ARE YOU A DISHONEST ADVENTIST?
By Colleen Tinker When I was still an Adventist, I believed that I saw the flaws of the organization and that I had divorced myself from the historic, cultic […]
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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.
“HELP! MY FIANCE IS AN ADVENTIST!”
By Colleen Tinker A couple of months ago, we received an email from a Christian woman who was engaged to an Adventist. They had dated for two years, and […]
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GRIEVING DIFFERENTLY
By Colleen Tinker This week is surreal—my mother just died. She’s been on hospice care, and we have known that she is declining steadily, but last week on her […]
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THE SOURCE OF ADVENTISM’S PHYSICAL GOD
By Colleen Tinker Last week’s blog, “Does God Have a Body?” generated a surprising number of responses, some of which were posted online and others which came via email. […]
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DOES GOD HAVE A BODY?
By Colleen Tinker Again this week I’m sharing a response to a letter we received a couple of weeks ago. The letter asked very good questions about the Trinity—questions […]
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DEBUNKING ADVENTISM’S DEATH DOCTRINE
By Colleen Tinker “Death” is the featured topic this month in the Adventist Review’s seven-part “Digging Deeper” series of articles addressing core Adventist beliefs. The first three topics were […]
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SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON LEAVES OUT GOSPEL
By Colleen Tinker Reading this quarter’s Sabbath School lessons on the book of Acts has reminded me why that book seemed so dull to me as an Adventist. I […]
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ADVENTISM MAKING THEIR PROPHET LOOK GOOD
By Colleen Tinker Over the past ten years, online searches for information about Ellen White have yielded more results from non-sympathetic sources than from Adventist sources. The White Estate […]
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SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON PERVERTS THE GOSPEL
By Colleen Tinker This week’s Sabbath School lesson purports to teach Paul’s second missionary journey. Because it cannot contradict traditional Adventist doctrine, however, the lesson perverts two significant passages […]
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THE DANGER OF CLINGING TO THE LAW
By Colleen Tinker Recently we received a thoughtful letter from a former Adventist who had been watching a sermon online, unaware at first that the speaker was from the […]
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ADVENTISTS WARN AGAINST DECEPTION
By Colleen Tinker The Adventist Review has released the third of seven podcasts it is producing to address seven “core beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists”. The June podcast addressed the […]
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ADVENTIST COVERUPS CONTINUE
By Colleen Tinker and a Letter to the Editor Letters to the Editor have always been one of the most popular features in Proclamation! magazine. In fact, the Letters […]
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SABBATH IS NOT A CREATION ORDINANCE
By Colleen Tinker We received a response to Lisa Winn’s article in last week’s email, “Doctrines of Demons: A Response to Seibold”. Lisa wrote a response to an article appearing […]
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“BUT ADVENTISTS ARE SUCH NICE PEOPLE”
By Colleen Tinker It was Sunday, almost time for lunch. Members of our local Former Adventist Fellowship Bible study were arriving for our weekly meal together. Sunday lunches were […]
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TEMPEST IN THE ADVENTIST TEAPOT
Proposed Document Mandates Compliance By Colleen Tinker The unresolved problem of Adventist churches and conferences ordaining women in opposition to the policy of the General Conference (GC) of […]
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