Elder Henry, Daughter, Released after Four Days’ Captivity
28 December 2020 | Press release from the Inter-American Division, Miami Pastor Elie Henry, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America, along with his adult daughter, Irma, were released unharmed on Dec. 28, 2020, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Pastor Henry and Irma went missing on the evening of Dec. 24, 2020. “I have spoken with […]
Read the latest edition of Adventist Today magazine
28 December 2020 | The latest issue of the Adventist Today paper magazine has arrived in many mailboxes. If you’d like to receive the paper magazine, click here to make any donation to Adventist Today. You’ll be put on the distribution list for the upcoming edition that is mailed out during the middle month of every quarter. If […]
A Happy and Blessed New Year
by Reinder Bruinsma | 28 December 2020 | In my native Dutch language we either wish people a “happy” or a “blessed” new year. Many of my compatriots may not be aware of the origin of this difference: those with a Protestant heritage prefer to use the term “happy,” while people with a Roman Catholic […]
Southwestern Adventist University Professors Publish Cutting-Edge Research Paper in Peer-Reviewed Journal
The paper reflects ongoing research by SWAU faculty: Jared Wood, director of the Dinosaur Science Museum; Arthur Chadwick, director of the Dinosaur Excavation Project; and Keith Snyder, chair of Biology at Southern Adventist University. The paper, titled “Over 13,000 elements from a single bonebed help elucidate disarticulation and transport of an Edmontosaurus thanatocoenosis,” was published […]
Church school isn’t right for my autistic son
Dear Aunt Sevvy, My son is mildly autistic. In kindergarten through third grade he was in the Adventist school—but he was doing worse and worse. Now he is doing very well in a public school under an Individualized Education Program that includes in-school tutors, occupational therapists, and school counselors. It’s working! But when we enrolled him in the […]
The Text that Most Adventists Most Need to Understand
by Loren Seibold | 25 December 2020 This essay was first printed in the 2020 Winter edition of Intersections, the magazine of the Glendale City Church. Perhaps my very first experience of standing for truth though the heavens fall began with standing on my tiptoes at the school lunch counter at the Gackle, North Dakota, […]
Anticipating AT1–December 25, 2020
Are we allowing our holy discontent to motivate us to healthy action, or are we letting our anger lead us into corrosive thought patterns or external outbursts that hurt a lot of innocent people in the process? Ephesians 4:20-27 invites us to a new way of managing our anger. We’re so delighted you’ve found […]
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Australian Defence Force Appoints Adventist Chaplains for First Time
24 December 2020 | Two Adventists were recently assigned as chaplains in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) for the first time in its history. The Adventist Record (the official Adventist news outlet covering the South Pacific) reported Pastor Miljan Popovic was assigned as an Air Force chaplain and Pastor Gys Seegers as an Army […]
Southern Adventist University Freshman Dies in Car Accident
24 December 2020 | The Chattanoogan reported the tragic news that 18-year-old Southern Adventist University freshman, Zachary Matias Negron, was killed in a car accident on I-75 on Thursday evening, December 17. Chattanooga Police Traffic Division responded to the accident at 1130 Interstate 75 North at 9:39 p.m. “Police said a BMW Z4 was traveling north […]
News Briefs for December 24, 2020
News reports from Ethiopia, Adventist HealthCare, the UK, Germany and France: The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) units in Europe are responding to the conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia and the impact on the civilian population. They are working with the authorities to ensure the protection of civilians and humanitarian workers, continued […]