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 […]
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MORMONS, 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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DID GOD CREATE THE SABBATH AT CREATION?
By Colleen Tinker A few weeks ago I read a post in an online discussion group in which the writer, a former Adventist who has seen the fallacy of Adventist […]
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ARE VEGETARIANS REALLY SICKER THAN MEAT EATERS?
By Colleen Tinker Last Friday, within hours of publishing our weekly Proclamation! email, we received a surprising number of responses from readers containing not-so-surprising reactions to the […]
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