St. Louis, We Have a Problem! Will denied visas and travel bans keep delegates away?
by Admiral Ncube | 5 June 2025 | Sometime early this year, a friend of mine told me that he had been nominated to be a delegate at the 62nd General Conference Session in St Louis. He was excited! However, a few days ago when I talked to him, he […]
News from Brazil, Cape Verde, Austria, New York, and Jamaica
5 June 2025 | News from Brazil Tiago Corte de Alencar, a lawyer in São Paulo, Brazil, won a lawsuit against the Judo Federation requiring the sport to follow Brazil’s Federal Constitution, which guarantees the acknowledgement of religious beliefs. The lawsuit was prompted by the federation’s refusal to reschedule a […]
Dr. Gina Spivey-Brown Begins New Role as President of Oakwood University
by Greg Dunn | 5 June 2025 | The Oakwood University Board of Trustees two months ago selected the highly accomplished Dr. Gina Spivey-Brown, Ph.D., RN, MSA, FAAN, FNAP, FADLN, as its 12th president – and the first woman to lead the storied institution. In the weeks since, Dr. Brown has […]
ATSS: Malcolm Russell, “How Do We Choose What’s Right in a “WEIRD” Culture?”
4 June 2025 | What makes something wrong? In his favorably reviewed book The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt challenges both the wisdom of the ages and our current ideas. Though a secular evolutionary psychologist, he argues that when we make moral decisions, instincts often triumph over reason. Haidt then presents […]
Bomb Squad Called to Adventist Health Specialty Hospital in California
4 June 2025 | As reported by BakersfieldNow on May 11, The Bakersfield Police Department’s bomb squad was dispatched to the Adventist Health Specialty Bakersfield on Sunday following the discovery of a small destructive device inside the building. According to the police, a security guard found the device and promptly […]
Social Activism: A Recessive Trait in Adventist DNA
by Tyler Kraft | 3 June 2025 | When I was in high school, I struggled mightily with biology: it was a sea of confusing terms and concepts that never seemed to click. But I understood genetics: Punnett squares, dominant traits, and recessive genes all clicked. As a pastor I […]
New App for Australian Church Is Designed With Visitors in Mind
3 June 2025 | The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) in Bunbury, Australia, has launched a new app dedicated to outreach. The comprehensive digital platform, named “Bunbury SDA Connect,” is partnered with a new church page designed with the visitor in mind. The church aimed to make its outreach efforts accessible […]
I’m so tired of hearing how we are the only true believers, and the rest aren’t!
2 June 2025 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, I’m a baptized Adventist in Africa, and I have been wrestling with Adventist teachings: I think that we are too rule-based and treat Christianity more as a religion, and not a relationship with Jesus. And we are very judgmental of other Christian churches. […]
Pacific Adventist University Project Earns the Attention of Global Climate Organizations
1 June 2025 | In an article published for the Adventist Record, the official news site for the Southern Pacific Division, a biofuel project led by Pacific Adventist University (PAU) is gaining global attention. International climate organizations are recognizing the project’s potential. The article states: Representatives from the Green Climate […]
Comments of the Week May 26-June 1
Comments of the Week May 26-June 1 “All our churches use this as the code I’m not even joking.” –Andrew Mod on SATIRE: Security Experts Warn Adventists to Stop Using 1844 as PIN Number Comments on PTSDA, Is This Religious Persecution?; SATIRE: Wilson Confirms Retirement, Promises Not to Manipulate GC […]
Editorial: PTSDA
Not long ago I talked to a woman who had suffered a lot growing up as a Seventh-day Adventist. The abuse wasn’t physical. It was spiritual. She was one of those people (I am another) whose parents and teachers drilled down on all the awful things that were about to […]
Venezuelan Refugees in Brazil Aided by Adventist-Led Humanitarian Initiative
30 May 2025 | Adventists in Vitória da Conquista have been leading an ongoing humanitarian effort to support Venezuelan refugees from the Warao ethnic group. Since late 2024, local Adventist churches, Pathfinder and Adventurer clubs, volunteer educators, health professionals, lawyers, businesspeople, and members of civil society have cared for nearly […]
News from Australia, Ghana, Southern Adventist University, and France
29 May 2025 | News from Australia From May 18 to May 20, the third annual Adventist National Games hosted 250 students from 11 Adventist schools across Australia to compete in a sports tournament on the campus of Avondale University. Sponsored by The Lift Project, the Lift Your Life Scholarship […]
To The Point
News
ADRA Romania Works to Raise Awareness for Domestic Violence
24 June 2025 | 2,958 runners, of whom 739 were children, participated in a charity run to support victims of domestic violence. ADRA Romania in collaboration with AMiCUS Romania Student Federation hosted the fourth edition of the charity cross-country race entitled “I’m Running for My Mother.” The charity run occurred simultaneously in 12 cities: Arad, […]
Commentary
Reclaiming the Prophet: How to Read Ellen White
by Reinder Bruinsma | 26 June 2025 | I first became aware of Reclaiming the Prophet when I saw urgent warning to stay far away from it on the website of the far-right website Fulcrum7. It was clear from the description that the author of the short, ultra-negative piece had not read the book, but […]
Features
ATSS: Charles Scriven, “Can We Grow Up? Truthfulness, Matthew 18, Community & Conversation”
28 June 2025 | Conversation among different kinds of Adventists is often either a bit mean-spirited, or entirely non-existent. I will use both contemporary philosophy of knowledge and a key passage from Matthew to argue that failure by Adventists to interact across lines of convictional difference in vigorous, open-minded conversation is an egregious and tragic […]