by Loren Seibold | 13 October 2019 | You may stop and wonder when you hear that the theme for this year’s General Conference Executive Committee is “Faithfulness in Christian Lifestyle”: Why does a business meeting have a theme? And why this particular theme? Why, in a day and age when we’re trying to promote […] Source: https://atoday.org/53599-2/
Adventist Denomination Governing Body Annual Meeting in Silver Spring, Maryland
13 October 2019 | Thursday evening (10 October) the Annual Council of the executive committee of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination’s General Conference (GC) began at the GC headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb of Washington DC. This is the governing body of the denomination and consists of about 300 people, most of them denominational […] Source: https://atoday.org/adventist-denomination-governing-body-annual-meeting-in-silver-spring-maryland/
The Dangers of Demonization and Bipolar Thinking
By Loren Seibold | 11 October 2019 | A few months ago, I received an article from someone comparing Elder Ted Wilson to President Donald Trump. The author saw in both of them an authoritarian streak (probably true) but then added numerous other less thoughtful comparisons. I admit that I was put off by it, even […] Source: https://atoday.org/the-dangers-of-demonization-and-bipolar-thinking/
The Color Purple and Empowerment
by Dawnette Chambers & Christopher C. Thompson | 11 October 2019 | “What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear, What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer!” What do hopelessness and the pain of never feeling loved or appreciated do to a person? How does one […] Source: https://atoday.org/the-color-purple-and-empowerment/
News Briefs for October 10, 2019
News reports from the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Germany, Switzerland, Lansdale, Pennsylvania and Sacramento, California: More than 12,000 Adventists took to the streets of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to commemorate the 69th anniversary of World Pathfinder Day on 21 September. The young people and church leaders wore their uniforms, scarves and sashes and held banners stating […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-briefs-for-october-10-2019/
