Unpacking the Adventist Confusion about Death
After an Adventist discovers the gospel and realizes that Jesus completed the atonement at the cross and we are saved by trusting Him alone, no Sabbath required, the next paradigm […]
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Author: Colleen Tinker
Colleen Tinker, the editor of Proclamation! magazine, and her husband Richard left Adventism in 1998 with their two sons, Roy and Nathanael, who were in grades six and ten. They have co-led the Former Adventist Fellowship since 1999. Colleen, a graduate of Walla Walla University, is a former high school English teacher and also the former managing editor of Adventist Today magazine. Colleen became the stepmother of Roy and Nathanael in 1989, and in 2008 she adopted them. Romans 8:15-17 has assumed new depth and significance for her and Richard since she and her sons chose to claim each other legally and permanently. She and Richard share an office and a commitment to sharing the gospel of the true Jesus with all of those seeking a way out of the bondage of the false gospel of Adventism.
Sunday Legislation and the Golden Calf
Coming out of Adventism is a bit like navigating a moral minefield. Because we were taught a false worldview, because everything Christians believe was redefined and falsified to keep Adventists […]
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Addressing Adventist Fear
When we begin to question Adventism, our internal reality shifts. Things we believed were absolutely true now seem doubtful. On one hand we begin to see that Scripture seems to […]
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Does the Manna Support Sabbath Keeping?
Sabbath is always the sticking point when people leave Adventism. In fact, Adventist teaching has so bound the day into the Adventist conscience that Adventists generally worry more about disrespecting […]
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Contextualization: What Former Adventists Don’t Need
A couple of months ago I read an article entitled “Walter Martin Was Wrong: A Critique and Alternative to the Counter-Cult Approach to Cults” by John Morehead. Now, I believe […]
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Another Letter: Adventism’s Fallible Jesus
I suppose it’s not surprising that pushback about Adventism’s position on the Trinity and the full deity of Jesus continues to come. This last week we received an email from […]
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Discovering the Adventist Jesus
COLLEEN TINKERJEREMY GRAHAM, RESEARCH ASSISTANCE I don’t remember exactly the moment I first heard someone say that as an Adventist, she had believed in a different Jesus from the one […]
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When Adventists Want to Argue
Last week our blogs focussed on the deception of Adventists who fairly criticize their own doctrines while refusing to disentangle from their false religion. The double messages they deliver may […]
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A Credible Witness With a Foot in Two Camps?
So you’ve been studying the Bible, and you’ve been seeing that Adventism doesn’t teach what Scripture teaches. One day you face reality: you have to decide if you are going […]
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The Melchizedek Conundrum: How is He Like Jesus?
“I was listening to the Former Adventist Podcast on Hebrews 7:11–22,” a new former Adventist wrote recently. I continued reading; the writer was looking at the text and saw saw […]
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Suffering Without an Advocate
The strange events of the last three months have raised concerns I’ve never had before, living as I have in the freedom of the United States. I’ve written before about […]
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Learning Scripture as a Former Adventist
Part of the work we face as we retrain our Adventist-shaped minds and become biblical Christians is learning how to read Scripture. We were steeped in proof-texting and “bargaining”, on […]
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Are You Masked?
About three weeks ago I was shopping in Trader Joe’s and had taken my place in a check-out line the required six feet behind the shopper in front of me. […]
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To Whom Did Jesus Pray?
The Trinity is a mystery God does not fully explain to us; at the same time, we know that God is One and that all three persons of the Trinity […]
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Encouragement: The Antidote to a Hard Heart
This rarefied time of social distancing as the world shelters at home sifting through conflicting reports about the nature and progress of the coronavirus has given me opportunity to think. […]
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