DESMOND FORD: A MIXED LEGACY
By Colleen Tinker Desmond Ford, one of the most controversial Adventist figures within the last 50 years, died on March 11, 2019. His wife Gillian announced his death on Facebook […]
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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.
MOBILITY CART SHOWS GOD’S CARE
By Colleen Tinker “After your surgery, you can ride in one of those electric carts when we shop at Costco,” Richard said to me with a little more enthusiasm than […]
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PLEASE UNDERSTAND US!
By Colleen Tinker I’d put it off as long as I could. “Bone on bone”, my orthopedist told me at least four years ago when the pain in my left […]
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JESUS WAS NOT EXALTED ABOVE LUCIFER
By Colleen Tinker A few months ago I was corresponding with a fairly-recently-out former Adventist. She told me she was talking online with an Adventist friend about some of her […]
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WHAT COMMANDMENTS ARE IN REVELATION 12 AND 14?
Colleen Tinker This week we received a letter which asked a simple question: “How can I show/prove to Adventists that John was not referencing the Mosaic Law in Revelation 12:17 […]
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ISAIAH 66 DOES NOT PROVE SABBATH KEEPING IN HEAVEN
By Colleen Tinker One of Adventism’s recurring arguments for keeping the Sabbath goes something like this: “How can the Sabbath have been cancelled or ended at the cross? After all, […]
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WE ARE GENTILES, NOT SPIRITUAL ISRAEL—PART 2
By Colleen Tinker After last week’s blog addressing “spiritual Israel” and the fact that Adventism cannot be considered to be “spiritual Israel” and that the law was never required […]
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WE ARE GENTILES, NOT SPIRITUAL ISRAEL
By Colleen Tinker Occasionally we receive letters from former Adventists who still argue that the Sabbath was a holy day set apart at creation for all humanity. They sometimes […]
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WE DO NOT KEEP THE NINE
By Colleen Tinker Recently we received an email asking a question we hear quite frequently. This is the email: Since leaving Adventism I have had a sense of peace […]
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ADVENTISM KEEPS A PHYSICAL SABBATH
By Colleen Tinker In December, the Adventist Review completed its seven-month series, Digging Deeper of what they called Adventism’s Core Beliefs. Beginning in June the magazine featured a different Core […]
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THEY ALL DISAGREE—SEARCHING FOR TRUE ADVENTISM
By Colleen Tinker The problem of pinning down “official” Adventist teaching is alive and well. In fact, Tim Martin from The Centers for Apologetics Research has been writing a […]
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THEIR TESTIMONY SHOCKS THE WORLD
By Colleen Tinker The story is familiar—but how can we believe it? It’s a story that begins in Luke 1. Israel had not had a word from God in […]
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ADVENTISTS ANNOUNCE “BRAND PROMISE”
By Colleen Tinker This week on December 3, 2018, Adventist News Network (ANN) announced that the Adventist organization has adopted a new “brand promise” as its public identity. “We […]
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LOOKING AROUND THE TABLE
By Colleen Tinker They say that Thanksgiving is the most-travelled holiday of the year. Even though Christmas is perhaps the most sentimental holiday, Thanksgiving is the celebration that gets […]
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BEWARE OF BABYLON: ADVENTISM’S SIXTH CORE BELIEF EXAMINED
By Colleen Tinker This month the Adventist Review is presenting its sixth “core belief” of Adventism in its “Digging Deeper” series. While Adventism has 28 Fundamental Beliefs, the Review […]
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