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Oakwood University Brings Together Historically Black Colleges for Festival of Spirituals - The Seventh Biannual Festival of Spirituals will gather 500 singers with choirs from Tuskegee University, the University of Alabama, Stillman College, Alabama A&M University, Clark Atlanta University, Alabama State University, Miles College, Talladega College and Oakwood University on Sunday, Feb. 26, in the Mark C. Smith Concert Hall at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville. It is sponsored by the Historically Black Colleges and Universities and the Alabama State Council on the Arts, and organized by Oakwood University, the Adventist institution with a long pedigree among the African American community in the U.S.
 
 
Adventists in Ghana Focus on Public Service and Visibility - Last weekend Seventh-day Adventists in Ghana organized environmental clean-up projects in the west African nation’s capital and participated in a training event in another city during which they were urged to “establish and maintain strategic relationships with political and traditional leaders,” according to GNA, a leading news service. This year is both the 125th anniversary of the first Adventist believers in the country and a national election year....
 
 
The One Project Gathering in Seattle Attracts 700 - The One Project held its second American gathering February 13 and 14, 2012, in Seattle. About 700 people spent two days at the Westin Hotel in downtown Seattle. They came from all over the U. S. and from Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Hungary, Norway, Brazil, Denmark, Switzerland...The One Project seeks - through gatherings, conversations, web-based content, and Christ-focused publications - to stimulate preaching, worship, and adoration of Jesus within and through the Adventist church...."
 
 
Adventist Prep School Fills Up With Trash--For a Good Cause! - Olney Adventist Preparatory School, in Olney, Maryland, is presently in sixth place in a nationwide recycling contest called The Dream Machine Recycle Rally sponsored by PepsiCo, Waste Management, and Keep America Beautiful.  The halls of the school are filling with bags and boxes of plastic bottles, aluminum cans, and other recyclables, as the students race to win the $50,000 top prize for their school....
 
 
Sabbath Schools to Study Environment Issues - “How should Christians relate to the environment?” is the focus of the study. “What should we, as Seventh-day Adventists, think about the environment, especially because we know that this earth is corrupted, will continue to be corrupted, and will one day be destroyed, burned up in a great lake of fire,” the Adult Study Guide Standard English Edition introduces the topic....
 
 
Adventist School Girl Gets Top Award for Volunteering - Skyler Lee, a sixth-grader at Kelso-Longview Adventist School, is being honored as one of the top two youth volunteers in the State of Washington. She is a 2012 winner of the Spirit of Community Award given in collaboration between Prudential Financial company and the National Assembly of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). Skyler is 12 years of age and lives in Longview....
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Newest Blogs
   
Running Around in Circles - Herb Douglas
...When each of us focuses on the Big Picture, it really is amazing how each front-page issue fits together in a larger whole. Everything is related to everything else! But not everything is as important as everything else!...
   
   
Secular-ism - Steven Foster
Exactly what is it about the word “secular” that particular elements of the American religious-political class find so objectionable; so much so that it is routinely considered and used as a pejorative?...
   
   
Ultra-Darwinists and Conservative Christians Agree! - submitted by Erv Taylor
This excellent essay by Dr. Kootsey raises an important issue rarely considered when we address issues dealing with the assumptions we hold when we are discussing the topics surrounding the relationship between science and religion including the contentious issues surrounding evolution.  I hope this will generate much discussion.
   
   

God is a Broncos Fan - Charles Eaton
Tim Tebow has been winning football games he has no business winning. He has heart, to be sure, but his talent level is woefully inadequate and glaringly unpolished. Therefore, his recent playoff loss notwithstanding, I have come to an unmistakable conclusion: God was actively helping Tim Tebow win football games....
   
   
Jesus Hates Me - Nathan Brown
...it was his T-shirt of choice for that day, which read, “Jesus hates me.” I simply did not know how to react to such a statement, so contrary and outside my usual way of thinking about God....One suspects that often these pop culture artifacts are more marketing than philosophy, focused far more on whether they will sell than on the statement itself. But the question remains as to what would motivate someone to buy or wear such a label; and why would such a T-shirt sell....
   

     Recent Comments:


Stephen Foster commented on Sex
2012-02-23 1:23 AM

Yes, you are correct that it probably is because of shared western cultural values that most, if not all of western Christianity has the same view of polygamy.   Surely you are not suggesting that we don’t have enough diversity among...

Ervin Taylor commented on The One Project Gathering in Seattle Attracts 700
2012-02-22 11:58 PM

It would seem to me that any Christian would welcome a focus that places Jesus at the center of the life and mission of the church.  However, might I suggest that one question that someone might want to address is which Jesus are you to place at...

Horace Butler commented on Sabbath Schools to Study Environment Issues
2012-02-22 6:34 AM

We have been admonished to "occupy 'til I come," and we have also before us the idea of the "soon" coming of Christ, the need to spread the message before it's too late.  Adventists seem to have difficulty achieving...

Darrel Lindensmith commented on Running Around in Circles
2012-02-21 8:40 PM

So understanding Job's place theologically helps us to see that one of the main points of the epic was the 'evil does not come from the hand of God. Evil is a reality due to a 'controversy' among free beings, created by God, but not...

L N commented on Manhattan Missionary Leads Wall Street Discussion of the Occupy Movement
2012-02-21 1:37 PM

This link should be helpsome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Selmanovic He seems to be a minister in the broader term, affiliated to the SDA Church perhaps through membership and not through employment.

L. Humberto Covarrubias commented on God is a Broncos Fan
2012-02-20 9:44 PM

Certainly God follows and knows every move we make in every game, He even sheds tears when His children lose in the real game of the Great Controversy. Yet the rules are that on this you are on your own to make the final play.

Truth Seeker commented on Nevada Republican Party Held Special Caucus for Sabbath-keepers
2012-02-19 9:03 PM

There was nothing compelling which would cause a true Sabbath-keeper to vote in the primary on Sabbath. It was perfectly proper and in keeping with the principles of our great democracy to make provision for after Sabbath voting. Kudos to officials...

Stephen Foster commented on Help Me
2012-02-19 2:32 PM

 What (EXACTLY) are you implying that the logical position actually is, “God inspired men to write it, I don’t believe it; yet I believe that He is omniscient”?     If so, you are making my case.

Kevin Riley commented on Ultra-Darwinists and Conservative Christians Agree!
2012-02-19 1:38 AM

I didn't say it was scientists - I said it was laymen with an interest in science.  It is better not to confuse those two groups.

Elaine Nelson commented on North American Division Officers Rescind Policy under Pressure from World Leadership
2012-02-18 6:39 PM

How would it be known that God no longer wanted circumcision unless the Holy Spirit had led the apostles to make the changes they did?  How did they know to limit the conditions for becoming a member of the new Christian community which they...


Newest Columns
   
Ripping Off OUR Mask of Hypocrisy - Don Watson
Hypocrisy, to God, is extremely dangerous, because it does not recognize the brokenness in all of us that requires divine healing....the Pharisees were not "walking in the light," they were hypocrites, God's children wearing a mask - pretending to have no sin. God could heal them, He wanted to heal them, but He could not unless they gave Him permission....
   
   
Reading Into Isaiah - Mark Gutman
Did Isaiah predict the virgin birth of Matthew 1? I don’t find that in the story in Isaiah 7. Let’s take a look at the story. A war was going on. King Ahaz was terrified....People who quote verse 14 often don’t remember any of the rest of Isaiah 7....
   
   
I Support Men’s Commissioning - David Hamstra
I don't intend to rehash the arguments pro and con women's ordination here. For me it boils down to one issue: Spiritual gifts come with the authority to use them. If a woman has been equipped by the Holy Spirit for pastoral ministry, the church is poorer for not recognizing this....I have come to the conclusion that in the Seventh-day Adventist Church the term "ordination" has changed into something other than a simple recognition of God's blessing on a pastor's ministry. Ordination is now a word that is used to either attain or maintain power....
   
   
The Evangelism Industrial Complex - Ed Dickerson
...Until we are ready to put as much effort and as many resources into retaining our own children and reaching the ones who have left as we do into all the public evangelism events, we are going to keep losing our young adults. They can see where our last-generation values fail them. For the first forty years or so, this was a young people's movement. For more than the last forty, it has become an aging people's status quo. To change that, we will have to take on the Evangelism/Industrial Complex.
   
   

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