December 27, 2017: An associate pastor of an Adventist congregation in British Columbia will be giving a church member one of his kidneys this coming January. Pastor Mike Dauncey of Langley township-based Church in the Valley, is making the physical donation to west Abbotsford resident, Florencio (June) Ancheta. On top of being one of […]
December 26, 2017: Adventist medical professionals are treating thousands of people who flocked to the Phoenix Convention Center for free medical care this Christmas. azcentral reported that some had camped outside the convention center on Christmas Eve to better their chances of receiving care at the three-day event that started on Christmas Day. The […]
December 25, 2017: On December 22, about 400 Adventist youth convened in Fiji marched to protest violence against women and children. According to the Fiji Times, the youth were from countries across the Pacfic, including Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Niue and Fiji. They were meeting in Lautoka, Fiji’s second largest city for […]
From ANN, December 24, 2017: A video of the rape of a teenage girl by more than five teenage boys in Ghana has been condemned by the Adventist Church in Ghana. The boys had tied the girl up, raped her and filmed the incident for circulation on social media. The video quickly went viral […]
December 22, 2017: An April 2017 decision to postpone further ordination of women in the Netherlands Union of Churches Conference (NUC) was affirmed by a second vote earlier this month. The current Executive Committee of the NUC (elected during the May 4-6 NUC constituency meetings) voted to extend the current arrangement on December 3. […]
By S.M. Chen | 21 December 2017 | “The rain falls on the just And also on the unjust fella But mainly on the just Because the unjust steals the just’s umbrella.” —Heywood Broun, 20th century American journalist When, a few months ago, I wrote an essay, “Rain”, little could […]
In a December 14 Facebook post, Ted Wilson, president of the denomination’s General Conference, addressed the church’s stance on homosexuality. “Questions arise regarding the position of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in regard to homosexuality and homosexual practices,” wrote Wilson. “To help clarify the Church’s stated and official position on this topic, please read this statement […]
Introducing Dr. Sakae Kubo’s The Parables of Jesus: Spiritual Stories for Today’s Readers Why do stories told two thousand years ago matter today? How can we, as modern readers, understand the true meaning of Jesus’ parables? In this slim volume, Sakae Kubo combines his knowledge of Biblical languages with context from the original settings in […]
by Sharan Bennett | 20 December 2017 | Christmas, 2017 enters a chaotic and gloomy world that seems unprepared to receive it. But has our world every been much different? Ellen White says of the first Christmas: “The earth was dark through misapprehension of God.” (The Desire of Ages, p.22) And “While the light of […]
December 19, 2017: Gang warfare is said to have led to a shooting which claimed the lives of three victims and injured more outside an Adventist Church in Jamaica. Gunmen fired at mourners attending a funeral at Kings Chapel Seventh-day Adventist Church in East Kingston on December 10. The funeral was for a Romain […]
December 18, 2017: Ruth Mochire, a 43-year-old Adventist living in Southeast Texas, is expecting quadruplets. Mochire attends an Adventist church in Beaumont, Texas. She and her husband already have five children. Mochire, who has lived in the United States for about a decade, found out she was pregnant after returning from a vacation with […]
Fact-checking site Snopes recently ran a piece titled Do Vegetarians Live Longer Than Meat Eaters? The December 12 article stated that those in the know about the benefits of vegetarianism typically reference a study of Seventh-day Adventists that many claim shows vegans and vegetarians live longer than their meat eating counterparts. The piece identified Seventh-day […]