New Contributor: Andrew Gerard

We are pleased to introduce the newest team member here at Adventist Activism–Andrew Gerard (previously mentioned here). I thought an interview would be a good way to welcome him to the project (conducted via email).
JEFF:  What have been some important steps in your development as an activist? What experiences, books, people or ideas have significantly [...]

Adv Review: Service for Its Own Sake

Though available online to subscribers only, Gerald Colvin’s short article, Service for Its Own Sake, makes a salient point about “small” acts of service. He relates the words of Francis Collins, M.D. after saving a farmer’s life in a hospital in Africa:
We are each called to reach out to others. On rare occasions that can [...]

Adv Review: Young Adult Ministry

The cover story of the May 21, 2009 edition of the Adventist Review is important for everyone, but the article is focused on one demographic — “What Jesus Said about Young Adult Ministry” (G Hopkins, D McBride, S Tyner, R Drumm, & W Kannenberg). Excerpt:
In no uncertain terms Jesus asserted that His people, the righteous, [...]

Andrews University – FOCUS

The Winter 2009 Edition of Andrews University’s alumni magazine, FOCUS, focuses on service and activism.
Stories highlight local efforts to fight poverty on Martin Luther King Day (p. 5), physical-therapy students serving in Honduras (p. 6), and Clinical and Laboratory Science (CLS) leaders delivering portable labs to North Korea (p. 7). I attended the CLS presentation [...]

Adventist Today Comment – G. Knight

Adventist Today is offering three perspectives on George Knight’s book, The Apocalyptic Vision and the Neutering of Adventism.
Here is the comment I left on Tompaul Wheeler’s review regarding Knight’s view that the church needs to focus more on apocalyptics and less on community service:

I’m surprised Knight felt the need to address social action given the [...]