THREE REASONS ADVENTISTS DON’T CELEBRATE EASTER
By Colleen Tinker This week a Kenyan news source ran a story entitled, “Why Adventists Don’t Celebrate Easter”. The three reasons listed by Washington Odhiambo in Hivisasa fit the […]
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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.
WHY WE CAN’T PROTECT ELLEN WHITE
By Colleen Tinker This week we received an email from a reader who had read Christine Rogers’ story last week. Christine, a guest blogger, had written about having been […]
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WHAT IS SIN IF THE LAW IS NOT ETERNAL?
By Colleen Tinker A few weeks ago someone in a former Adventist Facebook group asked how people were aware of sin before Sinai if the law is not eternal. […]
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DOUG BATCHELOR SAYS BILLY GRAHAM IS NOT IN HEAVEN
By Colleen Tinker Billy Graham died on Wednesday, February 21, at the age of 99. He had been an evangelist over a span of seven decades, and since 1955, […]
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ADVENTISM HONES NEW METHODS OF EVANGELISM
By Colleen Tinker Adventists in Nigeria have taken a cue from an existing public service program and created a new means of both serving and making Adventists. The newly-formed […]
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ARE ADVENTISTS REALLY ANTI-ABORTION?
By Colleen Tinker On Monday this week, the Pew Research Center published a list comparing different religious groups’ views on abortion. Interestingly, Seventh-day Adventism was categorized as an “evangelical” […]
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WERE BOOKS LEFT OUT OF THE BIBLE?
By Colleen Tinker A few weeks ago I read a question on an online forum. The writer, a former Adventist who has been out for a few months, asked […]
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ADVENTISM HAS NEVER BEEN FUNDAMENTALIST AND THAT’S NOT ALL
By Colleen Tinker Recently Adventist leadership revealed that Adventism has never been a fundamentalist church. Even more, they admitted that Adventism has never believed Scripture is intrinsically reliable. General […]
Read moreCHRISTMAS REST AND THE NEW COVENANT
Proclamation! | Winter | 2017 | Editor’s Comments By Colleen Tinker Christmas is twelve days away as I write this. The house is partly decorated, but the rest of […]
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THE CHRIST WHO CHANGED CHRISTMAS
By Colleen Tinker I grew up in an observant Adventist family with parents who had lived through the Great Depression. Our Adventism did not forbid celebrating Christmas, but our […]
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SNOPES SAYS CLAIM THAT VEGETARIANS LIVE LONGER IS UNPROVEN
BY COLLEEN TINKER Snopes, the go-to internet site that publishes research to validate or invalidate popular news stories and rumors carried by social media sources, released an article this […]
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POLAND’S SUNDAY LAW: WAS ELLEN RIGHT?
By Colleen Tinker On November 28, 2017, the Daily Wire released a news story that Poland has voted “to proclaim Sunday a day of rest and phase out shopping […]
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HOW CAN I THANK GOD FOR THIS?
BY COLLEEN TINKER “Thanksgiving morning is my favorite morning,” Richard said to some friends a few days ago. “When I wake up, the whole house is filled with the […]
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IS ADVENTISM CHANGING?
By Colleen Tinker Frequently we hear Adventists (and questioning Adventists) say things such as these: I never heard Ellen White read, and I didn’t have all that fear you […]
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What Do We Do with Heresy?
COLLEEN TINKER The book of Acts contains an almost-forgotten story that occurred when Paul was preaching in Ephesus. When he first came to that city, he entered the synagogue and […]
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