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Adventist Church celebrates 150th birthday
Employees of the Seventh-day Adventist Church headquarters building sang old, “progressive” hymns and heard remarks from top church leaders in a brief afternoon ceremony yesterday that marked the 150th anniversary of the denomination. -
Cost of raising children jumps 50%: report
The cost of raising children in Australia has jumped by some 50 per cent over six years. -
Text helps students help themselves
A new literacy and numeracy textbook by two Avondale lecturers is helping students improve their skills and their understanding of how to support those they teach. -
Primal Adventism
The stream of Adventism is fed by the teardrops of the Great Disappointment. -
The problem with '30 is the new 20'
In a TED talk published last week, author and clinical psychologist Meg Jay argues that our 20s has become something of a throwaway decade because so many of us now buy into the thinking that "30 is the new 20". -
Culture of secrecy and cover-up, Hart admits
Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart says the Catholic church has been slow to act on child abuse and admits there has been a culture of "secrecy and cover-up". -
Vaccine fears could lead to 'epidemic'
More than 50 per cent of parents are worried about the safety of childhood vaccines, Australia's first national survey of attitudes to vaccination has revealed, prompting concerns of childhood outbreaks of disease. -
Adventist schools welcome funding boost
The Australian Government’s announcement of a proposed extra $A14.5 billion in education funding over the next six years has been received positively by Adventist Schools Australia. -
Still on a mission
The Millerites firmly believed that Jesus Christ would return to earth on October 22, 1844. When the second coming did not occur, many were disillusioned and abandoned belief in a literal second advent. Some ex-Millerites, though, went back to studying th -
100 motorbikes for remote pastors
More than 100 motorcycles have been provided to Adventist pastors ministering in the South Pacific’s most remote regions. -
Fat tax on fast foods?
A government backed study is investigating whether to back a fat tax on McDonalds, KFC and other fast foods in a bid to tackle Australia's obesity epidemic. -
City-wide evangelism largest for 30 years
Four motorway billboards, 1.25 million brochures and more than 100 television advertisements have provided publicity in what is reported to be the largest evangelistic series for the Adventist Church in Sydney for more than 30 years. -
CELEBRATIONS—150 years of health
Not only does 2013 mark 150 years since the official organisation of our Church, but it also marks 150 years since Ellen White’s Ostego (Michigan) vision which set the course for our Church’s emphasis on health. -
Heading in the right direction
For the Seventh-day Adventist Christian, both the journey and the destination are of the greatest importance. -
Why I became an Adventist—Rafaele Tui
My name is Rafaele Tui from Koro Island in Fiji where I work as a teacher. -
The most and least racially tolerant countries
A fascinating map of the world’s most and least racially tolerant countries. -
500,000 books distributed across Pacific
The South Pacific Division’s Project Hope evangelism initiative is in full motion, with distribution of more than 500,000 books in regions across the Division. -
Back online after a year without the internet
I was wrong. One year ago I left the internet. I thought it was making me unproductive. I thought it lacked meaning. I thought it was "corrupting my soul." -
Business rebrands at Avondale
A new Centre for Executive and Not-For-Profit Development will provide research data and income for a rebranded school at Avondale College of Higher Education. -
Retailers refuse to sign Bangladesh agreement
Some of Australia's biggest retailers have refused to sign an international agreement to improve fire safety and working conditions in Bangladesh after the country's worst industrial accident. -
Pope Francis elected after supernatural 'signs'
The surprise election of Pope Francis came about because of a series of supernatural “signs”, one of the leading Cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church has claimed. -
"All I really want to do is sleep"
A recent article in The New York Times declared that the rising rate of suicides among our baby boomer generation now made suicides, by raw numbers alone, a bigger killer than motor vehicle accidents. -
Danish Union suspends ministerial ordination
Seventh-day Adventist church officials in Denmark voted this week to halt the ordination of all new ministers until the General Conference Session in July 2015. -
Saudi Arabia thinking of moving its weekend
Saudi Arabia's Shura Council, an unelected proto-parliament, agreed on April 22 to consider a proposal to switch the country’s official weekend from Thursday and Friday to Friday and Saturday. -
Church in Europe to focus on health outreach
Six hundred Adventist medical experts and health advocates met in Prague last month for the first European Health Conference. -
Who were the Beguines?
The death of Marcella Pattyn, on April 14, passed quietly. But with her died a religious way of life that had survived for more than 800 years. -
New Adventist hospital coming to PNG
The Papua New Guinea Union Mission (PNGUM) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Hela provincial government to administer a new K9.4 million hospital. -
So far, some good
Good things come to those who wait I suppose, and here we are at the 150th anniversary of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. -
NY man finishes writing out entire Bible by hand
At last, it is written. Four years after he began his project to write out every word of the Bible, Phillip Patterson penned the very last lines Saturday at an upstate New York church. -
Happy Mother's Day!
Mother's Day messages from church members across the South Pacific.