The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today in Bostock v. Clayton, County, Georgia is a landmark decision with far-reaching consequences in the area of civil rights, including religious liberty. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects individu...
Only 20 percent of Americans regularly attend church, and only 2 in 10 millennials consider regular church attendance important. The church no longer has the option of embracing change or leaving it to the next generation. The time is now; otherwise, we will become irrelevant. Change is never eas...
There are approximately 1,443 Seventh-day Adventists in the southeast Asian nation of Laos, out of a population of 7,123,205. While very small in numbers, the dedication of church members in the country—where the first Adventist missionary arrived in 1957—is a remarkable story of miracles under d...
For millions around the world, the quarantines imposed by the spread of COVID-19 have meant new and different ways of doing things, from remote working to “virtual” church services via video conferencing. Young Seventh-day Adventists in the church’s East Dnieper Conference, headquartered in Dnipr...
Most people think post-traumatic stress disorder affects soldiers home from war or people who have suffered horrifically abusive situations. The reality is that PTSD can overwhelm almost any person who has lived through times of severe stress. In fact, the major international events of 2020 have ...
COVID-19 brought much of the world to a screeching halt, isolating people in their homes, taking kids out of school and closing the doors to many businesses. Despite this, hospitals across the country have remained open and operational, dedicated to providing lifesaving care to patients. Because ...