16 August 2018 | Guro Edvardsen, an Adventist pastor in Norway, has launched a YouTube channel titled “A Female Pastor.” Although she is in favor of having female pastors in the Adventist denomination, she made clear in an email to Adventist Today that her intention is not to attack those that have a different point of […]
15 August 2018 | Midwife Partners, a Lenexa, Kansas-based midwifery business is suing Shawnee Mission Health, the Kansas State Board of Nursing, and several obstetricians who work at Shawnee Mission Medical Center for allegedly putting them out of business. The business obtained a collaborative practice agreement (CPA) in 2015, a requirement for midwives wishing to […]
14 August 2018 | According to a press release from Altamonte Springs, Florida-headquartered Adventist Health System, all of the network’s wholly owned facilities will be carry the AdventHealth name as of January 2, 2019. The transition is described in the press release as a move to “being one consumer-centric, connected and identifiable national system of […]
13 August 2018 | US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, attended the premiere of controversial Christian Film Death of a Nation, on August 1. The Adventist Trump cabinet member attended the premiere with his wife, Candy Carson. Death of a Nation was created by Dinesh D’Souza, a right-wing filmmaker and provocateur who […]
12 August 2018 | The board chairs and top administrators of the 12 colleges and universities operated by the Seventh-day Adventist denomination in the United States and Canada met in Chicago through the weekend, following a teachers’ convention last week that involved thousands of K-12 and higher education faculty from Adventist schools. The “Summit on […]
12 August 2018 | A poll by Public Religion Research Institute shows statistically significant growth in the percentage of Americans who believe that owners of wedding-based businesses should have the right to not serve same-sex couples if serving them conflicts with their religious beliefs. An article in Religion News Service said that the poll, surveying […]
News reports from Romania, Hungary, Oakwood University, Takoma Academy, Australia and Egypt ADRA Romania, a branch of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency is providing drinking water, food and hygiene supplies to families impacted by flooding in 20 counties, including the capital city of Bucharest. The project is called “Hope afloat.” Dr. Gábor Mihalec, family […]
10 August 2018 | Tent City Seventh-day Adventist Church in Portmore, St. Catherine, Jamaica has started mentorship clubs that seek to inspire adolescents to higher emotional, moral and spiritual development. Jamaica’s The Gleaner reported on August 10 that 35 youth had been inducted into the clubs, known as the Girls of Eloquence, Morals and Standards […]
8 August 2018 | On Wednesday night, August 8, the lead pastor and the board of elders at Willow Creek Community Church resigned. The group said that they had made a mistake in not believing women who accused the megachurch’s founding pastor, Bill Hybels, of sexual harassment. Although there have been a number of women […]
7 August 2018 | Two speakers from Coming Out Ministries that were scheduled to present at an Adventist camp meeting in Nova Scotia did not end up coming to the event. Canada’s Maritime Conference of the Adventist Church had been heavily pressured to remove the two speakers that are deemed controversial by LGBTQ advocacy groups. […]
6 August 2018 | A former Shawnee Mission Medical Center director of women’s and children’s services is suing the hospital claiming that male executives ignored her report about hospital birth center understaffing because she is a woman. The lawsuit claims that there was a “boys’ club” atmosphere at the hospital. Margaret Meier says she was […]
5 August 2018 | On August 1, Adventist Health received approval to start leasing Tulare Regional Medical Center from its hospital district. According to the Sacramento Business Journal, the bankrupt hospital closed last October 29 when the Tulare Local Healthcare District board voluntarily suspended the facility’s license. The hospital had acquired $38 million in debt […]