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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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Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream

This is the best book written on the Seventh-Day Adventist church. A much darker glance at Adventism is provided in We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda. It tells the … Continue reading

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The Time Of Trouble

I’ve found that I get the most exciting stories from the people with the least going on in their lives. You talk to homeless people and they’ll tell you about government satellites beaming subliminal messages into their brains. By contrast, … Continue reading

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The Underworld

I grew up the son of a preacher man. I was immersed in Seventh-Day Adventism and looked at the world through its prism until my teens. I started public school in tenth grade and I ran into some bad guys. … 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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