Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton’s 30 Years of Received Correspondence Featured in...
2017-12-7-news.png In this week’s news round-up, Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton’s 30 years of received correspondence is published in a new book, an LGBT-friendly Bible app releases this month, a Fijian...
View ArticleNetherlands Union Conference Votes to Extend Postponement of Ordination of...
2017-12-8-netherlands.png On Sunday, December 3, the Netherlands Union Executive Committee voted to extend its current postponement on the ordination of female pastors. On Sunday, December 3, the...
View ArticleFirst Indigenous Director for Aboriginal Ministries Appointed in Australia
2017-Darren-Garlett.jpg Pastor Darren Garlett has been named the new director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ministries (ATSIM) for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia (AUC). Pastor...
View ArticleLa Sierra Music Creates Viral Christmas Video
Filming_Minaret.jpg The video has been seen nearly 365,000 times within the first week of its release. La Sierra University’s Music Department has created a viral sensation with their recently-released...
View ArticleMichigan Conference President Jay Gallimore Announces Retirement
2017-12-11-news.png Elder Jay Gallimore, president of the Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, has announced his retirement. Elder Jay Gallimore, president of the Michigan Conference of...
View ArticleAdventist Pastor Admitted to the Jamaican Supreme Court Bar
2017-12-14-news.jpg Omar Oliphant created history in the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica by becoming the first ordained minister to become an attorney-at-law. He was admitted to the Jamaican...
View ArticlePresident Ted Wilson Issues Statement on “Homosexuality and the Church”
dmitri-popov-297585.jpg On December 13, Ted Wilson, the president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, released a statement to remind members of the “officially voted statements and...
View ArticleGeneral Conference Issues Memo on American Tax Bill
congress-jomar-thomas-271602.jpg In response to the American tax bill that received congressional approval this week, the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists has issued a memo about its impact...
View ArticleChristmas Mutirão Donates Half a Ton of Food to Community Hospital
2017-12-24-news-ann.jpg The Christmas Mutirão is a social project of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Brazil that primarily provides a Christmas dinner for people living in poverty who do not even...
View ArticlePuget Sound Adventist Academy Student Wins $25,000 Scholarship and More News...
2017-12-27-newsshorts2.PNG In this week’s Adventist news round-up, a Puget Sound Adventist Academy student wins a $25,000 college scholarship, armed robbers attack an all-night worship service in...
View ArticleRethinking What It Means to Give
gift-ben-white-170529.jpg As 2017 comes to a close, we are writing to request your financial support. And to say thank you, because your previous donations have been so important to Spectrum’s...
View ArticleSpectrum’s Top Stories of 2017
2017-12-29-news.png As the year comes to a close, we’re taking a look at the top stories that dominated the Adventist news cycle in 2017. From church and world politics to gender and sexuality, from a...
View ArticleCelebrating the Lives They Led
Bud Roberts.JPG When year-end lists are made, it is usually “celebrity” lives within a community that are noted. For instance, in 2017, the North American Adventist Academic Community lost Ben...
View ArticleNew Theological Journal Debuts for French-Speaking Adventists
2018-1-3-news.png The Adventist Faculty of Theology of Collonges (France), has released the first issue of a new theological journal called “Servir: Revue adventiste de théologie.” The Adventist...
View ArticleGratitude to Start the New Year
gratitude.jpeg Thank you for making a difference. J.M.Laurence famously said, “It’s not what we have in our life, but who we have in our life that counts.” And we have generous members and readers who...
View ArticleMuseum of the Bible Opens Amid Controversy and Concern
motb.jpg The Museum of the Bible, a $500 million, eight-story, 430,000 square foot facility in the heart of Washington D.C. officially opened its doors in November. The privately-funded non-profit...
View ArticleMinistry of Military Chaplains Honored at Memorial Dedication Ceremony
2018-1-8-rmcarticle.JPG Dick Stenbakken’s dream of placing a memorial honoring chaplains from the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines, past and present, at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific...
View ArticleSituating Adventist History Conference Report Day 1
2018-1-9-news.png The Situating Adventist History conference is jointly sponsored by the General Conference Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research (ASTR), the Association of Seventh-day Adventist...
View ArticleAdventist Gaming Conference Connects Faith and Fun
2018-1-10-news.png The inaugural A’CampbellCon, a gaming conference created by five friends and held January 5-7, 2018, featured over 100 table-top games for attendees to play, tournaments, contests,...
View ArticleSituating Adventist History Conference Report Day 2
2018-1-11-news.png The Situating Adventist History conference is jointly sponsored by the General Conference Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research (ASTR), the Association of Seventh-day...
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