Curdled milk sits in the breakfast bowl, remnants of yesterday’s dinner. It’s raining again today. You load the clothes into the dryer and turn on the news, searching for some semblance of normal. The monotone warnings and humdrum rhythms bring strange comfort, wordless lyrics to...
On June 21, 2020, the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s North American Division issued the following statement after a full-page advertisement was published by a fringe organization on the same day in the Nashville Tennessean, a Gannett-owned newspaper. “The Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America is deeply disturbed by...
Loma Linda University Health experts recommend a staged plan for people wanting to start high-impact physical activity following lung or heart damage as a result of a COVID-19 infection. A patient’s phased plan can range from a couple of weeks to several weeks of delayed...
In the framework of Donor Week and World Blood Donor Day, Adventist youth from Cuyo, Argentina, joined the solidarity campaign for blood donation Vida por Vidas (Life for Lives), supporting different hemotherapy centers and hospitals in the region. At the Regional Hemotherapy Center of the Province of Mendoza,...
At different points in our lives, we will face financial challenges. Some of these will be so severe as to reach crisis level. We might not know where the financial crisis will come from or how long it will last—but one will come, and we...
“I’m having a hard time getting my head around that,” said the young person I had been sharing with. “I just don’t feel like it’s true.” We were not discussing some mystery of the universe or the nature of God. It wasn’t some win-every-argument apologetics...
For many of us, memorizing the weekly Adult Bible Study Guides (ABSG) memory texts can be quite a mental challenge. A small group of musically-minded folk from several churches in Canterbury, New Zealand, have been working to make this process easier by putting the ABSG...
A recent survey of 1,930 members and patrons of the Adventist Church in the Brazilian Central Planalto region showed that 82.3 percent have regularly followed, over the past three months, the services and online programs of their churches or other Adventist churches. In this period,...
Lewis Stubbs, my maternal grandfather, left a legacy of mission in my life and in the lives of countless others. The testimony of his life demonstrates how everyday believers can make disciples and plant churches. He is remembered not for his theological education (he had...
Dozens of Wayúu indigenous families in La Guarija in the northern part of Colombia received food baskets, thanks to an initiative of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Colombia. The Wayúu families have been forced to follow quarantine guidelines...