I’ve selected some of the best speeches about the compliance proposal to share with you here. Thomas Lemon, GC General Vice President: The answers we give are determined by the questions we ask. If the answer is compliance under threat or duress, even if it is a small threat, it still will not bring anything […]
A Message to the North American Division Women Clergy, from NAD officers, 15 October 2018 My Dear Sisters in Christ, I am sending you this brief note to let you know that our NAD leadership team believes in your ministry. You have our confidence and the assurance that we will do all in our power […]
I asked several of those who gave excellent comments to share them with Adventist Today. —Loren Seibold Andrea Luxton, President, Andrews University: I am in favor of order in the church but cannot support this document within the current context of the church. The document may be legal, justified by policy and supported by questionnaires. […]
15 October 2018 | More than four out of five Adventists said in a poll conducted over the last two weeks that they disagreed with the “compliance” proposal that was voted by the General Conference executive committee yesterday. The survey of people in the pews, and including some pastors, found that only seven percent agreed […]
14 October 2018 | Atlantic Union College (AUC) is in the early stages of discussing the potential use of its facilities by a Chinese company looking to convert its campus into a prep school. Last month a memorandum of understanding was signed between AUC and Eaglebridge Educational Holdings, a Hong Kong-based company that operates international […]
14 October 2018 I could go through every comment. But you can get that on Twitter. I’m going to sum up this discussion in three points: #1. Elder Wilson started out super nice. Apparently he heard that he came across last year as heavy-handed. This time he was positively unctuous. Lots of “We have been greatly […]
By Loren Seibold | 14 October 2018 | When I was a child growing up on the Great Plains, there was a town not far from us that every year held what they called “Pioneer Days.. It was innocent enough. There was a parade through town of antique cars and tractors and horse-drawn buggies and […]
by Andre Reis | 14 October 2018 | This week, as the church leadership gathers in Battle Creek for the cosplay Annual Council 2018, the membership watches with bated breath. For months the church has been stirring as many institutions have expressed concern with the way the Wilson administration has been attempting to enforce “compliance” […]
13 October 2018 | This morning, speaking to a Sabbath School class in the University Church in Loma Linda, California, Dr. William Johnsson, long-time editor of the Adventist Review, stated that any General Conference (GC) officer who “voted to bring the Compliance document to the [2018] Annual Council should be censured for that action.” The […]
Thank you so much for sharing and exposing the hacking that has been undertaken by “someone/some body” on Dr Stefanovic’s lessons for next quarter (Jan-Mar 2019). I am a Sabbath School teacher, and bulletin editor. You can be sure that I will be including the original text which he prepared, both in my lesson presentation […]
“The Ghosts of Adventism” was brilliant! Insightful, yes. But I’m writing because of the cleverness of the writing. Using the ghost theme, in October no less, tying together so many pieces of SDA history and consequent issues. I am in awe! I don’t know how long it took to craft such a masterpiece, but thanks […]
News reports from St. Helena, California; the North American Division, Oakwood University, Southern Adventist University, Indianapolis, Indiana and Newbold College. Jeff Wood, who wrote the song Side by Side for a week of prayer at Rio Lindo Adventist Academy, died this week at St. Helena Hospital. He was one of the original members of the […]