SDA Articles

It’s been quite a while since I put together a reading list. Here it is: Volunteers in Action: Mike Kontes (Maranatha video, N.D.) A Cinderella Story (NAPS, N.D.) Washington Church Reaches Out to Migrant Farm Workers & Immigrants (Adv Today, 21 Apr 2012) Adventist Students Protest Chinese Industrial Development in the Solomon Islands (Adv Today, [...]

Divesting from Wells Fargo

Fellow active Adventists, After months of clergy organizing through sfop(.org), two days ago something powerful and beautiful happened in downtown SF: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news%2Flocal%2Fsan_francisco&id=8553886&rss=rss-kgo-article-8553886 http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/02/22/clergy-members-ask-wells-fargo-to-repent-during-sf-foreclosure-protest/#comments http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2012/02/wells-fargo-foreclosures-clergy-protest.html?s=image_gallery http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20019502 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fbaycitynews%2Froundup.DTL&ao=all After a multi-billion dollar taxpayer bailout, Wells Fargo continues to divest from the community–refusing to help families stay in their homes through mortgage principal reductions, supporting for-profit immigrant detention [...]

VOTE: Status of Facebook Group

Go to the Facebook group to vote on the future status of the group–Open, Closed, Secret. This decision will not affect the functioning of this blog.

Election Involvement – 2010

Were you involved with the political process during the 2010 election in the US in any way beyond casting a vote or blogging? Did you actively support a candidate or a movement? Did you go door-to-door, attend a debate, or cheer at a rally? If so, I’m curious to hear what you did and why [...]

Adv Review: Service for Its Own Sake

Though available online to subscribers only, Gerald Colvin’s short article, Service for Its Own Sake, makes a salient point about “small” acts of service. He relates the words of Francis Collins, M.D. after saving a farmer’s life in a hospital in Africa: We are each called to reach out to others. On rare occasions that [...]

Still Waters

Once a month my wife and I join a Sabbath worship service at Still Waters. In May I was invited to lead the non-traditional gathering, and I chose the theme of knowing God. After a short introduction of the topic, our friend from NC, Travis, read a series of short vignettes taken from three books [...]

Adventist Today Comment – G. Knight

Adventist Today is offering three perspectives on George Knight’s book, The Apocalyptic Vision and the Neutering of Adventism. Here is the comment I left on Tompaul Wheeler’s review regarding Knight’s view that the church needs to focus more on apocalyptics and less on community service: I’m surprised Knight felt the need to address social action [...]

A Project Begun

I’m really excited about collaborating with this group of Seventh-day Adventist writers, pastors, leaders and activists. I hope this blog will: Become a vibrant collection of thoughts and stories on Adventist social justice and activism. Be a place where activists will be inspired and informed. Be a place where activists are able to speak their [...]