By Educate Truth Staff Despite an overwhelming vote by constituents of the Northern California Conference against the Oroville Church’s agenda item #3, it turns out that such a policy is already in place. On October 11, 1987, the General Conference Executive Committee approved and voted a document titled “A Statement on Theological and Academic Freedom…
Source: La Sierra University La Sierra University’s constituency met to elect members of the Board Trustees, approve changes to university bylaws, and review the university’s financial status. The 76 session delegates convened on campus May 12. Four individuals were elected to six-year terms on the university’s Board of Trustees: Meredith Jobe, an attorney in Glendale,…
Source: Adventist Review Board Moving to Resolve La Sierra Evolution Issue By Mark Kellner The question of what students at La Sierra University, a Seventh-day Adventist-owned tertiary institution in Riverside, California, learn about the origins of life on Earth is being resolved, said Ricardo Graham, LSU board of trustees chair and president of the church’s…
The Northern California Conference (NCC) will officially request that “the General Conference Church Manual Committee rewrite Fundamental Belief #6 to reflect the more specific language found in An Affirmation of Creation and Response to an Affirmation of Creation.” The Oroville Seventh-day Adventist Church, Ca., had recommended the NCC vote a request to the General Conference…
By Educate Truth Staff One student got permission to write an article rebutting the church’s position on homosexuality, but Louie Bishop couldn’t get permission to distribute a letter to his classmates about the theory of evolution being promoted in the classrooms. Current LSU student, Louie Bishop, published a letter in response to “LSU responds to…