THE 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 […]
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ADVENTISM 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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STUDY FINDS VEGETARIANS SICKER THAN MEAT EATERS
By Colleen Tinker A study out of Austria completely contradicted everything I had been taught about diet and health this week: the data showed that vegetarians tend […]
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BISEXUAL ADVENTIST PASTOR COMES OUT AND RESIGNS
By Colleen Tinker On April 22, just days after the Seventh-day Adventist organization voted an official LGBT positional statement at their annual Spring Council, Alicia Johnston resigned […]
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SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST ORGANIZATION ADOPTS TRANSGENDERISM STATEMENT
By Colleen Tinker On April 11, Adventist News Network published the newly-adopted statement on transgenderism that was voted during the annual Spring Meetings this month. The […]
Read moreHE WAS RAISED SO YOU WILL NEVER DIE
By Colleen Tinker From the time I was a young girl, I privately sneered at Easter. I was so fortunate to know better than those Sunday-keepers; Easter […]
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