Seventh-day Adventists
‘The Hopeful,’ film about Adventist origins, debuts in theaters
By Kathryn Post — April 17, 2024
(RNS) — ‘I think a lot of those misconceptions that Adventists maybe aren’t mainstream Christians, I think they’re going to be challenged,’ said director and co-producer Kyle Portbury.
Ministry accused of covert conversion therapy moves across from Adventist university
By Kathryn Post — February 23, 2024
(RNS) — Coming Out Ministries, which promotes freedom from the 'chains of homosexuality,' is setting up its headquarters across from Andrews University in the hopes of reaching students.
30 years later, Waco siege still resonates – especially among anti-government extremists
By Art Jipson and Paul J. Becker — March 13, 2023
(The Conversation) — Waco has been used as a rallying cry for decades, two scholars of domestic extremism explain.
At Maryland church, it’s ‘Caribbean Sabbath,’ not just Black History Month
By Adelle M. Banks — February 23, 2023
HYATTSVILLE, Md. (RNS) — ‘It's a space where our members and their family and friends can feel celebrated, can feel affirmed,’ said Pastor Trevor Kinlock.
Jews, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians unite in support for Apache fight to save Oak Flat
By Alejandra Molina — January 18, 2023
(RNS) — Congress approved the transfer of the land to Resolution Copper in 2014 in exchange for 6,000 acres elsewhere, but the Western Apache claim that the site has unique spiritual meaning.
Ben Carson, Seventh-day Adventist, tests positive for coronavirus
By Jack Jenkins — November 9, 2020
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The Seventh-day Adventist website stresses health as a spiritual concern, saying, 'we believe God calls us to care for our bodies, treating them with the respect a divine creation deserves.'
Adventists’ new North American leader hopes to leverage the denomination’s ‘strength of diversity’
By Adelle M. Banks — October 2, 2020
(RNS) — ‘We can't distance ourselves from it because it's a part of who our church is,’ G. Alexander Bryant said of Adventists facing racial tensions.
Tennessean editor denounces ‘horrific’ Nashville Islam nuclear prophecy advertisement
By Bob Smietana — June 21, 2020
(RNS) — A breakaway Seventh-day Adventist group ran a full-page newspaper ad predicting a nuclear attack on Nashville set for July 18.
Why some keep believing when Trumpian prophecy fails
By Mark Silk — March 23, 2020
(RNS) — Empirical evidence to the contrary doesn’t matter to true believers..
Seventh-day Adventists fit into the rhythms — and faiths — of Israeli life
By Jonathan Harounoff — May 3, 2019
JERUSALEM (RNS) — While in other countries the world's 21 million Adventists stand out for their Saturday services and their public evangelism, here in Israel the group can be easy to miss.
RNS Best of 2017: No other artist mixed religion and sex like Prince
By Kimberly Winston — December 27, 2017
(RNS) For Prince, who died in April 2016, 'every song was either a prayer or foreplay.'
Faith groups provide the bulk of disaster recovery, in coordination with FEMA
By Paul Singer — September 11, 2017
(USA Today) — If you donate bottles of water, diapers, clothing or any other materials to hurricane victims in Texas or Florida, your donation will likely pass through the hands of the Seventh-day Adventists before it gets to a storm victim.
Adventist pastor comes out as bisexual, resigns her church
By Adelle M. Banks — April 28, 2017
(RNS) 'Through study and prayer, I’ve come to a point of complete disagreement with the Adventist Church on their teachings about LGBT people,' Alicia Johnston said.
No other artist mixed religion and sex like Prince
By Kimberly Winston — April 20, 2017
(RNS) For Prince, who died a year ago this Friday, 'every song was either a prayer or foreplay.'
Iowans: Trump’s attack on Carson’s faith will fail
By Jennifer Jacobs — October 27, 2015
DES MOINES — Iowa Republicans say Donald Trump's sneak attack on Ben Carson's religion won't work.
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