By S M Chen, posted June 14, 2017 She holds the cone ever gently, cradling the gift. Exquisite thing, delicate hands. With wonderment she considers its strange beauty. *** Maybe lethal, but not to touch. If this be thing most deadly she encounters she will have been blest with good fortune. *** As what she […]
by Harry Banks, June 13, 2017: This Sabbath at In His Steps Community Fellowship we arrived at Romans chapter 9. We had just spent the past two or three weeks strolling through the exaltation and unbreakable confidence of the last part of Romans 8. Romans 8 – God’s Love You know, the part where […]
Conclusion of an 8-part series By Cleran Hollancid, June 12, 2017: So are you ready to come to the table? I offer some beginning steps on the path to addressing the problem, before the subject of the actual segregated structure can even be broached; though I don’t proclaim it to be exhaustive. First of all, […]
From News Release, June 11, 2017: The team from an Adventist university in Riverside, California, ranked second in a business school competition involving more than 450 institutions in the United States. The Enactus USA National Exposition was in Kansas City this year and the recognizes of the Adventist team’s entrepreneurial economic empowerment projects that impact […]
Seventh of an 8-part Series By Cleran Hollancid, June 11, 2017: The magnanimous and incomprehensible love of God is waiting to be revealed in us. You understand what that could do in a loveless and harsh world? Imagine the awesomeness of God’s power unleashed on a sick world, when we lay aside our selfish agendas […]
by Ervin Taylor, June 9, 2017: A recent article in Adventist World (June 2017) entitled “The Latter Rain Is Coming” had as its author the current president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Ted N. C. Wilson. This commentary is not addressing the problematical substance of the article, which perhaps will be a topic […]
Stories from Newbold College, New Jersey, Haiti, California, Kenya, Washington DC, Germany, Arkansas, Malawi, Oregon, Switzerland ……. Newbold College outperformed some much larger institutions in the first review by the United Kingdom’s Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) in which it was measured against the same criteria that apply to large, well-known universities funded by the government. […]
June 7, 2017: An international gathering of Union Conference officers and Bible scholars will focus on unity, denominational authority and structure, and liberty of conscience June 15 to 17 in London, England. “Unity 2017” is “a special opportunity for prayerful contemplation of … topics [that] have dominated the conversations throughout the church,” states the announcement […]
By Kofi Adjei, Columbus Ghanaian Church Communications Director, posted June 7, 2017 Editor’s Note: I was present at the Ohio Camp Meeting when a group of (as I remember it) perhaps 30 Ghanaian Seventh-day Adventists, after singing some amazing African songs for us, announced their intention of founding a church just for Ghanaians in Columbus, […]
Sixth of an 8-part Series By Cleran Hollancid, June 7, 2017: Where has the twenty-first century led? Particularly around the end of the twentieth century, Dr. Delbert Baker, former president of Oakwood University and now vice chancellor of the Adventist University of Africa, among many others, hailed Regional Conferences as a success and celebrated their […]
June 6, 2017: The United States Supreme Court yesterday (June 5) announced a decision extending the religious exemption in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to faith-based hospitals even if the pension plans involved were not started by a church. On December 21 last year Adventist Today reported that a lawsuit similar to the […]
By S M Chen, posted June 5, 2017 “One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” Helen Keller (1880-1968); 1st deaf-blind person to earn a B.A. degree (Radcliffe, 1904) [Photo from pixabay.com] The eagle is purportedly the only bird that responds to rain in a unique way: when it rains, […]
