July 16–22
Lesson 4: “Seeing the Goldsmith’s Face” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson betrays Adventism’s ignorance of the new covenant. The author connects “purification” with the great […]
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Category: Colleen Tinker
Abortion: What Is a Life?
COLLEEN TINKER This week I have been watching the polarized responses to last Friday’s Supreme Court decision to overturn the nearly-50-year-old ruling commonly known as Roe v. Wade. On the […]
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June 25–July 2
Lesson 1: “The Shepherd’s Crucible” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson, based roughly on Psalm 23, stresses that we can learn discipline from our hardships to grow […]
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June 18–24
Lesson 13: “Israel in Egypt” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson approaches the last chapters in the story of Joseph from a technical, analytical perspective that […]
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Ten Commandments: Only for Israel?
COLLEEN TINKERResearch by Beverly Bessada “But what about the Sabbath?” people ask us when we leave Adventism. “The Ten Commandments are the Law of God, not the law of Moses,” […]
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June 11–17
Lesson 12: “Joseph, Prince of Egypt” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The author trivializes the eternal themes of repentance and forgiveness by focussing on word plays and […]
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Getting Unstuck From the Sabbath
COLLEEN TINKER The Sabbath is the great sticking point for almost all of us who question Adventism. We know the arguments for Sabbath better than we know the rules of […]
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May 28–June 3
Lesson 10: “Jacob-Israel” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson ignores God’s restating His covenant with Abraham to Jacob, the son whom God chose to receive the […]
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April 30–May 6
Lesson 6: “The Roots of Abraham” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The author treats the call of Abraham and his journeys as a series of moral lessons instead […]
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