In Portland Maine, from October 22-25 last year, there was a “historical event” for the SDA church. There was a large meeting of scholarly SDAs and non-SDAs to discuss Ellen White.
Jon Paulien has blogged a bit about the event:
Conference on Ellen White
They are planning to make an “authoratative” book on her life. Why they held part of the meetings on the Sabbath hours, i don’t know, but hope that they end result is good. I did learn one thing from it already: “Jon Paulien note: Calvin Stowe was the source of Ellen White’s wording on biblical hermeneutics in Selected Messages, vol. 1: “It is not the words of the Bible that were inspired, but the men that were inspired.”). ”
Perhaps that explains this very contradictory statement???
I don’t normally like to link to the generally anti-SDA – Spectrum – magazine, but here is one article about a meeting in Loma Linda to discuss what happened at the Portland meetings:
http://www.spectrummagazine.org/blog/2009/12/05/ellen_white_new_key_llu_one_two