August 30, 2018 | This letter is in response to the article entitled “Creation and Evolution: Misunderstood Terms and Concepts” by Erv Taylor, dated 22 August, 2018 that appeared in the August 24, 2018 email issue. Dr. Taylor’s phrase “biological evolution reflects the simple observation that biological organisms change over time” is not refuted, neither […]
28 August 2018 | According to local police, Murray Ramnarine, a former principal at Shiloh Seventh-day Adventist Church School in Ocala, Florida, tried to “buy” a student to get her to kiss him. ClickOrlando.com (run by WKMG News 6) reported that Ramnarine, 67, was working as an administrative assistant at the school when the alleged advance […]
28 August 2018 | The denomination’s General Conference (GC) Administrative Committee appointed five Compliance Review Committees two weeks ago despite the fact that the proposal from the Unity Oversight Committee will not be discussed and voted on until the annual meeting of the GC Executive Committee in mid-October. That proposal might authorize such committees, depending […]
28 August 2018 | British health journal, Lancet, has published a report titled, “No level of alcohol consumption improves health.” The report comes after an alcohol research study involving 512 researchers across 243 academic and governmental institutions. In the research, alcohol studies as well as public health and death records from 200 countries and locations […]
27 August 2018 | The Montgomery County Fire Marshal’s Office reported that a very inebriated man started a fire in Takoma Park, Maryland-based Washington Adventist Hospital’s emergency room. The patient, Henry Padilla-Martinez, 20, was found wandering the halls of the ER shortly before it was discovered that his bed was on fire. The incident took […]
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 […]