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Is it Time for Ted Wilson to Use the Nuclear Option?

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The battle lines are being drawn. The General Conference Executive Committee’s 2018 Annual Council is set to begin next month. Already there is a coordinated effort to disrupt this year’s meeting agenda – which is slated to reign in non-compliant workers throughout the world field. At next month’s gathering, the General Conference Executive Committee will […]

‘End it Now’ Campaign Falls Short of Protecting the most Defenseless

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In churches all across the world, Seventh-day Adventists have designated every 25th of August as a day to raise awareness for the ‘End it Now’ campaign. ‘End it Now’ is a global campaign sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Church to end violence against “men, women and children” across the world and is celebrated every year […]

He Knew, and then He Covered it Up

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Everyone at the Vatican knew what was going on in the Catholic Church. Yes, even the pope knew, but he chose to cover up the child sex abuse. Pope Francis did in fact received warnings about the sexual abuse allegations made against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick years before his resignation, according to new revelations by […]

Using Children to Improve Our Relationship with Rome

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“The time was when Protestants placed a high value upon the liberty of conscience which had been so dearly purchased. They taught their children to abhor popery and held that to seek harmony with Rome would be disloyalty to God. But how widely different are the sentiments now expressed!” (Great Controversy, p. 563). It is […]

When Money Becomes Worthless

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“The very means that is now so sparingly invested in the cause of God, and that is selfishly retained, will in a little while be cast with all idols to the moles and to the bats. Money will soon depreciate in value very suddenly when the reality of eternal scenes opens to the senses of […]

Are we Changing our Name to Escape a Troubled Past?

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Adventist Health System [AHS] doesn’t appear to like its name. After 45 years, the healthcare giant has announced that it will be rolling out its new name “AdventHealth” on January 2, 2019. [1] AHS is the largest Protestant, faith-based healthcare organization in the world employing 80,000 professionals. It is well-known throughout the healthcare industry as a […]

Identity Crisis: Dropping the Name “Adventist” from Our Institutions

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Starting January 2, 2019 Adventist Health Systems, a non-profit health care organization owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, will be dropping “Adventist” from its name. This name change will affect the 45 hospitals which it runs. The new name that will be adopted by the largest, core network of Seventh-day Adventist hospitals will […]

Why Society Will Never Be Able to Fix Its Own Problems

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“Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.” Deuteronomy 4:40. I was recently invited to attend […]

When the “Church” Ordains Sexual Predators

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After a two-year investigation, the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office has just published a 1,356 page report that describes decades of predatory sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests. The report uncovered that over 300 priests raped and sexuality abused more than 1,000 kids in the 5 Catholic dioceses of Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg […]

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