Week’s Links

SDA Voices & Issues

• The Kingdom or Ang Ginharian (Ryan, Where the Road Lies)
• In Jamaica, visually impaired Adventist appointed senate president (Nigel Coke, ANN)
• First Blind Person to Serve as Senate President in Jamaica is an Adventist (Adventist Today)
• New documentary traces global impact of Adventist medical, mission outreach (Elizabeth Lechleitner, ANN)
• Survey Explores Attitudes Toward Homosexuality Among Adventists (Carrol Grady, Adventist Today)
• Pacific Union Conference Ordains Theology Professor Jean Sheldon (Colleen Uechi, Adventist Today)
• Overlooked Themes in Amos (Mark Gutman, Adventist Today)
• Sabbath Sermon: The Upside Down Church—Stan Patterson (Spectrum)
• Laila Mickelwait (Part 1), About Her Work Against Sex Trafficking (Adventist Today)

Peace & War

• Hero of Faith: A Japanese Adventist pastor stands strong for God in a time of war. (Tadaomi Shinmyo, Adventist World)
• WATER WARS – IN THE US AND THE MIDDLE EAST (Planet in Distress)

Environment

• Loma Linda’s Earth and Biological Sciences Department Turns 50 (Heather Reifsnyder & Nancy Yuen, Adventist Review)
• PLAGUE LOCUSTS IN TRINIDAD? REALLY? (Planet in Distress)
• SO YOU THOUGHT THE US DROUGHT WAS OVER? (Planet in Distress)
• WHO’S PAYING FOR INCREASED DISASTERS? YOU ARE. (Planet in Distress)

Disaster Response

• Adventists Join Oklahoma Tornado Relief Effort (Mark Kellner, Adventist Review)
• On the Ground: ADRA International Responds to the Oklahoma Tornado Devastation (Yael Elden, ADRA)
• WAFF Channel 48: TN Valley volunteers arrive in OK (NAPS)
• NAPS Brings Comfort at Oklahoma Funeral (NAPS)
• NAPS in Oklahoma (NAPS)
• Adventist Community Services Responds Immediately to Oklahoma Tornado (Adventist Today)

Additional Christian Voices

• Exposing the Dark World of Human Trafficking (Part 1 of 2) (Focus on the Family)
• The Violence of Peacemaking (Jon Huckins, Red Letter Christians)
• The gehenna of our own making: Zero Dark Thirty (Rob Moore, Unbound)
• Socio-political Change in light of the Pentecostal Experience (Dwight Stewart, Jesus Radicals)
• Becoming Franciscan (Kevin Daugherty, Young Anabaptist Radicals)
• 10 Myths of Abuse in the Church (Tara Samples, Sojourners)
• Faith Leaders Herald Strong Vote for Citizenship Immigrants (PICO)
• The Revolution is Upon Us (Tom Ehrich, Sojourners)
• Hunger Action Day in California (Karla Vasquez, Sojourners)
• Power of a Personal Pronoun: 5 Suggestions for Gender Inclusivity (Emily Louise Zimbrick-Rogers, Sojourners)
• Immigration Reformation podcast, part 7: Encouraging and Empowering Local Church Engagement with Immigrants with Adam Estle (New Wine, New Wineskins)
• The Pledge of Allegiance: 2 Reasons Why Christians Should Not Say It (Matt Young, Red Letter Christians)
• To Tell the Truth: The Courage to Speak Out Against Respected Men (Ruthie Dean, Sojourners)
• Congregations and Faith Groups Play Important Roles in Tornado Relief Efforts (Religion & Ethics, PBS)
• President Defends Drone Use as Moral, Renews Pledge to Close Guantanamo (Religion & Ethics, PBS)