Thanksgiving dinner disaster

"Spirit of God shall be withdrawn from men, and they shall be under the control of Satan, who hates the divine precepts, there will be strange developments. The heart can be very cruel when God's fear and love are removed." Great Controversy, p. 608 -Advent Messenger Commentary

Woman stabs boyfriend for eating Thanksgiving dinner early

Associated Press | November 28, 2014

Police say a Pennsylvania woman chased her boyfriend around a dining room and stabbed him in the chest because he started eating Thanksgiving dinner while she slept off a bender.

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Pope Francis declares war on fundementalists

Editorial | Advent Messenger

Pope Francis was recently in Turkey promoting interfaith relations. During this trip he called “for an end to all forms of fundamentalism.” His version of interfaith dialog and cooperation is one that would eliminate the “fundamentalists” from every religious tradition and leave a watered-down version of religious faith that has no objective, fundamental truth.

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Pope Francis: Fundamentalism must be eliminated

Pope Francis and Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan

In troubled Mideast where Christian populations are shrinking, Pope calls for interfaith dialogue

Jerusalem Post | November 30, 2014

Pope Francis call for an end to all forms of fundamentalism on Friday and said fighting hunger and poverty, rather than military intervention alone, were key to stopping Islamist militants carrying out "grave persecutions" in Syria and Iraq.

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Madness of Black Friday Fights

The spirit of Thanksgiving turns into madness on Black Friday and shows the sinfulness of the human nature when outside the control of God's Spirit. -Advent Messenger Commentary

Should Seventh-day Adventist Collaborate in Interfaith Endeavors?

Editorial | Advent Messenger

Seventh-day Adventists are working together with the leadership of other faiths to help promote faith and peace. But do these interfaith relationship undermine the Seventh-day Adventist mission and message?

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Seventh-day Adventists host Interfaith worship and prayer

Redbridge Faith Forum’s annual interfaith walk of peace

Ilford Recorder | October 20, 2014

Interfaith participants read from a prayer book outside a Seventh-day Adventist Church

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This world is not our home

Editorial | Advent Messenger

"For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come." Hebrews 13:14. This world is not our home. We must remember this as we observe the madness and confusion throughout the societies and civilizations that surround us. We are just passing through this place on our way towards heaven. Our hope is not in this world. Our hope is in the coming of the Lord!

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GQ Magazine says "Pope Francis is the Man of the Year"

GQ: 'Kind, Humane' Pope Francis Is Holy Man of the Year

GQ Magazine | November 25, 2014

GQ, the world’s leading magazine for men’s fashion, has selected as its Holy Man of the Year a bachelor from Argentina, now living just outside Rome, who is rarely seen wearing anything except white, gold, or perhaps ivory, usually accessorized with a simple cap.

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U.S. treating meat with ammonia, bleach and antibiotics to kill the '24-hour sickness'

Natural News | March 29, 2014

Most conventional "red" meat is bleached or ammonia-treated to kill the E. coli and then dyed back pink, like with hamburger and steak, to look attractive in the butcher's window. They want to believe that the meat just shows up magically, without all the horrific processing and inhumane living quarters. Usually, there's a picture or two over the meat section of some happy cows wandering the pasture, waiting to "help out" with the humans' meat and milk "consumption problem." But in actuality, it's GMOs on top of GMOs, because these are the cows fed genetically modified corn meal and GM alfalfa to begin with.

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'I'm among the first Swedes with a microchip'

The Local | November 18, 2014

Sweden has a global reputation as a leader in developing innovative technologies. But will a trend for inserting microchips in the human body catch on?

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Ice Storm Leaves 500K Shivering Without Power Across Southeast

NBC News | November 27, 2014

More than half a million people in the Southeast woke up to a cold and dark Thursday after the second vicious ice storm in as many weeks caused widespread power outages.

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Religious Group Wants to Open a McDonald's Franchise Inside a Church

Eater.com | November 25, 2014

The McMass Project hopes the fast-food idea will help "revitalize" church-going.

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Evangelical, Missionary Pope Francis Calls Europe to Return to Jesus Christ and Christian Roots

Catholic.org | November 25, 2014

Pope Francis sees what is increasingly obvious, Europe needs conversion. Europe needs a Christian revival.

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Evangelical 'Kingmaker' Working To Vote 1000 Christian Pastors Into Political Office

Thenewcivilrightsmovement.com | November 24, 2014

The American Family Association's David Lane is teaming up with Republican governor Bobby Jindal to remake the face of American politics into the face of Jesus.

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ISIS Will Take Over The Most Dangerous Muslim Nation On Earth, Take Its Nukes, And Commit The Bloodiest Massacre Of Christians We Will See

Shoebat.com | November 24, 2014

ISIS now has camped in Pakistan and all across Pakistan, the black standard of the Islamic State has been popping up all over from urban slums to Taliban strongholds, the ISIS logo and name have appeared in graffiti, posters and pamphlets and a cluster of militant commanders in Pakistan declared their allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the caliph of the Islamic State as ISIS presence there increases by the day. But the one trillion dollar question is will the world leaders secure Pakistan’s nuclear weapons from falling into the hands of ISIS? It doesn't look like it and the prospects of ISIS gaining nuclear bombs are very likely as the news from Pakistan reveals.

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Threat of terrorist attack in United Kingdom highest ever; 40 plots foiled

Abc.net.au | November 25, 2014

The UK government says the threat of a terrorist attack on home soil is at its highest ever and about 40 plots have been foiled in recent years.

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Protests Erupt in 37 Cities

'Black lives matter,' protesters insist in fresh round of Ferguson demos

CNN News | November 25, 2014

Hours after protests over the grand jury decision in Michael Brown's death rocked Ferguson, Missouri, people across the country took to the streets to voice their anger again Tuesday.

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Taking back Sunday

The Gazette-Virginian | October 24, 2014

Across the nation on Sunday mornings most people are home. Most in our country are not in church on Sunday mornings. How did it get that way? What are the costs to life, family and society? More than we could ever imagine! These could be the most important words you have ever read.

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The Pope to meet with Evangelicals, Jews, and Muslims in Vatican interfaith service

Russell Moore, Rick Warren to join Vatican conference on marriage and family life

National Catholic Reporter | November 3, 2014

The Vatican will host religious leaders from across the religious spectrum later this month for a conference where they are expected to defend traditional marriage as between a man and a woman.

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Child homelessness in U.S. reaches all-time high

CP24.com | November 17, 2014

The number of homeless children in the U.S. has surged in recent years to an all-time high, amounting to one child in every 30, according to a comprehensive state-by-state report that blames America's high poverty rate, the lack of affordable housing and the impacts of pervasive domestic violence.

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Adventists and Catholics Unite to Promote Faith

Religious Groups Join Together to Launch Faith Counts

PRNewswire.com | Oct. 8, 2014

Today, major faith groups in the United States announced the launch of Faith Counts [faithcounts.net], a multi-faith organization aimed at promoting the value of faith. The centerpiece of Faith Counts is a social media campaign that tells powerful stories about how faith inspires, empowers, motivates and comforts billions of people.

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What should be our Attitude to the Sunday Law Question: Lessons from 1888

Editorial | Advent Messenger

Towards the end of the 19th Century there was a religious movement that felt compelled to launch a campaign to formally recognize Christianity in the U.S. Constitution. Their desire was to bring the United States out of spiritual decline caused by the Civil War. They wanted to unite the country and strengthen morality by establishing several “moral” Christian laws. Different Protestant churches, reformed groups, and temperance movements mobilized together into a political/religious coalition. They found a champion to lead their cause—U.S. Republican Senator from New Hampshire Henry W. Blair. Senator Blair, a staunch prohibitionist and ardent Christian, proposed a National Sunday Rest Bill to Congress, Senate Bill 2983, on May 21, 1888.

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50 Signs of the End Times

Editorial | Advent Messenger

“All these are the beginnings of sorrows.” The greatest event and our “blessed hope” is about to take place—Christ is about to return. Praise God! These are the signs to an unrepentant people and to the waiting church to prepare to meet our Creator.

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