15 January 2018 | In the wake of US President Donald Trump’s controversial alleged statements regarding immigration from certain countries, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson has indicated he does not agree with everything his boss does or says. The Detroit Metro Times reports that on Martin Luther King Jr. Day (January 15), Carson […]
From ANN | 16 January 2018 | “Seventh-day Adventists are not fundamentalists,” said Dr. Nicholas Miller, church history professor at Andrews University, during the opening session of the annual meeting Association of Seventh-day Adventist Historians last week. Dozens of scholars from Adventist and other Christian colleges and universities spent two days sharing papers on the […]
15 January 2018 | Joseph Grady Smoot who served at Andrews University from 1968-1983, has passed away at the age of 85. Smoot served as Andrews president from 1976-1983. The Pittsburg, Kansas, native died on Friday, January 5, at Via Kristi Village in Kansas. Smoot earned a Bachelor of Arts from Southern Missionary College in […]
15 January 2018 | On Thursday, January 11, during a SAGE/Maranatha mission trip to Costa Rica, volunteer Dr. Ken Lauren of Kirkland, Washington was injured when a ladder broke in half and collapsed under him. Dr. Lauren was intubated and put on a ventilator before being taken to a hospital in Limon, where a CT scan […]
14 January 2018 | The president of the Northern Nigeria Union Conference has encouraged Nigerians to ignore religious sentiment when voting in the nation’s 2019 general elections. Pastor Francis Dariya called for integrity and credibility in leaders to guide voting decisions instead. He made the remarks today while speaking at the ordination of a Pastor […]
13 January 2018 | Ted Baehr, an accomplished critic, educator, lecturer, media pundit, and founder of Movieguide, will speak at Loma Linda University on Saturday afternoon at 3:00 pm on January 13, 2018 (6 pm Eastern). Event will take place in the Damazo Amphitheater of Centennial Complex on the Loma Linda University campus, and will […]
12 January 2018 | The January issue of the newsletter published by the Adventist denomination’s Michigan Conference includes an editorial by Pastor Jay Gallimore, Michigan conference president, in which he expresses concern about “websites and internet magazines [and] their gossip blogs.” Gallimore writes that these unidentified media have “mercilessly slandered” the leaders of the denomination’s […]
by S.M. Chen | 12 January 2018 | Some ancients bent a knee to sun. With outstretched arms they welcomed it And turned their face to catch its light And heat that warmed them to the bone, That took away the chill within. We, too, have shared the wonder of A rising sun in flaming […]
Reports from Northern California, Zambia, Southern California, Canada, the Philippines, India and Ghana Adventist Health will transfer about 275 of its jobs to electronic records company Cerner. Beckers Hospital Review reports that about 190 of the positions will be health IT related and 85 will concern revenue processing. The Adventist Health employees slated to be […]
11 January 2018 | A prominent Adventist pastor in Jamaica has publicly accused the nation’s government of underestimating the seriousness of crime in the country prior to coming into power. Charles Brevitt, the pastor of Glendevon Seventh-day Adventist Church in St. James, Jamaica, has called on the administration to apologize, saying that it had promised […]
From News Release | 12 January 2018 | The Adventist student group on the New Paltz campus of the State University of New York (SUNY) will sponsor a conference on Evolution/Creation on May 5, 2018. New Paltz is a northern suburb of New York City across the Hudson River from Poughkeepsie. The Adventist campus ministry […]
10 January 2017 | A former Adventist Health nurse has been arrested after having been accused of molesting a 7-year-old girl. The molestation is alleged to have taken place a decade ago. Tauney Lee Van Sickle, 31, is accused of molesting the child with her then boyfriend, Frank Sanchez. Van Sickle was initially released from […]