3 January 2019 | Two Adventists were among the new United States Congress that was sworn in today. Sheila Jackson Lee is a member of the House of Representatives from the 18th District in Texas, and Dr. Raul Ruiz is also a house member from the 36th District in California. Both are veteran members who […]
by Tysan | 30 December 2018 | Adventist youth camped at the border of Tanzania and Kenya last week to protest female genital mutilation (FGM) and unsafe circumcision practices. The purpose of the protest was to protect their peers from forced practices in social tradition that endanger their health. The Hon. Glorious Luoga, district commissioner […]
One of the most famous documents in the twentieth-century history of the Adventist faith has been republished in a new edition with some recent annotation and documentation. Daniel 8:14, the Day of Atonement and the Investigative Judgment was written by Dr. Desmond Ford, then a visiting professor at Pacific Union College (PUC) in California and […]
From News Release, 28 December 2018 | Dr. Ellsworth Wareham, the Loma Linda University (LLU) cardiac surgeon known for his vegan-supported longevity and his distinguished surgical career that included the first open-heart surgeries in many countries, has passed to his rest at the age of 104. A 1942 surgical graduate of what was then known […]
by Melody Tan | 29 December 2018 | I remember the day I realized I had fully accepted Jesus into my life, 20 years ago. It was a day filled with so much joy and peace. I had given my life up to God, which meant that He could do whatever He wanted with it […]
by Steve Case | 26 December 2018 | Seventh-day Adventists face a conundrum. Our pioneers emphasized “Present Truth”[1] when we officially became a church in the second half of the 19th century. Present Truth meant truth pertinent to right now—a front-burner topic or issue. How long does Present Truth continue on the front-burner? Moving truth […]
Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 24 December 2018 | When the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion was being prepared in the mid-1990s, I was invited to write the article on Adventism for it. A decade later, Robert Wuthnow, its publisher, decided that it was time for a second edition, and I was […]
by Monte Sahlin | 25 December 2018 | I am pleased that we have been able to bring you information and ideas that have been helpful to you over the past year, or maybe the past 25 years. Whether you are an active member in an Adventist congregation or someone with Adventist family that you […]
From News Releases, 19 December 2018 | The Adventist denomination’s Trans-European Division (TED) faced many of the same issues as its North American Division when the TED executive committee convened for the 2018 annual meeting in Bečići, Montenegro, on 21-25 November. “You are not big in numbers but big in challenges,” Dr. Artur Stele, a […]
by S M Chen | 17 December 2018 | “You just call out my name…” 1971 song “You’ve Got a Friend” by Carole King An e-pal posted a link to a recent BBC Earth 3.5’ video which, along with over 9 million other viewers, I watched with more than a little interest. Narrated by Sir […]
Ronald Lawson, Ph.D. | 17 December 2018 | In the past two weeks we have uploaded two of the first three papers written in 1983-84 under the aegis of my historical and sociological study of global Adventism. We have just uploaded the third of these, “The Future of Seventh-day Adventism.” You are invited to read […]
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