| Author | Message | ||
| Esther Registered user Username: Esther Post Number: 510 Registered: 5-2004 |
Just thought you all might be interested in the google alert I received this morning. Take a look at the link for this new book on cultic origins in the US...it includes SDA  http://www.huntingtonnews.net/columns/090913-kinchen-columnsbookreviews.html | ||
| Spokenfor Registered user Username: Spokenfor Post Number: 118 Registered: 12-2003 |
Thanks for posting this Esther. It sounds like a very interesting book - I ordered a copy! I live in the middle of the "burned over district" -- less than five miles from Joseph Smith's farm and the beginnings of Mormonism, the Fox sister's home site (the house is no longer standing), and about 3 miles from the Hiram Edson Farm. It will be interesting to read this book! Spokenfor | ||
| Jrt Registered user Username: Jrt Post Number: 832 Registered: 10-2008 |
Esther, Wow, ... thanks for the link. Keri | ||
| 8thday Registered user Username: 8thday Post Number: 1194 Registered: 11-2007  |
Praise God finally someone is going to get the SDA institution (not calling it a church anymore btw) tagged correctly! | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 10393 Registered: 12-2003  |
So interesting! Thanks, Esther! (I'm with you, Sondra, in not calling it a church anymore...) Colleen | ||
| Hec Registered user Username: Hec Post Number: 544 Registered: 3-2009 |
I thought I was the only one having a hard time calling SDA a church. If you notice my post if I have to call it anything I usually call it SDA movement (which actually is a term they use on themselves. I could go with institution too. Join the club. SDA: sect, cult, movement, institution. What else? Hec | ||
| Hec Registered user Username: Hec Post Number: 546 Registered: 3-2009 |
I thought I was the only one having a hard time calling SDA a church. If you notice my post if I have to call it anything I usually call it SDA movement (which actually is a term they use on themselves. I could go with institution too. Join the club. SDA: sect, cult, movement, institution. What else? Hec | ||
| Jeremy Registered user Username: Jeremy Post Number: 3012 Registered: 10-2004  |
I'm with you all! Sometimes, if I'm specifically naming it, I'll call it the "SDA Church" (with a capital "C," indicating it's "official" name), just like I might say "Mormon Church." But something that's really bothered me for a long time is how so many formers still refer to it as "the church." As in, "When I left the church..." I guess it's hard to stop the habit, and I'm thinking ex-Mormons probably have a hard time with this also, since they too were taught to call their cult "the church." But, we didn't leave "the church." We left a cult. We joined the Church! Jeremy | ||
| Jrt Registered user Username: Jrt Post Number: 836 Registered: 10-2008 |
Jeremy, Keri | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 7463 Registered: 3-2004  |
Jeremy, how right you are. We finally joined God's church. Diana L | ||
| Pegg Registered user Username: Pegg Post Number: 381 Registered: 2-2006 |
I just call it SDA (no church). God's whole Family is the Church. I won't call it Adventist or Adventism, either. I am seriously offended by their commandeering of the word "Adventist". How dare they!  Every Christian I Know Is An "Adventist". I Am Much More Of An Adventist Now Than I Ever Was When I Belonged To SDA. Praise My Great God Who Has Set Me Free --> I Long To See His Face! Pegg | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 10401 Registered: 12-2003 |
The word "organization" is often useful... Colleen |
