https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to seventh day adventists en https://religiondispatches.org/2017/04/17/conservative-catholics-unhappy-about-new-book-lgbts-and-church-and-more-global-lgbt The Global Alliance for LGBT Education has protested the selection of Saudi Arabia as the site for a forum on youth engagement in social change: The forum, “Youth and their Social Impact”, is supposed to explore youth engagement and its… Mon, 17 Apr 2017 06:30:42 EDT Peter Montgomery 56541dc3-adfb-49a5-964c-e2d41a1b20b2 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/04/03/gay-men-detained-and-killed-chechnya-and-more-global-lgbt-recap Gilbert Baker, who created the rainbow flag design that has become a symbol of the LGBT movement worldwide, died on March 31 in New York City. March 31 was also International Transgender Day of Visibility. The international anti-trans bus tour… Mon, 03 Apr 2017 01:09:16 EDT Peter Montgomery 3e5f4514-f396-4b13-805d-57ee3bcf42d5 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/07/01/un-human-rights-council-creates-lgbt-watchdog-orthodox-council-affirms-traditional United Nations: Human Rights Council creates watchdog for LGBT rights The United Nations Human Rights Council voted this week to create its first-ever LGBT rights watchdog, a step that LGBT equality advocates called a major victory. Before the vote, anti-LGBT… Fri, 01 Jul 2016 03:45:55 EDT Peter Montgomery 9f32fb0b-3dc0-4a17-8489-98f787e37dc1 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/04/25/how-prince-set-fire-my-catholic-girlhood Prince is dead. Long live Prince. The morning after Prince’s death was announced, I woke up, remembered he was dead, and buried myself under my duvet. I’m still in shock. How could that beautiful, complicated body be gone? Prince, the… Mon, 25 Apr 2016 01:18:41 EDT Anthea Butler b9490b6d-daa3-48ab-8015-3368ce7040be https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/23/russian-orthodox-patriarch-blames-gays-isis-christian-nationalist-sworn-guatemalas US Vice President Joe Biden addressed a group of business leaders gathered in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum and urged them to do more to advance LGBT equality, saying there is never a cultural justification for human rights… Sat, 23 Jan 2016 10:01:15 EST Peter Montgomery 6988d644-599d-4d1b-8f75-2507b99f22cd https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/26/trump-pulls-huckabee-religion Donald Trump, Saturday, October 24, 2015: I’m Presbyterian. Boy, that’s down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don’t know about. I just don’t know about. Trump, Sunday, October 25, 2015: I would… Mon, 26 Oct 2015 12:11:33 EDT Sarah Posner 074b8f4a-76f4-4514-b832-59d5aa0f2f20 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/13/what-really-was-wrong-ben-carson-interview-end-times When it comes to the end-times, Ben Carson may just be confounding the typical narratives about conservative Christian presidential candidates. If a conservative evangelical or Pentecostal candidate talks about the end-times, everyone’s ears perk up and they wonder if, as… Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:48:51 EDT Sarah Posner 00ae45fe-2fa5-475d-bf39-1b64f66f36e7 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/12/guns-and-religious-liberty-ben-carson-not-authentic-adventist You’d never know it from Ben Carson’s exhortations for Americans to arm themselves against perpetrators of gun violence, but a central belief of his religion, Seventh-day Adventism, is in non-violence. From the founding of the denomination in 1863, both doctrinally… Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:47:07 EDT Sarah Posner 4f2cf3e5-49cd-4453-8fc8-f65ccae0cb43 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/08/open-letter-ben-carson-fellow-seventh-day-adventist-stop-islamophobia Dr. Ben Carson, As a clergy-trained fellow Seventh-day Adventist, I urge you to stop singling out Islam and Muslims. This upcoming weekend there are anti-Muslim rallies planned across the country—some of them calling for armed protesters—fueled by the anti-Muslim rhetoric… Thu, 08 Oct 2015 11:48:58 EDT Geoffrey Nelson-Blake 1f0b0f49-02e3-4918-a37b-f4323bed6bf2 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/05/02/seventh-day-adventists-gay-cures-legal-victory-kenyan-lgbts-political-religious-leaders In the U.S. this week, the Supreme Court heard cases asking whether the Constitution requires states to permit or recognize marriage for same-sex couples; a ruling is expected in June. New U.S. special envoy for LGBT rights Randy Berry is… Sat, 02 May 2015 11:05:59 EDT Peter Montgomery d641ed20-8807-4b31-8e00-953d3f8bc3b7 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/04/24/pope-praises-complementarity-resists-gay-ambassador-irish-religious-leaders-spar-over The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution on Wednesday, April 22, calling on Member States to respect and protect transgender people against discrimination and to facilitate self-determination. Human Rights Watch called it “a much needed roadmap… Fri, 24 Apr 2015 12:52:55 EDT Peter Montgomery cfdad577-1816-43f5-9151-8e219d4b93a8 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/04/17/adventists-cancel-holy-sexuality-confab-egyptian-court-oks-deportation-gays-mongolian A Russian nonprofit group, the St. Petersburg-based Coming Out, celebrated April 17 International Day of Silence by releasing a video “Break the silence,” which ends with “silence can break us / but we can break the silence.” A small Day… Fri, 17 Apr 2015 05:53:25 EDT Peter Montgomery ae64dff9-be2b-4c93-a80a-ba2701b2febd https://religiondispatches.org/2015/01/14/how-become-atheist-twelve-short-months Ryan Bell no longer believes in God, exactly. Bell is the former Seventh-Day Adventist pastor who last January made a resolution to live as an atheist, to live for a “ year without God.” More precisely, Bell decided to take… Wed, 14 Jan 2015 12:45:38 EST Hollis Phelps 764016c4-533c-43f8-96bc-ca0cbdd3e2c1 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/05/21/year-after-non-apocalypse-where-are-they-now No giant earthquake rippled across the surface of the earth but I wanted to know what happens next. If you’re absolutely sure the world is going to end on a specific day, and it doesn’t, what do you do? How do you explain it to yourself? What happens to your faith in God? Mon, 21 May 2012 11:10:27 EDT Tom Bartlett b77005df-5431-426e-b408-58a844f1f040 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/05/25/great-disappointment-when-world-fails-end-schedule For any student of American history, all of this sounds eerily familiar—right down to the revision of dates. American history is littered with predictions about the end of the world. Wed, 25 May 2011 03:37:59 EDT Randall Balmer a4180f88-1415-45a9-884d-3dc221e5e1fd https://religiondispatches.org/2010/04/13/seventh-day-smackdown A confrontation over the ordination of women. Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:49:23 EDT Daniel Schultz 2276f5b5-df0d-4e1a-925b-66fa3c79195d