The Crusade to Christianize Public Schools
by Robert Crux | 5 September 2024 | Do students still have the constitutional right to a public education free from religious indoctrination and discrimination? Or do public school officials have free rein to promote their religious beliefs and practices to students? Could American public schools become religious public schools? We may now be living […]
News Briefs for September 5, 2024
5 September 2024 | News from Ghana The General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church West Central Africa Division (WAD) has distributed electrocardiogram machines in 22 African countries to address rising heart-related attacks. The machines were offered at the opening of the Health Ministries International Conference through the 500,000 WAD Heart Health Project. Full story […]
Theology as Autobiography: Looking at the World Through My Lens
by Reinder Bruinsma | 4 September 2024 | I have nearly finished reading the most recent book of Professor Stefan Paas. He teaches systematic theology and mission studies at the Free University in Amsterdam. Most of his writing is in the Dutch language. (This book is Dutch, though I would not be surprised if there […]
ATSS: Rolf Pöhler, “Adventist Misconceptions About Doctrinal Change”
28 August 2024 | That Adventist doctrines have developed to some degree over time is obvious and widely accepted. Less agreement exists regarding the quality, extent, and timing of these changes. There are several widespread notions and hypotheses—advanced in the past by leading Adventists—in this regard that do not stand up to the historical facts, […]
Conrad Vine Banned from Michigan Conference Pulpits
4 September 2024 | Conrad Vine’s well-publicized sermons at the Northern Maine Camp Meeting have continued to cause problems for the popular right-wing anti-vaccination speaker. The latest organization to ban him from their pulpits is the one where he lives: the Michigan Conference. In a 3 September letter, conference president Jim Micheff wrote, During a […]
Adventist Organization Treats NCDs in South Pacific
3 September 2024 | In 2020, it was determined that over 70% of deaths in the Solomon Islands are due to non-communicable diseases, mainly diabetes. Due to this statistic, the health ministries at the South Pacific Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church established The 10,000 Toes Campaign, which, according to their website aims to: Equip […]
Divided We Stand: Traditionalists Rise Against Church Leadership
by Debbie Hooper | 3 September 2024 | The Seventh-day Adventist Church is at a critical juncture, facing the need to address rising opposition from both progressive and traditional factions. For a long time, Elder Wilson’s leadership of the General Conference has enjoyed the support of traditional/conservative factions, who share his goal of returning Adventism […]
Cineastas homosexuales buscan captar las emociones de El gran chasco
Cineastas gays del oeste de Filadelfia han creado una adaptación artística de El Gran Chasco, que tuvo lugar durante el movimiento Millerita. Los cineastas Chani Bockwinkel y Ty Burdenski se sintieron atraídos por este acontecimiento, concretamente por el sentimiento de expectativa y por la necesidad de utilizar el deseo del fin de los tiempos para […]
Sudamérica impulsa la lucha contra el abuso sexual infantil
De un artículo de Adventist News Network: La División Sudamericana está abordando el abuso sexual infantil en las iglesias adventistas locales. «Es nuestra responsabilidad proteger a nuestros niños, garantizándoles el amor, la seguridad y la ayuda que necesitan», afirma Jeanete Lima, educadora y coordinadora del proyecto ¡Basta de Silencio! de la División Sudamericana. Al analizar […]
Sustainable Agriculture Technology Launched Through Adventist University in Chile
2 September 2024| The Faculty of Engineering and Business at the Adventist University of Chile (UnACh) has launched a project called the Agro-Photovoltaic System (AgroPv), focused on a dual purpose: generating electrical energy using solar radiation and developing fruit orchards under photovoltaic panel structures. Photovoltaic panels use photovoltaic cells to convert sunshine into voltage which […]