News reports from the Philippines, Loma Linda University, Washington D.C., Germany, the Rocky Mountain Conference, Oakwood University and England According to Rappler Philippines, a student from the Adventist University of the Philippines has won the prestigious grand prize of the 32nd Visual Arts Competition (VAC 32) of Directories Philippines Corporation (DPC) and the Philippine Long […]
by S.M. Chen | 23 March 2018 | Census, by Jesse Ball. Harper Collins, 2017. 260 pages. “And He walks with me, and He talks with me…” ~“In the Garden”, by C. Austin Miles, 1912 Close to 50,000 books are published each year. There is no […]
22 March 2018 | Virendra Saxena, an intensive care unit physician at Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center in Rockville, Maryland, has been accused by law enforcement of raping a young girl for nearly 20 years. Court documents showed that the 60-year-old doctor was contracted with the Adventist hospital. According to local ABC television affiliate […]
By Tysan | 20 March 2018 | The Global Adventist Internet Network (GAIN) conference in Tanzania began Monday and continues all this week. It has brought together nearly 500 people from eastern Africa who are interested in using digital media to advance the cause of Christ. Most are Adventist denominational employees and church members, but […]
21 March 2018 | Jerome Gordon, the Public Affairs Director for the Grenada Conference of the Adventist Church, has joined religious leaders in the Caribbean that are calling for debt relief for their nations in the face of natural disasters. “As Churches in the Caribbean we have witnessed the grief and despair of our people […]
20 March 2018 | The Sacramento Business Journal reported today that the California attorney general’s office has approved an affiliation agreement between Roseville, California-based Adventist Health and Marysville, California’s Rideout Health network of health facilities. The affiliation comes after news of serious financial struggles at Rideout Health which, according to Marysville’s Appeal-Democrat, laid off over 100 […]
19 March 2018 | Atlantic Union College has been asked by the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education to respond to a complaint that claims the institution scammed its students. According to a March 12 letter from the Department of Higher Education to AUC President, Dr. Avis Hendrickson, the institution has 30 days to respond to […]
18 March 2018 | Harold Dien, a 57-year-old Adventist pastor in Orange County, California is accused of sexually assaulting a girl in Loma Linda. On March 16, Riverside County’s The Press-Enterprise reported that San Bernardino County prosecutors had charged Dien with two misdemeanor counts of annoying or molesting a child. The newspaper reported that Dien […]
News reports from Iraq, Andrews University, Zimbabwe, Trinidad, England, Jamaica, Florida and Nigeria. From Adventist News Network (ANN): The first Adventist church building in Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, was officially inaugurated on Sunday, Feb. 25. The congregation worshiped by themselves on Sabbath, the day before. They were joined by a representative […]
15 March 2018 | Donna Sheedy, a former Adventist Health System employee is fighting the health network over its attempt to exit a law suit that claims the system underfunded its retirement plans. The original suit argued that AHS had underfunded the plans by millions and had breached its duty under the Employee Retirement Income […]
14 March 2018 | Immediately on the heels of last month’s announcement that Atlantic Union College was closing for the second time, administrators have hinted that the South Lancaster, Massachusetts-based Adventist institution will explore ways to continue offering higher education. Due to financial troubles and lack of accreditation, AUC had announced that it would suspend […]
by Warren Nelson | 14 March 2018 | I’ve spent a lot of time, over the course of my life, thinking about various disasters that could befall my person and how I would react. Oliver Sack’s book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat was probably the most terrifying book I’ve ever read, […]