Reconstructing

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Psychology of Religious Trauma

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:...

Apr 14, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 8

Gender Roles

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 philo...

Dec 03, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 7

You Are What You Eat

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...

Nov 19, 2023•36 min•Ep. 6

Keeping up Appearances

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 wit...

Oct 22, 2023•47 min•Ep. 5

Ellen White vs Sola Scriptura

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 Ge...

Sep 10, 2023•24 min•Ep. 4

Fundamentalism + Ellen White

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/0iH...

Aug 27, 2023•45 min•Ep. 3

More Thoughts on Shut Door and Ellen White

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 vis...

Aug 13, 2023•46 min•Ep. 2

Ellen's First Vision

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...

Jul 30, 2023•35 min•Ep. 2

Laying the Foundation

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?,” Voi...

Jul 16, 2023•43 min•Ep. 1

What is Reconstructing?

While we're officially launching in July 2023, here's a little teaser! What is our Reconstructing Podcast about? What kinds of things can you expect? Watch to find out and subscribe to follow along!

Jun 21, 2023•4 min•Ep. 1

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