Tag Archives: religious liberty
Adventist News Network: August Round-up
Adventist Church sponsors its first religious liberty festival in Britain. 2,000 attend the ‘Free to Worship’ festival. (Victor Hulbert, John Surridge, Dan Serb and ANN staff, 26 Aug 2014) The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Britain held its first religious liberty … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, Adventism, conferences, human rights, religious liberty
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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
Posted in Current Issues, News
Tagged ADRA, disaster response, environment, food, international development, potpourri, religious liberty
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Human Right: Religious Freedom
In case you missed the video announced by the Adventist News Agency and Spectrum (also listed here recently) about religious freedom, I’m reposting it–Human Rights Day: Swiss Video Clip Portrays Religious Discrimination. “On the occasion of the International Human Rights … Continue reading
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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Week’s Links
SDA Women (Ordination+) Danish Union suspends all ministerial ordination until 2015 (ANN) Awaiting a GC Vote, the Danish Union Halts All Ordinations (Alexander Carpenter, Spectrum) Another Union Conference Takes a Stand for Ordination Without Gender Discrimination (Adventist Today) The Creation … Continue reading
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Tagged ADRA, environment, human rights, race and ethnicity, religious liberty, sustainability, torture, violence, volunteerism, women in ministry
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Reflections on the National Conversation: Gay Rights & the Supreme Court
This week the U.S. Supreme Court has listened to arguments pertaining to two cases dealing with rights of gay partners. Rather than address the legal precedents, sociological data, or biblical material, Jeff Carlson here steps back and explores reality, rights … Continue reading
John Boyd, “Tyranny is Tyranny”
In honor of someone I deeply respect, I post this poem published in the July 1946 edition of Our Times (p. 17).
Articles from the FB Group
Here are articles that members of the A2FB Group have shared recently. Some are written by Adventists, some by others: Adventists Speak Up on Global Poverty (Nathan Brown, Record, Sept 2012) In what has become an annual advocacy event, the … Continue reading
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Tagged articles, blogs, books, church, conferences, culture, discipleship, economic justice, government, human rights, inter-faith, peace, politics, potpourri, poverty, religious liberty
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Peace, Ordination, Abuse & Religious Liberty [updated]
Open Letter to Ted Wilson From Your Hebrew Teacher (Leona Running, Spectrum, 22 Aug 2012) The Western Churches that are ready to follow the Holy Spirit’s leading will show the way to the other countries’ Churches; they will not split … Continue reading
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Tagged drugs, human rights, peace, potpourri, religious liberty, women in ministry, women's rights
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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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