October 22, 2017: Kevin Roberts, the president and CEO of Adventist Health Glendale (formerly known as Glendale Adventist Medical Center) will leave the organization on November 3. Roberts has led the medical center since September 2011. The Glendale News-Press said Roberts will leave to pursue other opportunities. Beth Zachary, chair of the Adventist Health […]
Stories from Cuba, The One Project, California, Germany, Washington DC, La Sierra University, Oakwood University, Kettering College, Southern Adventist University, Northern Asia-Pacific Division, Friedensau University and Younger Generation Church. ……….. Adventist missionaries are in Cuba for the first time in 50 years. Short mission trips began in 1998, but Christian Guana-Jarrin and Joseph Capeles are […]
October 19, 2017: Christopher Bispham, a former teacher at Fresno Adventist Academy, has been taken into police custody in Florida after appearing to be on the run from authorities. He faces 15 child molestation charges dating from 2013 to 2016. Fresno-based ABC 30 television reports that Bispham was arrested in Orlando due to the […]
Reviewed by T Joe Willey The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek by Howard Markel, MD PhD. Published by Pantheon Book, New York, 2017 $35 (506pp) ISBN # 978030790271 “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina. This account of the battling Kellogg brothers, […]
October 18, 2017: Pastor Thomas Lemon, a vice president of the Adventist denomination’s General Conference (GC), is no longer chair of the Unity in Mission Oversight Committee which played a key role in the major issue on the agenda at the recent annual meeting of the GC governing body. Earlier today, Lemon confirmed to […]
October 17, 2017: The mountainous Caribbean island of Dominica is receiving much needed Hurricane Maria relief from the Adventist Development and Relief Agency. ADRA is taking part in a coordinated effort to distribute shelter tarps to residents after the hurricane damaged the roofs of over 90% of the buildings on the island nation. The Adventist […]
October 16, 2017: A drop in inpatient admissions has caused 144-bed Adventist Health Simi Valley to lay off 31 employees. The Ventura County Star reports that the force reduction was confirmed by hospital officials yesterday. Hospital CEO Jennifer Swenson said that 12 registered nurses were laid off and that the remainder of the reduction […]
October 15, 2017: The Columbia Union Conference ‘Visitor’ magazine is celebrating Pastor Appreciation Month by dedicating it’s cover story to 40 women clergy serving as pastors, chaplains, religion professors and ministry leaders in the union. The feature story for the October issue of the magazine is titled “Called” and features six women pastors discussing […]
by John Bryan, 15 October 2017 Awe—three letters that define the feeling of reverence as it intermingles with fear and wonder. In the simplicity of those letters is captured the emotion felt by all who witnessed the eclipse this August. It is difficult not to have been overtaken by the event: Joy and fear mixed […]
Por Loren Seibold, 9 de Octubre 2017 Hoy hablé con varios amigos que todavía estaban desalentados y alterados acerca de lo que sucedió en el Comité Ejecutivo de la Asociación General el lunes 9 de octubre. Lo entiendo. Ha sido largo y frustrante. Como una joven dijo, «La AG todavía piensa que soy inferior». Ella […]
Revised October 13, 2017: Despite the fact that an Adventist scholar will address the inter-denominational conference, the Adventist Church in Jamaica has taken steps to distance itself from a meeting of religious leaders to discuss issues related to the repeal of old laws aimed at LGBT people. Dr. Keisha McKenzie will speak twice at Intimate […]
We’ve put together some of the highlights of the often eye-crossingly boring final two days of Annual Council. The atmosphere was considerably more relaxed on October 10-11 as the compliance document had been sent back to committee on October 9. Here are some of the more interesting moments: On Tuesday morning, October 10, GC Secretary […]