Loma Linda University Health Honored for High-Quality, Affordable, Patient-Centered Care
The 2020 Excellence in Healthcare Award from the Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) recognized top performance on clinical quality, patient experience, and cost measures. It also recognizes physician organizations that perform in the top 50% in all three major AMP areas: clinical quality, patient experience, and total cost of care. From LLUH – 25 January 2020 | […]
The Headship Theory and Spiritual Abuse
by Hannele Ottschofski | 24 January 2021 | After expressing some views on the political landscape, she said to me, “My husband reads all the stuff, and he must know. I don’t really follow these things.” This was a good Adventist pastor’s wife in the United States. In this matter she did not bother to think […]
How Easily Are We Fooled?
by S.M. Chen | 22 January 2021 One of the more interesting reality TV shows, in its 7th season, is called Fool Us! Penn Jillette and Raymond Teller, one of the more enduring magician duos in Las Vegas, host various magicians consecutively. If the magician succeeds in fooling Penn & Teller, he or she gets […]
Daily Beast References Adventist Millerite Origins in Article About QAnon Becoming Religion
22 January 2021 | Yesterday, the Daily Beast news site referenced the Seventh-day Adventist Church in an article, citing it as evidence that disproven conspiracy theories would not necessarily be the end of the far-right QAnon movement. QAnon followers were thrown into disarray when now-US President Joe Biden was sworn in at his inauguration this […]
Prosperity-Focused Outreach Targets Inter-American Division’s Chinese Population
20 January 2021 | “The Secret to a Better and More Prosperous Life” was the theme of a week of presentations aimed at the Chinese population in the Inter-American Division (IAD) this month. Speakers tackled “social issues with a biblical perspective within the Chinese worldview,” according to an IAD news report on the outreach effort. […]
Anticipating AT1–January 22, 2021
Sabbath provides time and space to “bind up the wounds of the brokenhearted.” Psalm 147:3. Maybe you’ve been hurt by the Church and its list of Sabbath-keeping do’s and don’ts. Could it be time to enter into honest dialogue with safe people who are willing to wrestle with all Sabbath can be for you […]
The Walla Walla Jesus
by Jack Hoehn | 21 January 2021 | What happens with great expectation or with great disappointments? How are Americans reacting to life post-elections? How are Adventists feeling about our expectations? Did you know there was once a “Walla Walla Jesus?” The town of Walla Walla and its Seventh-day Adventist Walla Walla University (in the […]
News Briefs for January 21, 2021
News reports from Adventist Health, Indonesia, South Carolina, Massachusetts and Colorado: From Adventist Health (edited for length): Roseville, California – Healthcare lost a larger-than-life figure when Frank F. Dupper passed away December 31, 2020 – 22 years to the day after he retired as president of Adventist Health – culminating a storied, three-decade career with […]
Taking the Lord’s Name in Vain
by Lindsey Abston Painter | 20 January 2021 | Growing up Adventist, I learned that I should never swear—especially I must never use words that take the Lord’s name in vain. Even saying “Oh my gosh” was not acceptable because it was just a slightly sanitized version of “Oh my god”—and this last was simply […]
Southern California Covid-19 Cases Surge: ADRA Partners with La Sierra University to Distribute Thousands of Masks to Impacted Communities
ADRA has donated 500,000 masks to La Sierra University to help combat the spread of the coronavirus in communities in the Riverside, California, area. La Sierra’s Zapara School of Business and students from the university’s Enactus program will coordinate the half-a-million 3-ply mask distribution to churches, schools and other establishments. ADRA’s humanitarian relief allies Partnership […]