ARE ADVENTISM AND ISIS SIMILAR?
by Colleen Tinker Last week the liberal-leaning online Slate magazine ran an article by its staff writer Joshua Keating comparing the failed apocalyptic prophecies that have driven ISIS […]
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Category: Adventist News
ADVENTISTS STILL IGNORING THEIR PROPHET’S WORDS CONCERING SPORTS
by Colleen Tinker The Adventist Review has published a story celebrating the fact that the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has “officially transitioned cross country national […]
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WHO’S BEHIND THE HIGH CARB, LOW-FAT DIET AGENDA?
by Colleen Tinker Journalist Marika Sboros ran a two-part article on her website, foodmed.net, last month on August 7 and August 9. The first installment entitled “Medical Evangelism: […]
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ADVENTISM CONTINUES LINKING SABBATH-KEEPING TO SALVATION
by Colleen Tinker Adventists have long stated that they are the inheritors of the Reformation. Martin Luther, they say, began well and overthrew papal control and the sale of indulgences. […]
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SEMINARS ON TWO CONTINENTS TRAIN ADVENTIST TO IMPACT COMMUNITIES
By Colleen Tinker The governor’s wife in the Nigerian state of Abia addressed a regional Seventh-day Adventist women’s conference at the Adventist-operated Babcock University earlier this month. Mrs. […]
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ADVENTISM’S RACIST LEANINGS IGNORED IN CHARLOTTESVILLE STATEMENT
By Colleen Tinker The horrifying chain of events last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, has prompted the Adventist organization to issue another official statement. Ironically, this latest statement […]
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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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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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