Carl Wilkens Interview (AToday)

Carl Wilkens is the focus of the 7th installment of the Viewpoints interview series at Adventist Today. Carl stayed in Rwanda during the genocide in 1994, and he now travels with his wife speaking on issues of human rights and peacemaking. An excerpt from the interview: Jeff: You have said that when faced with evil [...]

SDA Potpourri

Faith in the Public Sector? Young Adventist Professionals Speak Out (NARLA) Valley View University’s green campus [video] (ANN, 24 Feb 2012) Dangerous Redefinition: Candidates Recast Role of Religion in American Life (Jason Hines, Religious Liberty.TV, 24 Feb 2012) When Women Break the Bread of Life (Donna J. Haerich, Spectrum, 23 Feb 2012) A House Divided [...]

Haiti’s Clean Cook Stove Project and Safety Initiative

Dr. Marciana Popescu (a former professor of mine) will be soon be in Haiti to work on “a number of initiatives in partnership with The Haiti Initiative, Social Tap Inc. A group of 18 students will join [her] on this trip, focusing mostly on women’s issues and women’s rights, ranging from the challenges faced by [...]

New Spectrum Series on Community Organizing

Introducing a New Monthly Series: On Mission and Chavez (Geoffrey Nelson-Blake, Spectrum, 30 Jan 2012) Once a month throughout 2012 I’ll be sharing stories on the Spectrum blog of how organized people are putting their faith into action in the public sphere, from issues as local as street safety to national issues such as the [...]

The Stuff of Simplicity

Editor’s Note: I failed to post this essay by Wendy before Christmas. I humbly apologize, and I know readers will be both encouraged and prodded by this now-updated piece. –Jeff In the last of what were my single years, I lived alone in a ground floor apartment across the street from Union College, where I [...]

Close the SOA/WHINSEC

Reflections on the Vigil to Close the SOA November 18-20, 2011 “It’s a beautiful day. Sky falls, you feel like it’s a beautiful day. Don’t let it get away.” Our wake-up call was the sound of U2’s “Beautiful Day” pumping through the bus’s speakers. Despite being groggy from the over-night bus ride from Ann Arbor [...]

PICO and Economic Reform

Shared by Ryan Bell, who is participating in the meetings: Clergy gather in New Orleans to craft a populist message to aim at politicians (Bruce Nolan, Times-Picayune, 17 Nov 2011) More than 500 clergy from dozens of denominations are in New Orleans this week, laying plans they hope will force next year’s presidential candidates to [...]

SDA Round-up

1) Jamaican Adventists march in support of Enditnow (Nigel Coke, ANN, 3 Nov 2011) Hundreds of Jamaican Seventh-day Adventists marched last week against violence toward women and children in Ocho Rios. They came out in support of Enditnow, a global campaign to raise awareness of domestic abuse and advocate on behalf of woman and girls [...]

Terrace SDA Church: Community Service

The Terrace SDA church has been busy! Their commitment to the local community is inspiring. “The Gift” (Linda Wilkinson). Faith leading to service. Local version of Farmville. The church “harvested close to 2000 pounds of potatoes. 800 pounds of carrots…. and other countless pounds of cabbage, corn, etc. All went to needy families in the [...]

PICO – Prophetic Clergy Call to Action

Adventist Pastor Ryan Bell co-authored this PICO statement–A Prophetic Clergy Call to Action. Exerpts: As faith leaders from many religious traditions, we believe that the public debate about economic recovery is not simply about differing political visions, but about competing moral and spiritual values that have profound consequences for our people. We pledge to teach, [...]