14 March 2025 | A recent announcement by Amazing Facts shows Doug Batchelor hosting Barbara O’Neill, whose offbeat health teachings have led to a ban on her providing any health-related services in Australia. Batchelor describes her as a “health educator.” Sacramento Central is the host church for O’Neill this week, and according to the church’s […]
by Loren Seibold | 12 July 2024 | I started my anti-smoking campaign when I was about four or five years old. The proprietor of the small general store in the village closest to our farm was one Earl Smith, a scrawny old man with a gravelly voice and sour face. He smoked constantly, a […]
17 June 2024 | Black Americans face a 40% higher mortality rate from breast cancer, despite having a lower incidence of the disease than non-Hispanic White Americans. In this article from the Lake Union Herald, Dr. Bryant from UChicago Medicine AdventHealth explains that structural health inequities, later cancer diagnoses, and aggressive molecular subtypes prevalent among […]
6 March 2024 | “The Barbara O’Neill health seminar which was scheduled for March 19-23 has been CANCELLED,” says an announcement on the Kernersville Adventist Church Facebook page. This event was originally to be held at the Winston-Salem First Seventh-day Adventist Church, but that church felt their space wasn’t large enough, and asked the church […]
We all want to be healthy. But what is health? by Jack Hoehn | 14 February 2024 | In my last essay in this series, we agreed that though it is easy to see that something is alive, it is not that easy to exactly define life. So let’s move on from asking what life […]
by Loren Seibold | 2 February 2024 | Read part 1 here. I’m a believer in preventive health. Good nutrition—in fact, the whole NEWSTART list—seems like common sense. No one in the scientific secular health community can argue with it. But that’s never quite enough for some Adventists. It starts with Ellen White quotes, but […]
5 September 2023 | According to the Adventist Review, a new four-part miniseries on Netflix titled “Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones,” has cast the spotlight on the remarkable longevity of SDAs in Loma Linda, CA, among others. Released on August 30, the show aims to decode the secrets that enable certain communities, […]
10 August 2023 | Adventist School in Southern Peru Initiates Google Innovation Classroom “Miraflores Adventist Academy, which belongs to the South Central Adventist Educational Association (ASEACES) of the South Peru Union (UPS), inaugurated its new infrastructure with a special program that also included the presentation of the first Google Classroom, a modern, innovative, dynamic educational […]
by Jim Walters | 1 August 2022 | “Happy Sabbath! How would you like your coffee?” That, or a similar Sabbath morning greeting, is now heard in some congregations across Adventism: At the avant-garde Crosswalk (CW) church in Redlands, California, or at its secondary campuses in Los Angeles, Portland, Chattanooga, Sacramento, or Massachusetts—where CW Coffee […]
Chattanooga, Tennessee – Dying to rip open a box of Little Debbie Nutty Buddy treats, local Pathfinder counselor Patch Aittems paused briefly to say grace, asking for the sugar bomb to nourish and strengthen his body. Salivating, he added he was grateful to be indulging in the chocolatey goodness, especially as there were so many […]
22 February 2023 | The Economist published an article on February 19 titled “Christian Californians may have a solution to America’s obesity: Lessons in longevity from Seventh Day Adventists.” It points out that “The [SDA] health advantage also holds true for black members, who make up nearly one-third of the group. White people typically outlive […]
by Garry Duncan | 1 August 2019 | We have never seen 75-year-old Kevin in our charity shop. He doesn’t get out much. But his friend, Harold, goes shopping for clothes for Kevin every week. He visits all the charity shops in the area, but usually doesn’t find anything for Kevin. You see, Kevin is […]