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Over the past 150 years, Seventh-day Adventists have built one of Christianity’s most inventive and prosperous churches – while praying for the world to end as soon as possible.

A small band of believers has mushroomed to more than 17 million baptized members, including 1.2 million in the U.S.

Elder Gary Thurber declined to accept the call to serve as president of Upper Columbia Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, according to a press release.

Thurber said he prayerfully considered the invitation over the weekend and notified the conference that he plans to remain in Colorado.

Another star of the CBS sitcom “Two and a Half Men” has gone rogue -- but in a decidedly different direction than notorious carouser Charlie Sheen.
Actor Angus T. Jones -- the “half” in the sitcom’s title -- says in a new online testimony that he’s become a Seventh-day Adventist and loathes the “filth” produced by his raunchy show.

Two U.S. regional groups of the Seventh-day Adventist Church have recently approved the ordination of women pastors, moving faster than the worldwide church’s study of the issue.

The Pacific Union Conference, which includes California and four other Western states, voted 79 percent to 21 percent at a special session on Aug. 19 to “approve ordinations to the gospel ministry without regard to gender.”

The shelves of Bibles next to aisles of activated charcoal powder, cashew cream, agar agar sea vegetable flakes, Minit-meat and vegan gelatin may seem unrelated. But at the Adventist Book Center and Vegetarian Food Outlet, the diet lifestyles of Seventh Day Adventists closely relate to the religion — and has since the church’s inception in the mid-1800s.

SPANGLE  — Revival meetings are under way in the largest tent in Eastern Washington. According to Spokane county officials, the mammoth 19,000 square-foot tent is the biggest temporary structure of its kind in the inland Northwest.