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Monday, October 05, 2026

Danny Shelton's Message to All Adventists andThe General Conference |

Danny Shelton's Message to All Adventists and The General Conference | danny shelton latest sermon

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Oct 1, 2026 

Danny Shelton is arguing that church policy should never override biblical theology or the leading of the Holy Spirit. - Full Breakdown & Bible study.

In this video we break down  danny shelton  and what this message means for the  seventh day adventist  church today. If you've been searching for  danny shelton  preaching on repentance, reformation and the state of the church, this will give you the full context with Scripture.

We look at what he actually said, the Bible verses he used, and why this  sda sermons  moment is sparking so much discussion about the  laodicean church , the  remnant church  and true revival. 

This Sermon is Perfect for anyone following 3ABN,  seventh day adventist  preaching, and end-time  bible study .

Saturday, October 03, 2026

Clergy abuse survivor confronts bishop over homosexual’s parish role


A parishioner in the Diocese of Las Cruces is concerned that his church’s promotion of an active homosexual sends a message to the congregation and to the man himself that homosexuality is morally acceptable.

 
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Emily Mangiaracina

Fri Oct 2, 2026 - 6:50 pm EDT

HOBBS, New Mexico (LifeSiteNews) — A devout Catholic is voicing his concern that an active homosexual is continuing to serve in his church’s music ministry and has been promoted to an administrative church position despite the bishop and pastor’s knowledge that his lifestyle defies Church teaching.

Leo Martinez, a clerical abuse survivor, told LifeSiteNews he requested a meeting with his local bishop, Peter Baldacchino of the Diocese of Las Cruces, to discuss three matters, one of which was the public ministry of this openly homosexual man. Martinez requested a private meeting, but the bishop insisted that Martinez’s pastor, Father Joseph Pacquing, also attend. Martinez brought his brother as well.

Martinez said he told Baldacchino during the April 22 meeting that his parish is aware of the music minister’s homosexual relationship and that his position as a music minister has been held “for a long time,” at least 20 years. The pastor, Fr. Pacquing, reportedly told Martinez that the minister does not receive Holy Communion, confirming his awareness of the man’s homosexual lifestyle.

Bishop Baldacchino’s response was to say we must “be merciful,” that they would “investigate and look into it,” and that “we’re all sinners here,” Martinez recalled.

Martinez is concerned that the man holds a position as a music minister because it sends a message to both the congregation and to the minister himself that homosexuality is morally acceptable. While one is not culpable for same-sex attraction, active homosexual behavior is a grave sin according to Catholic Church teaching.
 

Sunday, September 27, 2026

Michigan Church Demands Action Against LGBTQ Acceptance in California Churches





16 September 2026 

The board of a small church in rural Michigan has prepared and submitted a detailed complaint against church entities in southern California who have shown acceptance toward LGBTQ people. The Coloma church asks the Michigan Conference Executive Committee to officially act on their complaint, and forward their request to discipline California’s leaders to the North American Division Executive Committee.

The document, which runs to 248 pages of obsessive detail, singles out Southern California Conference, particularly the Glendale City Church and its now-retired married gay pastor Leif Lind. It also complains about the Southeastern California Conference, location of La Sierra University and the La Sierra University Church, for LSU’s accommodation of LGBTQ students which includes a Kinship Sabbath School class and a private “Lavender Graduation” for LGBTQ students.

About 230 pages, many of them taken from Adventist Today and Spectrum, are appended as “evidentiary preservation… because live web links may not preserve the evidentiary record if source pages are later changed, moved, restricted, or removed.” It also includes annotations for “the purpose of helping the reader to quicker focus on relevant contents or to understand specific contexts.”

Support of LGBTQ people is condemned as a “long-term pattern,” with “current conference administration support,” and blasts the two conferences for allowing the “continuity of current conference officeholders.” Besides Leif Lind (who was paid by the Glendale City Church, not the conference) it singles out Southern California Conference president (formerly executive secretary) John Cress, current executive secretary Danny Chan, and Los Angeles regional director Brett Poynter. In Southeastern California Conference, it blames former LSU church pastor Chris Oberg.

“Taken together, this sustained, intentional, publicly documented pattern … conflicts with SDA biblical and voted standards, raises issues of institutional accountability, and affects member confidence and the Church’s public witness across the NAD, thus warranting submission to the NAD Executive Committee for formal consideration and action.”

Leif Lind writes,

“After the articles came out about my years of service at Glendale City Church, I was kind of holding my breath to see what happened next.… It’s almost uncanny the detail that this document has put together. Bulletins are included, with all relevant parts highlighted in red font, photos of me at the church that I never even knew existed, with my name highlighted in yellow boxes, page after page. It doesn’t make me feel worried, but it does leave me feeling disgusted as well as astounded that people can waste so much of their time on such trivial pursuits. Probably 60% of the document is about me, GCC and the Southern California Conference (as pertains to their interactions with me). The other 40% is about La Sierra University Church and SECC, with their Kinship Sabbath School class and “Lavender Graduation.”

Floyd Pönitz, president of Kinship, wrote this to Adventist Today:

“This document from the Coloma, Michigan church highlights a long‑standing challenge within Adventism: the difficulty some congregations have in opening their hearts to people whose lives or identities differ from their own. Many LGBTQ Adventists still long to feel at home in the church they grew up in—to belong without fear, without scrutiny, and without being treated as outsiders.

“Yet it’s important to recognize the hopeful movement happening in the church. Pastors Leif Lind and Chris Oberg and the leaders in their respective conferences have taken meaningful steps toward listening, learning, and creating space for LGBTQ Adventists. Their willingness to engage in grace stands in stark contrast to the Coloma church’s fixation on what happens thousands of miles away, rather than focusing on how the gospel of love and welcome might be lived out in their own community.”

You can read the whole document here.




Thursday, August 06, 2026

38 experts say ‘climate alarmism’ has become a profit-driven religion





Tom Harris Thu Jul 9

Religion has been a force throughout history that has helped societies flourish and given people meaning, but it has also been a vehicle for fundamentalism and intolerance. A religion can be characterized by a common set of beliefs about the truth of existence, ritual practices, moral codes, and a community of those who share the same beliefs. From this standpoint, climate alarmism has become nothing short of a religion, one that has been taking over societies around the world.

The newly released book, Canary in a Climate World: Climate Realism vs. the Net Zero Myth, is an eye-opening compilation of essays from 38 experts about the science of climate change, the fallacies of Net Zero, and the story we are not being told by the government and media.

Margaret Anna Alice, a writer focusing on propaganda and psychology, writes in her Canaries essay about how she lost her “religion” of climate alarmism, which for her had been an “inviolable belief.” She writes that “In this religion, gods such as the United Nations carve out the Ten Commandments in the form of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Agenda 21, Agenda 2030, and the SDG7 Global Roadmap for achieving Net Zero emissions by 2050.”

Additionally, “sermons” cite the “sacred texts” of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), shaming everyday citizens into believing that they are contributing to a devastating environmental catastrophe. It is only by aligning themselves with the religion of climate alarmism that they will be redeemed from their sins. Namely, by giving up their standards of living and putting their hard-earned money toward expensive projects to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) or subsidize intermittent and expensive renewable power such as wind and solar.

Just like the church in Medieval Europe, the climate doctrine is widespread and encroaches into our daily lives. Yet data corruption abounds at the IPCC and other official institutions, and for decades, few scientists have had the courage to speak out against it with their livelihoods on the line. These “heretics” are ostracized, lose their jobs, or are refused funding. But the tide is shifting. With the serious consequences of climate policies being enacted, now is the time to reveal that the climate scare is based on corruption and flawed ideology. Governments will spend trillions of dollars and drive their citizens into poverty if we continue down the route to Net Zero. IPCC contributor Mike Hulme admitted that “The debate around climate change is fundamentally about power and politics rather than the environment.” And the scientists and experts writing in Canary in a Climate World: Climate Realism vs. the Net Zero Myth are also disseminating crucial information to help us better understand the climate and the policies that have stifled our society’s growth for decades.

Monday, May 18, 2026

Pope: Christians and Muslims must work together to ‘revive humanity'




Pope Leo greets participants in the colloquium (@Vatican Media)


In a meeting with participants in an interfaith colloquium, Pope Leo calls on Christians and Muslims to “revive humanity where it has grown cold” and "transform indifference into solidarity”.


By Joseph Tulloch

Pope Leo met on Monday morning with members of Jordan’s Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies and of the Holy See’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue.

The members of the Royal Institute, which was founded under the patronage of Jordan’s Prince Hasan bin Talal, were in Rome for a colloquium on “Human Compassion and Empathy in Modern Times”.

READ THE FULL TEXT OF THE POPE'S ADDRESS HERE



Pope Leo with Cardinal Koovakad, Prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue (@Vatican Media)

Thursday, February 12, 2026

Trump administration working to expand effort to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans


U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials focused on denaturalization were sent to offices nationwide, sources say.


A new citizen holds an American flag during a naturalization ceremony in Metheun, Mass., in 2024.David L. Ryan / Boston Globe via Getty Images

Feb. 12, 2026, 5:00 AM EST
By Colleen Long, Laura Strickler, Daniella Silva and Nicole Acevedo


WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is dramatically expanding an effort to revoke U.S. citizenship for foreign-born Americans as it works to curb immigration, according to two people familiar with the plans.

Over the past several months, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency within the Department of Homeland Security that’s responsible for legal immigration, has been sending experts to its offices around the country or reassigning staff members to focus on whether some citizens processed through those offices could now be denaturalized, these people said.

The goal of emphasizing naturalized citizens is to supply the office of immigration litigation with 100 to 200 possible cases per month, one of the people familiar with the plans said. Such cases have typically been very rare, involving people who concealed criminal histories or previous human rights violations during their application processes. The New York Times first reported the quota.

By comparison, throughout the four years of President Donald Trump’s first term, the administration formally filed a total of 102 such cases, according to the Justice Department.

The effort is part of the overall push by Homeland Security to drastically curtail immigration and deliver on Trump’s policy agenda. The push has included DHS’ sending scores of immigration enforcement officers into U.S. cities on deportation missions and purchasing mega warehouses to hold detainees.

DHS has also increasingly sought to remove legal immigrants from the U.S. by revoking thousands of visas, including for some people who participated in pro-Palestinian protests, and trying to deport green card holders.

Saturday, January 03, 2026

Overton window

Overton window

This article is about the political concept. For the 2010 novel, see The Overton Window.

The Overton window is the range of subjects and arguments politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.[1] It is also known as the window of discourse.[2] The key to the concept is that the window changes over time; it can shift, or shrink or expand.[3] It exemplifies "the slow evolution of societal values and norms".[3]


An illustration of the Overton window, along with Treviño's degrees of acceptance

The term is named after the American policy analyst and former senior vice president at Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Joseph Overton, who proposed that the political viability of an idea depends mainly on whether it falls within an acceptability range, rather than on the individual preferences of politicians using the term or concept.[4][3] According to Overton, the window frames the range of policies that a politician may recommend without appearing too extreme, in order to gain or keep public office given the climate of public opinion at that particular time.[5]

Sunday, December 14, 2025

What I Learned During My Visit to an Immigration Detention Center


What I Learned During My Visit to an Immigration Detention Center



A migrant being detained by ICE outside of Immigration Court in Harlingen, Texas. (Brian Strassburger, SJ)


Note: The names and countries of origin of those mentioned have been changed.

“Look for the red car in the parking lot behind the metro station.”

That’s where I met the other people with whom I traveled to an immigration detention center in rural Virginia, several hours from my own home. A friend of mine who works with immigration attorneys invited me to go and interpret between English and Spanish speakers and to assist the lawyers. I jumped at the opportunity. I’d never been to a detention center before and have rarely been to jails or prisons.

I was especially interested since the news this past year has been so filled with stories of immigrants being detained and deported. The government says that they are all criminals and the “worst of the worst.” Advocates say that they are mostly innocent mothers, fathers, teens and beloved community members. One thing everyone agrees on is that the number of migrants in detention is the most it’s ever been, and that the number of people being deported is sky high.

I wanted to see for myself who was actually being detained.

Jesuits were among those who gathered outside the Broadview Detention Facility in Broadview, Illinois, on November 1, requesting to offer Communion to migrants:

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Multiculturalism Is A Globalist Weapon And You’re Not Allowed To Protect Yourself


October 23, 2025 




By Brandon Smith

If you were alive to witness the events of 9/11, you probably remember the sudden emergence of the “Coexist” bumper stickers and t-shirts across the US after the tragedy. The intended message being that different cultures must be “tolerant” of each other and live in harmony. If you caught yourself with a twinge of visible pain in your face every time you saw this slogan, you were not alone.

Maybe it’s a subconscious aversion to hippies and their body odor, but I think the distaste for the message goes much deeper. It’s built into the DNA of every human being – It’s a part of our genetic memory. Every culture has an inherent drive to protect itself from competing cultures and ideologies.

We have learned over thousands of generations that culture is not just social expression, it is a carefully crafted fortress protecting us from being invaded and destroyed by hostile forces seeking to take what we have created. Homogeneous culture helps to maintain the values that keep our societies safe, industrious and stable.

Interestingly, the person who first created the “Coexist” artwork, a Polish man named Piotr Młodożeniec, was a staunch proponent of Polish Independence from the Soviet Union. The guy promoted Coexistence, but even he couldn’t tolerate the communists. It would seem that some ideals are mutually exclusive. Some spaces cannot be shared by certain beliefs.

Wednesday, September 03, 2025

After meeting, Jesuit says pope welcomes LGBTQ Catholics

written by Cindy Wooden 



Pope Leo XIV welcomes Jesuit Father James Martin, an author and editor at large at America magazine, to the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Sept. 1, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)


VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Leo XIV met privately Sept. 1 with Jesuit Father James Martin, an author and editor known for his ministry with LGBTQ Catholics.

Father Martin, who was in Rome to lead a Sept. 2-7 pilgrimage of LGBTQ Catholics, wrote on X: “I was honored and grateful to meet with the Holy Father @Pontifex this morning in an audience in the Apostolic Palace, and moved to hear the same message I heard from Pope Francis on LGBTQ Catholics, which is one of openness and welcome.”

‘A deeply consoling meeting’

“I found Pope Leo to be serene, joyful, and encouraging,” Father Martin posted. “For me, it was a deeply consoling meeting. Please pray for the Holy Father!”

As is its standard practice, the Vatican press office announced the meeting but provided no details.

In a message to Catholic News Service, Father Martin said, “Pope Leo wants to continue the path of Pope Francis, one of openness and welcome to LGBTQ Catholics.”

TV’s portrayal of ‘anti-Christian lifestyles’

At the 2012 Synod of Bishops on the new evangelization, then-Father Robert F. Prevost, the future Pope Leo, criticized television’s positive portrayal of “anti-Christian” lifestyles.

He had told the synod that portrayals of the modern family on television and in films present a huge challenge to the Catholic Church. “Note, for example, how alternative families comprised of homosexual partners and their adopted children are so benignly and sympathetically portrayed on television programs and in cinema,” he told synod members.

“The sympathy for anti-Christian lifestyle choices that the mass media fosters is so brilliantly and artfully engrained in the viewing public that when people hear the Christian message, it often inevitably seems ideological and emotionally cruel by contrast to the ostensible humaneness of the anti-Christian perspective,” he had said.

Church’s need ‘to be open, welcoming’

In September 2023, after he was made a cardinal, CNS asked him about his earlier remarks; he said, “I would say there’s been a development in the sense of the need for the church to open and to be welcoming.”

“On that level, I think Pope Francis has made it very clear that he doesn’t want people to be excluded simply on the basis of choices that they make, whether it be lifestyle, work, the way they dress or whatever,” he said.

“Doctrine has not changed,” the cardinal said. “But we are looking to be more welcoming and more open and to say all people are welcome in the church.”