News reports from GAiN Europe, the North American Division, Loma Linda University Health, ADRA, the Lake Union Herald and Sydney Adventist Hospital: The Trans-European Division announced the latest video in a social media series #dearcoronavirus. The video features medical staff from 15 countries who share their commitment to serve in this challenging time. The video […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-briefs-for-april-23-2020/
South Atlantic Conference President To Georgia Governor: Reconsider Decision To End Shelter In Place Order
22 April 2020 | Elder William L. Winston, the president of the Adventist denomination’s South Atlantic Conference, released a letter today in which he refused to open the churches in the conference despite a decision by the Governor of Georgia to end shelter in place orders in the state by April 30. Winston appealed to […] Source: https://atoday.org/south-atlantic-conference-president-asks-georgia-governor-to-reconsider-decision-to-end-shelter-in-place-order/
Earth Day and the Image of God
by Steven Siciliano | 22 April 2020 | When Earth Day was first celebrated fifty years ago I was barely a teenager—a budding environmentalist with an affinity for the outdoors and a dawning grasp of the principle that all creation is one interdependent system. That insight emerged from the relatively new discipline called “ecology” and […] Source: https://atoday.org/earth-day-and-the-image-of-god/
Is Love a Choice or a Destiny?
David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell & Universal Salvation. Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2017. Reviewed by Jack Hoehn | 22 April 2020 | I had recently seen David Bentley Hart’s translation of the New Testament (The New Testament—A Translation, same publisher and date as this book being reviewed) […] Source: https://atoday.org/is-love-a-choice-or-a-destiny/
Two Studies Say Smokers at Higher Risk for Infectious Disease
Loma Linda University Health research shows that those who smoke are at greater risk of contracting infectious disease and spreading infectious disease. Studies conducted in Laos and Cambodia revealed the use of tobacco increases a person’s susceptibility and transmission of infectious disease due to the frequent sharing of smoking tools and destruction of mucociliary function […] Source: https://atoday.org/two-studies-say-smokers-at-higher-risk-for-infectious-disease/
