It’s Monday everybody’s favorite day of the week.
The UBF banner that almost was
The paid campus advertisement banner that almost was but never has been because of legal concerns
UBF should have protected but disputed speech on campus
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Temple_of_Mencius_-_Yasheng_Hall_-_inside_-_P1050921.JPG
Image accessed online 2018 February 11
If my memory is correct the Pastor made a very bad decision that nearly resulted in the group losing it’s club status on campus although I thought they might be going to be banned from campus at the time. I was not attending group meetings at this time but heard about it from a third party. I wrote this article on my opinion of banning UBF from campuses at that time. I am tempted to say my views on marriage by faith were naive then based on my writing but I also wrote an article refuting it and I think I simply did not put as much nuance as I should have and should have included the word “fraud,” in describing marriage by faith. At the time I remember telling someone they should openly put on their recruitment literature and websites, “we do arranged marriages and do not allow dating if you join our group,” and then I would be OK with what they were doing provided they give that and certain other information up front. I do not know what part 2 was going to be.
The article is below. I wrote it in 2015 and edited it in 2018 February
Shunned while not even a Jehovah witness
Open the link and scroll down and they talk about UBF on a ex JW discussion
http://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/79g225/shunned_while_not_even_a_witness/
I can be greater than Samuel Lee if I do not copy him
Accessed online on 2018 February 11 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Sir_Lawrence_Alma-Tadema_-_The_finding_of_Moses.jpg/1605px-Sir_Lawrence_Alma-Tadema_-_The_finding_of_Moses.jpg
9 When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?”
“Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied.
10 “You have asked a difficult thing,” Elijah said, “yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours—otherwise, it will not.”
11 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heavenin a whirlwind.
2 Kings 9:11 NIV
Accessed online on 2018 February 10
Dupage UBF– A Survivor Story
Why courtship is fundamentally flawed
Image accessed on 2018 February 9 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dates_on_date_palm.jpg
There was much talk of courtship being ok but dating being bad at my Chapter shortly before I leftI. Ironically someone was rebuked for finding a girlfriend even though they told me courting was ok. They were into I kissed dating goodbye, by Joshua Harris and said Billy Graham courted his wife. Here is a good article about what is wrong with courtship by someone else. And another two articles about the author of the book repenting that is having a change of mind.
“http://www.thomasumstattd.com/2014/08/courtship-fundamentally-flawed/”
https://www.christianpost.com/news/abstinence-author-pastor-joshua-harris-apologizes-for-telling-christians-not-to-date-in-i-kissed-dating-goodbye-168650/
https://www.npr.org/2016/07/10/485432485/former-evangelical-pastor-rethinks-his-approach-to-courtshipI
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Kissed_Dating_Goodby