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Letter to the Editor  |  March 30, 2018  |   On January 31, Adventist Today published an interview between the Executive Editor Loren Seibold, and Victor Pilmoor, who served three terms as British Union Treasurer. The editor had received a note from an Adventist lay member in a developing country. Through a family member working in a conference […]

News reports from Adventist Peace Fellowship, the Philippines, Germany, Andrews University, Southern Adventist University, Sonora, California; Australia and Kenya. The Adventist Peace Fellowship has written an open letter to Elder Ted Wilson, the president of the General Conference headquarters of the church. The letter calls on the GC to stop investing in weapons manufacturers. The […]

Apartadas para el Ministerio: Perspectivas bíblicas sobre la ordenación , Redactores: Daniel A. Mora y Miguel Ángel Nuñéz, Lima, Perú: Fortaleza Ediciones, 474 páginas. Reseña por Eric Richter  |  30 marzo 2018  |   La década de 1970 vio el nacimiento del debate moderno sobre la ordenación de la mujer en la Iglesia Adventista del Séptimo Día. […]

Apartadas para el Ministerio: Perspectivas bíblicas sobre la ordenación (Set Apart for Ministry: Biblical Perspectives on Ordination), Edited by Daniel A. Mora and Miguel Ángel Nuñéz, Lima, Perú: Fortaleza Ediciones [Fortress Editions], 474 pages. Reviewed by Eric Richter  |  30 March 2018  |   The modern debate on women’s ordination in the Seventh-day Adventist Church began in the […]

30 March 2018 | Two Adventist entities, SDA Harare City Centre and the Adventist Church’s East Zimbabwe Conference, stand accused by the government of Zimbabwe of financial crime. Specifically, they are accused of failing to repatriate USD 223,208 and USD 13,408 respectively, funds said to have left the country illegally. According to The Zimbabwe Mail  the […]

29 March 2018 | Walla Walla University administrators met on March 27 to discuss allegations that a small group of the school’s students had distributed pictures of themselves in blackface on social media. A statement on the institution’s website responding to the alleged incident said that Walla Walla University “condemns racism and takes seriously its […]

From a Loma Linda University School of Medicine press release 27 March 2018 | Loma Linda University (LLU) School of Medicine is adding three new biomedical sciences programs — cancer, development and regenerative biology (CDRB); infection, immunity and inflammation; and neuroscience, systems biology and bioengineering (NSBB) — available in master and doctoral degrees, to modernize […]

“Love is so short; forgetting is so long.” ~Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (1904-1973), Nobel laureate (1971) in literature “… before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.” ~Isaiah 65:24 I take a number of pills daily. These include a multivitamin formulation, chewable megavitamin C, vitamin D, L-lysine, and […]

A 22-year-old father of five was fatally shot one block west of Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska this afternoon. Law enforcement said that the victim was Edgar “E.J.” Union Jr., a 2013 graduate of Lincoln High School. The Lincoln Journal Star reported that Union had five daughters: a 2-year-old, 3-year-old triplets and a 6-year-old and […]

25 March 2018 | Christine Jones, whose Adventist daughter and granddaughter were murdered on March 13, is calling for the death penalty for the alleged attacker. At the news that a suspect had been captured, Jones said her prayers had been answered. The man is suspected of killing Abigail Jones-Chapman, her daughter Olivia, 16, Olivia’s […]

25 March 2018  |  The majority of the presidents of the world divisions and union conferences did not support two of six proposed methods for dealing with those who are “not in compliance with voted actions of General Conference (GC) Sessions” and the denomination’s governing body in a survey conducted between January 18 and March […]