Columbia Union Names First Woman Vice President
The Columbia Union Conference in the Mid-Atlantic has appointed its first woman vice president. Today at the Union’s executive committee spring meetings, Celeste Ryan Blyden was promoted from assistant...
View ArticleJudge Rules In Favor of La Sierra
A California Superior Court judge granted a summary judgment on Wednesday in favor of La Sierra University in a lawsuit filed by three former La Sierra administrators and faculty members.The judge who...
View ArticleGC Leaders Plan Conference on 'Alternative Sexualities' in South Africa
UPDATED March 8 10:30am to include comments from the General Conference --Top leaders and administrators of the Adventist church will be congregating in Cape Town, South Africa, in a little over a week...
View ArticleImportant Lessons Learned So Far Regarding Women's Ordination
Today has been designated International Women's Day, so it's a good time to look again at women pastors in the Adventist Church. Adventist theologian and administrator Sakae Kubo believes that we have...
View ArticleNAD Distances Itself from "Preacher's Daughters" Show
The North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, in a special NewsPoints bulletin, sought to distance itself from "Preacher's Daughters," a reality show that features the daughter of an Adventist...
View ArticlePUC Wins Lawsuit Clearing Way for Land Sale
The Napa Valley Register reports that Pacific Union College won a legal case that allows the institution to sell its land to a new developer. This comes after legal wrangling with a previous developer...
View ArticleEllen G. White and 19th Century Science
The Azure Hills Church in Grand Terrace California is hosting a three-month series on Adventist history entitled "The Advent Movement: Progress or Regress?" In the presentation below from March 8,...
View ArticleResponding to Critics on Women's Ordination
Sakae Kubo wrote on March 8 "Important Lessons Learned So Far Regarding Women's Ordination." The article generated numerous comments, to some of which Kubo responds below. -Blog EditorI appreciate all...
View ArticleCaring for Words Book Club: Tell The Truth
The Spectrum blog book club is discussing Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies (Eerdmans 2009), by Marilyn McEntyre, professor of medical humanities at UC Davis and the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical...
View Article"We Are Seventh-day Adventists" Responds to GC "Alternative Sexualities" Summit
Seventh-day Adventist Kinship International, the Intercollegiate Adventist GSA Coalition, and the creators of the Seventh-Gay Adventists documentary launched a new website today as a response to the...
View ArticleViewpoint - Seventh-day Adventists and Sex: The Cape Town Conference
The conference titled “In God’s Image: Scripture, Sexuality and Society” that Seventh-day Adventist officials are leading in Cape Town, South Africa, March 17 – 20, is not likely to accomplish much of...
View ArticlePacific Union College Sends Messages to "In God's Image" Conference
For many years, students, faculty, and staff at Pacific Union College have gathered bi-weekly to provide support, friendship, and education around human relationships — sexual and spiritual. Called...
View Article“In God’s Image” Summit on Sexuality Opens in Cape Town
Nearly 350 Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders, pastors, academics, and human services experts have gathered in Cape Town, South Africa, for a four-day summit intended to help the worldwide Church...
View ArticleReport from the Cape Town Summit: Elder Wilson's Opening Speech
It was the opening night of the General Conference Cape Town Summit (March 17-20, 2014), "In God's Image:' Scripture, Sexuality and Society," but it felt like campmeeting or a giant "workers' meeting"...
View ArticleReport from the Cape Town Summit: Day Two
Tuesday, March 18, was the first full day of the Cape Town Summit: "'In God's Image:' Scriptures, Sexuality, Society." Weatherwise it was another beautiful sunny 70 F-degree day in Cape Town, one of...
View ArticleWoman Conference President Omitted from Adventist Yearbook
The Adventist Yearbook is now live online, meaning that changes are reflected as they are made to the Yearbook database at the General Conference. The Yearbook, with a hard copy published every year,...
View ArticleViewpoint: Offensive Dissonance in Cape Town
An open letter to Peter Landless, Director of Health Ministries for the GC.Dear Doctor Landless, — a voice from the past.Your family and my family were active in the Orange Grove, Johannesburg SDA...
View ArticleCaring for Words Book Club: Now I Lay/Lie Me Down
The Spectrum blog book club is discussing Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies (Eerdmans 2009), by Marilyn McEntyre, professor of medical humanities at UC Davis and the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical...
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