“First” and “only” are strong, definitive words, which might explain why they appear so often in media coverage. As the first higher education provider in Australia to become a university under new national standards and the only addition to the “Australian University” category following a transition to those standards, news of our new status received wide coverage. Source: https://wp.avondale.edu.au/news/2021/07/22/avondale-a-university-key-commentary/
British Union Conference Weekly e-Club Ends after Fifteen Months
On 23 March 2020 the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announced that England would begin a period of lockdown, during which people were not to leave their houses for anything except for essential trips. Offices, schools, churches, and other establishments all closed their doors to await the passing of the COVID-19 virus.
Since Adventurer and Pathfinder club meetings were not deemed ‘essential’, children in the clubs were no longer allowed to meet in person. This presented a very real problem…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2021-07-22/british-union-conference-weekly-e-club-ends-after-fifteen-months/
Gold standard
Not many reading-averse teenagers would choose to spend more time with words simply for self-development, but Olivia Matheson had a goal she wanted to meet. It tells you something about the character of this go-getter first-year student. Source: https://wp.avondale.edu.au/news/2021/07/22/gold-standard/
Loren Seibold: A Proposal for a 29th Fundamental Belief
24 July 2021 | The entire article can be read here. Excerpt: Rather than regarding some as lesser Adventists, or dissenters, or silent hypocrites, we propose a 29th fundamental belief. This 29th statement would say that people can embrace or reject any one or more of the previous 28 and still remain loved and active […] Source: https://atoday.org/loren-seibold-a-proposal-for-a-29th-fundamental-belief/
Australian Adventist Sanitarium Loses Appeal over Suggestive Poster
21 July 2021 | A Sydney Water employee, who’d agreed to pose for a poster about warming up one’s joints before working, won an appeal for a $200,000 settlement from Vitality Works, an Adventist Sanitarium subsidiary company. The poster read “Feel great—lubricate!” next to her picture, which Reem Yelda felt was “objectively sexual and likely […] Source: https://atoday.org/australian-adventist-sanitarium-loses-appeal-over-suggestive-poster/
