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Netherlands Union Conference Postpones Ordination of Female Pastors
2017-05-09 TabithaPurple Commissioning.jpg In a surprise effort to appease the General Conference and its Unity Commission, the Netherlands Union Conference (NUC) Executive Committee has “decided to...
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Outspoken: Debbie and Kris Widmer Open Up About Trans Daughter
Widmers.png In figurative and literal ways, the Widmers open up in the "Outspoken" video about their experience of transitioning along with Timothy (now Teagan) in a church that officially understands...
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Adventist Women in Fiji Become Water Champions – News Shorts
2017-05-10 News Shorts.jpg Also in this week’s headlines: head pastor killed in Ghana during armed robbery, Kenyan pastor mysteriously disappears, South African congregants face off in court, a young...
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Adventist Leaders in Russia Address Fake News on Church Status
2017-05-12 News.png“Information from unofficial sources is not consistent with reality,” they state. Leaders in the Euro-Asia Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a church region that includes...
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Free Will or Determinism?
2017-05-22 Free Will Conference LLU.png On this past Friday and Sabbath, May 19-20, fourteen scientists, theologians and philosophers gathered at Loma Linda University to consider the most challenging...
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Colorado Elementary Students Collect Donations for Needy Babies – News Shorts
2017-05-25 News Shorts.png In this week’s news round-up, Colorado elementary students collect donations for needy babies, a missing Kenyan pastor has been found dead, $1 million in equipment was stolen...
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Major Media Outlets Pick Up Adventist LGBT Stories
Widmers.png Two stories in particular—the story of an Adventist pastor who came out as bisexual and another of the Adventist parents of a transgender daughter—have received national media coverage....
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Adventist Cookbook Named Best in the World
2017-06-02 News.jpg A book authored by a Seventh-day Adventist nutritionist and published by Signs Publishing has been named “Best in the World.” A book authored by a Seventh-day Adventist nutritionist...
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With Apologies to Gary Kent, IIW Oceania Moves On
GaryKent.jpg Speaker/Director Gary Kent was removed from his position in May by the Adventist Media Center Board...regarding “conduct inconsistent with the responsibilities of the speaker/director.”...
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Florida Adventist Church Honors Local Law Enforcement and More News Shorts
2017-06-07 News Shorts.jpg In this week’s news round-up, the Sinai Seventh-day Adventist Church in Florida honors local officers, Greaves Adventist Academy in Canada addresses public concern about...
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London Unity Conference Set to Reframe Conversation about Church Authority
2017-06-14 News Unity Conference.png This weekend, eighty Seventh-day Adventist leaders have gathered at the London Crowne Plaza Hotel Heathrow, “enthused by God’s Spirit” to discuss “church structure,...
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Thursday at the London Unity Conference: Transformational Moments in the...
2017-06-15 News Unity Conference Thursday.png A summary report of day one of the London Unity Conference. And so it began, the Unity 2017 Conference, with worship, of course. Gary Patterson, retired...
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Adventist Conductor Herbert Blomstedt Wins Brahms Prize
2017-06-16 News - Composer.png The 2017 Brahms Prize of 10,000 euros was presented to the Seventh-day Adventist Swedish conductor Herbert Blomstedt on June 10, 2017. The 2017 Brahms Prize of 10,000...
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Circumstances Change the Relations of Things
2017-06-16 Unity Conference Thursday_HelenPearson1.png Thursday afternoon at the Unity Conference Rolf Pohler, theological advisor to the North German Union Conference, examined Ellen White’s attitudes...
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Policy Matters – It Matters a Lot!
2017-06-16 Unity Conference Thursday_HelenPearson 2.png Lowell Cooper’s long experience as a church administrator have brought him to the basic assumption that “a review of policy can provide important...
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The Steep and Narrow Path to Unity
2017-06-18 OliveHemmings_HelenPearson.png In her ground-breaking lecture, appropriate for what would usually be the Sabbath School hour at the London Unity Conference, Dr. Olive Hemmings, Professor of...
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Friday at the Unity Conference: Refreshed Understandings of Unity
2017-06-18 News Unity Conference Friday.png A summary report of day two of the London Unity Conference. How is church unity achieved? Can leaders create it? Is it a result of like-mindedness? Is it...
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Bruinsma on Adventists and Religious Freedom
2017-06-19 Bruinsma_HelenPearson.png Dr. Reinder Bruinsma, writer, retired pastor and specialist in church history, summarized his Unity Conference paper with a question: How does the freedom that...
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Sabbath at the Unity Conference: Justice Takes Center Stage
2017-06-19 News Unity Conference Sabbath.png The Sabbath day in Heathrow would prove to be a joy as we gathered together for more conversation and presentations. Happy Sabbath. Gary Patterson concluded...
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Walla Walla General Hospital to Close After Transfer to Providence Health Halted
wwgh_adventisthealth.jpg In a media release today, Adventist Health announced that plans to transfer membership of Walla Walla General Hospital to Providence Health & Services have been halted. In...
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