11 March 2019 | Dr. Desmond “Des” Ford went to his rest in Christ today at the age of 90. A pastor in Australia, where he was born and raised, he graduated from Avondale College in 1950 and completed a Master’s degree in systematic theology in 1959 at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary when it […]
8 March 2019 | Retired pastor, educator and writer Stuart Tyner died unexpectedly this week at his home in Riverside, California. He spent a lifetime teaching, preaching, and writing about his favorite subject: God’s incredible grace. More than anything, he wanted children to know the profound, motivating truth that “Jesus loves me.” He traveled extensively […]
March 2019 | A preview of the budget for the 2019-2020 school year was presented to the board of trustees for Washington Adventist University (WAU) on Wednesday by Dr. Weymouth Spence, the university president. It included most of the plans for cuts in faculty and programs that Adventist Today reported last week. Although the report […]
by Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 07 March 2019 | This month I will be uploading four articles, one each week, to my website (RonaldLawson.net) that address the situation of LGBTQ Adventists in their church. This week’s article, written in the late 1980s to present to a meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of […]
This book takes on some of the most basic issues in the Adventist faith. It is written from the heart of a successful pastor who has a track record of communicating the gospel to all kinds of people, including some of the most unlikely groups. Part one describes the authentic, biblical everlasting gospel that is […]
by Larry Downing | 22 February 2019 | On occasion one sets about to compose a tightly connected essay, only to have it fragment or spiral to an abrupt, disjointed end. I fear this piece, upon which I have set myself, illustrates the point. Despite such a fate, welcome aboard and perhaps, with a bit […]
by Ron Lawson, Ph.D. | 28 February 2019 | Seventh-day Adventists have been involved in a number of landmark court cases bearing on both the Free Exercise and Establishment clauses of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and on statutory law. The main issues have included security of employment for Sabbath observers, the right […]
27 February 2019 | Sources have told Adventist Today that the Washington Adventist University (WAU) administration plans to cut six to fourteen faculty positions as the 2018-2019 school year comes to a close. One person, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, indicated that full-time professor positions will be cut […]
by Ronald Lawson | 22 February 2019 | This was an answer to a question posed by Gerald Winslow for a Metro New York Adventist Forum meeting in April of 2010. A sect is defined by Stark and Bainbridge as having high tension with society, marked by separation/exclusivity, difference, and mutual antagonism. Early Adventism was […]
20 February 2019 | Conflicts between the local elders and the pastor of the Nairobi Central Seventh-day Adventist Church were reported in the 22 January edition of the Standard, a leading newspaper in the capital city of Kenya. On 31 January the Adventist News Network (ANN) reported that the church had “organized a wholistic evangelistic […]
Dr. Ginger Ketting-Weller, dean of La Sierra University’s School of Education, has accepted a call to serve as president of the Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies (AIIAS) in Silang, Philippines. She told her faculty in December that she had accepted the call from the denomination’s General Conference (GC) to head AIIAS beginning 1 July 2019. […]
16 February 2019 | Today Pioneer Memorial Church celebrated the 60th anniversary of its first occupancy on Valentine’s Day Sabbath in 1959. “I have no other central theme than ‘Jesus,’” Pastor J. L. Tucker began the first sermon in the new facility, reported the student newspaper at the time. The One Project would redeem this […]
