ARE YOU THE WEAKER SIBLING?
By Colleen Tinker Recently we received an email that asked this question: “Has the issue of the weaker brother ever come up with your office? Could the issue in […]
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THEY CAN’T LET GO
The Mark of the Beast and Ellen White’s Authority By Colleen Tinker The Adventist Review announced in its June 1 edition that “during the next seven months—June through […]
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DEBUNKING END-TIME DECEPTIONS
By Colleen Tinker Ironically, this week’s Sabbath School lesson focusses on deception, specifically the two things which Ellen White identifies as the two core issues of the great controversy: […]
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DID ELLEN WHITE CHANGE AS SHE AGED?
By Colleen Tinker Research assistance by Jeremy Graham Adventists have long explained the internal contradictions within Ellen White’s writings by saying that she grew and changed as the years passed. […]
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FINDING REALITY ON MOTHER’S DAY
By Colleen Tinker My mother went into hospice last week. She’s 92 years old, and her gradual decline finally reached a level that prompted her doctor to say she […]
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CONTENDING WITH THE SABBATH SCHOOL JESUS
By Colleen Tinker One of the most consistent, carefully-managed ways Seventh-day Adventism indoctrinates its members is through its weekly Sabbath School Bible Study Guides, commonly called “Quarterlies”. Four issues […]
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JURY DUTY AS GOD’S DISCIPLINE
By Colleen Tinker It happened. The dreaded card arrived in our mailbox: I was to report for jury duty at the Superior Court in San Bernardino, California, on April […]
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ADVENTIST MISSIONARY BOOK TO FOCUS ON FAMILIES IN 2019
By Colleen Tinker Last week the Seventh-day Adventist Executive Committee met for its Annual Council at General Conference headquarters. During the session, president Ted N. C. Wilson dedicated the […]
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DOUG BATCHELOR DEBATES STEVE GREGG ABOUT SABBATH
By Colleen Tinker Last Friday, March 30, Doug Batchelor, speaker and director of Amazing Facts, debated Steve Gregg, host of the daily radio program The Narrow Path. The title of […]
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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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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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