7 July 2021  |  An Invitation to Visit the Witch of Endor Few biblical passages are more controversial than 1 Samuel 28:3-25.  Here, Saul goes to the village of Endor and asks a medium (traditionally translated as “witch”), to raise Samuel from the dead so he can converse with him. And that is what the […] Source: https://atoday.org/laurence-turner-revisiting-the-strange-controversial-witch-of-endor/

ADRA created BRAVE (Building Resilience And Vaccine Awareness), a program to be run in collaboration with interfaith groups in Sri Lanka to fight COVID with factual information. The agency also initiated Know Your Reality, an effort in which faith groups, including the Adventist Church, establish an interfaith pandemic relief team (IPRT) to share COVID-related training […] Source: https://atoday.org/adras-brave-program-involves-adventist-church-and-interfaith-forums-in-sri-lanka-to-minimize-covid-19-threat/

5 July 2021  | At their Constituency Meeting on Sunday, July 4, 2021, the Bavarian Conference, among many other agenda items, considered the topic of women’s ordination. Two pastors, Ralf Hartmann from Landshut and Frederik Woysch from Wasserburg, presented three motions to the gathered delegates. The motions were formed by a group of 5 pastors […] Source: https://atoday.org/bavarian-conference-asks-german-union-to-ordain-women/