Tag Archives: food
AR: “Vegetarian Diet Is Effective Tool Against Climate Change, Study Finds”
The Adventist Review posted a story yesterday that considers the environmental ramifications of a vegetarian diet–“Vegetarian Diet Is Effective Tool Against Climate Change, Study Finds” (author unknown). The article begins: A plant-based diet is not only good for you but … 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
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Tagged ADRA, disaster response, environment, food, international development, potpourri, religious liberty
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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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Personal and Social–Micro and Macro
I perceive within the Adventist community, a tendency to focus on personal issues (micro) while paying much less attention to social issues (macro). That is, we tend to focus on the individual rather than on the wider social ramifications or … Continue reading
Posted in Current Issues, Reflections
Tagged drugs, environment, food, health, trafficking
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Marianne Thieme — Party for the Animals
Marianne Thieme is a Dutch politician who founded the Party for Animals. She recently spoke at the Loma Linda University symposium on creation care, Entrusted. The SDA value of vegetarianism attracted her to the denomination. Learn more about her in … Continue reading
ADRA Sri Lanka
This video demonstrates some of the good work ADRA is facilitating in Sri Lanka. A shorter version is available here.
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Tagged ADRA, community, films, food, international development, poverty, water
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World Changers march to fight world hunger
World Changers march to fight world hunger (Nathan Brown, Record) Easily identifiable by their bright blue T-shirts, they came on 25 buses to fill the city streets of Brisbane with a “flood of justice,” after hearing a sermon based on … Continue reading
ADRA Australia — Ice Cream
ADRA Australia presents: Enough is Enough: Ice Cream Eaters Anonymous — The Final Challenge Tonight before we go to bed 18,000 children under the age of five will lose their life to a hunger-related illness. THAT’S NOT RIGHT! This video … Continue reading
World Food Day
Today (Oct 16) is World Food Day (USA). I searched ADRA for articles and events, but only found this short post in Australia — Anti-Poverty Week: Including World Food Day (October 16) and international Day for the Eradication of Poverty … 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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