Slide Show: 16 tips to navigate and conquer an Adventist potluck

We loves us some potluck, but the non-food aspects can prove to be a bit of a pickle: What to bring? Who goes first? Where to sit? We present 16 handy-dandy tips to answer these and other burning questions.

Miniskirt on Nebuchadnezzar statue prompts mass exodus from prophecy seminar

OXFORD, Mich. — Hundreds of Adventists stormed out of evangelist Steve Darmondy’s prophecy seminar held at Maple Lane Adventist Church last night. The exit was prompted by what several attendees Read more […]

Slide Show: How to wash feet with the least amount of contact

Washing one another’s feet is a time-honored practice that is supposed to instill in the participants a sense of humbleness, service, gentleness, kindness, meekness, closeness and all that other good stuff. But who knows where that other’s person foot has been? There are things in the world like germs, fungus and flesh-eating bacteria, you know. Here’s how to wash feet with the least amount of human contact.

Jamaica-based Adventist University to offer degree program in bobsledding

MANDEVILLE, Jamaica — In a move to boost enrollment for the Adventist university, Jamaica-based Northern Caribbean University has announced that it will be offering bobsledding as a new major. Read more […]

Superstitious Church leaders scrap 13th Sabbath tradition

SILVER SPRING, Md. — In a dramatic shift for the Adventist church, world leaders have decided to discontinue the practice of holding special offerings and communion on the last Saturday of each Read more […]

Slide Show: 11 Adventist-appropriate alternatives to Halloween

It’s Halloween! Dreaded by Adventists everywhere for its pagan roots, celebration of the occult and the inevitable explaining to teary-eyed children of why they can not go out and have fun that night. But no need to fear! We’ve come up with some ideas that may help soothe the pain of not getting free candy from strangers.

Bickering Adventist couple plans to move way north so the sun will never set on their anger

COLLEGEDALE, Tenn. — Clara and Ed Holder have big plans for their marriage next year. The Collegedale-based couple is planning to move to a country with territory comfortably within the Read more […]

Michigan Conference sets up seminary scholarship fund for aspiring pastors with a criminal history

LANSING, Mich. — “Former criminals make amazing pastors,” said Michigan Conference spokesman Dan Giligan this week as the conference launched a 5-year recruitment effort focused on ex-cons. Giligan Read more […]

Slide Show: 15 greatest disappointments of Adventists

Thousands of people, some of whom had given away all of their possessions, waited expectantly for Jesus to appear on Oct. 22, 1844. When He didn’t appear, the date became known as the Great Disappointment. But out of the Great Disappointment the seeds of the Seventh-day Adventist Church sprouted. We’re a little late to the celebration (disappointing, we know ::haaaaa::) but in honor of that momentous occasion, we present a list of things that Adventists find disappointing.

General Conference begs Ben Carson not to run for president

SILVER SPRING, Md. — It is all but certain that Adventist pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson is running for US president in 2016. Since his recent entrance into politics, Carson has made headlines Read more […]