This is a reactionary commentary regarding the article, “FaceBook, I Love the Way You Lie” in the Summer 2018 edition of our Adventist Today magazine. I am a life long Seventh-day Adventist well acquainted with the church’s doctrine, culture and traditions. And there have been several occasions when I have disagreed with the status quo. […]
26 August 2018 | The Jamaican Union Conference of the Adventist Church is calling on church members in the country to report all forms of abuse. A statement from the church says that abuse is becoming an ever more serious problem in the Adventist and greater Christian community in the country. “We live in a […]
News reports from Chicago, the General Conference, the North American Division, Atlantic Union College and Loma Linda University. More than 6,000 teachers from the Adventist schools at all levels in North America were in Chicago the first week of August for the 2018 North American Division Teachers’ Convention. They came for three days of keynote […]
23 August, 2018 | Randy Skeete, a high-profile Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Adventist evangelist was recently denied permission to speak at two Adventist venues in Kenya. The pastor was scheduled to be the guest speaker at a camp meeting at Newlife SDA Church in Kenya’s Kisii County this weekend but was blocked by the South Kenya […]
23 August 2018 | Amazing Facts, the Adventist media ministry led by Pastor Doug Batchelor, which has been affiliated with the denomination’s Northern California Conference, has announced that it will become an independent ministry by the end of the year. Its constituency voted last week to “restructure to become an autonomous supporting ministry.” Amazing Facts […]
22 August 2018 | Forrest Clark, 51, an arson suspect accused of starting the Holy Fire in Southern California was, for years, known within his community as an Adventist. He also claimed to be a “sovereign citizen,” meaning that he was not subject to common law. Clark is currently in custody and faces life in […]
22 August 2018 | Schae Fuller in the Brooklyn area of New York City has been reported missing by the New York Police Department (NYPD) during a month when a number of highly visible disappearances of women across the United States have been the subject of much attention by the news media. The youth director […]
21 August 2018 | Botswana’s Local Government and Rural Development Assistant Minister, Botlogile Tshireletso, condemned what she described as a pandemic of violence against women and children in the country at an August 19 Adventist-led rally against gender violence in the town of Mahalapye in the central region of the country. At the “End it […]
By Tysan, 20 August 2018 | Members of parliament in Kenya have called upon President Uhuru Kenyatta to beef up security for the Adventist lawyer, Fred Matiang’i who serves as Cabinet Secretary for the Interior, the chief law enforcement officer in the nation. Matiang’i has taken strong action against corruption and the lawmakers say that […]
20 August 2018 | A cross-dressing fan of professional Malawian soccer team, Be Forward Wanderers has infuriated Adventists in the country after he was pictured wearing the uniform typical of female Adventist Dorcas community service volunteers at a soccer match on Saturday, August 18. The Blantyre, Malawi-based team was playing the Azam Tigers, also from […]
19 August 2018 | The wife, two children, niece and mother-in-law of an Adventist pastor in Accra, Ghana, have been killed in a house fire. The fire broke out in the home of Pastor Ato Kessie, the Dansoman District pastor. It started between 5 and 6 a.m. on Sunday, August 19. Kessie was away at […]
News reports from Garden Grove, California; Loma Linda University Medical Center; the Dominican Republic; the North American Division and Volusia County, Florida According to the site Solar Power World, solar power company XsunX installed a solar carport power system at Garden Grove Seventh-day Adventist Church in Garden Grove, California. Solar carports are overhead canopies constructed […]