From ADRA – 11 December 2019 | The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has announced the appointment of Dr. Annetta “Ann” Gibson as vice president for finance. Dr. Gibson began her appointment, effective December 4. Dr. Gibson steps into the role previously held by Michael Kruger, who now serves as president of ADRA. “Ann […]
A Dutch Adventist congregation has written a letter to the denomination’s Executive Committee of the Netherlands Union of Churches Conference, demanding clarification on the “implementation of the equal treatment of female pastors” in the country. In the December 6 letter, the Uniek congregation (based in the city of Utrecht) demanded the union act on a […]
10 December 2019 | I am writing to thank you for the Fall 2019 issue of Adventist Today, marking 175 years since Seventh-day Adventists first expected Jesus to return. Loren Seibold’s article “It’s Too Late for Jesus to Come Soon” put into words what most of us won’t even let ourselves think about: that the […]
10 December 2019 | The South-East Tanzania Conference has called a special constituency meeting for 30 December to consider expelling the Temeke Seventh-day Adventist Church from affiliation with the denomination. Adventist Today has been told that the local church has taken a stand against the Women’s Ministries Department established in 1990 by vote of the […]
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Press release from the North American Division (NAD) of the Adventist denomination, written by Bettina Krause, Melissa Reid, and Dan Weber: On Friday, December 6, 2019, the Fairness for All Act was launched in Washington, D.C., by Congressman Chris Stewart (Utah-R), with support from several religious groups and coalitions. Fairness for All (FFA) is centered […]
8 December 2019 | On December 5, far-right publication Breitbart News reported that a guest speaker at Adventist-owned Andrews University had recently told students their churches should protect undocumented immigrants from deportation. According to Breitbart, he told students at the Berrien Springs, Michigan-based school they should be hiding them in their churches. Referencing a report […]
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7 December 2019 | The Swedish Union of Churches has issued a statement in response to the warnings and reprimands from the president’s office of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and voted at the autumn General Conference Executive Committee Meeting. The Sjundedags Adventistsamfundet was one of the entities “warned” about non-compliance by the GC […]
by Ron Lawson, Yolanda Elliott, and Bob Bouchard | 6 December 2019 | Ben Pickell, Jr., one of the founders of SDA Kinship, an organization for gay and lesbian Seventh-day Adventists, passed away on November 11, 2019, in Palm Desert, California. In the mid- to late 1970s, at least three gay Seventh-day Adventist men tried […]
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5 December 2019 | A psychiatric technician who worked at an Adventist HealthCare behavioral health facility in Rockville, Maryland, has been arrested, charged with second degree rape of one patient and third degree sexual offense against another. Macdoff Oghenejabo Okah, 48, of Silver Spring, Maryland, worked at the Adventist-run facility at the time of the […]