by S.M. Chen | 12 February 2018 | “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” —John Emerich Edward Dalbey-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834-1902) Before Watergate, there were the Pentagon Papers. And who knows? Had it not been for the Pentagon Papers, perhaps there would have been no Watergate, in which case Richard Nixon may not […]
From ANN | 11 February 2018 | A new pacemaker that measures in at one-tenth the size of a regular pacemaker and weighs less than a five cent coin, has been implanted during heart surgery at Sydney Adventist Hospital. Dr. Peter Illes, an interventional cardiologist at the hospital and a veteran of more than 4000 […]
9 February 2018 | Several retired Adventist workers in India have gone public with allegations that since 2011, Adventist conference and union leaders in the South Central Indian Union (SCIU) have worked with a middleman to receive from the Karnataka state government money to renovate churches, some of which they say has been misappropriated. The […]
9 February 2018 | News reports from Mountain View, California; the British Virgin Islands; Roseville, Glendale, Redlands and St. Helena, California; Rwanda and Buffalo, New York. A Chinese language tutor who worked in a facility rented from the Central Seventh-day Adventist Church in Mountain View, California, has been arrested for allegedly engaging in lewd acts […]
8 February 2018 | Brenden Rajah, a volunteer basketball coach at Puget Sound Adventist Academy in Kirkland, Washington, has been arrested for alleged voyeurism. USA Today reported that Rajah was accused of videotaping students changing into team uniforms in his office. Two of the high school’s students found the videos on a tablet computer used by the […]
This is the response by Angus McPhee to Marvin Moore’s article, “Why the Little Horn of Daniel 8 is Much More Than Antiochus Epiphanes” Moore: The three prophecies that concern us here are found in chapters 2, 7, and 8. McPhee: Why insist on including Daniel 2 and 7 in a discussion of Daniel 8, […]
7 February 2018 | Over the first three days of February, Andrews University hosted Against the Wall, a ministry calling for racial reconciliation within the Adventist denomination. Against the Wall was founded by Ty Gibson, an Adventist pastor and co-director of Light Bearers, and Michael Nixon, vice president for diversity and inclusion at Andrews University. […]
From ANN, 6 February 2018 | The Adventist Church in Germany has released a statement marking the end of the First World War with a reminder of “our Christian-Adventist position” to live without violence. The statement was approved during the annual meeting of the committee of the Seventh-day Adventist Church on 4 December. This combined committee represents […]
5 February 2018 | A racist video shared on the Snapchat social media platform has stirred controversy at Southern Adventist University. The video titled “Happy n***** day” was shared by an account called “Southern Stories” and portrays black students carrying flags from various nations at a Black Christian Union (BCU) event on Saturday night, February 3. […]
4 February 2018 | Accusations about Ben Carson Jr.’s involvement in a Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) listening tour have prompted his father, HUD secretary Ben Carson, to call for an investigation. News analysis site Vox reports that the brewing scandal stems from reports that Carson Jr. was invited to be part of […]
By Tysan | 2 February 2018 | Despite attempts by police to divert buses from all over the country, a massive crowd was present on Tuesday (January 30) in historic Uhuru Park in downtown Nairobi when opposition candidate Raila Odinga swore himself in as “the people’s president.” Odinga lost the election in November that installed […]
News reports from New Jersey, Maryland, Australia, Boston College, Jamaica, the United Nations, Montana and Florida. An Adventist immigrant from Indonesia was detained by law enforcement last week as he dropped off his daughter at a school bus stop in New Jersey. The site Democracy Now! reported that Gunawan Liem was detained by the Immigration […]