The Board of Directors of the Review and Herald Publishing Association moved swiftly Sunday, April 6, to stabilize the financial health of the 165-year old publishing house at a specially-called Executive session after year-end reports showed a nearly $943,000 loss for 2013 and continued weakness in the first quarter of the current year.
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency in Chile is preparing a response to last week’s 8.2-magnitude earthquake that left seven people dead and disrupted power in and around the city of Iquique.
This month’s Global Youth Day was the second annual event that sent hundreds of thousands of Seventh-day Adventist youth and young adults out of church for service projects in neighborhoods and communities worldwide.
A Seventh-day Adventist Church vice president’s final wrap-up of the denomination’s sexuality summit last week was a call to see same-sex attracted church members as “brothers and sisters” also in need of God’s “saving grace”—while upholding the Adventist Church’s stance against sexual conduct outside of heterosexual marriage.
No other denomination today is “better positioned” to reclaim the “spirituality of sexuality” than the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a theology professor said at the church’s sexuality summit in Cape Town last week.
A panel of experts at the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s summit on sexuality yesterday discussed how best to negotiate issues surrounding the gay and lesbian community in a way that both upholds the theological identity of the church and acknowledges the realities faced by people struggling with sexual orientation.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s top health leader said there is no clear model to understand why some individuals are homosexual, saying it is a “complex interplay of genetic and environmental factors.”
A panel of three Seventh-day Adventists who lived gay lifestyles told their stories last evening during the denomination’s summit on sexuality, discussing their journeys away from homosexual activity.
Family dysfunction, sexual trauma and other environmental factors are often identified as triggers of homosexual conduct, but the reality may be more nuanced than some faith communities are comfortable acknowledging, a Seventh-day Adventist behavioral scientist said this morning at the church’s sexuality conference.
Speaking to nearly 350 church leaders at the Cape Town International Convention Centre yesterday, Seventh-day Adventist world church President Ted N. C. Wilson urged them to recognize that “human brokenness” is ubiquitous, dependent on the healing that comes only through the restorative power of Christ.
Nearly 350 Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders, pastors, academics, and human services experts have gathered in Cape Town, South Africa, for a four-day summit intended to help the worldwide Church better address the experiences of homosexuality and alternative sexualities.
A recently released encyclopedia on the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s co-founder Ellen G. White gives an overview of her stance on numerous topics and offers an opportunity to dispel misconceptions on the life and literary influence of the denomination’s most known figure, publishers said.