Tag Archives: disaster response
ADRA Continues to Respond to Earthquakes in Nepal
Adventist Today reported on ADRA’s response to the devastating earthquake on April 25 (link). Subsequent tremors and quakes in the area have caused additional damage. Regardless of the risks, ADRA continues to work in the area, as seen in this … Continue reading
Week’s Links [#5 updated]
This week’s list is shorter than usual, just choosing five stories from three outlets. 1. Adventist Church sides with Muslim woman in workplace religious freedom case (Elizabeth Lechleitner, Adv News Network, 12 Dec 2013) The Seventh-day Adventist Church yesterday filed … Continue reading
Posted in Current Issues, News
Tagged ADRA, disaster response, environment, food, international development, potpourri, religious liberty
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AToday: Interview with ADRA President, Jonathan Duffy
My recent two-part interview with Jonathan Duffy (ADRA president) is now posted at Adventist Today–Part 1, Part 2. Here are some of the questions I asked: ADRA was on the ground quickly after Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines. What are … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections
Tagged disaster response, international development, interview, poverty
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Week’s Links
SDA VOICES Adventists Join Oklahoma Tornado Relief Effort (Mark Kellner, Adventist Review) Loma Linda’s Earth and Biological Sciences Department Turns 50 (Heather Reifsnyder & Nancy Yuen, Adventist Review) WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS: SYRIA (Planet in Distress) Religious freedom celebration … Continue reading
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Tagged disaster response, economics, environment, food, health, healthcare, international development, LGBTQ, religious liberty, war
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Week’s Links
SDA Voices & Issues The Kingdom or Ang Ginharian (Ryan, Where the Road Lies) In Jamaica, visually impaired Adventist appointed senate president (Nigel Coke, ANN) First Blind Person to Serve as Senate President in Jamaica is an Adventist (Adventist Today) New documentary … Continue reading
Posted in Current Issues, News, Theology
Tagged disaster response, environment, government, healthcare, LGBTQ, peace, potpourri, trafficking, women in ministry, women's rights
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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 … Continue reading
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, … Continue reading
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Tagged articles, blogs, church, culture, disaster response, discipleship, environment, food, human rights, immigration, international development, politics, potpourri, poverty, religious liberty, service, volunteerism, women in ministry, women's rights
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SDA Potpourri
Faith in the Public Sector? Young Adventist Professionals Speak Out (NARLA) Valley View University’s green campus (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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged blogs, church, culture, disaster response, economic justice, environment, equality, food, government, human rights, international development, peace, politics, potpourri, poverty, religious liberty, service, volunteerism, women in ministry, women's rights
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