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Category Archives: Adventist
Seventh-Day Adventism – Life On The Margins
I spent last Sabbath at the Seventh-Day Adventist university of Loma Linda. During my 30 hours there, I spent a lot of time wondering why this group of Sabbath keepers lived on the margins of society while Sabbath-keeping Jews were … Continue reading
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Tagged burning to ashes, holocust, luke ford, old hag, Reform Judaism, sabbath keepers, sabbath keeping, university of loma linda
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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
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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
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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
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Tagged adventists, amish, intellectual life, jewish laws, unique laws
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