Category Archives: Adventist

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

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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

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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

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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

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