Adventist "Celebrities" Take the Ice Bucket Challenge
Trending everywhere is one of the most successful charity fundraising campaigns ever: the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, which has raised $53.3 million since July 29. Chances are you’ve seen videos of...
View ArticleTime for a Room with a View
As summer flows into fall, what could be a better way to spend a weekend than at the beach in San Diego? That’s what Adventist Forum will be doing October 3-5, and we’ll be staying at the San Diego...
View ArticleThe One Project: Danger or Blessing?
A few weeks ago I (Marcos) had the opportunity to attend a One Project gathering here in Perth, Western Australia, along with pastor and friend Nathaniel Tan. We were both excited to be at the One...
View ArticleGrowing Up Adventist: Finding a Safe Space
Alberto and I met at an Adventist boarding school 20 years ago. We were in the same class, but didn’t know each other very well. Alberto was actively involved in a variety of sports and student...
View ArticleViewpoint: "Dictating Answers" at the International Conference on the Bible...
[On Monday] Adventist General Conference President Ted Wilson told a conference on The Bible and Science, “Scientists: Continue to do good scientific research. Do the work God has given you in a...
View ArticleThree Angles News - First Adventist Chapel in Europe Bought by Church
1. The first Adventist church in Europe, a small chapel in Tramelan, Switzerland, that was used until the congregation moved to a larger building in 1968, has been purchased by the Inter-European...
View ArticlePUC Shaken During Earthquake - No Damage
Pacific Union College reported that there were no injuries on campus, and no damage, after an earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale struck the area last weekend. It was the biggest earthquake...
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Viewpoint: Strategic Thinking to Avoid Miscues and Blunders
The by-invitation-only International Conference on the Bible and Science: Affirming Creation, sponsored by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, concluded on Monday this week. While the...
View ArticleDiscipleship—8: The Community of Sinners and Saints
This is the eighth post in a nine-part series for Spectrum’s 2014 Summer Reading Group. Each post will be drawn from chapters of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. You can view the reading/posting...
View ArticleA Plan for the Next 45 Years
I give myself about 70 years to live. (It's best to low-ball these things, especially since I've already used up about 25 of them.) Now, I have to decide how to spend the last 45. Even at this point in...
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Finding the Adventists in Ferguson
It’s just over a mile, or a four-minute drive, between Canfield Drive in the Canfield Green Apartments where 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot by a police officer on August 9, and the Northside...
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La Sierra Students at the Emmys
On Monday night last week, La Sierra University film and television professor Rodney Vance took two of his film students, Darren Thomas and Kelanie Aragon, to see the Emmy Awards live. As a voting...
View ArticleThree Angles News - Adventist Church "Reclaimed" as Hindu Temple
1. A Seventh-day Adventist Church at Asroi village, Uttar Pradesh, India, was "reclaimed" as a Hindu temple by local activists who removed its cross and put up a picture of Shiva in a purification...
View ArticleBiotheological Ruminations of a Concerned Adventist Biologist
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is currently engaged with a number of big issues. We all know what they are: women’s ordination, sexuality, and origins. While in recent months the first two in this...
View ArticleViewpoint: Politics and SDA Religious Liberty
In a statement posted on June 30, 2014, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America announced that it is “encouraged” by the ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby case. This week,...
View ArticleDiscipleship—9: The End of Discipleship
This is the final post in a nine-part series for Spectrum’s 2014 Summer Reading Group. Each post was drawn from chapters of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. You can view the reading/posting...
View ArticleLawsuit Accuses Church of Naming Convicted Child Molester Pathfinder Leader
Two men are suing the Seventh-day Adventist Church for $13.5 million for allegedly allowing a convicted child molester to be a Pathfinder youth leader.Victims identified as D.M. and F.D. allege that...
View ArticleDispatches from Ebola-Hit Liberia
Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, has come to a standstill as the deadly Ebola outbreak sweeps the region. Cooper Adventist Hospital is the only hospital still open to treat patients with problems other...
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