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Tag Archives: loma linda university
Loma Linda Gets Its First McDonalds
Air quality must not have much to do with a long life if people in Loma Linda are living so long. The air there is horrible. The New York Times reports: LOMA LINDA, Calif. — In this small city, home … Continue reading
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Tagged average lifespan, burgers and fries, fast food restaurant, healthy lifestyles, loma linda university, public health professor
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I Always Thought I’d Turn The Corner And Become Righteous
I was just looking at video of myself from Loma Linda University last year and I winced. Oy, I was harsh! Makes me introspective and a tad mournful because I always thought there would come a time when I’d leave … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Technique, cataclysm, loma linda university, oy, psycho therapy
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Loma Linda Is The Loneliest Adventist Community In The World II
I wrote a blog post on this theme a couple of months ago. I figured I’d ape my posts about the most prestigious Sabbath invites in Orthodox Judaism in Los Angeles with one about Loma Linda University. One problem — … Continue reading
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Tagged adventist community, Loma Linda, loma linda university, morning sermon, orthodox judaism, religion department, sabbath morning, video production specialist
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Righteousness By Faith – A Road To Nowhere
I remember growing up that Seventh-Day Adventism was regarded as a demanding religion. It wanted one-tenth of your money (tithe) and one-seventh of your time (the Sabbath). Then this righteousness by faith movement swept through Adventism in the 1970s and … Continue reading
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Tagged church of jesus christ, Dennis Prager, faith movement, how to be a good person, invisible church, jewish theologian, loma linda university, righteousness by faith, seventh day adventism
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Very Rabbinic
I sent an Orthodox Jewish friend a link to my appearance on a Sabbath panel at Loma Linda University ten days ago. “You looked very rabbinic,” she said. “From the way you sat to the way you spoke, you seemed … Continue reading
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Tagged grasp, jewish friend, loma linda university, rabbi, Sabbath
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I Want To Be Big & Tough
I want to hear, “Luke, you are so big!” I like to walk into a room and feel big. I like to go out with girls and feel big. I like to walk into shul and feel big. I hate … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Technique, little voice, loma linda university, shul, Torah
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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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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
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Tagged grape juice, jewish friends, loma linda university, orthodox jew, what does kosher mean, yellow fever
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The Lost Meaning of the Seventh Day
I just picked up this new book — The Lost Meaning of the Seventh Day — by Seventh-Day Adventist Sigve K. Tonstad. He’s on the Religion and Medicine faculty at Loma Linda University. I’m thinking about the title. I don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged exodus from egypt, loma linda university, observing the sabbath, religion and medicine, sabbath keeping churches, sabbath morning, seventh day adventists
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How A Psycho-Analytical Analysis Of Seventh-Day Adventism’s Prophet Put Money In My Bank Account
God works in amazing ways! Checking my email this morning, I found I had a $100 donation in my paypal account from a prestigious professor at Loma Linda University. I called a friend. "Honey, you don’t need to go to … Continue reading
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