We’re just two months away from the end of 2014, daylight hours are shortening (Eastern Daylight Time ends tomorrow morning), and I find myself turning toward revision and reflection. For the last few days I’ve been getting caught up in QuickBooks so I don’t have to futz with a million business receipts come January. And the […]
At #GCAC14: Adventists Debate Women’s Ordination—Again
Today, about 20 minutes down the street from me, the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is on Day 6 of its 2014 Annual Council meeting. The group reconvened for the afternoon session at 2 p.m. Eastern. The Annual Council meeting convenes church administrators from around the world each October to present progress reports on their […]
Watch: The Planet Tender
The team behind The Record Keeper, a well-anticipated steampunk-style web series about angels navigating good, evil, God, and rebellion, has just announced a new project on the lives of angels. The Record Keeper was unceremoniously dropped by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists earlier this year. The teaser for The Planet Tender hit the internet last week and the full […]
Reader Review 9
Long and short reads for your next weekend. Fall 2014 edition. On Work that Works for Us Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity (AlterNet) “Research by the US military has shown that losing just one hour of sleep per night for a week will cause a level of […]
Reader Review #6: Listening Edition
Instead of my standard round-up of general news, articles, and media, this week’s Reader Review focuses on an international summit on sexuality and gender that the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church is hosting in Cape Town, South Africa. The summit began this morning, and the Adventist Review quotes co-organizer Pardon Mwansa: “The quality of meetings is […]
Time to Speak Up
As I wrote last year, the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists has planned a global summit on gender and sexuality for March 21-24 this year. The summit falls under the planning authority of Elder Pardon Mwansa, a GC vice-president and chair of the committee on “alternative sexuality practices” [sic] that will report to the church […]
