News reports from the Center for Youth Evangelism, Lifestyle Magazine, the brand new Adventist Health virtual hospital, the US Virgin Islands, newly-acquired Adventist Health Mendocino Coast and the Inter-Oceanic Mexican region: The Andrews University-based Center for Youth Evangelism has cancelled its “Cruise With a Mission” Alaska trip, scheduled for September. The center is instead advertising […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-brief-for-may-7-2020/
Love in the time of corona
The middle-age of the day is a slow slog of work; of forcing words that would usually flow naturally between people into a digital space. I make lists to remind myself to be human—breathe/stretch/read/drink water. It seems manic and eternal. By evening I’m old; exhausted by ennui. To find my way through this, I start a Facebook group with my students in response to a National Poetry Month challenge: “a poem a day for April.” Source: https://wp.avondale.edu.au/news/2020/05/08/love-in-the-time-of-corona/
Medical Symposium 5: Medical Experts Answer Your COVID-19 Questions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNt4c6mMOS0
Attend the last COVID-19 live online symposium with leading physicians answering questions from all previous symposiums. Learn more and register at awr.org/health. Next session: Sunday, May 10, at 5 p.m. Pacific / 8 p.m. Eastern. Join us as our presenters come back and answer questions asked during the previous four symposiums by our viewers. They will be responding to questions covering all eight of the topics presented. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNt4c6mMOS0
Reassessing the Size of Mormons, Adventists and Witnesses Using Census Data
by Ronald Lawson | 7 May 2020 | This article compares the growth of three religious groups, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Seventh-day Adventists, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. All originated in America during the nineteenth century and have since globalized. It begins by using their official membership data to contrast their aggregate growth […] Source: https://atoday.org/reassessing-the-size-of-mormons-adventists-and-witnesses-using-census-data/
Snapshot of transforming study
The launch of a video series today gives a snapshot of how researchers at Avondale are helping transform our understanding and practice of Christian education. Source: https://wp.avondale.edu.au/news/2020/05/08/snapshot-of-transforming-study/