If you’d like to follow our tweets, Bjorn Karlman is tweeting from the beginning of the meeting until the end. Friday’s tweet schedule will go from about 8AM to 12 noon. Sabbath we’ll be off, but you’ll want to tune in again on Sunday morning. (The discussion everyone is most interested in will probably take […]
By Loren Seibold I don’t expect this year’s Annual Council to mark the dissolution of our denomination. But there is potentially much at stake here, which is why we’ll be watching this General Conference Executive Committee with interest. The members of the General Conference Executive Committee are a cultural stew: some Western leaders, but a […]
October 4, 2017: An Andrews University professor and more than 20 students have taken part in research on gravitational waves that was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday. According to a news story on the Andrews website, Physics professor Tiffany Summerscales and her students represented Andrews in a group of 103 academic institutions in 18 […]
By Loren Seibold, October 3, 2017: When in 2015 the word came through that the delegates in San Antonio had turned down the motion to let divisions decide whether ordination of women would take place within their territories, Adventist media, both social and the press, lit up with contrasting responses. Those who had been […]
October 3, 2017: Adventist Health System bought a 103-acre tract of land in Polk Country, Florida this summer. According to a report by the Tampa Bay Times, the system plans to use the $14.5 million tract to connect hospital systems in Tampa Bay and Orlando. The land sits along Interstate 4, slightly west of […]
October 2, 2017: Several entities of the Adventist Church have responded with statements about the mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada on Sunday night, October 1. The tragedy which continued to unfold in the early morning hours of October 2, has, so far, left 59 dead and at least 527 injured. Below are statements […]
October 1, 2017: Florida Hospital has become one of the top five corporate sponsors of the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning as one of the team’s exclusive Championship Partners. This substantially grows an existing partnership between the Adventist hospital network and the team. In addition, Florida Hospital is the 25th Anniversary Season Presenting Sponsor for […]
I read with interest and respect “A Simple Roadmap from San Antonio”, by Glenn Sackett. Of the message about being loving in all situations, I heartily agree. There has been much suspicion and acrimony on all sides of all issues in the church. This ought not so to be. But I cannot separate that love […]
September 29, 2017: Birger Draget is a Seventh-day Adventist pastor in the United States Midwest. For many years, leading up to 2011, he had pastored in the Kansas towns of Junction City, Manhattan, Enterprise and Salina. In October of that year, he was arrested for the alleged rape of an underage child, and of course […]
From News Release, September 29, 2017: Dr. Norman Gulley, noted professor of theology at Southern Adventist University, has completed the fourth and final volume in his systematic theology. Systematic Theology: The Church and the Last Things has been published by Andrews University Press. “Volume 4 will be of interest to all who want to be […]
September 28, 2017: SFGATE (a local news website published by the San Francisco Chronicle) reported yesterday that a registered sex offender was found in the girls’ bathroom of the K-12 Redwood Adventist Academy in Santa Rosa, California, on September 26. The man was identified as 39-year-old Alan Brelsford. He had been banned from being on […]
September 27, 2017: The newly-formed Paramount Network (formerly Spike TV) has released details about Waco, the upcoming series by Weinstein Television. The dramatic series will tell the story of the Branch Davidian tragedy that catapulted Waco, Texas and the Adventist Church to international headlines. Entertainment news site Den of Geek reported that Waco will […]