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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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The Adventist News Network reports on Scott Smith’s work in Bermuda: A Seventh-day Adventist layperson in Bermuda wants the island nation’s churches to shut their doors. For a month. “The bible says ‘Go ye therefore to the world,’ not ‘Go ye therefore to church,’” said Scott Smith, who is gaining recognition in Bermuda for advocating [...]
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Adventist Activism and Adventist Today are teaming up to present an interview series on issues of peace, justice, righteousness, compassion and the Kingdom of God. The first interview of the series–a conversation with Nathan French, Peace and Justice Organizer at the Hollywood SDA Church–is now up at Adventist Today. The interview begins: Jeff Boyd: Please [...]
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Here are a a few more excerpts from Darell Guder’s chapter, “Missional Witness,” in Missional Church. I’m reading this for Mission and Peace: The Church’s Ministry in the World. The Synoptic Gospels identify three main tasks of Jesus before his crucifixion: preaching, teaching, and healing. (p. 133) These activities… are also the vocation of Jesus’ [...]
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Christine Emming is today’s guest contributor. Freelance columnist for Vibrant Life magazine and all-around blogger, Christine spends too much time with words instead of with people (or so the rumor goes). A recent country transplant, she’s attempting to build community amid the wheat fields of rural Kansas. Maybe you remember her from the earlier Kiva [...]
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