By Pamela Maize Harris | 24 October 2024 | Last week Oakwood University’s (OU) board announced that President Leslie N. Pollard has accepted a new position as Assistant to the North American Division president Alex Bryant for Pastoral Continuing Education and Mission, beginning July 1, 2025. Concerned Oakwoodites, a lay group that has been pushing […]
Statement issued October 22, 2024: In view of the allegations of abuse made against the former pastor of the Hanseatic Conference, which have been made public, it seems appropriate for us, as a former employer, to provide some factual information on this matter—in brief, the facts as we know them. These more factual statements are […]
by Melody Tan | 23 October 2024 | Saturday—Sabbath—mornings are often chaotic in our household. Sure, we all get to enjoy a little bit of a sleep-in because we don’t have to leave the house as early as we normally do on a weekday, but it’s all systems go, shortly after waking. After a leisurely […]
23 October 2024 | “As the pessimism and despair of Orthodoxy fades away, like the darkness before the rising sun, it leaves us in a world containing a nobler religion, a grander God, a more hopeful man, a more comprehensive Bible, a better Church, and a more inspiring destiny.” So wrote the Rev. Minot Savage, […]
by Loren Seibold | 22 October 2024 | A friend wrote me a note today. “Happy Great Disappointment Day,” he said. “Another year of remembering that something didn’t happen.” Actually, the bearded ones told us something did happen. And who knows for sure?—though I confess I don’t find the tortured arithmetic terribly convincing. But my […]
21 October 2024 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Growing up, I heard so much against Adventists joining workers’ unions. It was considered by some a sin, and people were denied positions of service in the church if it were found out they had joined one. My father lost many benefits by not joining a union. Where […]
Item #6: “Unauthorized or improper disclosure of information–unauthorized or improper use or release of personal, confidential, private, or proprietary employer or denominational information by any means.” Serious wide-ranging, and concerning new communication rules for church clergy and church employees were discussed this week at the General Conference (GC) Autumn Council in Silver Spring, Maryland. This […]
by Alvin Masarira | 18 October 2024 | The General Conference Executive Committee (GC Excom) met this year from October 10 to 16. The GC Excom is one of the most influential bodies of the worldwide church and it meets more frequently—at least twice a year, so 10 times in five years—than the General Conference […]
by Stephen Ferguson | 17 October 2024 | I am interested in religion, especially its more philosophical aspects—but I would say I have never been a particularly spiritual person. I have always struggled to pray, meditate, or contemplate. The closest thing I have ever had to an extraordinary mystical experience had nothing to do with […]
17 October 2024 | At least in the United States, church and state are held separately to prevent the interjection of the government into the free exercise of religion. However, does that mean the church is to remain neutral in all matters of politics? We will explore some of the historical episodes of the Adventist […]
by Reinder Bruinsma, PhD | 16 October 2024 | This lecture was originally scheduled for Loma Linda University on October 16, but was canceled on orders from General Conference president Ted Wilson. It was rescheduled for the Norte Vista High School Theater in Riverside, California. It was also the occasion of launching Dr. Bruinsma’s new […]
