Adventist Social Ethics News Roundup

• Weekend Feature: From the Front Lines of Urban Mission in New York City (Adv Today, 8 June 2012)
• What Do We Do with the Blood? (Ryan Bell, Hollywood SDA Church, 7 June 2012)
• Pipim Sexual Abuse Victim: The Story from a First-person Observer (Loren Seibold, Adv Today, 7 June 2012)
• Part One: The Whistleblower and the Healthcare Corporation (Andrew Hanson, Adv Today, ND)
• Failure of Nonviolent Action for Peace and Justice (Jeff Boyd, J’s Peace & Justice Journal, 7 June 2012)
• Sabbath and Same-Sex marriage, pt III (Kendra Perry, Adv Today, 6 June 2012)
• North American Division Reports on Women’s Ordination News (Spectrum, 5 June 2012)
• Ted (Wilson II) and Joe (Benedict XVI) Have a Common Problem: Women in Ministry In their Churches (Ervin Taylor, Adv Today, 5 June 2012)
• Sabbath Sermon: The Historic Role of Women in Ministry in the Adventist Church—Stan Hickerson (Spectrum, 2 June 2012)
• American Denominational Administrators Visit Women Serving as Ordained Ministers in the Adventist Church in China (Adv Today, 2 June 2012)
• Thoughtful Bits on a Screen (Jeff Boyd, J’s Peace & Justice Journal, 2 June 2012)
• Gauche, Bent, Beloved (John McLarty, Liberal Adventist Pastor, 1 June 2012)
• Listening to the Church in China (Raj Attiken, 1 June 2012)
• Immigration Reform — Day of Rallies (Jeff Boyd, J’s Peace & Justice Journal, 1 June 2012)
• Nonviolence of Jesus (Jeff Boyd, J’s Peace & Justice Journal, 1 June 2012)

• En Generation för Jesus (Evangelisk-Progressiv Adventism, 31 May 2012)
• Moral Teachings of the Adventist Church Guide Hollywood Actress-Producer Couple (Adv Today, 31 May 2012)
• At local Malaysian markets, mobile medical ministry embodies urban focus (Ansel Oliver, ANN, 31 May 2012)
• Weekend Feature: Farming is not Dead Among American Adventists, Just Radically Changed (Adv Today, 31 May 2012)
• Women’s Ordination: Recent actions by the Adventist Church in North America (John McLarty, Liberal Adventist Pastor, 30 May 2012)
• In Guatemala, Adventist public health campaign to impact local Mayan communities (Yuri Samayoa/Gustavo Menendez, ANN, 30 May 2012)
• At religious liberty dinner, Canadian foreign minister promotes ‘bedrock’ human right (Bettina Krause/IRLA, ANN, 29 May 2012)
• Summer Reading Group: ‘To Change the World’ (Brenton Reading, Spectrum, 28 May 2012)
• Desmond Doss Story to be Made into a Major Hollywood Movie (Adv Today, 28 May 2012)
• The God Gap: Politics and the Adventist Christian II—Chris Oberg (Spectrum, 25 May 2012)
• Adventist Church Joins Efforts against Corruption and Graft in Malawi (Adv Today, 25 May 2012)
• Gay Marriage and the Imposition of Morality (Jason Hines, Spectrum, 24 May 2012)
• Who is Worthy to Minister? (Madeline Johnston, Spectrum, 23 May 2012)
• The Ride for Diapers (Eric Shadle, Adv Community Services, 22 May 2012)
• ADRA International President Recently Elected as New Board Member for InterAction (John Torres, ADRA, 22 May 2012)
• Rwanda: ADRA Improves Condition of Hygiene in Transit Camp (Christina Zaiback, ADRA, 22 May 2012)
• Freedom to Choose (Darius A. Lecointe, 22 May 2012)
• Carl Wilkens Interview by Jeff Boyd (Adv Today, 21 May 2012)
• Inspiration: Dr. Ben Carson’s Speech at Emory (ReligiousLiberty.TV, 18 May 2012)
• Sabbath Sermon: The God Gap: Politics and the Adventist Christian I—Chris Oberg (Spectrum, 18 May 2012)
• NPUC Plans Action on Women in Church Leadership (Spectrum, 18 May 2012)
• Should Seventh-day Adventists be Republicans? (Loren Seibold, Spectrum, 17 May 2012)
• “The Ways of the Lord are Just, part II” (Donna Jean Walker Haerich, Adv Today, 17 May 2012)
• Adventist Church Organizes Inter-faith Event in the Nation with the Largest Muslim Population (Adv Today, 17 May 2012)
• Columbia Union Calls Constituency Meeting to Vote on Ordination (Spectrum, 17 May 2012)
• Accusations Heard against Adventist Serving as Judge on Kenya’s Appeals Court (Adv Today, 17 Spectrum)
• East Coast Union Also Convenes a Constituency Meeting to Vote Ordination for Women Pastors (Adv Today, ND)
• Religious freedom festival in Indonesia recognizes government, faith leaders (Gay Tuballes-Deles, ANN, 15 May 2012)
• ICPJ Newsletter — Immigration (Jeff Boyd, J’s Peace & Justice Journal, 15 May 2012)
• Atlantic Union Conference Releases Statement on Women in Ministry (Spectrum, 15 May 2012)
• Ministry of Reconciliation (Jeff Boyd, J’s Peace & Justice Journal, 15 May 2012)
• Church president cites peacemaking (Lourdes Morales-Gudmundsson, Adventist Women 4 Peace, May 13, 2008)
• Kinship International Responds to British Union Conference Statement on Same-Sex Marriage (Kinship Intl, Spectrum, 13 May 2012)
• Weekend Feature: Activist Dreams of Tangible Help for Tanzania (Adv Today, 12 May 2012)
• Ethics, Evolution, and Ben Carson (Alexander Carpenter, Spectrum, 11 May 2012)
• Adventist Leader in Nigeria Says Christian Council is Too Confrontational with Muslims (Adv Today, 11 May 2012)
• I Shall Boast in My Weakness (lgayo, Adventist YA, 10 May 2012)
• Why You Should Eavesdrop on Your Neighbors (Ryan Bell, Intersections, 10 May 2012)
• The Sabbath and Same-Sex Marriage (Kendra Perry, Adv Today, 10 May 2012)
• Mothers’ Day: ADRA Continues to Support Mothers Around the World (Christina Zaiback, ADRA, 10 May 2012)
• Global Ethics Forum 2012 (Jeff Boyd, J’s Peace & Justice Journal, 10 May 2012)
• Conversation: Paul and King–Mission, the Powers and Nonviolence (Jeff Boyd, J’s Peace & Justice Journal, 10 May 2012)
• Conversation: Welcoming Michigan (Jeff Boyd, J’s Peace & Justice Journal, 10 May 2012)
• Adventists in Politics: Healers of the Nations? (Jared Wright, Spectrum, 10 May 2012)
• Pacific Union Conference Calls Special Constituency Meeting to Authorize Equality in Ordination (Alexander Carpenter, Spectrum, 9 May 2012)
• Emory University Community Expresses Concern Over Speaker Ben Carson’s Views on Evolution (Alexander Carpenter, Spectrum, 9 May 2012)
• Pacific Union Conference Calls Constituency Session to Vote Ordination for Women Pastors (Adv Today, 9 May 2012)
• Southern California Conference Votes to Ordain Women in Pastoral Ministry (Adv Today, 8 May 2012)
• Connecting with community focus of Inter-America’s first Urban Ministries Summit (Libna Stevens, ANN, 7 May 2012)
• The Fear-Hate-Punishment Industrial Complex (Reconcile Restored, 5 May 2012)
• Sabbath Sermon: Loyal Dissent — Chris Blake (Spectrum, 5 May 2012)
• Southern California Conf. Votes to Support Women’s Ordination (Alexander Carpenter, Spectrum, 4 May 2012)
• Adventist Pastor Reportedly Convicted of Rape in Zimbabwe (Adv Today, 4 May 2012)
• Pastors in England Discuss Postmodern Outreach to the Ethnic Majority Population (Adv Today, 4 May 2012)
• Seventh-Gay Adventists—Reflections on the film (Steve Moran, Spectrum, 3 May 2012)
• Let’s Talk (Keith Augustus Burton, Spectrum, 3 May 2012)
• Making Peace (Nathan Brown, Adv Today, 2 May 2012)
• Reflections on the NAD Women Clergy Conference (Kendra Haloviak Valentine, Spectrum, 2 May 2012)
• Church Closes Language School Over Marriage Equality Advocacy of Founder (Alexander Carpenter, Spectrum, 1 May 2012)
• Ongoing religious freedom advocacy difficult, but often effective, U.S. official says (Bettina Krause/IRLA with Mark Kellner, ANN, 30 April 2012)
• Progress Report: Construction of Schools in Haiti by ADRA-funded Volunteer Group (Adv Today, 27 April 2012)
• The Conundrum of Religious Liberty (Jason Hines, Spectrum, 26 April 2012)
• In world fields, religious liberty often a struggle (Mark A. Kellner, ANN, 26 April 2012)
• World religious freedom congress opens with call to avoid secular society’s lead (Mark Kellner, ANN, 24 April 2012)
• Peak Oil & New Urbanism (Jeff Boyd, J’s Peace & Justice Journal, 24 April 2012)
• On the Northern German Union Vote for Women’s Ordination (Spectrum, Dennis Meier, 24 April 2012)

BONUS

• Calling for Change (Literally!) (Alycia Ashburn, Sojourners, 5 June 2012)
• A National Crisis – It is Time for the Church to Create an Act of God (Kirk Lyman-Barner, Red Letter Christians, 5 June 2012)
• A Report on #Occupy Empire: Anabaptism and God’s Mission (MeghanF, Young Anabaptist Radicals, 1 June 2012)
• Food as Spiritual and Political Praxis 2: Continuing the Conversation Between Autumn Brown and Nekeisha Alexis-Baker (Nekeisha A.B. & Autumn Brown, Jesus Radicals, 31 May 2012)
• Making Peace with the Land (Christine Sine, Godspace, 28 May 2012)
• How Evangelicals Are Learning to Be Pro-Palestine, Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace, Pro-Justice and Always Pro-Jesus (Munther Isaac, Evangelicals for Social Action, ND)
• See you on the other side Chuck Colson (VIDEO) (Shane Claiborne, Red Letter Christians, 30 Apr 2012)
• The Power of Interfaith-Based Community Organizing (Zachary Hoover, The Parliament Blog, ND) via Geoff Nelson-Blake
• Housing project for hard-core homeless pays off (Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2012) via Ryan Bell