Kevin Morgan
39-year pastor, researcher, author, editor, content creator, husband, proud father and grandpa. He is a graduate of Southern Adventist University with a Bachelor's degree in theology and a master's degree in homiletics. He also studied master's level history at Appalachian State University, has edited over 50 books on the Christian life, theology, and history, with seven books he wrote or contributed to.
Author, co-authored, or contributor:
SABBATH REST: Is There Something Missing in Your Busy Life?
WHITE LIE SOAP: For Removal of Lingering Stains on Ellen White's Integrity as an Inspired Writer
JOURNEYING TO THE SAME HEAVEN: Ellen White, the Civil War, and the Goal of Post-Racialism
LITERARY BEAUTY OF ELLEN G. WHITE'S WRITINGS: Explore the Conflict of the Ages series in a new way!
MORE THAN WORDS: A Study of Inspiration and Ellen White's Use of Sources in The Desire of Ages
SACRED TIME unRemembered: How the original Sabbath was lost and why it matters
STEPS TO CHRIST, Andrews annotated edition
Editor:
Brenda Abell, Dying With Jesus: A Love Story
Samuel Abraham, Amazing Truth: A New Believer's Guide to the Bible
Samuel Bulgin, PRAYER: CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD
Stuart Cedrone, Points of Grace: Empowerment for Hard Times
Michael G. Coleman, Women's Ordination and the San Antonio Compromise
Valerie Knowles Combie, Memories/Recuerdos
Robert Esco, His Story: Getting to Know the Man on the Cross Through First-Person Interviews
Linda May Everhart, Bonita and the Barn on Hiram Edson's Farm
Linda May Everhart, Molly Finds a Home: Getting to Know William Miller Through a Visit to His House
Joseph Farah, Behold the Bridegroom Cometh (Aspect)
Linda Franklin, SHADOWS POINT TO RAINBOWS: An Unwanted Dog Becomes an Injured Boy's Best Friend
Allen W. Freed, OUR WONDERFUL JUDGE: Abiding in His Love
Lyndon G. Furst, THE TABLE’S STORY: And Other Observations Instructive to the Christian Journey
Dan Gabbert, Unbound!: Insights into Mental and Spiritual Healing and Victory
Thomas Hardy, The Layman's Guide to Biblical Preaching: A Seven-Step Plan
Paul Haynes, Battling the Dragon: A Prophetic Guide to Survival in the Last Days (Grand Central Pub)
Paul Haynes, Four Horsemen, Four Hearts: Responding to the Gospel in Revelation 6
Brian T. Heath, God in the Dark Side of Chicago: A Story of Pain and Redemption
Loren and Cheryl Herbert, DESIGNER SCIENCE: Dynamic Demonstrations that Illustrate
Tom M. Hughes, Perfect Grace: It's All About Jesus
Fitzroy Hunte, 28 FUNDAMENTAL BIBLE STUDIES
Gladys Ogoti Kerubo - FATHER, BLESS ME INDEED
Daniel Knauft with Kevin Morgan, Sacred Time Unremembered: How the Original Sabbath Was Lost--and Why It Matters
Doris Irish Lacks, Boy Power: How Famous Men Chose to Answer God’s Call When Young
Nancy Berthiaume LaPierre, God’s Power Revealed Through Prayer: True Life Stories
Karen R. Levine, God’s Vision (Aspect)
Melvin Maxwell, Bible Truth or Church Tradition: Finding a Church Built Squarely on the Word of God
A. Leroy Moore, The Power of Humility: What to do when you are "right"
A. Leroy Moore, Adventist Cultures in Conflict: Principles of Reconciliation
Allen A. Nueske, The Chiasm of Daniel and Revelation, Omega Segment, Part One
Gladys Ogoti, Father, Bless Me Indeed: A Devotional Reading of Bible Blessings
Marie Pflugrad, How EMDR Therapy Transformed My Life: From "God Hole" to "God Whole"
Jean T. Saint Sauveur, The Key to Effective Spiritual Growth
Warren A. Shipton, Christ With Us: Instruction and Encouragement from the Sanctuary
David Spaulding, To Obey is Better: and Other Stories with Life Lessons for Children
Kevin Straub, Of the Times and the Seasons: And the Delay of the Return of Christ
Hubert F. Sturges, More Than a Promise: The Everlasting Covenant as Presented Throughout History
Dan Tierney, I AM IS: Absolute Proof that God Does Exist
Phillippa M. Turner, The Power of a Mother's Prayer: Changing Lives and Relationships Through Heaven's Life Line with the Holy Spirit
Jan Voerman, Ellen White and the Trinity
Jan Voerman, Juggling Work & Home: The Toll on Motherhood
Jan Voerman, The Future of Israel: A Biblical Prophetic Perspective
Jan Voerman, The Ordination of Women: The Priesthood of All Believers and Other Aspects
Louis F. Were, The Moral Purpose of Prophecy
Julia L. Wise, Chronicles of a Thirsty Traveler: An Allegory about the Source of the Water of Life
Michael Wood, Go—Mobilizing the Body of Christ
Address: Millers Creek, North Carolina, United States
Author, co-authored, or contributor:
SABBATH REST: Is There Something Missing in Your Busy Life?
WHITE LIE SOAP: For Removal of Lingering Stains on Ellen White's Integrity as an Inspired Writer
JOURNEYING TO THE SAME HEAVEN: Ellen White, the Civil War, and the Goal of Post-Racialism
LITERARY BEAUTY OF ELLEN G. WHITE'S WRITINGS: Explore the Conflict of the Ages series in a new way!
MORE THAN WORDS: A Study of Inspiration and Ellen White's Use of Sources in The Desire of Ages
SACRED TIME unRemembered: How the original Sabbath was lost and why it matters
STEPS TO CHRIST, Andrews annotated edition
Editor:
Brenda Abell, Dying With Jesus: A Love Story
Samuel Abraham, Amazing Truth: A New Believer's Guide to the Bible
Samuel Bulgin, PRAYER: CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD
Stuart Cedrone, Points of Grace: Empowerment for Hard Times
Michael G. Coleman, Women's Ordination and the San Antonio Compromise
Valerie Knowles Combie, Memories/Recuerdos
Robert Esco, His Story: Getting to Know the Man on the Cross Through First-Person Interviews
Linda May Everhart, Bonita and the Barn on Hiram Edson's Farm
Linda May Everhart, Molly Finds a Home: Getting to Know William Miller Through a Visit to His House
Joseph Farah, Behold the Bridegroom Cometh (Aspect)
Linda Franklin, SHADOWS POINT TO RAINBOWS: An Unwanted Dog Becomes an Injured Boy's Best Friend
Allen W. Freed, OUR WONDERFUL JUDGE: Abiding in His Love
Lyndon G. Furst, THE TABLE’S STORY: And Other Observations Instructive to the Christian Journey
Dan Gabbert, Unbound!: Insights into Mental and Spiritual Healing and Victory
Thomas Hardy, The Layman's Guide to Biblical Preaching: A Seven-Step Plan
Paul Haynes, Battling the Dragon: A Prophetic Guide to Survival in the Last Days (Grand Central Pub)
Paul Haynes, Four Horsemen, Four Hearts: Responding to the Gospel in Revelation 6
Brian T. Heath, God in the Dark Side of Chicago: A Story of Pain and Redemption
Loren and Cheryl Herbert, DESIGNER SCIENCE: Dynamic Demonstrations that Illustrate
Tom M. Hughes, Perfect Grace: It's All About Jesus
Fitzroy Hunte, 28 FUNDAMENTAL BIBLE STUDIES
Gladys Ogoti Kerubo - FATHER, BLESS ME INDEED
Daniel Knauft with Kevin Morgan, Sacred Time Unremembered: How the Original Sabbath Was Lost--and Why It Matters
Doris Irish Lacks, Boy Power: How Famous Men Chose to Answer God’s Call When Young
Nancy Berthiaume LaPierre, God’s Power Revealed Through Prayer: True Life Stories
Karen R. Levine, God’s Vision (Aspect)
Melvin Maxwell, Bible Truth or Church Tradition: Finding a Church Built Squarely on the Word of God
A. Leroy Moore, The Power of Humility: What to do when you are "right"
A. Leroy Moore, Adventist Cultures in Conflict: Principles of Reconciliation
Allen A. Nueske, The Chiasm of Daniel and Revelation, Omega Segment, Part One
Gladys Ogoti, Father, Bless Me Indeed: A Devotional Reading of Bible Blessings
Marie Pflugrad, How EMDR Therapy Transformed My Life: From "God Hole" to "God Whole"
Jean T. Saint Sauveur, The Key to Effective Spiritual Growth
Warren A. Shipton, Christ With Us: Instruction and Encouragement from the Sanctuary
David Spaulding, To Obey is Better: and Other Stories with Life Lessons for Children
Kevin Straub, Of the Times and the Seasons: And the Delay of the Return of Christ
Hubert F. Sturges, More Than a Promise: The Everlasting Covenant as Presented Throughout History
Dan Tierney, I AM IS: Absolute Proof that God Does Exist
Phillippa M. Turner, The Power of a Mother's Prayer: Changing Lives and Relationships Through Heaven's Life Line with the Holy Spirit
Jan Voerman, Ellen White and the Trinity
Jan Voerman, Juggling Work & Home: The Toll on Motherhood
Jan Voerman, The Future of Israel: A Biblical Prophetic Perspective
Jan Voerman, The Ordination of Women: The Priesthood of All Believers and Other Aspects
Louis F. Were, The Moral Purpose of Prophecy
Julia L. Wise, Chronicles of a Thirsty Traveler: An Allegory about the Source of the Water of Life
Michael Wood, Go—Mobilizing the Body of Christ
Address: Millers Creek, North Carolina, United States
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For facsimiles of these issues, see https://archive.org/details/jubilee-standard-1845-vol-1.
Published as an attachment to the biography of Elizabeth Haines (https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=5J9B) at https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Resources/Encyclopedia%20of%20Seventh-Day%20Adventists/Haines,%20E%20-%20Hunt_for_Elizabeth_Haines_20210414.pdf
Updated 1/16/2025 with new graphics, improvement of final illustration, and a correction regarding John Howell and the references to the traditional site for the house
The hymns on the album were:
When I Survey The Wondrous Cross,
We Speak Of The Realms Of The Blest,
I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say,
There Is Sunlight On The Hilltop,
Jesus Lover Of My Soul,
I Will Follow Thee My Savior,
I'm A Pilgrim,
Holy Holy Holy,
Crowded Is Your Heart With Cares,
There's A Land That Is Fairer Than Day,
When Faint And Weary Toiling,
We Praise Thee O God.
Resources:
https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/YI/YI19510522-V99-21.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqsFkjz0JNk for her favorite hymns
including all the poems from the various editions with their attribution
A companion paper is at https://www.academia.edu/43607204/ANONYMOUS_NO_LONGER_POETRY_IN_ELLEN_WHITES_BOOKS
Contains an interesting exposition on a poem Ellen White included with an article she wrote when her twin sister lost a six-week-old baby. It also has the poem on the back of Ellen White's second book.
Companion papers are found at https://www.academia.edu/43607284/Thoughts_From_the_Mount_of_Blessing_by_Ellen_G._White_poetry_edition_
https://www.academia.edu/43684888/Hymns_Loved_and_Sung_by_Ellen_White
I welcome your feedback
After years of knowing about the event, I decided to compare her descriptions to what was then known of astronomy and to what is known today. From both perspectives, her brief vision is amazing.
Updated February 6, 2025, adding images of Bates' pamphlet with its publication date
This document contains answers to twelve of these with exhibits, new research, and careful documentation. It refutes exhibits posted against Ellen White.
Updated January 22, 2024.
This document was prepared to give readers an idea of what the chapter might have looked like if Marian Davis had used Ellen White’s entire “Huss Manuscript” in The Great Controversy. It also addresses, in the footnotes, assertions that Ellen White mistakenly recounted the events before Huss's martyrdom. This subject is more amply treated in the chapter "Cleaning Up After 'Friendly Fire' " (available at https://www.academia.edu/31680843/Cleaning_Up_After_Friendly_Fire_).
I apologize that some labels under illustrations do not show. This has to do with the Adobe driver, and I could not figure it out.
This document was prepared to give readers an idea of what the chapter might have looked like if Marian Davis had used Ellen White’s entire “Huss Manuscript” in The Great Controversy. It also addresses, in the footnotes, assertions that Ellen White mistakenly recounted the events before Huss's martyrdom. This subject is more amply treated in the chapter "Cleaning Up After 'Friendly Fire' " (available at https://www.academia.edu/31680843/Cleaning_Up_After_Friendly_Fire_).
For facsimiles of these issues, see https://archive.org/details/jubilee-standard-1845-vol-1.
Published as an attachment to the biography of Elizabeth Haines (https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=5J9B) at https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Resources/Encyclopedia%20of%20Seventh-Day%20Adventists/Haines,%20E%20-%20Hunt_for_Elizabeth_Haines_20210414.pdf
Updated 1/16/2025 with new graphics, improvement of final illustration, and a correction regarding John Howell and the references to the traditional site for the house
The hymns on the album were:
When I Survey The Wondrous Cross,
We Speak Of The Realms Of The Blest,
I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say,
There Is Sunlight On The Hilltop,
Jesus Lover Of My Soul,
I Will Follow Thee My Savior,
I'm A Pilgrim,
Holy Holy Holy,
Crowded Is Your Heart With Cares,
There's A Land That Is Fairer Than Day,
When Faint And Weary Toiling,
We Praise Thee O God.
Resources:
https://documents.adventistarchives.org/Periodicals/YI/YI19510522-V99-21.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqsFkjz0JNk for her favorite hymns
including all the poems from the various editions with their attribution
A companion paper is at https://www.academia.edu/43607204/ANONYMOUS_NO_LONGER_POETRY_IN_ELLEN_WHITES_BOOKS
Contains an interesting exposition on a poem Ellen White included with an article she wrote when her twin sister lost a six-week-old baby. It also has the poem on the back of Ellen White's second book.
Companion papers are found at https://www.academia.edu/43607284/Thoughts_From_the_Mount_of_Blessing_by_Ellen_G._White_poetry_edition_
https://www.academia.edu/43684888/Hymns_Loved_and_Sung_by_Ellen_White
I welcome your feedback
After years of knowing about the event, I decided to compare her descriptions to what was then known of astronomy and to what is known today. From both perspectives, her brief vision is amazing.
Updated February 6, 2025, adding images of Bates' pamphlet with its publication date
This document contains answers to twelve of these with exhibits, new research, and careful documentation. It refutes exhibits posted against Ellen White.
Updated January 22, 2024.
This document was prepared to give readers an idea of what the chapter might have looked like if Marian Davis had used Ellen White’s entire “Huss Manuscript” in The Great Controversy. It also addresses, in the footnotes, assertions that Ellen White mistakenly recounted the events before Huss's martyrdom. This subject is more amply treated in the chapter "Cleaning Up After 'Friendly Fire' " (available at https://www.academia.edu/31680843/Cleaning_Up_After_Friendly_Fire_).
I apologize that some labels under illustrations do not show. This has to do with the Adobe driver, and I could not figure it out.
This document was prepared to give readers an idea of what the chapter might have looked like if Marian Davis had used Ellen White’s entire “Huss Manuscript” in The Great Controversy. It also addresses, in the footnotes, assertions that Ellen White mistakenly recounted the events before Huss's martyrdom. This subject is more amply treated in the chapter "Cleaning Up After 'Friendly Fire' " (available at https://www.academia.edu/31680843/Cleaning_Up_After_Friendly_Fire_).
A dialogue arose after the first posting of this document, which you can read at https://www.academia.edu/96259375/Dialogue_Regarding_Ellen_Whites_Visions_and_Literary_Sources
The Man Jesus: His Life as Told By Four Who Knew Him,
so I carefully worked every detail of the passion of Christ from all four Gospels into a single account.
Enjoy and be blessed.
On page 4, "the discontinuity of other Old Testament observances in Hebrew" should read "the discontinuity of other Old Testament observances in Hebrews."
The new 2018 edition is annotated to reflect recent research in literary studies of Ellen White's use of sources and Marian Davis's role as editor of her books.
This selection includes the first chapter with some additional exhibits. It was last updated 12/29/18.
The full printed or PDF edition of the book is available through Honor Him Publishers. [email protected]
In THE WHITE LIE, author Walter Rea included many examples of literary parallels between Ellen White's writings and earlier writers. This fulfilled aspects of the FIRST step in the evaluation of literary parallels. He did not mark the parallels in any way or provide an evaluation of their usage.
Hampered by a dictational view of Inspiration, Rea wrongly concluded that Ellen White copied 75-90% of her writings from other authors. (Websites that repeated this charge have over the last several decades quietly removed this exponentially inflated figure. Current documentation of literary parallels is currently at 4% for the corpus of her published writings.) Rea held a binary notion about Inspiration--either THE DESIRE OF AGES was “the work of Ellen and the angels” (TWL 222) or Ellen White and her assistants drew it “largely from other writers” (TWL 72). Rea precipitously opted for the latter, not waiting for the outcome of Fred Veltman's research in "The Life of Christ Research Project."
WHITE LIE SOAP, "Only the First Step," is an expansion of Chapter 3 of WHITE LIE SOAP (2013). Because of space constraints, the listing of parallels required condensation. (The full chapter was included in a little known first edition of WHITE LIE SOAP. See https://books.google.com/books/about/White_Lie_SOAP.html?id=r2dglwEACAAJ.)
Rea read the manuscript for WHITE LIE SOAP before publication and before he died in 2014, and he gave it positive marks. "I have read the entire manuscript. You have done a fine job." Nonetheless, because of his view of Inspiration, he likely did not understand its conclusions.
In the eight-year study entitled, "The Life of Christ Research Project," Dr. Fred Veltman made a valuable contribution to the study of Ellen G. White's use of sources in THE DESIRE OF AGES by cataloguing and categorizing sources used in 15 random chapters in THE DESIRE OF AGES.
This chapter from my 2009 book, WHITE LIE SOAP, takes Veltman's system of evaluation a step further, creating a visual system that informs the reader at a glance what was used from previous authors and suggesting the uniqueness of Ellen White's perspective and treatment of the subject.
The following excerpt from Journeying to the Same Heaven is a careful analysis of Ellen White's statements on amalgamation.
The first chapter, "What 'Elephant'?" investigates why Americans ignored the issue of slavery in relation to the Civil War, and it places Seventh-day Adventist within the context of other abolitionists of the period.
In other chapters are a fuller treatment of Ellen White's Civil War messages, an exploration of conditions in the South that caused the church that Ellen White helped to start in the midst of the war to delay its work among the freedmen when the war was over and the post-war Seventh-day Adventist strategy for working among blacks under the extreme prejudice of the Jim Crow period.
This chapter from the book WHITE LIE SOAP presents evidence that the scholars missed in their research, which was likely due to the assumptions they held in doing their research. Faulty assumptions lead to mistaken judgments; scholars can make mistakes.
My interest in this series began when I was looking through Adventist sources to find eyewitness accounts of Ellen White in vision.
Because the book EARLY WRITINGS contains an edited version of these two books, together with SPIRITUAL GIFTS, volume 1, which overlapped some of the earlier two books, there is a second table in this document that lists the duplication between EXPERIENCE AND VIEWS and SUPPLEMENT and SPIRITUAL GIFTS, volume 1.
The latest update (3/14/2022) includes marginal designations for the visions and James White's letters to THE DAY-STAR, which relate to early Adventist beliefs, indexing for the additional notes in the document, and enhanced photographs of Ellen White, her sister, Sarah, and Annie R. Smith, and William Ellis Foy's published visions, with notes.
While working in Europe in the 1880s, Ellen White had occasion to take notes in her diary from Calvin E. Stowe’s first chapter in Origin and History of the Books of the Bible. These pages remained tucked away until transcribed as Ms. 24, 1886 and published as an explanation of her concept of “thought inspiration.” Her description was first identified as originating with Stowe in William S. Peterson’s article, “Ellen White’s Literary Indebtedness.”
See the 1928 series at https://www.academia.edu/43775054/THE_SPIRIT_OF_PROPHECY_IN_THE_REMNANT_CHURCH_by_F_M_Wilcox
Updated October 19, 2021
In September 2017, I uploaded an annotated version of DrMcAdams’ unpublished research paper (1974, 1977) on Ellen White’s Huss manuscript. Because he decided to publish the paper in book form (see Ellen White and the Historians: A Neglected Problem and a Forgotten Answer), I removed the annotated document.
His work is one piece of the puzzle.
Dividing his paper into six parts, Specht addresses questions regarding Ellen White's independence as an author:
1. Did Ellen White copy Hanna?
2. Did Ellen White paraphrase Hanna?
3. Supposition or certainty?
4. Does Ellen White correct Hanna?
5. Is Ellen White in agreement with Hanna's biblical interpretations?
6. The central theological theme of the Desire of Ages
The work was superseded in part by the detailed work of Fred Veltman's 1988 Life of Christ Research Project, which dealt with additional authors, though covering fewer chapters.
From ongoing research, the editor summarizes Ellen White's use of Hanna this way:
"Hanna’s Life of Christ provided some background details and structure for the flow of many of the chapters in the book. Ellen White carried over scattered wording in the process of using his narratives to remind her of what she had seen in vision and to help include the essential points of the story. The recognizable parallels tend to be scattered words from the narrative rather than specific gems of thought." (Kevin L. Morgan, White Lie Soap, p. 76)
(See part 1 by Raymond Cottrell at https://www.academia.edu/34489554/The_Literary_Relationship_Between_The_Desire_of_Ages_by_Ellen_G._White_and_The_Life_of_Christ_by_William_Hanna_Sept._6_2017_originally_published_November_1_1979_)
The work was superseded in part by Fred Veltman's 1988 Life of Christ Research Project, which dealt with other authors.
From ongoing research, the editor summarizes Ellen White's use of Hanna this way:
"Hanna’s Life of Christ provided some background details and structure for the flow of many of the chapters in the book. Ellen White carried over scattered wording in the process of using his narratives to remind her of what she had seen in vision and to help include the essential points of the story. The recognizable parallels tend to be scattered words from the narrative rather than specific gems of thought." (Kevin L. Morgan, White Lie Soap, p. 76)