12 December 2024 | News from Paraguay “Nuevo Tiempo Paraguay Radio, a Seventh-day Adventist radio ministry, recently celebrated 20 years of sharing hope. Celebrations included a caravan to inaugurate new radio towers in the Paraguayan cities of Saltos del Guairá and Pedro Juan Caballero, in addition to a reopening in Yguazú.” Excerpt from the full […]
11 December 2024 | Southern Adventist University’s Biology and Allied Health Department and School of Computing have partnered to harness artificial intelligence (AI) to classify dinosaur teeth. A specific form of AI called deep learning uses artificial neural networks to learn from data and solve complex problems. The idea originated in the fall of 2022 […]
In 1998, Saturday Night Live aired a School House Rock parody that was later banned. The episode was removed because it outlined how a small number of powerful corporations controlled much of the news and entertainment media. This “media-opoly” created the illusion of choice for audiences, while controlling information in ways that protected corporate interests. […]
10 December 2024 | The ELIA Lifestyle Medicine Centre, or Empowering Lifestyle Innovation & Advocates, has committed itself to extending care to rural communities in New South Wales, Australia. Center medical director Andrea Matthews celebrated the impact of accessible medical care for rural patients, “Access to health services is a major issue complicated by barriers […]
10 December, 2024 | In an update surrounding the Feather River Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) School shooting last Wednesday, the shooter, who killed himself after he opened fire in the school, injuring a 6-year-old and a 5-year-old, has been identified as Glenn Litton. The 56-year-old has, according to one news outlet, a lengthy criminal record, including […]
In the original Planet of the Apes movie (1968), three astronauts have crash-landed on an unknown planet they estimate to be 300 light years from earth. The spaceship’s chronometer indicates that it’s been 2,006 years since the launch of their spaceship. Thanks to “time dilation” and “deep hibernation” they’ve aged less than a year. As […]
Loren Seibold | 6 December 2024 | I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. It shouldn’t be that hard to get up on Sunday and pick out a church and slip quietly into a pew. My excuse, most Sundays, has been that years after I’ve officially retired, Saturday is still a work day—mostly […]
A fundamental shift has occurred in our church that directly affects your right to know what’s happening within our denomination. This fall, the General Conference adopted item #6 — a GC working policy addition that makes it a disciplinary offense for any church employee, including pastors and communication staff, to share information with independent Adventist […]
05 December 2024 | News from Loma Linda University “Law enforcement departments from across the Inland Empire joined forces with Loma Linda University Health leadership, the Security Department, and community members for the 10th annual No-Shave November fundraiser. This year’s event raised $14,555 to support the Loma Linda University Cancer Center’s mission to advance cancer […]
05 December 2024 | At 1:08 pm on Wednesday, December 4, a 911 call came into the California Highway Patrol regarding an active shooter situation at Feather River Adventist School, located on Cox Lane and Highway 70 between Oroville and Palermo. The call was transferred to the Butte County Sheriff’s Office, but a California Highway […]
5 December 2024 | Controversial pastor Ron Kelly has announced that he has been dismissed from employment by the Michigan Conference as the senior pastor of the Berrien Springs Village Church. In a YouTube recording, he said, On Sunday, December 1, at the end of my Thanksgiving vacation, I got a phone call at 3:16 […]
Dear AT Readers/Family, We are thrilled to share some exciting news with you! Yesterday, on Giving Tuesday, our community rallied together in an extraordinary display of generosity, raising over $28,000 in a single day. This remarkable achievement provides the perfect launchpad for our year-end fundraising campaign, which aims to reach $120,000 by the close of […]