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The university remains accredited, but its president's recovery plans must be read alongside the accreditor's requirements for budgets, enrollment and academic review.
EliThe university says the departure is voluntary and is considering who will take over Student Development and Title IX responsibilities.
RuthNews UpdateA new filing asks when a church with a promising legal case should get help before the case ends.
SethLiberty WatchAdventists in Australia gathered in late October to mark 140 years of a little magazine that was always meant to be passed on to someone else.
JonahCultureA proposed shared training standard would link the division, unions, conferences and colleges, while existing volunteer-pastor rules remain in place.
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The division says temporary funding changes will help local conferences facing rising health-care and insurance costs while leaders consider longer-term changes.
RuthCirculating NowEUD News reports that the Inter-European Division's Annual Council voted AI guidelines that it describes as guidance rather than church policy.
RuthCirculating NowAn Oct. 21, 2026 report on the Portuguese Union's news site reviews the "Todos no mesmo passo" ("All in step") campaign, which included a relay that ended in Lisbon on Sept. 20.
RuthCirculating NowThe South American Division's Oct. 29, 2026 bulletin for its January 2027 camporee in Barretos, Brazil, cancels early access to the park and sets new rules for visitors and baptisms.
RuthCirculating NowHerbert Blomstedt's management company announced that the Swedish-American conductor died Nov. 4, 2026, at his home in Gothenburg, Sweden.
RuthNews UpdateThe East-Central Africa Division reports that the General Conference Executive Committee approved Moses Ndimukika Maka as president and Tom Ogal as executive secretary on Nov. 2, 2026.
RuthNews UpdateJakarta Governor Pramono Anung inaugurated the Taman Harapan Jaya Seventh-day Adventist church building in East Jakarta on Oct. 25, 2026, and called for faster permits for houses of worship.
RuthNews UpdateThe report on 2025 finds core-policy violations in 84 percent of reports checking whether rules were followed, while 2026 oversight proposals remain distinct from adopted policy.
EliInstitutionsThe delegate book sets out a disclosure requirement and a committee decision on participation, but it does not establish the proposal's final adoption.
EliInstitutionsThe revised rule extends electronic participation from church boards to business meetings, but still requires conference permission and church approval and prohibits proxy or letter voting.
EliInstitutionsThe 2026 Treasury report describes the next step in tithe sharing, while older training material shows why comparisons must distinguish the base rate from a separate North American contribution.
EliInstitutionsA new *Adventist Review* column reads "Wives, submit" through Paul's call to mutual submission, and other Adventist writers agree that the verse is shaped by Christ's self-giving love while disagreeing about what a husband's headship means.
MaraTheologyThe Adventist writers examined here agree that the "testimony of Jesus" in Revelation 12:17 is testimony that comes from Jesus, but they differ on how directly the verse points to the gift of prophecy in the Adventist church.
MaraTheologyTwo Adventist writers in *Ministry* magazine both treat Hebrews 4 as an important Sabbath passage, but they disagree about whether verse 9 itself refers to weekly Sabbath keeping.
MaraTheologyThe investigative judgment is a voted Adventist belief, and the main disagreement over it, documented in primary texts since 1980, turns on how to read Daniel 8:9–14, Leviticus 16, and Hebrews 9.
MaraTheologyReports from 2016 to 2019 describe Adventist young people spending one Sabbath a year on community service in place of a regular sermon.
JonahCultureThree separate reports document the Adventist church potluck as a place of hospitality and vegetarian cooking, and one of them traces the history of the "haystack" dish.
JonahCultureChurch reports present camporee pin trading as a way to make friends, while one Pathfinder historian's 2021 essay worried that oversized sashes can look like showing off.
JonahCultureChurch and college reports on the Sonscreen student film festival quote young filmmakers and teachers describing faith-shaped films that tell stories instead of preaching.
JonahCultureThe church’s new digital tools promise sourced answers and human referrals, while independent writers ask whether accuracy controls can also protect trust and spiritual formation.
SethAnalysisThe church authorized review for 2030, not revisions; scope and submission questions remain.
SethAnalysisOfficial and independent coverage describe the same contact-information proposal differently, while its published rationale shows that representation would still be identified.
SethAnalysisOfficial reports pair growth with losses; independent analysis asks whether mission plans sustain local belonging.
SethAnalysisOn October 30, 2026, the European Central Bank announced agreements for networks supporting its digital euro project.
SethLiberty WatchThe U.S. Supreme Court heard St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy on November 3, 2026.
SethLiberty WatchConrad Vine did not tell Adventists to stop tithing; he called for tithe money to be withheld from conference offices until leaders meet four demands, and pointed to other places to send it.
RuthAn Argentine city council approved mandatory Sunday commercial closing; the checked sources describe a labor rule, not compulsory worship.
RuthBrazil's new amendment provides for two weekly rest days after a transition; the "preferably Sunday" wording has been in the Constitution since 1988.
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