Oakwood University, a Seventh-day Adventist tertiary school in Huntsville, Alabama, that serves the African-American community, is the eighth-best of America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities, according to the ratings website BestColleges.com. The term “Historically Black Colleges and Universities” refers to schools organized be
ORLANDO, Florida — A 30-year-old Seventh-day Adventist has organized a group of young believers reaching out to homeless people and families in this central Florida resort mecca. Eric Camarillo, a first-generation believer who says the persuasive arguments of Adventist friends convinced him of the church’s message, is a human resource
ORLANDO, FLORIDA — Some 94 miles northwest of Boston, in the tiny town of Antrim, New Hampshire (population 2,600), a young Seventh-day Adventist is teaching the world how to cook vegan, using weekly videos posted to YouTube. Anika Perry, 24, said she “always liked to cook,” and after admittedly “struggling” over a career choice, decided on
Sixty-one years after it was first licensed to what was then known as Columbia Union College, a Seventh-day Adventist radio station will be spun off from the school into a separate, nonprofit organization. The radio station, WGTS-FM, will be owned by a nonprofit corporation known as Atlantic Gateway Communications, Inc. The transfer requires
An evangelical Christian university received a bracing dose of postmodern reality June 15 when the Supreme Court of Canada sided with regional law societies who objected to a proposed law school for Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia. In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court said Trinity’s “community covenant,” an agreement
Hours after the Supreme Court of the United States released a 7-2 opinion in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, it's difficult to assess how every aspect of the ruling will shake out. But there is, I believe, a religious liberty dimension in the ruling that folks on both sides of the case should applaud–eve
New questions surrounding the preparation and authorship of a doctoral thesis by Paul Ratsara, a Seventh-day Adventist pastor who served for 11 years as president of the denomination’s Southern Africa—Indian Ocean Division before resigning in 2016, have been raised by the publication of a May 16, 2018, statement from a University of South Africa (U
Paul Ratsara, a longtime Seventh-day Adventist pastor who served as president of the world church’s Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division (SID) for 11 years, has been told his 2014 Doctor of Theology degree from the University of South Africa “is in good standing." The news comes after an independent, “intensive investigation” commissioned by the U
Young adult Seventh-day Adventists – whose place in the 18-to-34 age group is typically referred to as the millennial generation – aren't much interested in traditional Adventist evangelistic lecture themes, a new survey revealed April 19. Only 21 percent of millennials who identified themselves as theologically "liberal" agreed with the sta
After nearly eight years as an associate director of the Seventh-day Adventist world church's Education Department, Dr. John Wesley Taylor V is about to disprove author Thomas Wolfe's maxim that "you can't go home again." Taylor has been called by the Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies (AIIAS), in the Republic of the Phili
