10 October 2023 | A message was published this week by the Adventist Muslim Relations (AMR) department within Multilingual Ministries of the North American Division (NAD) encouraging Adventists to see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a humanitarian and spiritual lens, rather than a political one. An NAD AMR Prayer Night has been scheduled for this Friday […]
by Mark Gutman | 3 August 2023 | I once heard a story of two businessmen, fellow church members, who met for lunch at a crowded restaurant. After their orders were set in front of them, one asked the other, “Well, shall we scratch eyebrows?” He was referring to the uncomfortable feeling of knowing that […]
by Nathan Brown | 25 July 2023 | Prayer is a lot like radio. We seat ourselves alone — perhaps in a small room — and talk to the wall in the hope that someone, somewhere, is listening. Through a process and technology we barely understand, we try to reach out to the unseen listener. […]
by Joni Bell | 7 March 2023 | I may be the “queen of returns.” I am one of those people who expects to get exactly what is advertised. If I order it on Amazon and it isn’t the quality, color, or fit I expected, it will be returned. If that lettuce goes bad days before […]
6 February 2023 | On January 17, 2023, approximately 100 people from diverse faith traditions gathered for the fourth annual Religious Freedom Prayer Breakfast. The event, held in person for the second year in a row, recognized January 16 as National Religious Freedom Day in the United States, and included prayer for the blessing of […]
By Maylan Schurch, February 14, 2016: The One Project format is that a couple of people make TED-talk style presentations, and then the table discusses questions relating to those presentation. Emily Poole, an advancement officer at Walla Walla University, said this near the close of her talk on the sheep and the goats: “A life […]
From ANN, February 4, 2016: A new café opened by Adventists in the United States Virgin Islands of St. Thomas is becoming a hot spot for dozens of people who visit a popular strip mall on the island. The main item on the menu: Prayer. The Prayer Café, which is located on the third […]
From ANN, December 22, 2015: The women’s ministries department of the Malawi Union Conference partnered with Malawi’s Ministry of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare, on December 13, to organize a prayer breakfast in an effort to promote sisterhood among women of all faiths and occupations. The interfaith prayer breakfast included women from the Malawi […]
