KELLOGG’S CORN FLAKES GREW FROM HEALTH MESSAGE
By Colleen Tinker Kellogg’s Cornflakes, a breakfast staple for the last century, are as American as apple pie—and as Adventist as Ellen White and her health message. In […]
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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.
THE LAW IS WEAK
The law was temporary because the priesthood was flawed By Colleen Tinker I’ve been rediscovering the book of Hebrews over the past few months. Next to […]
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ADVENTISM SPREADS IN TANZANIA AND UGANDA
By Colleen Tinker The Adventist organization’s Total Member Involvement (TMI) initiative has yielded another 117,000 baptisms in the countries of Tanzania and Uganda. From June 16 to July […]
Read moreMORMONS, CATHOLICS, AND ADVENTISTS COLLABORATE
By Colleen Tinker Mormons, Catholics, and Seventh-day Adventists collaborated on Thursday, July 20, unloading beds and mattresses into the rooms of the new Pope Francis Haven House, the […]
Read moreSHOCKING QUOTE REVEALS ADVENTISM’S CORE
By Colleen Tinker This week the Central California Conference is holding its annual campmeeting at the Soquel campgrounds. The plenary sessions are being live streamed, and Richard and […]
Read moreADVENTIST PROSELYTIZING STRATEGIZED DEMOGRAPHICALLY
By Colleen Tinker In our ongoing summaries of Adventism in the news, our goal is to help explain the unifying purpose of the religion’s many public faces. This […]
Read moreTHE MORPHING FACES OF ADVENTISM AROUND THE WORLD
By Colleen Tinker This week we will look at four different news stories about Adventism which discuss four different aspects of its identity. This organization, which began as […]
Read moreADVENTISM POSITIONS ITSELF AS HUMANITARIAN FORCE INSTEAD OF OPPRESSED MINORITY
By Colleen Tinker There is only one Adventism. Its core tenets have not changed, and despite public makeovers, the central doctrines of the investigative judgment, the incomplete atonement, […]
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GETTING THE SABBATH-RIGHT
By Colleen Tinker A few weeks ago I was asked in an online discussion group to answer the question, “Why is it important to get the Sabbath right?” For a […]
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ADVENTIST MISSIONS MUSHROOM: TOTAL MEMBER INVOLVEMENT
By Colleen Tinker Free Summer School yields Tanzanian Baptismal Candidates The teachers at Nyanza Adventist Secondary School (NASS) in the Tanzanian city of Mwanza grabbed an opportunity to […]
Read moreADVENTIST HEALTH IN THE NEWS
By Colleen Tinker During this past week, three news stories involving Adventism’s “right arm of the gospel”, the “health message”, have appeared in the news. These stories are seemingly […]
Read moreA LOOK AT ADVENTISM’S WORLDWIDE INFLUENCE
By Colleen Tinker This week we are reporting on three apparently unrelated stories about Adventism, but they demonstrate similar points: Adventism is growing in many parts of the […]
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ADVENTIST SECTS ARE STARVING PEOPLE IN THE CONGO
By Colleen Tinker A report published on May 25 in a Spanish online news source, El Confidencial, carried a heart-wrenching report by Trinidad Deiros writing from the territory of […]
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ADVENTISTS CELEBRATE 125th ANNIVERSARY OF STEPS TO CHRIST
By Colleen Tinker The Adventist News Network has released a news story that the White Estate is celebrating the 125th anniversary of the 1892 publication of Ellen White’s famed […]
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ONE LAST LOOK AT THE HEALTH MESSAGE
By Colleen Tinker It has been informative to see, over the years, what subjects in Proclamation! draw the most reader responses. In general, articles dealing with the Sabbath, […]
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