January 29, 2017: Dr. David Greenlaw, the president of 25-year-old Adventist University of Health Sciences (ADU), will retire on July 31, 2017. PR Newswire reported that as ADU founder, Greenlaw has led the institution for 27 years from inception to the present day. Greenlaw said, “It’s been a privilege to work alongside such a […]
January 27, 2017: Adventist hospitals in Colorado will opt out of the state’s medical aid-in-dying law. The legislation allows terminally ill Coloradans to end their life by taking life-ending prescriptions from their doctors. The Adventists hospitals are part of Centura Health, a non-profit, faith-based health care system. It is run as a joint operation […]
January 25, 2017: Four male suspects in the January 17 murder of a security guard at Pelandaba Seventh-day Adventist Primary School are in the custody of police. Zimbabwe’s Chronicle newspaper reported that the men appeared in court on January 25 after allegedly murdering the guard, Burton Sikalonga, at the denominational school in the Pelandaba […]
January 25, 2017: Hacksaw Ridge, the Mel Gibson-directed World War II film about Adventist conscientious objector, Desmond T. Doss, received a total of six Oscar Award nominations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Although Hacksaw Ridge has won a number of awards, including nine from the Australian Academy of Cinema and […]
January 23, 2017: An Adventist evangelist in Jamaica has made the headlines by calling Christian child abusers “mongrels.” Evangelist John Martin of Gregory Park Seventh-day Adventist Church in St Catherine, Jamaica quoted Philippians 3 where Paul urges believers to “Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh.” According to an […]
January 22, 2017: Gregory Emelander, an Adventist prison ministries leader whose story of redemption from drug dealing and prison has been widely covered by Adventist media, was jailed along with a teenage woman after overdosing in Coldwater, Michigan, on Wednesday, January 18. Branch County, Michigan’s The Daily Reporter newspaper stated that Aryonna Strassman, the […]
January 19: An Adventist pastor and his church in Kenya are featured in an article published by Stanford University School of Medicine’s blog Scope, outlining the difficult choices faced by gay health workers in countries where homosexuality is a punishable crime. The piece, titled “Where homosexuality is a crime, gay health workers face tough choices,” […]
January 18, 2017: Republican Iowa State Senator Dennis Guth signalled that he will re-introduce a religious liberty bill that was rejected by lawmakers in Iowa last year. The rejected bill, called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, states that authorities can not interfere with a person’s religious freedoms unless there is a compelling cause to do […]
January 17, 2017: After being refused permission to operate due to non-compliance issues, an Adventist K-10 school in Hobart, Tasmania, secured an eleventh-hour reprieve from shutting its doors. On its news site, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that century-old Hilliard Christian School had initially been rejected in its application for registration as a […]
January 16, 2017: Hollywood producer and Adventist lay preacher DeVon Franklin promoted the idea of a seventh-day Sabbath on a recent episode of The Dr. Oz Show. Speaking to Dr. Mehmet Oz on the television program, Franklin pitched Sabbath-keeping as a practice that could improve people’s health. He called it “The 7th Day Restart” […]
January 15, 2017: Adventist Health has joined forces with Kaiser Permanente, Legacy Health and Oregon Health & Science University to create the first psychiatric emergency department in Portland, Oregon. The Portland Business Journal reported that the joint venture, called the Unity Center for Behavioral Health, is an attempt to offer an innovative facility that doesn’t […]
January 12, 2017: The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is suing the Guam Department of Revenue and Taxation over an adverse notice that it owes $12,610,357.91, as well as failure-to-pay penalties of $3,152,589.48 for business privilege taxes incurred by the Guam Seventh-day Adventist Clinic. The General Conference filed the case in the Supreme Court […]
