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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
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
Seventh-day Adventist college fracas proves that local coverage is often better
Every group has rules — written and unwritten — and if you violate them sufficiently, you get kicked out. Seventh-Day Adventism is high intensity religion. If you take it seriously, it tends to take over your whole life. Because of … Continue reading
Photos: Pacific Union College Demonstration
Many of my happiest memories are from my time at Pacific Union College (6th thru 12th grade). There would not be such intense conflict if people didn’t love so much. It is a very good sign for Adventism’s future that … Continue reading
There was nothing wrong with Ted Cruz that a good Seventh-Day Adventist woman couldn’t fix
From the Washington Post: Cruz, 43, grew up in San Luis Obispo, Calif., the daughter of a dentist and dental hygienist who are Seventh-day Adventists. When she was 5, Heidi’s parents signed her up for piano lessons, and she insisted … Continue reading
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The Threat Of Islamic Terror
Some of my interviews over the past month:
Seventh-Day Adventists
* To be more politically corrected, a friend of mine, whenever he wants to complain about blacks, instead substitutes “Seventh-Day Adventist” as in, “A Seventh-Day Adventist was trying to steal my car stereo when I…” Or, “A group of Seventh-Day … Continue reading