We're back! Thank you for your patience and following along as Nick gets back from paternity leave. We're excited to pick up where we left off and continue our Religious Trauma Series with this episode. See the show notes below for what you can expect, and resources for further study. Excited to share this one with you!

Show Notes/Sources

Recommended reading for further study: When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion by Laura 
Anderson: https://a.co/d/0TnKmgq 

-What is Trauma?
   -Single Incident Trauma
   -Complex Trauma
-Adverse Religious Experiences
   -Fear of hell/Eternal Conscious Torment
   -Purity, Virginity, or Abstinence Culture
   -Altar Calls, Healings, or Scary Sermons
   -Spanking and Corporal Punishment
   -Patriarchy and Oppression
-Childhood Religious Indoctrination 
https://www.journeyfree.org/childhood-religious-indoctrination/ 
-Adverse Religious Experiences and the Nervous System

In the latest episode of our Religious Trauma series, we wanted to get to the bottom of where the idea of gender roles came from. We were curious as to why so many Christians have an understanding of gender roles that tends to be oppressive to women; we figured those ideas had to come from somewhere

These ideas, then influenced the early church fathers, the early church fathers influenced the reformers, and the reformers influenced modern-day theologians.

Show Notes/Sources

• History of this philosophy
  • Aristotle (384-322 BC)
  • Philo of Alexandria (Around 25 BC, or approx 300 years after Aristotle)
  • Augustine (church father, 354-430)
• Gender Roles in Scripture (Theology)
  • 1 Corinthians 11:3,10
  • Ephesians 5:22-33
    • Codex Vaticanus: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1209 
    • Nestle 1904 Greek New Testament:  
      https://sites.google.com/site/nestle1904/ephesians/5?authuser=0 
    • 1 Peter 3:1-2
• Modern Impact

For the full version of the show notes and sources we used in this episode:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cjOJOq1MCCvz3T55cryrmwDfMeYjiDZ3TjKSJmgR4lU/edit?usp=sharing

Episode 6: You Are What You Eat, is the second episode in our Religious Trauma Series, where we go into the SDA Health Message. Seventh-day Adventists claim that Ellen White was a "visionary" and was truly ahead of her time when it came to some of the health counsels she gave, and we're going to take a deeper look at that too. 

Show Notes:
-SDA Health Message overview
 -Ellen White major visions
 -Meat Pledge
-Was Ellen White really ahead of her time?
  -What were her contemporaries saying about this topic?

For the full show notes and sources we used in this video, click here: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qeavmDd58Re-6RX7g04Cqx73HokRfdT77MTTDI1MlpU/edit?usp=sharing

This marks Episode 1 of our new series on religious trauma. **TRIGGER WARNING** 

We’re going to be covering some pain points that have contributed (and continue to contribute) to religious trauma. We’ll cover the origin of those topics, what form they still take in the church today, and we’ll even have some bonus episodes with guest co-hosts.

Some of the things you can expect in this series: the emphasis on outward appearance (this episode), diet/SDA health message, gender roles and obsession with hierarchy, the psychology behind religious trauma, and more. 

Show notes/sources for this episode

• The intersection of outward appearance and theology
• Dress Reform: mentioned in video, as well as good sources for additional reading
  • https://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1938/08/dress-reform-counselsno.-2
  • http://www.remnantraiment.com/subpages/history.htm
  • https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/116.2416#2416
  • https://www.nonegw.org/canright/can19.htm
  • https://www.present-truth.org/13-Character/When%20God%20Asked%20Women.pdf
  • http://www.sabbatismos.com/bible-studies-on-ellen-white/2nd-pillar-faithfulness-to-scripture/cq15-dress-reform-vision/#sthash.ldGfKvzp.IutAwMvM.dpbs
  • https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/1455.2#2
  • https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/756.1024#1024
• A stumbling block: weaponizing Scripture
  • Romans 14:10-13
  • Romans 14:1
  • 1 Corinthians 8:4-10
  • The Tyranny of the Weaker Brother: https://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/2012/11/the-tyranny-of-the-weaker-brother 
• Matthew 23:27-28
  • Jesus was clearly interested in what is in our hearts- the inner self vs the outer appearance. One can “check off all the boxes” of what they think a Christian is supposed to “look like” but can be misrepresenting Christ with how they treat others, etc. Then this thought can also be weaponized.

Is the Seventh-day Adventist Church protestant or not? Why do our members find it so easy to resort to cult mentality when it comes to EGW? We'll cover this here on our final episode of our Ellen White series!

Sources/Show Notes

-18th fundamental belief

-Full list of fundamental beliefs

https://www.adventist.org/beliefs/ 

-Statement of Confidence in the Writings of Ellen G. White, 2015 

https://www.adventist.org/official-statements/statement-of-confidence-in-the-writings-of-ellen-g-white/

-2015 General Conference Session meeting minutes 

Document 1

https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Minutes/GCSM/2015/GCST20150707AM.pdf

Document 2

https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Minutes/GCSM/2015/GCST20150706PM.pdf

In its current configuration, the Adventist Church is a cult, and will continue to be one as long as they play fast and loose with Sola Scriptura. It is not too late to change, and this reformation is what we should strive for 

When did the Seventh-day Adventist Church decide that it was a good idea to add Ellen White’s name to their fundamental beliefs? What was going on at the time leading up to that decision? What on earth went down in 1980?!!

As we wrap up the Ellen White series (we have one more episode left), we grapple with the more modern history of the church, and prepare to talk about where we go from here in the final episode.

Show Notes/Sources:

-The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth
https://a.co/d/0iHmbXG 

-Seventh-day Adventists Believe book 
https://a.co/d/3scFCjw

-1922: The Rise of Adventist Fundamentalism by Michael W. Campbell 
https://a.co/d/eNVeyko

-August 1919: “A Sure Foundation”

-December 1919: “A Statement of Beliefs”

-April 1920: “The Fundamentals of Christian Faith”

-1931: “Yearbook of the Seventh-day Adventist Denomination”
https://adventistdigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/adl:426296/datastream/PDF/view

-Walter Rea- The White Lie (book)
https://a.co/d/dCg7xTx

-Page 5 of these meeting minutes mention Desmond Ford and Walter Rea
https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Minutes/GCC/GCC1980-01.pdf

-The meeting notes regarding the Ellen White Writings Study Committee and what they said about Walter Rea can be found here
https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Minutes/GCC/GCC1980-02.pdf

-Dr. Davenport scandal
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1982/08/28/davenport-affair-a-sad-one-adventist-head-says/46f91bdb-1e8a-4ed8-ac0d-03cacd57c597/

-Spectrum Magazine article about the 1980 General Conference
https://spectrummagazine.org/article/bonnie-dwyer/2009/06/07/new-statement-fundamental-beliefs-1980

-Adventist Archives website
https://www.adventistarchives.org/

Adventist Periodicals:
-General Conference Bulletin No.5 
https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/RH/RH19800423-V157-20.pdf

-General Conference Bulletin No.6
https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/RH/RH19800424-V157-21.pdf

-General Conference Bulletin No.7
https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/RH/RH19800425-V157-22.pdf

-General Conference Bulletin No.8 
https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/RH/RH19800427-V157-23.pdf
           Page 14, 4th column. N.R. Dower. 
           Page 15, 1st column D. Schuitevoerder. “Is this the same text we    
           received there?”
           P. 23, 4th column, unity statements. Unity OR Compliance?

Episode 2 wasn’t enough to pack it all in, so we decided to put together this bonus episode. We’ve got some additional thoughts on the Shut Door and Ellen G. White that we absolutely needed to share, so here it goes!

We encourage you to not just take our word for it. All the links are below, so read the source material for yourselves to see what we’ve been studying. Is there anything we missed? Anything you want us to cover before we’re done with this series?

Show Notes/Resources

Hiram Edson vision, 1844
https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/946.339#352

Ellen White vision, 1845
https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/711.90

Spiritual Gifts, Vol. 1
https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/104.615

Bates time setting
https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/756.1884

Early Writings, P.64-67
https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/28.433#433

Early Writings, P. 57
https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/28.397#406

Letter to the Lovelands, Manuscript Releases
https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/55.1038#1047

Letter to Battle Creek Church, in Testimonies for the Church Vol.5
https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/113.310

The White Lie by Walter Rea
https://a.co/d/9hfM9VL 

1 Thessalonians 5:19-22

Ellen White Under Fire by Jud Lake
https://a.co/d/46a9PAa 

Seventh-day Adventists Believe
https://a.co/d/0mHOGAI 

-Video footage: 
https://www.pexels.com/@ibrahim-bennett-2187162/ 

For this episode, we'll be taking a look at the main character of this series: Ellen G. White. What is her story, and how did she become a leading spiritual figure within the Seventh-day Adventist Church?

We also have some interesting finds about the *true* version of her first vision and what the church has kept hidden for years.

Show Notes/Resources:

• Ellen’s Origin Story
  • Ellen White: Woman of Vision by Arthur White: https://a.co/d/0DnQzSd 
• Early Writings “My First Vision”: https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/28.197 
• A Word to the Little Flock: https://a.co/d/231RpyP 
• Hebrews 9:1-5
• Matthew 25:1-13
• The Shut Door Documents
  • From The White Estate: https://whiteestate.org/about/issues1/unusual/shut-door/ 
  • From EGW Writings: https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/711.40 
  • From Truth or Fables (includes original pictures of handwritten letters): http://www.truthorfables.com/EGW_to_J.Bates_1847.htm

Before we get into the "meat and potatoes" of our Ellen White series, we need to lay a foundation on where the Adventist Church came from so we can then talk about where we are today. 

What do you hope we cover/discuss in this series on Ellen G White and Adventism? 

Show Notes/Resources:
-Memoirs of William Miller by Sylvester Bliss, 1853 
-Daniel 8 : 13-14
-Development of Seventh-day Adventist Theology, Merlin Burt, 2019
-Matthew 24 : 36
-Matthew 25 : 1-13
-Orlando Squires, “Where is Heaven?,” Voice of the Shepherd, March 1845, 4, 5. 
-C. H. Fenton, “The Harvest of the Earth,” Voice of the Shepherd, March 1845, 1.

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