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

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 [...]

Terrace SDA Church: Community Service

The Terrace SDA church has been busy! Their commitment to the local community is inspiring. “The Gift” (Linda Wilkinson). Faith leading to service. Local version of Farmville. The church “harvested close to 2000 pounds of potatoes. 800 pounds of carrots…. and other countless pounds of cabbage, corn, etc. All went to needy families in the [...]

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 [...]

CROP Walk

It’s CROP Walk season again, and it’s not too late to get involved and feed the hungry. I know one Adventist pastor who participated in the walk to commemorate her 40th birthday. Click here to find a walk near you (a program of Church World Service).

HungerFast.org

In early March, Ron Sider of Evangelicals for Social Action posted this response to the national budget debate: A Call for Intergenerational Justice: A Christian Proposal For American Debt Crisis Yesterday he sent out a follow-up email calling for Christians to fast and pray and advocate for funds not to be slashed for programs that [...]

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 [...]

Online Highlights

Video: Jan Paulsen on Poverty (Carpenter, Spectrum, 24 Dec 2009) Understanding the Economic Situation (Sahlin, Faith in Context, 6 Dec 2009) Discerning The Times (Bussey, The Liberty Blog, 3 Jan 2010) Feeding Hope (Gang, Suburban Pastor, 31 Dec 2009) The Gospel and Empire: A Wake-up Call from New Testament Scholarship (Adv Peace Messenger,31 Dec 2009) [...]

Adv Today: Reviews

Adventist Today has had two reviews recently that may be of interest to you. Film Review: Food, Inc. (Reviewed by Tompaul Wheeler) Book Review: Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claiborne & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. (Reviewed by Jeff Boyd–me)

Adv Review: Into the Garden

Ken Flemmer of ADRA wrote a good article on gardening for the Adventist Review — Into the Garden (May 14, 2009). I am an avid gardener, and have been thinking about gardening as a great coping mechanism for many stressed families. But how effective will a garden strategy be if the growing skills and cooking [...]