Videos — ADRA & ACSDR

ADRA: “Thanks to a “Goats for Widows” project in the 2008 edition of ADRA’s Really Useful Gift Catalog, these Rwandan widows received goats. The goats provide fertilizer for their gardens, and will be bred and sold to generate income.” ACS Disaster Response: “Adventist Community Services in Oklahoma give us the ability to touch and bless [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

SDA Potpourri

Here is a bit of reading for your Sabbath: One in Christ – Petition Virginia Seventh-day Adventists Reach Across Globe to Help Kenya’s Children (Rebecca Jackson, Adv Review) College Remembers Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy (Giovanni Hashimoto, PUC, 13 Jan 2012) U.S. Supreme Court ruling is First Amendment defense, Adventist legal counselors say (ANN, 13 [...]

SDA Articles

Recent Adventist articles on faith and action: 1) Conversation is the True Work of Peacemaking (Ryan Bell, Huffington Post, 23 Mar 2011) Conversation is two-sided. Many of us, myself included, are better at talking than listening. Because peace is born of understanding and understanding only comes about by deep listening, the conversational skill most urgently [...]

Adventist Articles of Interest

A few more posts that caught my attention: 1) Pastor Jeff Gang advocating with CARE to support women in development (The Suburban Pastor, 11 Mar 2011). 2) Living on “Living Wage” (Trish Tickle, Adv Today, 16 Mar 2011) So how should this [living wage discussion] affect us as Adventist Christians? First and foremost, it should [...]

Haiti

A conversation about responding to Haiti is beginning on the Adventist Activism Facebook page. Is anyone going to Haiti or supporting from home? Tell us your story (here or on the FB page).