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The PARL Team is Still Working for You

Posted July 9, 2020

Deconstructing Racism as A Multifaceted Dehumanizing Personal and Social Disease

Posted July 9, 2020

Covid Lessons—Traveling Safe

Posted July 7, 2020

PARL’s experience and work during the chaos of Covid-related travel restrictions have helped us distill a few general “best practices” for church employees and members who plan to resume travel—either for work or mission service—once the pandemic ends.

Thinking ‘Adventistly’ About Politics

Posted May 11, 2020

I first came across the unusual but useful adverb “Christianly” in an article published last year about the role of faith in politics. In an interview, Michael Wear, a former director of President Obama’s White House faith-based initiative, said Christians have a special responsibility to speak up about issues of public policy.

As the World’s Attention is Focused Elsewhere, Religious Freedom Abuses Continue

Posted May 4, 2020

​The release of the 20th annual report on international religious freedom by a US watchdog agency highlights troubling trends, say Adventist advocates

Religious Liberty in a Time of Crisis

Posted April 9, 2020

​As authorities around the world struggle to respond to the global spread of COVID-19, governments at every level—from local to national—have issued new and, in some cases, unprecedented, directives that touch on almost every aspect of our daily lives.

Not Everything Published Online is Truth

Posted January 6, 2020

There are allegations presented Online as if they were true, but which are in fact fabrications maliciously put together to discredit the GC and its leadership.

Adventist Religious Liberty Advocates Urge Support for Resolution Against Blasphemy Laws

Posted December 12, 2019

A proposed Congressional resolution calling for the repeal of anti-blasphemy and apostasy laws worldwide will shine a much-needed spotlight on the destructive impact of these laws, according to the Seventh-day Adventist world church’s representative on Capitol Hill.

Pivotal Sabbath Accommodation Case Takes One Step Closer to the Supreme Court

Posted December 11, 2019

The US government’s top Supreme Court lawyer recommended to the Court on December 9 that it should hear a case with potentially far-reaching implications for Sabbath-keepers in the workplace.

With Religious Freedom Under Threat, Is There a Way Forward?

Posted December 11, 2019

Seventh-day Adventist advocates are working to protect this vital human right within a culture that has grown skeptical of many religious freedom claims.