by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 4 April 2019 | Seventh-day Adventist missionaries entered Kenya in 1906. Because they were relatively late on the scene, and the British colonial government policy discouraged direct competition between missions, they concentrated their efforts for the first several decades on the region of western Kenya near Lake Victoria. Their efforts […]
[symple_heading style=”” title=”The Rhythms of Life” type=”h1″ font_size=”40″ text_align=”center” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”30″ color=”undefined” icon_left=”” icon_right=””] April 6, 2019 This is a tool for you to use if you lead a Sabbath School class or small group. It is keyed to the Bible texts used in the current week’s Adult SS Lesson and includes a brief story […]
More and more Adventists are interested in starting small, informal congregations that meet on Sabbath in homes and other non-traditional locations. This is an effective approach in secular, urban contexts, especially among young adults. Simple Church at Home is an Adventist resource network that provides support for these groups and is recognized by the denomination. […]
by S M Chen | 29 March 2019 | “Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned part of their narcissism.” —Sigmund Freud In Greek mythology, Narcissus, son of river god Cephissus and nymph Liriope, was noted for his comeliness. In Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” Book III, his mother was told by blind seer […]
by David Geelan | 28 March 2019 | “Evolution is a fact” is something we tend to hear from one side in debates about origins. I’d argue that this statement reflects a misunderstanding of the roles of facts, theories and laws in science. At the same time, from the other side of those same debates, […]
From APD, 28 March 2019 | A medical student in the Republic of Korea won a Supreme Court decision protecting him from required exams scheduled on the Sabbath, and a public school teacher in Denmark was reinstated by a government commission after he was fired for refusing to work on Sabbath. Both are significant precedents […]
by Larry Downing | 22 March 2019 | Harold Marshall Sylvester Richards Sr. holds high place among the giants of Adventist pioneers. In 1926, on a central California radio station, Richards first aired what would morph into a nationwide radio ministry. In the years following that first venture into mass communication, The Voice of Prophecy […]
by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 21 March 2019 | After the first Kinship Kampmeeting in 1980, which made Kinship a national organization, many of its leaders, remembering their trials while students at Adventist colleges, felt a strong call to present support and to help create LGBTIQ groups on college campuses. They began with mass mailings […]
by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 15 March 2019 | The following account was written in March, 1991. Kinship was formed in 1976. Shortly afterwards, through a ballot among our members, we chose the name “Seventh-day Adventist Kinship International” as best describing our members and constituency. SDAKI was incorporated as a not-for-profit religious corporation in California […]
by Stephen Ferguson | 14 March 2019 | Dedicated to the memory of Dr.Desmond Ford The problem of when a trial is punishment. Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton was wrongly imprisoned for three years for the alleged murder of her baby daughter Azaria in 1980 while camping in the Australian Outback. Later forensic evidence proved the baby had […]
15 March 2019 | Global Youth Day is an event promoted by the denomination’s youth department. It is scheduled for tomorrow. The idea is that teens and young adults go out and do acts of kindness and community service after a brief worship on Sabbath morning that focuses on Christ’s many commands for such activity […]
The North American Division (NAD) of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination is eager to learn more about how Adventist families experience the coming out of one of their family members. To that end, the NAD has partnered with Adventist researchers at Andrews University and the University of Southern Mississippi to understand the perspectives of parents whose […]
