By Monte Sahlin, December 8, 2015: Throughout my life it has been difficult for me to see how the crisis envisioned in the classic Adventist interpretation of Revelation 13 could possibly be connected with contemporary realities. I would listen to wild statements by those who saw such possibilities in all kinds of headlines and even […]
December 7, 2015: Dr. Richard Hart, president of Loma Linda University, announced last week plans to begin a medical school at the Adventist University of Central Africa (AUCA) in Rwanda. Together with Jerry Daly from LLU’s Global Health Institute, Hart was in Africa at the request of Pastor Hesron Byilingiro, president of the denomination’s Rwanda […]
From News Release, December 7 2015: Washington Adventist University (WAU) Adjunct Professor Colin Wellenkamp is leading a delegation of Mississippi River mayors who are attending the United Nation’s climate change conference this week in Paris. They are part of the Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative (MRCTI), and will be involved in talks with officials […]
December 4, 2015: An Adventist woman was wounded in during the mass shooting in San Bernardino earlier this week and sources have told Adventist Today that Loma Linda University (LLU) closed down classes on Wednesday (December 2). The university has returns to normal operations and continues to treat some of the most seriously wounded. Law […]
From ANN, December 3, 2015: The President of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination in North America, Daniel R. Jackson, issued the following statement on December 3, 2015, in response to the deadly shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California: “The Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America is heartbroken that we must once again […]
December 3, 2015: A mass shooting resulted in the deaths of 14 people and 17 wounded just three miles from the campus of Loma Linda University (LLU), the leading Adventist health sciences institution in southern California, on Wednesday (December 2). Because the university medical center is the primary trauma center for the area, five of […]
By Carole Derry-Bretsch, posted Dec 3, 2015 Come and see all of the current and former heritage singers together for the final time! HERITAGE SINGERS 45th ANNIVERSARY FINAL REUNION CONCERT!!!!! Saturday, July 30, 2016 7:00 PM Citizens Business Bank Arena 4000 E. Ontario Center Parkway Ontario, CA These are reserved seats, not general admission. So, […]
Photo by Debbonnaire Kovacs, posted Dec 3, 2015 I was going to say something about what this really is…but I decided art is always in the eye of the beholder, anyway. What do you think it is, or represents, or means to you?
By S M Chen, posted Dec 3, 2015 I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., writer (1922-2007) I was at work. I don’t work that often […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Dec. 2, 2015 The book of Baruch, though not in the Hebrew Bible and not included in Protestant Bibles, is found in the Septuagint of the 3rd century BCE. It includes some astonishingly New Testament-sounding readings, such as 3:38, which says “Afterwards he was seen upon the earth, and conversed with men,” […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Dec 3, 2015 “I frightened most people at church. Depression is often mistaken for tossing away one’s faith. They stood back and assumed the worst. I didn’t have the energy to chase after them. A visit or a phone call would have helped so much. You don’t have to understand […]
From ANN, December 3, 2015: Romanian politicians and thought leaders, along with academics and religious liberty advocates from around the world, gathered recently in central Bucharest for a major conference focused on law, ethics and religious liberty. The third International Religious Liberty Conference was held November 19 in Romania’s renowned Palace of the Parliament, […]
