Sabbath Sermon: Bill Hybels - "Whispers"
Whispers - Bill Hybels from LifeChurchTV on Vimeo.A whisper. It’s spoken softly in quiet tones. It’s hard to hear and easy to miss. And it’s often how God communicates with us. Find out what happens...
View ArticleA Call for Conversation and Wall Cracking
“…she could see by their shocked and burning facesthat even their virtues were being burned away.”—Flannery O’ConnorWe hate ourselves all too easily, and so in its call to love of neighbor the Bible...
View ArticleNetherlands Ordains First Woman Pastor in Europe
The Netherlands Union Conference (NUC) has welcomed two new pastors, Enrico Karg and Guisèle Berkel-Larmonie, in an ordination ceremony at the Christus Koning church in the Hague on September 21, 2013....
View ArticlePostmodern Love: Humble and Faithful Hospitality
This is the final post of a twelve-part series for Spectrum’s 2013 Summer Reading Group. Each post has been drawn from chapters of Postmodern Apologetics? by Christina M. Gschwandtner. Links to...
View ArticleRoscoe Bartlett Goes Off the Grid
This story was written by Tim Mak for the Washington Examiner, and published on September 20, 2013.Roscoe Bartlett is a Seventh-day Adventist who attended Washington Missionary College (now Washington...
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Getting Jesus by Getting Moses
On Friday night and Sabbath morning in Takoma Park, Maryland, the Old Testament lit up the New.Walter Brueggemann, perhaps the best-known Christian champion of the Hebrew canon, spoke at Washington...
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Where Great Minds Meet: A Sabbath School and its Website
Every Sabbath at 10:30am individuals from all walks of life gather upstairs in a lecture room in Centennial Hall on the Loma Linda University campus. Each week they come to listen to an hour-long...
View ArticleThree Angles News - September 26, 2013
1. The husband of an Adventist church member from Nairobi was one of the more than 60 people killed during the terrorist attack in Nairobi’s Westgate Shopping Mall. Harun Oyieke, a university lecturer,...
View ArticleNAD Clarifies Vote Affirming Women's Ordination
SILVER SPRING - North American Division president Daniel Jackson issued a statement of clarification Tuesday morning at the start of the Year-end Meeting business session. Addressing the swift online...
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NAD Year-end Meetings Focus on Women, Media Use, Millennials, Immigration
"Building Together." That theme defined the direction and goals of the North American Division during the 2013 Year-end Meetings. Business sessions from Sunday through the close of meetings on Tuesday...
View ArticleThe Limits of the GC's Authority, and Women's Ordination - Part 1
Last Sabbath afternoon, retired GC field secretary Dr. Gary Patterson spoke to the Michiana Adventist Forum about General Conference policy on the ordination of women. The meeting was held at Andrews...
View ArticleGeneral Conference Policy on Discrimination and Women's Ordination - Part 2
General Conference policy opposes discrimination based on gender (as well as race and color), but then goes on to contradict itself. Dr. Gary Patterson spoke to the Michiana Adventist Forum last...
View ArticleTed Wilson Writes About Religious Liberty for the Huffington Post
Seventh-day Adventist world church president Ted N. C. Wilson published this piece in the online Huffington Post yesterday. The article sets the Adventist church apart from "some religious groups in...
View ArticleLifelong Friends Meet Challenge for the Spectrum Global Community Campaign
Lawrence Geraty, Adventist Forum Board Member, recently offered to help a small group of volunteers write thank you notes to people who have generously supported Spectrum in the past. Here’s his...
View ArticleDigging into the TOSC Documents
Amidst the avalanche of material that has been written on women’s ordination in the past several years, the North American Division Report presented this past week distinguishes itself as a...
View ArticleThree Angles News - November 10, 2013
1. Brain Cladoosby, chairman of the Swinomish Tribal Community in Washington state - and a Seventh-day Adventist church member and elder of the Lummi SDA Church - was elected president of the National...
View ArticleDevastating Typhoon Sparks Outpouring of Support in Philippines
In the Philippines, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is growing more quickly than anywhere else in the world, according to a report at the recent Annual Council. 80,000 baptisms have been recorded...
View ArticleWhy the Supreme Court's Ruling on Prayer Won't Affect All Christians
On November 6, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Greece v. Galloway, which tested the constitutionality of prayer as a component of government meetings.Is such prayer a...
View ArticleInter-European Division To Recommend There is ‘Room for Women’s Ordination’
A second division has voted to recommend that Adventist women pastors be ordained. In its recent annual meeting, the executive committee members from the 11 conferences (12 European countries) that...
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