Having spent more than 20 years working and studying in the field of public health and epidemiology, I have been disheartened by the foothold that anti-vaccination and anti-vaccination-mandate ideologies have taken within some spheres of the Adventist Church community. As a denomination, we have ...
Merrick Lopez , MD, a pediatric intensivist at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital, says he remembers when health officials and news sites started buzzing about an unknown virus that hadn’t yet reached the United States. A U.S. State Department-chartered plane carrying upwards of 240 U.S. c...
The idea of the film Dinah was to talk to the new generations about topics such as sexual abuse, bullying and digital defamation.
Workers in the Vineyard “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard” (Matthew 20:1,2). There’s one parable that Jesus told, that causes me more angui...
Have you noticed attendance is significantly down in your local church? You aren’t alone. In fact, according to research by eAdventist membership services, church attendance in the pandemic era (virtual and in-person) is down 72 percent in North America. It’s time, church leaders say, to take a r...
Seventh-day Adventists from Central Adventist Church in St. Croix, of the U.S. Virgin Islands, gathered recently to commemorate the culmination of a historic evangelistic campaign held in a large tent 50 years ago on October 30, 1971. The success of that campaign, which resulted in 226 baptisms, ...