21 May 2018 | The Converge Art and Music Festival began as a Friday night worship service in the summer of 2014 in the Los Angeles area. Initially, it was a fellowship of mostly young adults welcoming the Sabbath. In 2016, the group organized the first annual Art & Music Festival. The goal was to […]
21 May 2018 | Val Bernard, a lecturer at Dauphine University London and Bracknell and Wokingham College in the UK, is sharing findings from her PhD entitled It’s Not Good to Be Alone, Singleness and the 7th Day Black Single Woman. Britain’s The Voice weekly newspaper (which caters to the UK’s Afro-Carribean community) reported on […]
21 May 2018 | Times of India reported yesterday that two days after the police filed a case against the vice chancellor and two top ranking officials of Spicer Adventist University for allegedly claiming fake Doctor of Philosophy degrees, the police did not know their whereabouts. They were not at the university or at their homes, and their […]
20 May 2018 | Paul Lee, an Adventist who is often linked to the award-winning London Adventist Chorale, was the featured soloist during the Royal Wedding performance of Stand By Me on Saturday. Lee performed as part of The Kingdom Choir in front of Meghan Markle, Prince Harry and about 600 guests at St. George’s […]
News reports from Taiwan, Jamaica, Walla Walla University, Chicago, Loma Linda University, Colorado Springs, Colorado and Hutchinson, Minnesota. Australia’s The Guardian reported that an Iranian refugee and her son who had both received treatment at Taiwan Adventist Hospital in Taipei, have been flown back to detention in Nauru despite psychiatric advice that the son not be returned due […]
17 May 2018 | Adventist World announced that the General Conference’s Unity Oversight Committee has started the process of outlining the basic components of a compliance process due to be discussed in October at Annual Council 2018. Mike Ryan, chair of the group, characterized the most recent May 14 meeting of the group as positive and productive. […]
16 May 2018 | An Adventist man in New Zealand is standing trial on 16 charges including two of rape, two of kidnapping and four of assault. New Zealand’s Stuff news site reported that Teina Toru met the alleged victim, a former Jehovah’s Witness, on a religious dating site. Prosecutors accuse Toru of “violent and […]
15 May 2018 | Adam Kis, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Adventist-run Burman University in Lacombe, Alberta, has just published a book critiquing common rhetoric by NGOs and non-profits that claim that poverty is close to being eradicated. In his book, “The Development Trap: How Thinking Big Fails the Poor,” the former Adventist Development and […]
Guiding Families of LGBT+ Loved Ones, Adventist Edition. Posture Shift Books/Lead Them Home, 2006-2018. Available from North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, 9705 Patuxent Woods Drive, Columbia, MD 21046. Reviewed by Dave Ferguson A new 71-page booklet from the NAD titled Guiding Families of LGBT+ Loved Ones provides the most compassionate response to LGBT+ Adventists ever […]
15 May 2018 | A total of 35 Adventist scholars in the social sciences are sharing research reports about family, faith, health, social change, education, young adults, church membership, ministries and issues May 14 through 19 during the annual meeting of the Adventist Human-Subject Researchers Association (AHSRA) and a pre-meeting conference for graduate students and […]
14 May 2018 | The Jamaica Observer reported that the North Bronx Seventh-day Adventist Church is teaming up with two Jamaican organizations in New York City to prevent incarceration among young adults through an information campaign. “The aim is to bring awareness to these vulnerable groups about the consequences of incarceration,” said president of the Ex-Correctional […]
14 May 2018 | Dear Elle, Thank you for writing “The Day My Church Broke My Heart.” I have read it with interest. Perhaps you would like to hear my story along these lines. Since I am 91 now, I don’t claim to remember all the details exactly right. But I will do my best […]