By Dr. Curtis VanderWaal, Dr. David Sedlacek, Dr. Nancy Carbonell and Dr. Shannon Trecartin, March 27, 2017: Lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT+) youth are at high risk for negative outcomes such as substance abuse, depression, and suicide (Ryan, Huebner, Diaz, & Sanchez, 2009). They often experience anger, disapproval, and rejection from family and friends […]
Poetry and photo by S M Chen, March 26, 2017 Sweet bird of youth has flown away From branches of this aging tree Whose seeds have fallen to the ground, And found rebirth in fallow earth. So I will grieve, as grieve I must, But only for a little while. For Shelley wrote, “If […]
by Larry Downing, March 26, 2017: The mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is to call all people to become disciples of Jesus Christ, to proclaim the everlasting gospel embraced by the three angels’ messages (Revelation 14:6-12), and to prepare the world for Christ’s soon return. ( GC website.) “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, March 23, 2017 In the five years I’ve written for Adventist Today, I have “met” (online or by telephone usually) many, many amazing people, and sometimes researching an AT story even makes me cry. Amistad International is one of those. “Amistad” is Spanish for “friendship” and that’s what it is—the kind of […]
Photo by Debbonnaire Kovacs, March 22, 2017 “Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’” John […]
by Raj Attiken, March 15, 2017: The Seventh-day Adventist Church has surpassed the 20 million mark in its worldwide church membership. An announcement, published in the Adventist Review, claimed that “a major drive to engage every church member in Total Member Involvement has helped propel the Seventh-day Adventist Church past 20 million members for the […]
By S M Chen, March 20, 2017 “I love God’s shadow better than man’s light.” – Madame (Anne Sophie) Swetchine, Russian mystic (1782-1857) [Photo Pixabay; free use] *** I read with interest the announcement that Adventist Today would live stream a talk from T. Richard Rice on 11 March 2017 at the Damazo Amphitheatre at LLU. […]
March 17, 2017: The national media company Constant Contact honored Adventist Today with an All Star Award for its weekly Email edition, AT Update. Constant Contact serves hundreds of thousands of Email publications and the annual award recognizes the most successful 10 percent of these media. Adventist Today publishes the AT Update newsletter every Friday […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, March 16, 2017 Three months in 1994 were the longest and most terrible months of Tabitha Uwimpuhwe’s and her sister’s life. She told me, “For three months I didn’t live.” They had learned that their parents had been killed in the Rwanda massacre and their younger brother was missing. They had no […]
by Ervin Taylor, March 15, 2017: Is Genesis History? This is the title of a film recently widely shown in special presentation in theaters in the United States in late February 2017. On the website of the producers of the film, it is stated that the film is “a fascinating new look at the biblical, […]
A photo essay by S M Chen, March 14, 2017 S M Chen has left footprints–and taken photos–on widely varying spots on this planet. Enjoy his thought-provoking photo essay. (He got the feature photo of the bison, in honor of Chief Crowfoot, from pixabay.) DLK “What is life? It is the flash of […]
From news release, March 15, 2017: Loma Linda University Health has been ranked one of the 25 best places to work in health care according to Indeed.com, an employment related search engine for job listings. This is based on input from employees from all hospitals and health systems in the United States. Loma Linda University […]
