June 1, 2017: Montreal’s Greaves Adventist Academy has banned persons with a criminal history from volunteering on the school grounds. The action comes after parents of students at the school protested the school’s decision to allow convicted serial killer, Karla Homolka, to volunteer by supervising kindergarten students on a field trip earlier this year. […]
June 1, 2017: This year marks the 125th anniversary of Steps to Christ, the small book that is probably the most widely circulated of the many volumes written by Ellen G. White, the co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination. It was published in 1892 by a leading Protestant publishing house instead of an Adventist publisher. […]
Reviewed by John McLarty, June 1, 2017: This anniversary edition also marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 theses and the Protestant Reformation with a historical introduction and notes by Denis Fortin. In the 1970s a revival swept the Adventist college campuses in the United States. At the center of this revival was the […]
May 31, 2017: An Adventist elementary school in Montreal has defended allowing a woman to volunteer at the school last March despite her record as a convicted killer. Karla Homolka allegedly volunteered at Greaves Adventist Academy by supervising kindergarten students on a field trip. Homolka, whose three children attend the school, also reportedly brought […]
May 30, 2017: Two unnamed Adventist pastors in Saint Lucia have been charged with sexual misconduct. According to the St. Lucia Times, the Eastern Caribbean island nation’s Adventist leadership has responded to the allegations saying it will not condone wrongdoing. “It is unfortunate that at this juncture the church is now faced with […]
May 29, 2017: An Adventist Medical Center in the southern Philippines has partnered with the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) to help residents fleeing fighting between the military and Islamic insurgents. Thousands of residents have fled Marawi, located less than 25 miles away from Adventist Medical Center, Iligan City, on the southern Philippine island of […]
May 28, 2017: Sandile Mantsoe, who was at one time an Adventist lay preacher, is being tried for murder in Johannesburg, South Africa. The body of Karabo Mokoena, the 22-year-old female he is accused of murdering, was badly burned when it was discovered late last month. Mantsoe, a father of three, is said to have […]
By Jiggs Gallagher, May 28, 2017: LOMA LINDA, CALIFORNIA–The Adventist Human Subjects Research Association (AHSRA) was founded in 2012, with major support from David Trim, director of Archives, Statistics and Research at the General Conference (GC) It includes academic researchers from Adventist colleges and universities as well as Adventist on the faculty of […]
I’ve been an Adventist for twenty three years. As a late arrival, in my fifties, I brought other fields of study and attainment with me. When I was young, I realized the oneness of life, through the study of all religions, including Rosecrutionism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Rastafarianism and Scientology. All lead to God in their essence, […]
May 28, 2017: Additional information about the firing of Pastor Gary Kent as director of the It Is Written Oceania (IIWO) television ministry in Australia has come to Adventist Today in a letter the writers of which are unidentified but appear to be from the same group that that initially reacted to his dismissal, Please […]
Stories from Indianapolis, Manchester (UK),Washington DC, Germany, Ghana, California, Youth Sabbath School and Vision ….. On Sunday (May 28) just before the running of the 101st Indianapolis 500 auto race, an alumna of Oakwood University, the Adventist institution in Huntsville, Alabama, will sing “God Bless America,” reports the Indianapolis Star. Angela Brown grew up in […]
May 25, 2017: The body of a decapitated Adventist pastor and conference administrator has been found near his home in Kenya. Kenya’s Standard Digital newspaper reported on May 18th that the body of Pastor Nicholas Kibagendi who disappeared about a month ago, had been found next to his home in the country’s Nyamira County. Neighbors […]