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With big Portland Maine thanks to MB!

You knew they're from Portland, right?

St. Ellen The Pumpkin

Happy Halloween! For those of you not spooked by the word.

From the spirit of prophecy

Hiram Edson sees the light

On October 23, 1844, the day after the Great Disappointment, Hiram Edson purportedly saw a vision while standing in a grain field that changed the Advent movement forever.

New Banner!

I finally got around to changing the banner at the top of the blog. It took a while to get something that not only looked decent, but also grabs attention in the most appropriate way possible, while still retaining the fun-ness of the blog.

If you want to know why I had to remove the other banner, click here for a tale of intrigue including lawyers from the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and more!

It was a sad day when I took down the old banner, and Old Banner, just because you're not at the top of the page doesn't mean I have stopped loving you! I will never forget you, Old Banner. You still have a place in my heart!

Have a look at the banners I had to choose from, and drop me a comment below letting me know which one I should have used (or just let me know that it doesn't really matter which banner I use because I will never be able to do justice to Adventism's first couple anyhow).

Where Adventist Theology Comes From

Adventist Gothic

Adventism's First Couple, Ellen and James White.
(see also Grant Wood's American Gothic)

James White

James White had a sort of doughy face. That comes through better in clay.

Happy Independence Day from James and the gang!

Ellen

Joseph Bates' Lineage

I mean, the resemblance is OBVIOUS.

John Harvey Kellogg

John Harvey Kellogg ranks among the top controversial figures in Adventist history. One of the pioneers of the Adventist health work, Kellogg was instrumental in the opening and operation of the Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan.
























A gifted medical doctor and pioneer in medical technology, Kellogg benefitted the Adventist church with his medical prowess. His theological skills, however, left much to be desired. Kellogg split from the Adventist church over his pantheistic views, deemed incommensurable with Adventist understandings.John Harvey Kellogg is best known as the founder of Kellogg's cereal. Kellogg invented corn flakes by accident while trying to create a food that would lower the sex drive. Instead, he stumbled onto what would become a billion-dollar breakfast food.

There's something about those guys in the food industry, by the way. For example, compare John Harvey Kellogg and Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken (who jumped on the health food band wagon recently - click link).

Ellen White

James White

James Springer White is most famous for his marriage to Ellen Gould Harmon (thereafter Ellen G. White). But James White was an accomplished leader, author and administrator in his own right. In 1849 James White started the first Sabbatarian Adventist periodical entitled "The Present Truth" (now known as the Adventist Review).

James White left a legacy as a writer, president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (on more than one occasion), and vocal opponent of the Christian doctrine of the trinity (which he later conceded was biblical). Illness later in life would ultimately claim the life of one of Adventism's founding fathers, Elder White, despite the best efforts of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg of Corn Flakes fame.

Rachel Oakes Preston

The Seventh-day Adventist Church owes at least part of its name to Rachel Oakes Preston, a Methodist-turned-Seventh-day Baptist born in Vernon, Vermont in March of 1809.

It was Preston who convinced a small bunch of Millerites that Saturday, not Sunday, was the biblical Sabbath. It was only after the Great Disappointment of 1844 that the Millerite brethren had time to consider the proper day of worship and rest - prior to October 22nd of that year, a preoccupation with the second advent of Jesus, presumed to be foretold in Scripture as occurring on October 22, 1844.

After the Lord did not return as expected, the Millerites, suddenly with extra time on their hands, turned their attention to the nuts and bolts of organization and worship. Rachel Oakes Preston's emphasis on Saturday as Sabbath eventually became a key tenet of Millerite-turned-Seventh-day Adventist belief.