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Is There Hope for The Advent Hope?
Among Adventism's Great Stories is the story of the Advent Hope. It has in turn thrilled, comforted terrified and inspired generations of Adventists. Is there still hope for the Advent Hope? Where does...
View ArticleSinging Through Our Tears: Adventist Music and Great Disappointments
The Sabbath morning “church service” portion of the 2014 Adventist Forum Conference in San Diego, “Singing Through Our Tears: Adventist Music and Great Disappointments,” began with music provided by...
View ArticleBefore Annual Council, Damsteegt Attempts to Change Seminary's Headship...
Just days before the 2014 Annual Council, where women's ordination will be a topic of discussion, Gerard Damsteegt, professor of Church History at the Adventist Seminary at Andrews University, has...
View ArticleApplegate Fire Threatens Structures Near Weimar Institute in Drought-Parched...
Adventists in Northern California called for prayers Wednesday evening for Weimar Institute. A rapidly-moving vegetation fire posed a possible threat to the Adventist education center in Colfax,...
View ArticleResponding Theologically to Animal Ferocity and Suffering
I suspect that many readers will approach Osborn’s Death Before the Fall within the framework of the creation versus evolution debate that has long exercised churches and classrooms across the globe....
View ArticleKellogg Sells Worthington and Loma Linda Brands
Today Atlantic Natural Foods, based in Nashville, North Carolina, announced it has bought the Loma Linda and Worthington brands of canned meat analog products, including FriChick, Choplets,...
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And So It Begins: Annual Council Diary I
Annual Council Diary IEvery five years the Seventh-day Adventist church holds a General Conference session to elect officers, vote changes in the policies and practices of the church, and review...
View Article#TweetingTheMeeting - Read All The Significant Debates In Real Time
Women's Ordination. Fundamental Belief #6 on Creation. Millions in tithe dollars for Ukranian pastors and the Chinese Union Mission. Clarification on how Adventists define the Spirit of Prophecy. These...
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Sabbath Sermon: Adam and Steve
New Pacific Union College chaplain and PUC Church associate pastor Jonathan Henderson took the university’s week of prayer as an opportunity to deliver a message that has resonated deeply with LGBTQ...
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Getting Personal: Annual Council Diary II
Annual Council Diary IIWhile the members of the General Conference Executive Committee have gathered to attend to church business at Annual Council, the meetings began with what could best be described...
View ArticleAnnual Council: Tweeting The Meeting Live
Women's Ordination. Fundamental Belief #6 on Creation. Clarification on how Adventists define the Spirit of Prophecy. These topics and many more fill the 268 pages of the 2014 Annual Council. Now...
View ArticleAnnual Council Diary III: Faith, Love and Satan
Traditional Sabbath worship services are held in the General Conference Chapel during Annual Council. Sabbath School began with Carol Barron, an enthusiastic chorister, leading the audience in...
View ArticlePerspective: A Do Nothing Victory
On October 6, the United States Supreme Court refused to hear several cases pending pertaining to same-sex marriage. The next day, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down bans on same-sex...
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Artur Stele: No Theological Solution on Women's Ordination
SILVER SPRING - During a meeting of young adult delegates at the 2014 Annual Council, young church leaders received first-hand information about the upcoming women's ordination discussion and several...
View ArticleChanges Proposed to Fundamental Beliefs at Annual Council
SILVER SPRING - Delegates considered and discussed several changes to the Seventh-day Adventist Fundamental Beliefs during Sunday's afternoon business session at the 2014 Annual Council. General...
View ArticleAnnual Council Diary IV: On to the Fundamentals
Numbers and words topped Sunday’s agenda during the first business sessions at Annual Council. But really it was all about people. As Division presidents introduced new Executive Committee members, the...
View ArticleThe Eve of the Ordination Discussion
SILVER SPRING - In the final hours before General Conference Executive Committee members from around the world take up the issue of ordaining women at the 2014 Annual Council meetings, there are some...
View ArticleAnnual Council Diary V: Inspired Revisions
The house was packed for Mark Finley’s Monday morning devotional, and he preached with fervor describing the love that is at the heart of the Three Angels messages in Revelation. In closing he told the...
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BREAKING: Annual Council Votes Women's Ordination Question for 2015 GC Session
SILVER SPRING - At approximately 5:37 local time, Annual Conference delegates voted to approve language crafted by The General Conference and Division Officers (GCDO), that will now go to delegates at...
View ArticleAttempts to Change Seminary Statement on Headship Rebutted
Yesterday the Adventist Review reported that the faculty of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University voted to reaffirm its statement on headship, denying the appeal to...
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