Most Seventh-day Adventists are aware there are many issues facing our church. Such problems range from women’s ordination to homosexuality in the church, the nature of Christ to the 2520 prophecy, the type of music in church to the emerging church, creation verses evolution to gospel entertainment, and many others.
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Read MoreThe Record Keeper may be shut down
Rumors are circulating "The Record Keeper" is being reviewed this week by a committee and could potentially be shut down. ADvindicate has made numerous calls to the Director Jason Sutterlund, Executive Producer and General Conference PR Director Garrett Caldwell and others at the General Conference, but with no reply.
Read MoreBoundaries and binaries
Most proponents of feminist ordination vigorously deny any connection between feminism and homosexuality. It is to them that I dedicate this article, because I believe it is clear that homosexuality and feminism share an ethical trajectory. Feel free to draw your own conclusions after reading.
Read MoreReactions to 'The Record Keeper' world premiere
The General Conference's new web series "The Record Keeper" had its world premiere October 4, 2013 during the Brighter Hope meetings at Emmanuel-Brinklow Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ashton, Md. The series is scheduled to be released Feb. 13, 2014. The first two episodes will be released at the same time online, and then one per week after that, according to director Jason Satterland.
Read MoreFour spiritual trends in people, institutions, churches and schools
In dealing with students over the years, there are several spiritual trends that I have observed that can be extrapolated to describe spiritual human nature in general which I have labeled in the terms of Students A, B1, B2 and C. While it is students that have shown these trends, it isn’t just teenagers that tend to demonstrate these characteristics, but adults, institutions, churches, schools and even the denomination as a whole.
Read MorePUC lawsuit lifts veil of secrecy
Documents in a lawsuit filed by Pacific Union College over a land sale that fell through reveal some secrets regarding the college's prospective land dealings. Save Rural Angwin (SRA), an anti-development group, helped put an initiative called Measure U on the ballot in 2012, which would downzone land south of the commercial center in Angwin to prevent it from being developed.
Read More2520 prophecy delusion targets conservatives
Thanks for taking time for this interview, Steve. I first encountered this theory last year when my wife and I were conducting a marriage & relationship seminar in the Northwest. I found it very puzzling. For starters, what is the 2520 theory?
Read MoreFlorida Hospital ends bacon ban with opening of Panera Bread
Florida Hospital, run by Adventist Health System, has banned a Wendy's restaurant on hospital property from serving bacon for more than a decade due to religious reasons, but a Panera Bread restaurant opened on the hospital's property across from the Wendy's is being allowed to serve bacon and other pork products, the Orlando Sentinel reported Tuesday.
Read MoreRyan Bell shucks Adventism for atheism
For the next 12 months Bell will not pray, read the Bible for inspiration, refer to God as the cause of things or hope that God might intervene and change his circumstances. He says that if God does exist, that he hopes God will not be too bewildered with his foolish experiment. He will be blogging about his experience and writing a book over the next 12 months.
Read MoreNAD Adventist Intercollegiate Association statement: affirmation and concern
Throughout my years in school, from junior high to graduate study, student government was one of my persistent passions. I was honored to serve as Student Association President at Loma Linda University during the final year in which my Master’s degree in systematic theology was finished. Too often, unfortunately, this particular arena of campus life has been maligned both as the province of frivolous popularity seekers and as a soapbox for the allegedly “troublesome young” who—in the words of the late U.S. Vice-President Spiro Agnew---dare to meddle in the grown-up world.
Read MoreADvindicate traffic more than doubles in 2013
ADvindicate is growing and not just by a little. Its first year saw an average of 3,605 unique visitors per month, which isn't too shabby considering it started from scratch. Traffic more than doubled in 2013, with its monthly average for unique visitors jumping to 7,376.
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