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Category Archives: Adventist
Jews Aren’t Afraid To Claim Credit For Their Good Deeds
In my Protestant upbringing, we were taught to not push ourselves forward too obviously. Always appear reluctant to claim credit. Better to moan and groan about what a great sinner you are. By contrast, I’ve noticed that Jews tend to … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Jews
Tagged many circles, money money, natural passions, romantic notions, sex and money, sex money
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When Your Leader Is A Plagiarist
I grew up a Seventh-Day Adventist. I was taught that our founder, Ellen G. White, was a prophet of God who had visions of divine revelation that the Church was God’s true chosen people and that He was sending Jesus … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Alexander Technique, Personal
Tagged alexander technique lessons, christian apologetics, christian thinkers, divine revelation, f m alexander, loss of voice
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I Was Interviewed Last Week On KCVU Radio About Growing Up Seventh-Day Adventist
KCVU 1190 AM is based in Boulder, Colorado. My main interviewer was Geoff Anderson, who like me grew up a Seventh-Day Adventist. Geoff says he remembers people getting into fistfights over my father. Geoff’s cohost Punkrock Paul also jumps into … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Blogging, Personal
Tagged cry in the dark, fistfights, geoff anderson, gezera, klal yisrael, neilah, orthodox judaism, plink plink, punkrock, yom kipur
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The Conscientious Objector
I just watched this documentary about Medal of Honor winner Desmond Doss, a Seventh-Day Adventist hero from my childhood. And I felt split. My heart warmed to his story but my head said that if more people were pacifists like … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist
Tagged conscientious objector, desmond doss, desmond t doss, false interpretation, honor winner, observant jew, sabbath morning, seventh day adventism, simple faith, sixth commandment, world war ii
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The Nostradamus Kid (1993)
I love this movie! It’s a coming of age story about an Australian boy raised a Seventh-Day Adventist who yearns for the pastor’s daughter and fears the world is coming to an end. I dig how the protagonist alternates between … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Personal, Sydney
Tagged billy graham crusade, cuban missile crisis, orthodox judaism, proper girls, seventh day adventist, seventh day adventists
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The Joys and Oys Of Growing Up Seventh-Day Adventist
Watch the whole show!
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Rocky Mountain High
At the end of the eight-part miniseries The Kennedys, he found himself leaning out of his chair, staring down at the ground, and saying one word — “Kendra!” He started when he said her name. He was not the type … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Personal, PUC
Tagged chewing gum, classmates, glacier view, senseless deaths, summer of discontent, thick glasses
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And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
January 26, 1986 was Super Bowl (XX) Sunday. I listened to the game as I drove my 1966 VW Bug from Auburn (where I’d just pulled a shift in the news department of KAHI/KHYL radio) to my friends the Muth … Continue reading
The Lunch That Changed My Life
In December of 1979, I was part-way through eighth grade at the Seventh-Day Adventist Pacific Union College Elementary school in Angwin, CA, 94508. My father taught in the college’s Religion department but he was being shipped with my mother to … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Personal, PUC
Tagged avondale college, bone cancer, double threat, heretical views, napa valley, religion department
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I Don’t Drink Or Smoke Or Lend My Bum To Other Blokes
I just read a great essay against vegetarianism. I’m a life-long vegetarian. Not from conviction but from habit. It increasingly looks to me like vegetarianism is not healthy. There are some things I was raised with that I just don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Personal
Tagged blokes, gag reflex, kiddush, taste of alcohol, vegetarianism
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