by Loren Seibold | 10 April 2018 | My expectations for the General Conference Spring Meeting are generally pretty low. It is an annual meeting, but not one that every church administrator in the world comes to as they do to the autumn Annual Council. The spring gathering is called mostly for financial reports, audits, […]
10 April 2018 | The Rwandan government is requiring all churches in the country to install lightning rods after a lightning strike on an Adventist church last month killed 16 people and injured 140. The Washington Post confirmed that the Adventist church that was struck did not have a lightning rod. The church did not […]
9 April 2018 | A group that traces its roots to the Adventist Church recently took out controversial ads in three different national newspapers. The Eternal Gospel Church, founded in 1992 by Seventh-day Adventists, published ads in The Washington Times, USA Today and Diario Las Americas. They were published from Wednesday, March 28 through Friday, March […]
8 April 2018 | The General Conference Investment Board has voted to direct the GC Investment Management Committee “that in keeping with our longstanding position on non-combatancy … to screen all present and potential investments in order to exclude companies whose revenues are derived primarily or substantially from the manufacture and sale of weapons, combat vehicles, munitions […]
News reports from Dade City, Florida; Walla Walla, Washington; Indonesia; Haiti; Loma Linda University; Littleton, Colorado; and Malawi The Tampa Bay Business Journal reports that Adventist Health System, has acquired the 120-bed Bayfront Health Dade City Hospital in Dade City, Florida. Adventist Health is integrating Bayfront Health Dade City into its system as well as […]
5 April 2018 | Jamaica’s The Gleaner reported yesterday that the Adventist church in the country had released a statement supporting a declaration by Howard Mitchell, president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ). Mitchell had stated that member organizations that denied employment to Sabbath-keepers would face punitive action. Nigel Coke, spokesman for the […]
4 April 2018 | The Denver area’s Porter Adventist Hospital has notified patients of a sterilization breach that occurred over the last two years and could have put patients at risk of Hepatitis B or C, or HIV. According to Denver’s ABC 7 television station, the breach occurred in the sterilization process of medical instruments […]
3 April 2018 | Sanitarium, the Adventist owner of the internationally popular breakfast cereal, Weet-Bix, has severed its endorsement relationship with scandal-hit Australian national cricket captain Steve Smith, 28, after his involvement in a ball-tampering scandal. Smith had been named as a so-called ‘Weet-bix Kid’ by the Adventist company in 2015 and was prominently featured […]
2 April 2018 | The children of a former patient are suing Adventist Health Clearlake and Adventist Health St. Helena for medical negligence resulting in death. The lawsuit also mentions physicians working at the facilities. Laura Robinson, 59, died after visiting the Adventist hospitals twice with upper back pain and being sent back home. The […]
Paul—Apostle of Christ Film review by Jiggs Gallagher | 2 April 2018 | A new Hollywood film, “Paul, Apostle of Christ,” has been released in selected theaters across the nation. It was produced by Affirm Films, one of several in a new wave of faith-based filmmakers intent on marketing to religiously motivated moviegoers looking for […]
2 April 2018 | An Adventist watchdog group is reporting that the ex-principal and educational zonal officer of an Adventist school in India’s Puducherry union territory has been promoted to Vice President of the Seventh-day Adventist Lowry Memorial College in Bangalore, even while he is under investigation for criminal activity. Mr. Vel Selvaraj is currently under investigation by […]
1 April 2018 | A woman has sued the Oregon Conference of the Adventist Church claiming that it ignored sexual abuse allegations against Lee Thompson who taught at Portland Adventist Elementary School in the early 1970s. The lawsuit claims that the conference simply moved Thompson from his role at the school to a new one […]