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Transgender Rabbinical Students Finding Equality in the Jewish World

This comes as a profound relief to me. For years I’ve worried about the lack of respect Jews show to their transgendered rabbis. You’d think the Holocaust would’ve educated us to be more sensitive. Does not our Holy Torah command … Continue reading

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‘We Love You Niggers’

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

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Seventh-Gay Adventists

That’s a great title for a movie. I was raised a Seventh-Day Adventist. There were no out homosexuals in the religious communities I grew up in (Avondale College and Pacific Union College). We would’ve dragged them behind a pack of … Continue reading

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O My Son Absalom, My Son, My Son Absolom! Would God I Had Died For Thee, O Absolom, My Son, My Son!

I try to imagine my life from my dad’s perspective (Part Two): I gave my life to Jesus Christ as a teenager. That’s a great comfort for me. In the final analysis, it’s all in God’s hands. I did the … Continue reading

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Lunch Returns Me To Childhood

I made a new friend over lunch today. He’s a lifelong Seventh-Day Adventist. Our lives have many parallels. Our fathers were SDA ministers who were ejected from church ministry for preaching heresy. I feel light-headed. I feel like I am … Continue reading

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