The Newsweek article, "TEST YOUR Geek Chic," left me feeling inadequate when it came to knowing the latest technology available today.1 The "quiz" asked questions ranging from the number of functioning computers and laptops I owned (two) to what kind of c
A reported 36 people were killed and more than 300,000 people have been displaced when heavy flooding swept through Jakarta, Indonesia in the early morning hours of Feb 3. Many of the displaced residents have taken refuge in schools, churches, mosques
Taking a three-city-block tour makes it clear what Adventism is all about. And it's not just the buildings that make up the Historic Adventist Village in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States. Strolling through the village, visitors get a living, breathin
Planning for a more effective public presence and deployment of Internet technology by local churches dominated the agenda of a meeting of top Seventh-day Adventist communicators in the church's South Pacific region.
When was the last time your church focused on problems outside its doors? If you can't remember, you are not alone. There are many other Seventh-day Adventists who do little to alleviate the suffering of those in their communities. According to a 2002 wor
The morning of January 13 started out as a rather typical Saturday when Seventh-day Adventists in Poso, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia headed to the Adventist church to worship until a bomb, wrapped in a plastic bag, was discovered by one of the church membe
During a special ceremony on Jan. 24, 2007, church leaders and members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Central Honduras Mission inaugurated a new building which will house the headquarter office of its more than 85,000 church membership.
Education, many believe, shapes a generation. The leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Inter-American Division (IAD) are no exception. Dozens of IAD educators and leaders met for a four-day summit earlier this month to examine the present Ad
"Seventh-day Adventists are not an island in this world. We want to know other faiths better, and we want them to know us better," Dr. John Graz, director of the Adventist world church's department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty, said Jan. 23.
The 7th annual Health Certification Summit organized by the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Health Ministries departments of the North American Division and Inter-American Division will take place in Orlando, Florida, Jan. 26 to Feb. 3, 2007 at the Sherato
An increase in radicalism that has led to a surge in religious intolerance will be among the themes considered by a congress on religious freedom planned for the continent of Africa--an area of the world that until recently seemed to have relatively few r
Christian protestors made national news headlines on Tuesday, January 9 when they demonstrated outside British Parliament against new regulations to protect gay rights. Since then, concerned citizens, among them Adventists, have petitioned their parliamen