Stories from Hollywood, Huntsville, Silver Spring, India, California, Ohio, Michigan, Adventist World Radio and La Sierra University ……. The movie about Adventist conscientious objector and World War II medic Desmond Doss, “Hacksaw Ridge” was nominated for six Academy Awards on Tuesday (January 24), including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. This major Hollywood production […]
by Raj Attiken, January 26, 2017: The General Conference leadership has, in recent months, appealed for institutional unity as its newest tactic to prohibit the ordination of women to the gospel ministry. The calls – even demands – for unity have become the centerpiece of speeches, published papers, voted actions, issued warnings, and even threatened […]
Photo by Debbonnaire Kovacs, Jan. 26, 2017 This was taken at Camp Kulaqua, High Springs, Florida, on a misty evening. The view is from a boardwalk, on the bridge crossing the stream that runs from Hornby Springs.
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Jan 26, 2017 Someone said (I haven’t been able to find the reference) that to learn patience, one should cultivate the friendship of trees. I’ve written on this topic before, using as an example an old maple at my home. This week I am basking in Florida sunshine in High Springs, at […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Jan 26, 2017 I am at the 2017 conference of the Adventist Agricultural Association, and one of the things that impresses me most (besides the warmth and sunshine in High Springs, Florida; I’m a refugee from a rainy Kentucky winter) is the diversity. Most are Caucasian, but there is a fair number […]
By S M Chen, posted 1-26-17 by D Kovacs Nature Channel recently aired a program called “Animal Odd Couples,” featuring odd and sometimes improbable interspecies animal friendships. Almost any animal you can imagine has, at one time or another, formed friendship with one or more members of other species. Some are with a natural predator/prey […]
by Larry Downing, January 22, 2017: I must have been seven or eight years old the day a neighborhood kid asked why I went to church on the wrong day. My answer to my friend’s question is lost in the mist of time. What have lain dormant, but still recoverable, are the residuals of the […]
Stories from Washington DC, Nigeria, Southern California, Germany, HBO Television, Papua New Guinea, Pacific Union College, Andrews University, Northern California ………. A new regime takes over the United States government today and the new Congress includes two Adventists among the re-elected lawmakers in the lower house. Sheila Jackson Lee has been a representative […]
January 19, 2017: After meeting all day, top leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination from the General Conference (GC) and the North American Division issued a joint statement at 7 pm local time in Silver Spring, Maryland. “The [GC] officers and the officers and union presidents of the [NAD] met … to discuss unity in […]
Watercolor painting by Debbonnaire Kovacs, (c) 2016, posted 1-19-2017 Have you had this experience? I based this painting on a photo of me on the beach near Los Angeles, CA, taken by Helena Pett. I plan to use it as the cover photo for my soon-to-be-released book, Biblical Meditation for Non-Mystics, about a special form of […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, posted Jan 19, 2017 Some weeks back, we published a story about Pastor Sabine Vatel and the Grow Groups of Pioneer Memorial Church. In that story, I promised a full feature about Leanne and Jan Sigvartsen, who miraculously found their firstborn son because of their Grow Group. I talked to Leanne by […]
By S M Chen, posted 1-19-2017 by D Kovacs “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth…” 2 Chronicles 16:9 “Taut and timely,” Eye in the Sky, a 2016 production costarring Helen Mirren (excellent, as usual) and Alan Rickman (in his last role), is a film, in my estimate, […]
