Leaders, Misleaders, and Renewal, Part 1: Ruts and New Roads
by Charles Scriven | 15 August 2024 | This essay will be the basis for our Adventist Today Sabbath Seminar, which you can join here. I stopped short when I read this from a Wendell Berry poem: “…only the dead are changeless.” In the margin I wrote: “Why would anyone want to imitate them?” And […]
Tengo algunas dudas sobre la oración
Yo era un joven adolescente cuando Glenn Coon vino a la Reunión de Campamentos de Dakota del Norte para presentar su famoso (entre nosotros los adventistas) programa, “El ABC de la oración”. Para los que no se acuerdan -o nunca lo supieron- la teología de Glenn Coon sobre la oración era que uno le pide […]
The Horrible Discovery
by Melody Tan | 14 August 2024 | As I write this, I’ve not long returned from a three-week holiday with my son. We had gone to Singapore, country of my birth and where most of my extended family (including my mum) still live. Compared to Australia, Singapore’s costs for fun activities are significantly lower. […]
ATSS: Charles Scriven, “Leaders, Misleaders, and Renewal”
14 August 2024 | In this class I will use scripture both to make a critique of leadership as it is in Adventist life, and to set forth a better way. I will discuss how Christian leadership matters by using James Davison Hunter’s Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of the American Political Crisis, […]
University of the Southern Caribbean Hosts Their First Film Festival
12 August 2024 | The territory-wide Caribbean Union Youth Congress was the stage upon which the first-ever film festival for the University of the Southern Caribbean (USC) played out. Over 500 young Adventists flooded Port of Spain, Trinidad, to attend one day of film screenings and workshops hosted by industry professionals. Named “Blessed,” the film […]
In Search of the Perfect Adventist Family
by Loren Seibold | 13 August 2024 | I was for many years a frequent writer of essays for mainstream Adventist publications. I learned what Adventist editors wanted me to say about most topics. Including about Adventist families. I would start with familiar Bible texts about what an ideal family should be, bulked up by […]
Brazil establishes Pathfinders Club with Indigenous Participants
13 August 2024| The Gigantes do Araguaia (Araguia Giants) Pathfinder club, established in 2022 in the Inam Carajá village in Mato Grosso, Brazil, decided to challenge the idea that missions must be far from home. The Inam Carajá village is home to an Indigenous population that experienced a community-wide conversion in 1975. Through their love […]
Incendio de la iglesia de Spencerville, Maryland
Alrededor de la 1:45 de la madrugada del 9 de agosto, los funcionarios del Servicio de Incendios y Rescate del condado de Montgomery enviaron a 70 bomberos en respuesta a una alarma de dos incendios en la Iglesia Adventista del Séptimo Día de Spencerville. A primera hora de la mañana del viernes, el equipo de […]