Category Archives: Adventist

Hacksaw Ridge

Steve Sailer writes: Rather like Donald Trump’s campaign for president in 2016, Mel Gibson’s 2004 movie The Passion of the Christ was not popular in Beverly Hills. I overheard the following conversation in a Rodeo Drive screening room while Gibson’s … Continue reading

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The Truth

Growing up as a Seventh-Day Adventist, telling the truth was ridiculously important. If you got a reputation for lying, you were finished. You were lost. You were dead. The Christian commitment to truth went to extreme lengths. For instance, if … Continue reading

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Anybody ever hear of a Luke Ford?

From a Canadian posting board in 2010: The Seventh Day Adventist Church has an interesting relationship to covert happenings itself. In the early Cold War they channelled many hundreds/thousands of young men into servitude as human guinea pigs for biomedical … Continue reading

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Los Angeles Times features former pastor who decided to ‘live without God’ for a year

From Get Religion: Back in January, former Seventh-day Adventist pastor Ryan Bell made national headlines with his New Year’s resolution to “live without God” for a year… Now, with Bell’s publicity-grabbing experiment nearly over, he’s back in the news — … Continue reading

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Pacific Union College wins ‘most beautiful’

This is where I grew up and this is a place I love. I know this will sound crass, but Seventh-Day Adventist girls are hot. Seventh-Day Adventism is a feminine religion. Women account for about two-thirds of the church. The … Continue reading

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