We're excited to announce ADvindicate raised over $33,000 for its 2015 budget. ADvindicate's goal has been to publish a biblical perspective on trending Adventist issues. With the ability to pay for content, we now have more control over the quality and quantity of our articles, but beyond that, it allows us to begin expanding our news coverage. So thank you for your dedication to ADvindicate's goal and mission.
Read MoreDr. Herbert Douglass Memorial
A Memorial Service will be held at 4:00 PM on Sabbath, February 14, 2015, at the Carmichael SDA Church, 4600 Winding Way, Sacramento, CA 95841.
Read MoreAvondale College arguing in favor of Darwinian evolution?
In the most recent 2015 issue of Christian Spirituality and Science published by Avondale College (a Seventh-day Adventist institution under the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists) there are three articles, all of which appear to challenge the firm position of the Seventh-day Adventist Church on the literal nature of the creation week described in Genesis. The authors of these papers suggest that the church should put aside such antiquated 19th century notions and accept or at least tolerate the idea that life has existed and evolved on this planet over the course of at least a couple billion years or so.
Read MoreChristianity Today assesses Adventists' struggle to be distinct
Christianity Today published an article called "The Season of Adventists: Can Ben Carson's Church Stay Separatist Amid Booming Growth?" by Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra in its January/February edition about the denomination's worries the church is becoming too mainstream. A picture of Ellen White and Billy Graham's faces posed opposite of each other in a venn diagram illustrates the article.
Read MoreTime's up! Give now
After almost two and a half years, we decided it was time to fundraise and take ADvindicate to the next level. With no money and a reliance on voluntary submissions for the first couple years, there was only so much we could offer. One of our readers approached ADvindicate president Gerry Wagoner at a convention and asked why ADvindicate wasn't covering more news. All of us at ADvindicate have full-time jobs and write and run the website in our spare time. In spite of this, God has blessed the site and we're doing well. There are many things we would have liked to cover, but due to lack of money and available writers, we were unable to deliver.
Read MorePope Francis to issue encyclical on climate change.
According to Bishop Marcelo Sorondo, the chancellor of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pope wants to have a direct influence on the 2015 UN climate conference in Paris, the culmination of decades of negotiations that will help determine the planet’s future.
Read MoreWWU President answers spiritual formation accusations
The attackers—“the accusers of the brethren,” if I may call them that—offer criticisms that are low on content and high on innuendo, half-truth, and damnation by association. They offer their accusations from afar without engaging the people they accuse (see Matthew 18:15-17). Those of us who know the people being attacked, who regularly listen to them teach Sabbath School classes and preach and participate in committee meetings, simply do not recognize the extreme caricature the attackers offer.
Read MoreParent voices concern over 'Adam and Steve' to PUC president
Unfortunately, the atmosphere [at PUC] is such that I feel I cannot, in good conscious, encourage my daughters to attend this school. Should they attend here, my concern would be that they would no longer abide by the guidance and principles I felt convicted to teach them. After listening to Pastor Henderson’s sermon, I felt the time had come to voice my disappointment and concerns and forward them to your office for your records.
Read MorePaying the bills
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Read MoreWatch Women’s Ordination Symposium Live
Secrets Unsealed invites you to join them for a live streaming of “Women’s Ordination: History, Issues and Implications” NOW!
Read MoreOperation Iceberg symposium on the emerging church
In response to the omega rising within the remnant church, "Operation Iceberg" was formed to educate our people on the dangers of this seemingly good, yet insidiously dangerous embracing of ancient mysticism and postmodernism.
Read MoreLives are being touched
It’s difficult for me to believe ADvindicate has only been in existence since February 2012; so much has happened in that short period of time. We hope you have been blessed as you read and comment on the articles provided.
Read MoreWomen’s Ordination Symposium: History, Issues and Implications
Secrets Unsealed invites you to join them for a live streaming of “Women’s Ordination: History, Issues and Implications” from Fresno, Calif., Oct. 1-4, 2014. You can watch online at youtube.com/secretsunsealed channel, or at SecretsUnsealed.org (click “On Air”).
Read MoreTed Wilson: No room for evolution in Adventist schools
Seventh-day Adventist world church President Ted N. C. Wilson forcefully asserted that life has existed on the Earth for only a few thousand years, not millions of years, as he opened an educators conference in Utah on Friday, and he said teachers who believe otherwise should not call themselves Seventh-day Adventists or work in Church-operated schools.
The Record Keeper leaked online
The controversial web series funded by the General Conference that was originally cancelled has been leaked to the web. The series was leaked on director Jason Satterlund's YouTube channel July 2 and on Ricardo Raposo's YouTube channel August 2. No announcement of the series release has been made on Satterlund's website or the two Facebook pages promoting the site. It's also been released on http://www.thehaystack.tv/. The Daily Haystacks tweeted this yesterday.
Read MoreHerb Montgomery Aligns with Kinship
Independent Adventist seminar speaker Herb Montgomery, who describes himself as “an author, internationally recognized speaker, and director of Renewed Heart Ministries,” has aligned with SDA Kinship, a homosexual organization that, among other activities, holds Kinship Kampmeeting each summer. Montgomery, who is married with three children and lives in West Virginia, was a featured speaker at last week's Kinship Kampmeeting.
Read MorePope hints at change to celibate priest rule
It appears that Pope Francis may be rethinking the idea of clerical celibacy. In an interview with La Repubblica, an Italian daily newspaper, Pope Francis described the celibacy of the priesthood as "a problem" in need of a solution. “There definitely is a problem but it is not a major one. This needs time but there are solutions and I will find them,” Francis said, without elaborating further.
Read MoreUnsuspecting Adventist wins $1 million from Publisher's Clearing House
Kroll, who has lived in Castle Rock for 31 years, said he doesn’t remember entering the online sweepstakes. He said he was “shocked” and “surprised” when Publishers Clearing House representatives knocked on his door Monday. “The odds of winning something like this are like getting struck by lightning,” he said.
Read MorePasadena's medical director on leave after his Protestant sermons surface
The Southern California city of Pasadena has suspended its public health director, Dr. Eric Walsh, while it investigates statements the Seventh-day Adventist lay preacher allegedly made in several sermons.
Read More[UPDATE] SCC distances itself from Eric Walsh
Southern California Conference (SCC) released a statement Tuesday distancing itself from the controversy surrounding past comments made by Pasadena Public Health Director and SDA associate pastor Dr. Eric Walsh regarding homosexuals, Catholics and Muslims. SCC spokeswoman Betty Cooney said, "[H]e does not hold ministerial credentials from the Adventist Church, does not speak on behalf of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, and as far as we know, does not represent his views as anything other than his own.”
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