A Seventh-day Adventist Church vice president’s final wrap-up of the denomination’s sexuality summit last week was a call to see same-sex attracted church members as “brothers and sisters” also in need of God’s “saving grace”—while upholding the Adventist Church’s stance against sexual conduct outside of heterosexual marriage.
No other denomination today is “better positioned” to reclaim the “spirituality of sexuality” than the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a theology professor said at the church’s sexuality summit in Cape Town last week.
For the fourth consecutive year, teachers and students throughout Seventh-day Adventist schools and universities across the Inter-American Division (IAD) territory put away their academic activities in their classrooms on Mar. 7, to reflect on God’s blessings, pray, study the Bible and share hope in their communities.
A panel of experts at the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s summit on sexuality yesterday discussed how best to negotiate issues surrounding the gay and lesbian community in a way that both upholds the theological identity of the church and acknowledges the realities faced by people struggling with sexual orientation.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s top health leader said there is no clear model to understand why some individuals are homosexual, saying it is a “complex interplay of genetic and environmental factors.”
A panel of three Seventh-day Adventists who lived gay lifestyles told their stories last evening during the denomination’s summit on sexuality, discussing their journeys away from homosexual activity.
Family dysfunction, sexual trauma and other environmental factors are often identified as triggers of homosexual conduct, but the reality may be more nuanced than some faith communities are comfortable acknowledging, a Seventh-day Adventist behavioral scientist said this morning at the church’s sexuality conference.
Speaking to nearly 350 church leaders at the Cape Town International Convention Centre yesterday, Seventh-day Adventist world church President Ted N. C. Wilson urged them to recognize that “human brokenness” is ubiquitous, dependent on the healing that comes only through the restorative power of Christ.
Nearly 350 Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders, pastors, academics, and human services experts have gathered in Cape Town, South Africa, for a four-day summit intended to help the worldwide Church better address the experiences of homosexuality and alternative sexualities.
Ever since his controversial utterance that Jamaica needs divine intervention in order to bring crime under control during a Thanksgiving service at Northern Caribbean University for the Security Force last year, Minister of National Security the Hon. Peter Bunting has been calling on the church to help the government in its efforts.
Nearly one hundred Seventh-day Adventists in South Puerto Rico met last weekend for a special communication training to sharpen their technology skills for greater outreach as they share the good news of the Gospel in their communities.
Thousands of Adventist youth around the world will skip church on Sabbath, March 15, to engage in a day of witnessing and active service in their communities.