Southern California Wildfire Leads to Evacuations Near Redlands
10 September 2024 | Southern California had been battling excessive heat warnings for over a week when the situation sparked a wildfire on September 5 and came to a head on Saturday, September 7, leading Governor Newsom to declare a state of emergency for San Bernardino County. California secured a Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) […]
ADRA Mongolia Promotes Self-Sustaining Agriculture Practices
10 September 2024 | ADRA Hong Kong has expressed support for ADRA Mongolia’s new Climate Adapted Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Project (CANSAP) project. Smallholder farmers in Bayan-Ulgii province have endured severe weather, depleting crop health, shortening growing seasons, and limiting market access, placing their livelihood and community health in a precarious position. CANSAP is a three-year […]
Aunty, why does our church have such poor leadership?
9 September 2024 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, An older church worker that I admired once told me that the church promotes people to their level of incompetence. I was new to church work at the time, and thought maybe he was just jaded. But over the last few decades I’ve seen it to be true. […]
Comments of the Week September 1-8
Comments of the Week September 1-8 Welcome to a new feature, where we select the best comments of the week, and invite you to revisit the essays where they were made. —Editors How Much Can We Trust Your Conscience? “Adventists generally do not have a true conscientious objection to anything. While some are conscientious objectors […]
Editorial: “How Helping People Shower Is Following Jesus”
I’ve recently begun working in a skilled nursing facility as Director of Social Services and it has introduced me to some really beautiful people in the form of the patients. These lovely people who have lifetimes of experience and wisdom are experiencing a difficult time in their lives. Most of them have some form of […]
How Much Can We Trust Your Conscience?
by Loren Seibold | 6 September 2024 | When I was a teen, one Adventist teaching that seemed extraordinarily clear to me was that Seventh-day Adventists were—and I supposed always would be—noncombatants in military service. This was the Vietnam era. I knew Adventist men who got drafted and served, not as soldiers but as medics, […]
JustLove Collective Launches Advocacy Project
6 September 2026| Press release from JustLove Collective: JustLove Collective will launch a cluster of advocacy teams with online events on September 7, 8, and 9. The inaugural JustLove Summit was held at La Sierra University in May, and these new events seek to mobilize and engage Adventists and other friends for collective justice action. […]
La controversia sobre El Conflicto de los Siglos, Parte 2: El compromiso del modernismo con la razón
Lee la Parte 1, dándole clic aquí Dada la importancia del tema del Conflicto de los Siglos en el adventismo, y cómo han cambiado las condiciones en la sociedad y en la Iglesia en los últimos 165 años, es razonable utilizar la herramienta moderna de la razón para examinar la relevancia del Conflicto de los […]