Vallejo, California-Based Psychiatric Hospital Sold by Adventist Health
Adventist Health Vallejo has been sold to Acadia Healthcare. The 61-bed psychiatric hospital had been operated as a service of Adventist Health St. Helena. Acadia Healthcare is a leading provider of behavioral healthcare in the United States. From Adventist Health: VALLEJO, Calif. – February 9, 2021 – To strengthen behavioral health services in Solano County, Adventist […]
Ellen G. White Around the Tea Table
By Ron Graybill | 9 February 2021 | As Mrs. White sat for her picture in 1878, the photographer handed her a large book, T. De Witt Talmage’s 500-page Around the Tea Table.[1] Photographers of the day commonly used books as props when their subjects posed for portraits. In several other photographs Ellen White is […]
Help! I can’t join the Adventist Today Sabbath Seminar!
by Loren Seibold | 9 February 2021 | Every Sabbath, somewhere between 20 and 2 minutes before the beginning of our Adventist Today Sabbath Seminar is about to start, those who monitor our social media (Facebook comments and messages, email, texts and telephone) get frantic communications from people who say, “I really want to join […]
Letter Claiming to Be from Ghanaian Church Contradicts Ohio Conference Press Release
9 February 2021 | A statement being shared widely on social media on what appears to be Columbus Ghanaian Seventh-day Adventist Church letterhead claims that the church was railroaded into the decision to disfellowship Samuel Koranteng-Pipim announced in mid-January. The statement, titled “Columbus Ghanaian Church Dissociates Itself From Ohio Conference’s Statement On Pipim’s Disfellowship & Cautions Against […]
Australian State Bans Gay Conversion Therapy, Adventist Church Concerned
9 February 2021 | The Adventist Church in Australia joined several other denominations in voicing concerns about a bill proposing a ban on gay conversion therapy that was recently voted into law in the country’s state of Victoria. The Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill passed the legislative council in the state last Thursday […]
Has the Truth Changed?
By S.M. Chen | 8 February 2021 | In my e-mail inbox recently was an invitation to view one of the latest offerings by Josh Fox, entitled The Truth Has Changed (updated in 2021), sponsored by The Walker Art Center of Minneapolis. Initially a book, then a film, it is a documentary of Mr. Fox’s […]
Righteousness by Faith Is for Everyone
by Chester Hitchcock | During 29 years as a pastor in small multi-church districts, I made it my mission to declare righteousness by faith in every sermon. Ellen White wrote: The sacrifice of Christ as an atonement for sin is the great truth around which all other truths cluster. In order to be rightly understood […]
ATSS Offer: Free Book, Meet Author Colby Martin
5 February 2021 | Adventist Today Sabbath Seminar and Kinship International are teaming up to present author Colby Martin, who is going to teach from his book Unclobber to ATSS on February 27. Churches in America are experiencing an unprecedented fracturing due to their belief and attitude toward the LGBTQ community. Armed with only six […]
Gender-based Violence Condemned by Adventist Leader in UN Address
5 February 2021 | Women “disproportionately suffer the tragedies of human existence,” according to Ganoune Diop, the Adventist denomination’s director for Public Affairs and Religious Liberty who also serves as Secretary General of the International Religious Liberty Association (IRLA). Diop delivered a January 26, 2021, keynote address to more than a thousand attendees drawn from […]
Resource for Handling Domestic Violence During the Pandemic Recommended by Enditnow North America
5 February 2021 | The North American branch of enditnow (an Adventist campaign to address domestic abuse) has recommended an online resource for victims of domestic violence. The article is titled “Domestic Violence During The Pandemic: Resources for Victims and Survivors.” It is offered by the relocation service MYMOVE.com. The piece says COVID-19 quarantine has […]