
Greg Doudna, Showdown at Big Sandy: Youthful Creativity Confronts Bureaucratic Inertia at an Unconventional Bible College in East Texas *
*(Ambassador College, Big Sandy, Texas, 1972-75)
(Bellingham, Wash.: The Scrollery, 2006).
540 pages. Softbound
978-0-9789-8380-0
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"I can't say enough about how helpful this book would
be for anyone ... who has struggled with fundamentalism
of any stripe, or is struggling with it."
For sample of Chapter 1: Big Sandy Oasis: Ambassador College.
For a list of papers discussed in Showdown: Rescued from the Circular File
For sample of Chapter 2: The Story of the Worldwide Church of God
For sample of Chapter 3: The 7000-Year Plan
For sample of Chapter 4: The Doctrine Against Interracial Marriage and What Happened When I Blew it to Pieces
For sample of Chapter 5: Big Sandy School Days: 1974
For sample of Chapter 6: How I Tried to Prove the United States is Ephraim, not Manasseh
For sample of Chapter 7: Afterward on Anglo-Israelism, Part I
For sample of Chapter 8: Afterward on Anglo-Israelism, Part II
For sample of Chapter 9: The Further Adventures of the Ephraim/U.S. Theory: Chaos Theory in Action
For sample of Chapter 10: Is God Reproducing?
For sample of Chapter 11: Desert Romance
For sample of Chapter 12: Meat Offered to Idols
For sample of Chapter 13: Letter of the Law and Spirit of the Law
For sample of Chapter 14: Quest for Immortality
For sample of Chapter 15: Key Events in the 1973-74 Sacred Calendar (And Other Timely Topics)
For sample of Chapter 16: Headquarters in Prophecy
For sample of Chapter 17: The Most Important Holy Day
For sample of Chapter 18: Faith Healing and Doctors
For sample of Chapter 19: Creation and Origins
For sample of Chapter 20: Tithing
For sample of Chapter 21: Big Sandy School Days 1975
For sample of Chapter 22: Ambassador College, Pasadena: 1976
For sample of Chapter 23: The Return Home
For sample of Chapter 24: Letters and Reflections
For sample of Chapter 25: Big Sandy Voices: Song of the Quest