RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA — Randal R. Wisbey, president of La Sierra University in Riverside, California, announced today that he will step down from the presidency on June 30 of this year. Wisbey has served as president of the Adventist university since 2007. In a letter to the university community, Wisbey shared that the decision was a difficult one.
The two central tensions, as I have come to see them in Anglo-American Adventism, are between immanent and transcendent goods and between justifying and sanctifying grace (or, as I will call them when referring to grace in the immanent mode, affirming and disciplining relationships). Their historical roots are in the 1888 crisis (justifying vs. san
SILVER SPRING, MD – The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has announced it will provide financial support totaling $50,000 to the Adventist Community Services (ACS) who has been coordinating efforts to help survivors of Butte County, California recover from deadly wildfires, which started on November 8 and later contained on November 2
A few years ago while attending seminary, I took a class a class on the Gospels. The professor, Dr. Teresa Reeve, introduced the course with a lecture entitled “How the Bible Came to Be, and How the Bible Came to Me.” The wittiness of that title is an accurate summary of what the next three articles in this series seek to extrapolate in detail.
In the previous article, I proposed that one of the major problems in Adventism today is a lack of deep understanding of our doctrines as a holistic system. Many Adventists seem to think that our teachings are simply a list of beliefs (the 28 Fundamentals). Furthermore, because many Adventists do not have a systematic understanding of our doctrines
The Results of Satan’s Apostasy The whole universe had been witness to the scenes at Sinai. In the working out of the two administrations was seen the contrast between the government of God and that of Satan. Again the sinless inhabitants of other worlds beheld the results of Satan's apostasy, and the kind of government he would have
LOMA LINDA, CALIFORNIA — Highlighting its nationally recognized achievements in patient safety and quality, Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital was named a Top Children’s Hospital for the second year in a row, and Loma Linda University Medical Center – East Campus received its inaugural recognition as a Top Teaching Hospital by The Leapfrog G
In the previous installment of this series, we discovered that the rejection of Christ’s authority was the central issue that sparked the entire Great Controversy. It was the root cause of Lucifer’s rebellion with one-third of the angels and it has bled into our world’s history. Our individual destinies will be determined by our attitude and relati
The Still Small Voice Elijah’s retreat on Mount Horeb, though hidden from man, was known to God; and the weary and discouraged prophet was not left to struggle alone with the powers of darkness that were pressing upon him. At the entrance to the cave wherein Elijah had taken refuge, God met with him, through a mighty angel sent to inquire into his
Biblical wisdom is commonly misunderstood. The gray-haired may think it is the provenance of living on the planet longer than others, where experience is held up as the criteria for living prudently. The wisdom book Proverbs says it is a “crown of glory”[1] when one has lived a righteous life. Thus, it is the quality of life lived that makes the ag
