Posted on December 18, 2009 by Jeff Boyd
Action/Revo AU was busy at the end of the semester. The focus this year is Invisible Children (site is currently down). Here are a couple of their adverts:
What are other schools doing? What’s the word?
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Posted on November 12, 2009 by Jeff Boyd
Are any Adventists at Justice Revival this week? Let us know, and consider writing a review for Adventist Activism.
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Posted on November 6, 2009 by Jeff Boyd
Marriage, Homosexuality, and the Church Conference recently concluded at Andrews University. For those who could not attend, here are a number of posts by David Hamstra on Apokalupto:
Reflictions On The Homosexuality Conference
Interview: Nicholas Miller
Top Five: Things I Learned At The Homosexuality Conference
Blogging the Homosexuality Conference [this has extensive links to coverage on other blogs and [...]
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Posted on October 25, 2009 by Jeff Boyd
October is not only National Domestic Violence Awareness Month,
it’s also National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Pastor Jose Bourget was preaching at his new church in Chicago when he noticed a large event going on outside. Avon’s Walk for Breast Cancer route went directly in front of the church. The next year when he saw the 3,000 [...]
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Posted on August 24, 2009 by Jeff Boyd
Adventist Community Services has sent out a last minute notice about the second Adventist Urban Congress on Sunday, August 30 through Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at the Dallas First Adventist Church, in Dallas, Texas. Speakers will include Sung Kwon, Gaspar Colon, Zdravko Plantak, James Black Sr., Jose Vicente Rojas, and Don Schneider, among others.
I wanted [...]
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Posted on May 7, 2009 by Jeff Boyd
By Jeff Boyd
My motivation to get out of bed was the size of a mustard seed the morning after Christian Peace Witness for Iraq . As an introvert at my first demonstration, I was physically and emotionally spent. But since it was a rare opportunity to be involved with these issues that I care about, [...]
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Posted on May 6, 2009 by Jeff Boyd
By Jeff Boyd
On the morning of April 29, 2009, I headed up 14th Street toward National City Christian Church in Thomas Circle to register early for the day’s trainings and worship. The event was a fundraiser for Iraqi refugees, a worship service celebrating peace and justice, and a demonstration against the war in Iraq in [...]
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Posted on April 12, 2009 by Jeff Boyd
Are you (or any other Adventists you know) going to be at these up-coming events?
Mobilization to End Poverty (Apr 26-29). Washington, D.C.
The Mobilization to End Poverty will be a history-making gathering. Christians from across the country will come together in a powerful movement committed to the biblical imperative of reducing domestic and global poverty.
Worship & [...]
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