8 July 2021 | The Bible and LGBTQ Adventists: A Theological Conversation about Same-sex Marriage, Gender, and Identity, Alicia Johnston, self-published, 2021, 350 pages. Reviewed by Stephen Chavez, Silver Spring, Maryland. We Adventists, and, frankly, most Christians, have a complicated relationship with Scripture. “It’s not complicated,” we say. “When the Bible says, ‘The seventh day […] Source: https://atoday.org/a-necessary-conversation/
News Briefs for July 8, 2021
News reports from Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Miami, Florida; Nigeria and Pacific Press: According to the Jamaica Observer, an (at press time) unidentified man was shot on Saturday, July 3, just outside Granville Seventh-day Adventist Church in the St James Parish of Jamaica. The man was the victim of a drive-by shooting. He was walking home […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-briefs-for-july-8-2021/
Laurence Turner: Revisiting the Strange, Controversial Witch of Endor
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/
Sharing Scripture — July 4 – 10, 2021
This is a tool for you to use if you lead a Sabbath School (SS) class or small group. It is keyed to the Bible texts used in the current week’s Adult SS lesson and includes a brief story from current news you can use to introduce the discussion and then a series of discussion […] Source: https://atoday.org/sharing-scripture-july-4-10-2021/
ADRA’s BRAVE Program Involves Adventist Church and Interfaith Forums in Sri Lanka to Minimize COVID-19 Threat
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/
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