The Orion Monitor

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What Is the Orion Monitor’s Raison d’etre?

The Monitor chronicles and analyzes the trials and tribulations of a Japanese SDA church that decided to relocate and merge with a Caucasian local church in search of greener pastures, but immediately found itself enmeshed in a spiritual captivity under the control of a Pastor that knew not "Japanese work." It is about the ongoing journey of an ethnic church that is now in search of its very soul and identity.

About Us

The Orion Monitor is an unofficial, unauthorized, irregular publication of the former Los Angeles Central Japanese Church. It sprang into being in 1996 with the beginning of merger talks that divided the church along a new fault line. With the merger of LACJ with the Hacienda Heights SDA (HH) Church, the Monitor’s primary focus will now be to report and analyze HH church events and issues infected with political correctness, suppression, and or history revisionism that might have an effect on the future of the HH church. But the Monitor also has an interest in much broader issues of the SDA church, Christianity, national, international issues, and will address them when political correctness or other obstacles prevent others from addressing them adequately.

Who Is the Orion Monitor?

Editor: Dennis Hokama; Senior Associate Editor: Dennis Hokama; Managing Editor: Dennis Hokama; Political Correctness Consultant: Dennis Hokama; Chief Financial Officer: Dennis Hokama; Circulation Manager: Dennis Hokama; Field Reporter: Dennis Hokama. (Lucrative contract offers have been extended to qualified candidates to fill some of these openings, but all have declined so far, citing Equus cephalophobia.

Orion Monitor Editions

Orion Monitor Prologue:  The Unanswered letter that Launched Orion Monitor 1996 Online

Orion Monitor #1: Shall We Gather at the Merger? 1996 Online

Orion Monitor #2: Tis the Season to Be Merging, Tra la la LA Central January, 1998 Online

Orion Monitor #3 Is This the Season to Be Unmerging? January, 2004Online

Orion Monitor #4: Can a Leopard Change Its Spots? October, 2004 Online

Orion Monitor #5: The Merger that Never Was. November, 2004 Online

Orion Monitor #6: The Reconsideration Dialogues Begin. February, 2005 Online

Orion Monitor #7: The Reconsideration Dialogues Continue. April, 2005 (Coming soon)

The Monitor’s scrutiny is not limited to local church issues. It will also report and analyze theological, biblical, historical, and political issues from time to time, especially when the public discussion is too constrained by political correctness for honest dialogue.

Monographs

1. Why the Japanese Church? (An annotated reprint of the essay that appeared in Orion Monitor #2, 1998.) Online

2. Iraq Timeline (Last update: 04/20/05) Online

Contact Us

Send e-mail to:editor@OrionMonitor.com

The Orion Monitor welcomes feedback and challenges. All responses will be published unless a specific request is made to the contrary.