania, Loma Linda School of Allied Health, ADRA International, the British Virgin Islands and a bar in Fiji: The Kilimanjaro Premium Lager Marathon 2021 took place on Sunday, February 28, 2021. The event was based out of Moshi Cooperatives University in Moshi, Tanzania, and featured a full-length marathon, a half marathon and […]
There Is No “President of the Seventh-day Adventist World Church”
By Loren Seibold | 11 March 2021 | I love Victorian literature, and recently in my reading I came across an unusual and picturesque word. The term “shovelhattery” was coined by historian Thomas Carlisle in reference to the uniform of Victorian clergy. The shovel hat (a low-crowned hat with a long flat front brim and […]
Second Largest Church in Latvia Withdraws from Conference after Termination of Pastor
10 March 2021 | Last Sabbath, March 6, the 5th Riga Congregation (the second largest Adventist congregation in Latvia) withdrew from the Latvian Conference. An Adventist Today correspondent reported the reason for this withdrawal was a conference decision to dismiss Girts Rozners, the pastor of the 5th Riga Congregation and the Bauska Adventist Church. Rozners […]
Sharing Scripture for March 7 – 13, 2021
[symple_heading style=”” title=”Waging Love” 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 […]
Steve Daily Responds to Alden Thompson and Jonathan Butler
by Steve Daily | 9 March 2021 | Response to Alden Thompson Thank you, AT, for the opportunity to respond to Alden’s letter. It was curious that he was “stunned” that AT would interview me as the author of a book that clearly deserves dialogue and discussion within Adventism. If the “allegations” in the book […]
Does God Love Wicked Children? Reflections on Steve Daily’s Ellen White: A Psychobiography
By Alden Thompson | 9 March 2021 | Anyone familiar with Steve Daily’s previous writings on Ellen White, would likely be unprepared for the vivid language of Ellen White: A Psychobiography. Daily admits that he has always been captivated by Ellen White’s writings and experience. His MA thesis in history for Loma Linda University (How […]
First Adult Haploidentical Stem Cell Transplant at LLUH Saves Adult Patient’s Life
62-year-old Moreno Valley resident Margarita Martinez was the first patient to receive a haploidentical stem cell transplant at the LLU Cancer Center. Martinez is one of the few patients in the region who have benefited from the hematopoietic stem cell transplant — a type of transplant in which stem cells produce blood cells — offered […]
Aunty, the sermon was about Biden, the Pope, and Sunday Laws!
5 March 2021 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, My wife and I visited a church this weekend in a small city. There were maybe 25 people in attendance. The sermon was a fiery one about Biden being in cahoots with the Pope, and how environmentalism is going to turn to socialism which is going to turn […]