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 [...]

The Stuff of Simplicity

Editor’s Note: I failed to post this essay by Wendy before Christmas. I humbly apologize, and I know readers will be both encouraged and prodded by this now-updated piece. –Jeff In the last of what were my single years, I lived alone in a ground floor apartment across the street from Union College, where I [...]

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 [...]

Food: Diet, Production, Health & the Environment

My wife and I watched Forks Over Knives recently, and I found the argumentation for a whole-food, plant-based diet compelling though obviously not exactly novel. Some elements are similar to this TED Talk on longevity by Dan Buettner, though FOK’s support of a vegan diet is more intense than the Blue Zone descriptions. How central [...]

Osborn and Rights of Passage

Ron Osborn brings Wendell Berry and Seyla Benhabib to bear on the human rights of migrants and refugees. “Seyla Benhabib, Wendell Berry, and the Question of Migrant and Refugee Rights” (HUMANITAS, Volume XXIII, Nos. 1&2, 2010) 118. Although Berry has not written directly about questions of international migration and refugee rights, his analysis of the [...]

WWU Peacemaking Weekend

Peacemaking Weekend at Walla Walla University (By Doug Morgan) The overflow audience of at least 75 that crowded in and around Room 117 of the Administration Building on Sabbath morning, April 16, signaled a heartening interest in peacemaking at Walla Walla University.  They were there to hear historian Greg Dodds’ presentation on the numerous ways [...]

SDA Potpourri

To finish 2010, here’s a list of Adventist news pieces, sermons, musings and conversations: Ryan Bell on “Killing the DREAM: Still No Room at the Inn” (Peace Messenger, 21 Dec 2010) Receiving Christmas (Nathan Brown, AToday, 21 Dec 2010) Christmas Wishes for the Adventist Church (Ron Osborn, Spectrum, 19 Dec 2010) Conservative Argues Jesus Was [...]

SDA Potpourri

Women in Ministry An Open Letter from Doug Batchelor (Adv Today, 3 May 2010) Video|Ordaining Women – Is that what we really want? (Alexander Carpenter, Spectrum, 1 May 2010) New Anti-Women’s Ordination Site Appears (Alexander Carpenter, Spectrum, 29 Apr 2010) Video: Woman Pastors 7000 Member Adventist Church in China (Alexander Carpenter, Spectrum, 22 Apr 2010) [...]

Monday Roundup

A few notable recent SDA posts: 1. Dr. Kesslyn A Brade Stennis’ first post for Adventist Today was excellent.  Here is an excerpt from Love is Listening (24 Nov. 2009): Not only must I listen to God and to my self, I must also listen to those who report the events of the world.  If [...]