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...Sherri was already drifting into another life. During college she converted to the Seventh-Day Adventist Church; she had been brought up a Methodist. She went to Michigan to teach high school, and married a student seven years her junior, David Jewell, who was also a Seventh-Day Adventist. Mosher did not trust David. The couple had a daughter, Kiri, but the marriage was turbulent. Mosher found that out when Sherri asked her to spend a month with them. "She was so sad," Mosher recalls. "Sherri was always a very up person. She was having such a hard time...
Sherri and David split up and finally divorced in 1984. Broke and distraught, Sherri took Kiri back to Hawaii. At a Seventh-Day Adventist church there, she was befriended by Marc Breault, a disciple of Vernon Howell's -- the leader later known as David Koresh. When Sherri was back in California and living with her mother, Breault "would call her at all hours of the night and talk for hours," says Mosher. Sherri was introduced to Koresh, who thrilled her with his preaching. "Are you telling me you think this guy is the Lamb of God? You think...
...GENERATION WOULD PUT IT, IN SEARCH MODE. SO much so that when Kathy Andrade, a spirited 24-year-old brought up in a close Seventh-Day Adventist family from Argentina, began investigating religious options, she even interviewed a local rabbi...
Koresh dropped out of school in the ninth grade. Raised in the mainstream Seventh-day Adventist Church, he found comfort as a young man in the teachings of an obscure offshoot, the Branch Davidians, which was a mutation of an earlier Adventist splinter group. The Davidians trace their roots to Victor Houteff, a Bulgarian immigrant who was expelled from a Los Angeles Adventist church in 1929. Houteff had become obsessed with passages in the Book of Ezekiel in which an angel of God divides the faithful from the sinful before Jerusalem's fall to the Babylonians. Believing that passage...
...receives each month now come from black rock-'n'-roll groups. And just last week hard-core rapper Ice-T released a debut album with Body Count, the new heavy-metal band he has started. Meanwhile, Little Richard, who has quit the business several times since becoming a Seventh-day Adventist minister 35 years ago, believes the time may be ripe for another comeback. "I've got what it takes to do it," he says. "If they come and make me an offer, I will come and make it in a big way." Sounds like the good times may finally...