I thought I was all done with my "Adventist mini series," but guess what? I'm not. I have one more thing to say. The last post of this series was my list of the seven things I didn't like about Adventism. It corresponded with an earlier one of 7 things I liked about Adventism.

(To really get the whole picture, please read the posts here and here.)

For background on this post, I refer the reader to my early post.

There were many things about the Adventists that I discovered during my 10 year sojourn that I liked tremendously. Many of these things still stick with me and inform my belief and practice today-- even though I don't talk much about it all. Let me name my 7 favorite things:

I guess it was my review of a recent biography of William Miller--predictor of the end of the world on October 22, 1844--that has made it clear to me that it is time that I "come clean" on my journey through Seventh-day Adventism. It wasn't just a little "foray"-- though I rarely mention it to anyone. Nope. I was an elder in the church and was employed as a teacher (as was Irene) in SDA church schools.

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