Taking Stock: Combating Anti-Semitism in the OSCE Region, by Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Testimony before the US Helsinki Commission on the contrast between actions of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and those of the United Nations. As an NGO, we have successfully collaborated with UNESCO in a series…
David Penner has resigned as principal of Newbold College, the Seventh-day Adventist college in England. He was my U.S. History teacher at Broadview Academy–one of my favorite teachers through high school, who helped instill in me a love for history. We often found ourselves painting in the art studio, too, as we both loved to…
Next week IGNITION, the Youth/Young Adult Leadership Summit of the North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, will be taking place at the Adam’s Mark Hotel in Dallas, February 14-17. See the details here. I’m giving three seminars: Starting Young Adult Ministry (with Lane Campbell), Recruiting and Training Student Leaders, and What Students Look…
Here are some basic thoughts on starting ministry with young adults in your church. How do you start a young adult ministry? Get a small core team of committed people Get the support of someone on staff Have an initial social event with food to get an idea of what people are interested in Build…
Pope Benedict XVI revised the Good Friday prayer of the 1962 Missal, but it wasn’t enough for some Jewish groups. The American Jewish Committee found it “regretful.” The ADL is “deeply troubled and disappointed.” Haaretz summarizes. Over at the Ignatius Press Blog, Mark Brumley makes some important points: USA Today covers the topic of Pope…
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