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, [...]

Tiny Hands Intl

I recently spoke at Union College about putting God’s love on display in our beautiful but hurting world. At the beginning of the talk, I asked two questions. One was: What kind of painful experience would make you no longer believe that a good and loving God exists or is listening to your prayers? What [...]

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 Gender Equality

From Adventist Equality: Imagine Adventist Equality from Robert Jacobson on Vimeo.

Spectrum: TED Votes for Equality

Trans-European Division Votes for Equality in Conference and Union Leadership (Alexander Carpenter, Spectrum, 16 Nov 2011) According to the Trans-European Division news service, “today, forty-five delegates and twenty five invitees (union secretaries and treasurers). . .discussed a Motion on Women in Leadership. After prayer, the 91% of the delegates voted by secret ballot to express [...]

Half the Sky

Half the Sky: Sexual Honor, Violence, and Maternal Health (Jared Wright, Adv Women’s Blog, 6 Nov 2011). Excerpts: Shockingly high rates of women and girls are killed each year for falling in love or being accused of immodesty, and often there is no proof that they have had sex. “The paradox of honor killings,” the authors [...]

Spectrum: “A Door for Women Opens”

At NAD Year-end Meetings: A Door for Women Opens (Scriven, Spectrum, 31 Oct 2011) In the North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, women as well as men may now serve as president of a conference.  [complete article]

Ordained/Commissioned SDA Ministers as Conference Presidents

Jared Wright shares the following on an up-coming church action: This weekend (October 28-November 1), the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists convenes for its Year End Meetings. At the North American Division’s Year-end Meeting (YEM) in 2009 it was voted to allow “ordained/commissioned” ministers to be conference presidents. The vote was rescinded at Elder [...]

Why Men Should not be Ordained

I am pleased to welcome the newest blogger to the A2 team–Landon Schnabel. Below is his first post here, which considers issues surrounding ordination. Landon is currently a graduate student at Andrews University. An egalitarian deeply opposed to hegemony with broad concern, his major areas of focus are subordination of and violence against women in [...]