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Category Archives: Adventist
Video Of My Panel Discusson On ‘Christians, Jews and the Sabbath after the Holocaust’
I make my first comments 30 minutes in. My voice has quite the nervous tremor and my hands play with my water bottle. I was hoping I’d appear smoother and calmer and cooler.
Posted in Adventist, Jews, Loma Linda, Personal
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Loma Linda Is The Loneliest Adventist Community In The World
Friday. 12:30 pm. As he began driving east on the Ten freeway from Santa Monica, he tried to free his neck of unnecessary tension. He tried to think up with his whole torso. He tried to let go of habitual … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Loma Linda, Personal
Tagged adventist community, cynthia ozick, dave larson, freeway north, habitual postures, loma linda university, sabbath morning, sabbath sermon, traditional ties, unnecessary tension, yum yum yum
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Facing Up To Myself
I’ve been on a jihad — inner spiritual struggle — the past few weeks to reconnect on Facebook with friends from my past who are no longer in my life. Last night, I leafed through my 1983 and 1984 Placer … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Personal
Tagged Facebook, high school yearbooks, placer high school, shabbat dinner, shopping at the supermarket, spiritual struggle
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Are Jews Like The Amish?
I was explaining to a non-Jewish Seventh-Day Adventist friend today about some of the Jewish laws of the Sabbath. You can’t drive. You can’t talk on the phone. You can’t start or stop an electrical current. “Are Jews like the … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Jews
Tagged adventists, amish, intellectual life, jewish laws, unique laws
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What Does Kosher Mean?
I’m staying with some non-Jewish friends at Loma Linda University this weekend. I’m going to be on a panel Sabbath afternoon talking with three Christians and a Jew about a new book. My friends have never hosted an Orthodox Jew … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Personal
Tagged grape juice, jewish friends, loma linda university, orthodox jew, what does kosher mean, yellow fever
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‘We Love You N——‘
Many Seventh-Day Adventist churches divide up by race. There are Korean churches and black churches and the like. I remember that interracial marriages were discouraged at Avondale College in Australia where I grew up (until my parents and I moved … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Blacks
Tagged avondale college, korean churches, oakwood college, sabbath program, seventh day adventist churches, six bullets
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Converting Jews To Seventh-Day Adventism
I spent much of January 1991 with friends at Pacific Union College in the Napa Valley. I met a guy who was raised Jewish and converted to Seventh-Day Adventism. I told him about my journey to Judaism. From page 275 … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Jews
Tagged adventist leaders, annexation of austria, clifford goldstein, jewish converts, passive attitude, remilitarization of the rhineland
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The Lost Meaning Of The Seventh Day Lecture
You’ve seen the book, now hear the lecture!
Posted in Adventist
Tagged christians jews, medical doctor, new testament, testament scholar, two jews
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What’s The Difference Between The Jewish Sabbath And The Christian Sabbath?
Seventh-Day Adventists, Seventh-Day Baptists and Jews observe the Sabbath. What are the differences in how they observe the Sabbath? As someone who was raised a Seventh-Day Adventist but converted to Judaism in 1993, I have some ideas. The most obvious … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Judaism, Personal
Tagged christian audience, christian sabbath, jewish sabbath, protestant reformers, rape incest, seventh day adventist, seventh day adventists, seventh day baptists
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Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream
This is the best book written on the Seventh-Day Adventist church. A much darker glance at Adventism is provided in We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda. It tells the … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Personal
Tagged Dennis Prager, destructive tendencies, favorite music group, orthodox judaism, seventh day adventism, those lonely nights
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