Comments of the Week September 23-29
Comments of the Week September 23-29 Comments on 3ABN’s alleged land theft, The cult of The Great Controversy, and why Calvary wasn’t a pagan marketplace. 3ABN Involved in Land Conflict “If 3ABN has any integrity, which I personally doubt, they will voluntarily relinquish their “right” to this property back to the family. A compassionate person […]
Editorial: “Living in Legacy”
It took me 28 years to realize I was an Adventist nepo baby: a child born to a famous Adventist family. My grandfather is Dr. George W. Brown, the former president of the Inter-American Division of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church and a renowned author and public figure. His daughter, my mother, has been on executive committees […]
Quand les gens trouvent Jésus dans une église différente – Deuxième partie: L’identité sectaire
by Loren Seibold | September 27, 2024 | Read the first part here Theologically, we Adventists are Protestants. The entire first half of The Great Controversy , perhaps the book that best characterizes us, celebrates the Reformation. We should be able to say without flinching, except perhaps for one line, the entire Apostles’ Creed —and […]
3ABN Involved in Land Conflict
27 September 2024 | An investigative journalism piece in partnership with Spectrum and Miami Herald details the legal and financial conflict between retired U.S. Army Colonel David Lawrence Adderley and Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN). David Adderley, a dual citizen of the United States and The Bahamas, was the recipient of generational property in Long […]
The Great Controversy Cult, Part 2: How Inspired Is The Great Controversy?
by Reinder Bruinsma | 27 September 2024 | Read Part 1 here My conclusion in first part of this essay—that The Great Controversy belongs to an earlier age, and is out of context in our time—has been strengthened and amplified by a stream of publications about the person and ministry of Ellen White, beginning in […]
The Great Controversy Cult, Part 1: A Message Out of Context
by Reinder Bruinsma | 26 September 2024 | There were not many books in the home in which I grew up, but we did have a small library that was more or less standard in Adventist homes in the Netherlands. Seventh-day Adventists could be expected to have some quite voluminous, blue-gray tomes in a Dutch […]
Los adventistas de Mizoram denuncian la discriminación religiosa
Representantes de la Iglesia Adventista del Séptimo Día en el estado de Mizoram, en el noreste de la India, han emprendido acciones contra las políticas discriminatorias religiosas impuestas por el gobierno local. El 7 de mayo de 2024, miembros del personal de la Escuela Adventista Helen Lowry y miembros de la Federación de Jóvenes Adventistas, […]
¿Son inspirados los apócrifos? Una reveladora carta del hijo de Ellen White
Cuando Denis Fortin, de la Universidad Andrews, escribió el apartado de la enciclopedia sobre el uso de los apócrifos por parte de Elena de White en 2013, señaló cuál era la discusión central: «si ella consideraba que los Apócrifos eran Escritura inspirada». Señala que «ocho referencias a los Apócrifos aparecen en los primeros escritos de […]
News Brief: 26 September 2024
26 September 2024 | News from Jamaica Over 100 final-year students from Northern Caribbean University received laptop computers and stethoscopes donated by AdventHealth during a donation ceremony held in Kingston, Jamaica. For full articles, click here. News from Detroit “On Sabbath, September 14, the Detroit City Temple Seventh-day Adventist Church marked a significant milestone […]
Maryland Program Confronts Pregnancy Mortality
26 September 2024 | Pregnancy mortality ratings have been steadily on the rise due to racial and gender bias in the medical field. To prevent pregnancy mortality and complications, the Maryland Patient Safety Center created B.I.R.T.H. Equity Maryland: Breaking Inequality Reimagining Transformative Healthcare in partnership with the Maryland Hospital Association and local experts in maternal […]