Pastor Damien E. Johnson is a native of Washington, D.C. His roots in the church being in the historic First Seventh-day Adveentist Church in Washington where he was baptized and later sense the call to ministry. Pastor Johnson graduated from Columbia Union College (presently Washington Adventist University) in Takoma Park, Maryland with a Bachelor of …
Department of Religion is going to the very same place that we went to in October 2012, namely Food and Friends for AIDS/HIV victims in Washington DC. Join the Department of Religion and remember that we serve not for a day but throughout our Christian lives. Sign-up sheet is on the glass doors of the …
WALTER BRUEGGEMANN COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY “Reperforming our Best Narrative” Walter Brueggemann is an acclaimed author and theologian. Considered one of the most influential Old Testament scholars of the last several decades, Brueggemann has authored over 100 books and articles. He is known for his method of rhetorical criticism which, as he writes in his noted …
Takoma Park, MD (March 26) – The Washington Adventist University Department of Religion is hosting the 34th G. Arthur Keough Lectureship program on March 28 and 29, featuring topics that include women’s ordination and the politics of interpretation. The lectures are open to the public and will be held on and near the university campus, …
Takoma Park, MD (March 11) — The first joint edition of the modern translation of the Russian New Testament and Psalms intended for a mass audience was recently published by the Washington Adventist University (WAU) Bible Translation Institute, and copies are now on sale in bookstores across Russia. Bible Translation Institute Director Mikhail M. Kulakov, …
Takoma Park, MD (March 11) — The chair of Washington Adventist University’s Department of Religion has published four articles in the past year. The most recent, authored by Zdravko Zack Plantak, Ph.D., is “Occupy Till I Come: Relevance of the Belief of the Coming of God,” which was published in the Winter 2014 issue of …
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TAKOMA PARK, Md. (Aug. 28)- Printing of the first North American edition of the Russian New Testament and the Psalms, produced by the Washington Adventist University (WAU) Bible Translation Institute in partnership with Zaoksky Theological Seminary in Russia, has been completed by Pacific Press, Nampa, Idaho. A dedication service was held, August 26, at the …
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TAKOMA PARK, Md. (Aug. 20) – Professor of Religion Olive Hemmings, Ph.D., is the author of a newly release work, Sacred Texts and Social Conflict, exploring the debate over women’s ordination within the Seventh-day Adventist Church. “Here stands a dynamic faith community whose founding prophet and major source of authority outside the Bible is a …
TAKOMA PARK, Md. (Apr. 30) – Academic Awards chapel, usually reserved for standout students at Washington Adventist University (WAU), departed from the norm this year to recognize two faculty members—Bruce Wilson, associate director of music, and Deria Gadsen, assistant registrar—whose distinguished service to the institution will end this year. Professor Zdravko Plantak, who is also …
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“We need a new ethic and a prophetic vision and commitment to the wellbeing of the world and its people that will radically alter things and dispositions at the most fundamental level. We need a new ethic that will be committed to justice and equity in the world. A new ethic that will alter the prevailing national and government narrative that says that priority#1 on most of these matters is “what is the national interest of America? Of the UK? Of Canada or Brazil? The narrative must shift from “national interest” to what is just and what would be in support of the global good.”