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The Bravian Unleavened Kitchen: Chapter 4 — The Level 3 Kitchen

Posted on March 31, 2026 by nathanalbright

My mother did not call it Level 3. She did not call it anything at all. She simply did what she did, every year, from the evening before the first day of the feast through the end of the seventh … Continue reading →

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The Bravian Unleavened Kitchen: Chapter 3 — The Level 2 Kitchen

Posted on March 31, 2026 by nathanalbright

There is a student I think of often when I sit down to write about Level 2 baking. She came to my intermediate course some years ago, a quietly capable woman from one of the interior Amphoe communities east of … Continue reading →

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The Bravian Unleavened Kitchen: Chapter 2 — The Level 1 Kitchen

Posted on March 31, 2026 by nathanalbright

There is a particular kind of student who arrives in my first-year baking course every autumn with a confident expression and a notebook full of neat preparation, having baked quite a lot at home and therefore assuming that the transition … Continue reading →

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The Bravian Unleavened Kitchen: Chapter 1 — What Is Leaven? A Bravian Baker’s Theology and Taxonomy

Posted on March 31, 2026 by nathanalbright

The question sounds simple. It is not simple. It has never been simple, and anyone who tells you it is simple has either not thought about it carefully enough or has decided to stop thinking about it at a point … Continue reading →

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The Bravian Unleavened Kitchen: A Practical Guide to the Three Levels of Unleavened Baking: Front Matter

Posted on March 31, 2026 by nathanalbright

By Professor Vreni Hochstrasser, Chair of Home Economics, Provincial College of Porterville; Proprietress, The Stone Hearth Bakery, Porterville, Amphoe of the Western Reaches Foreword I have been baking unleavened bread since before I could see over a countertop. My mother, … Continue reading →

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The Lamb of the Tenth Day

Posted on March 29, 2026 by nathanalbright

[Note:  This is the text for a split sermon given to the Portland, UCG congregation on Sabbath, March 28, 2026.] Introduction: A Calendar That Demands Our Attention Good afternoon brethren, welcome guests, and greetings to those watching this message either … Continue reading →

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Paul’s Instruction on the Sabbath and Holy Days at Corinth: Evidence, Institutional Method, and Chronology: A White Paper on Pauline Practice and the Corinthian Assembly

Posted on March 19, 2026 by nathanalbright

I. Introduction: The Question Before Us A pastor has recently asserted, in the context of Bible study, that the congregation at Corinth had been observing the festivals of God for ten or eleven years between the establishment of the assembly … Continue reading →

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The Assayer’s Art: Greek Vocabulary of Self-Examination in the New Testament

Posted on March 4, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper investigates the Greek vocabulary of self-examination as deployed in the New Testament, with particular attention to four key terms: δοκιμάζω (dokimazō), πειράζω (peirazō), ἀνακρίνω (anakrinō), and ἐξετάζω (exetazō). It argues that the metallurgical semantic background of these … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Self-Examination in the Hebrew Bible: The Opacity of the Heart and the Necessity of Divine Participation

Posted on March 4, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper examines the Hebrew Bible’s conception of self-examination as a fundamentally theocentric activity. Drawing on key lexical terms — חקר (ḥāqar), בחן (bāḥan), ניסיון (nissayon), and לב (lev) — it argues that the ancient Israelite worldview treated the … Continue reading →

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Authority That Teaches and Forms

Posted on February 22, 2026 by nathanalbright

[Note:  The following is the prepared text for a split sermon given to the Portland, Oregon congregation on Sabbath, February 21, 2026.] Part One: Authority That Explains and Forms Trust Introduction: A Small Question, A Lasting Lesson It is not … Continue reading →

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