The Melchizedek Conundrum: How is He Like Jesus?
“I was listening to the Former Adventist Podcast on Hebrews 7:11–22,” a new former Adventist wrote recently. I continued reading; the writer was looking at the text and saw saw […]
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Author: Colleen Tinker
Colleen Tinker, the editor of Proclamation! magazine, and her husband Richard left Adventism in 1998 with their two sons, Roy and Nathanael, who were in grades six and ten. They have co-led the Former Adventist Fellowship since 1999. Colleen, a graduate of Walla Walla University, is a former high school English teacher and also the former managing editor of Adventist Today magazine. Colleen became the stepmother of Roy and Nathanael in 1989, and in 2008 she adopted them. Romans 8:15-17 has assumed new depth and significance for her and Richard since she and her sons chose to claim each other legally and permanently. She and Richard share an office and a commitment to sharing the gospel of the true Jesus with all of those seeking a way out of the bondage of the false gospel of Adventism.
Suffering Without an Advocate
The strange events of the last three months have raised concerns I’ve never had before, living as I have in the freedom of the United States. I’ve written before about […]
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Learning Scripture as a Former Adventist
Part of the work we face as we retrain our Adventist-shaped minds and become biblical Christians is learning how to read Scripture. We were steeped in proof-texting and “bargaining”, on […]
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Are You Masked?
About three weeks ago I was shopping in Trader Joe’s and had taken my place in a check-out line the required six feet behind the shopper in front of me. […]
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To Whom Did Jesus Pray?
The Trinity is a mystery God does not fully explain to us; at the same time, we know that God is One and that all three persons of the Trinity […]
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Encouragement: The Antidote to a Hard Heart
This rarefied time of social distancing as the world shelters at home sifting through conflicting reports about the nature and progress of the coronavirus has given me opportunity to think. […]
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Adventist Health Acquires Blue Zones
On April 8, 2020, Adventist Health announced that it had acquired “Blue Zones®, an organization that is a pioneer in taking a systemic and environmental approach to improving the health […]
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Death To All Law-Breakers
I had a most surprising email last week from a 15-year-old Adventist who has begun reading about Adventism and is convinced it is wrong. This person wrote: “A lot of […]
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Ripped Curtain, Empty Tomb!
As Easter approached this year, I pondered details about Jesus’ death and resurrection that were obscure to me in the religion of my youth. For several decades Easter was, to […]
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Truth Anchors Us In Strange Times
These are strange times. None of us alive today has lived through a pandemic in which countries around the world have been “shut down” to one degree or another. People […]
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Who is Telling the Truth?
The COVID-19 pandemic has catalyzed many old insecurities as our normal ways of life have been altered day by day over the past two weeks. The dizzying changes required of […]
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Pope Francis Promotes Saturday Sabbath
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world so suddenly that many people are feeling “shock-y”. Last Friday our governor asked that public meetings be limited to groups not over 250 […]
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Are There Two Resurrections?
We recently received a response to our podcast about what happens when we die. The reader asked a good question that we share with you here along with our answer. […]
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Adventism Can’t Retain its Members
Once again the Adventist leaders have asked the question, “Why are so many leaving the church?”, and once again, they have not addressed the reason so many leave: doctrine. On […]
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Which “Sabbath” is Paul Referencing?
Does Paul say no one should judge us regarding the Sabbath? One of the recurring questions we receive concerns Colossians 2:16–17 where Paul says not to let anyone judge a […]
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