Adventist MP Expelled from Canadian Conservative Caucus
20 January 2021 | According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Conservative Party of Canada members of parliament have voted to expel Seventh-day Adventist Derek Sloan from the conservative caucus after the Ontario representative accepted a donation from Paul Fromm, a well-known white supremacist who has links to neo-Nazi and other hate groups. Sloan has responded to […]
Identical Old Questions
by Rebecca Brothers | 17 January 2021 | When I moved to a farm last spring, my neighbors gave me a week or two to settle in. Then they started coming over to introduce themselves. My neighbor across the road, whom we’ll call Mike, was the first. He’s a retired Army scout who used part […]
Sharing Scripture for January 17 – 23
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Batch of Moderna COVID Vaccine Administered by Adventist Hospital “Paused” Due to Side Effects
19 January 2021 | On Sunday, a batch of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines that was considered more likely to elicit allergic reactions was administered by Adventist Health and public health personnel in Mendocino County, California. No severe reactions were recorded to the batch. “It should be noted, the reactions associated with this bad batch have been […]
Walter Veith Anti-Vax Video Removed by YouTube
18 January 2021 | A video by Walter Veith and his partner, Martin Smith, has been removed for making unfounded claims about the Covid vaccine. Where it used to be is now a black box with the caption, “This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s terms of service.” Though without the video it isn’t […]
Ohio Congregation Removes S.K. Pipim, Conference Issues Warning
Ohio Conference Press Release, 18 January 2021: On January 16, 2021, after much prayer and with a grieving heart, the Columbus Ghanaian Seventh-day Adventist Church voted to remove Samuel Koranteng-Pipim from membership for alleged sexual offenses. The Ohio Conference of Seventh-day Adventists supports the decision of this local church, saddened by the pain this moment has […]
Reflecting on Racism on MLK Jr Day
by Michael W. Campbell | 18 January 2020 | Today is a day to honor the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., and an opportunity to meaningfully reflect about race. I’m reminded that most of our Adventist schools in North America (Oakwood excepted) were segregated even after the Civil Rights Movement and did not change […]
ADRA Works With Adventist Community Services to Help Flooding Victims in Philippines
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) provided cash assistance to 430 families in Negros Occidental in Central Philippines earlier this month. More cash assistance will be provided to more than 400 families in Lanao del Norte in southern Philippines. Cash assistance is typically the logistical tactic of choice because it gives beneficiaries the flexibility […]
Aunty, what about footwashing and the Lord’s Supper in a pandemic?
15 January 2021 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, In the Covid-19 pandemic our church is meeting indoors, wearing masks and distancing. But we haven’t had communion service for months. Part of the problem is the closeness required for foot washing. Is it okay to serve the emblems (in a careful way) without doing foot washing first? […]
Pivoting Toward Our Conspiratorial Side
By Loren Seibold | 15 January 2021 | White Adventism (apart from a few institutional congregations) isn’t what it used to be. When I grew up every little town, even in the relatively empty plains states where there wasn’t a patch of dark human skin to be discovered, had its own Adventist church, and those […]