What’s the Truth About Ellen White?
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! | As far back as I can remember, Ellen G. White (EGW) was the core of Adventist identity whom we loved to hate. As a child I learned […]
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Category: Ellen G. White
VI. Mrs. White and Her Visions.
Among the converts of William Miller there was a thirteen-year-old child, Ellen Harmon. She lived with her parents at Gorham, Me., and with them heard Miller deliver his series of […]
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Adventism’s Prophet Not Called by God (Q4 L2)
Lesson 2: “The Call of a Prophet” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! | This week’s lesson is consummately ironic. After last week’s lesson which used Hebrews 1:1,2 as the week’s memory verse—a passage […]
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The Mormon Connection
Did Ellen White copy from Joseph Smith? DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) | Some Adventists would recoil in horror to hear that several of the visions and prophecies […]
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Free From the False Prophet!
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! | Week by week, quarter after quarter as I deconstruct the Sabbath School lessons for the Former Adventist Fact Check podcast and address their underlying worldview and suppositions, […]
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1. Ellen White, a Source of Truth
Ellen White as a source of truth is perhaps the underlying error of the SDA church. Fundamental Belief No. 18 includes the following statement. …As the Lord’s messenger, her [Ellen […]
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Right Message, Wrong Messenger
Can the messenger taint the truth? COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine | A few months ago we received a letter asking an important question. The question came from a ministry that supports […]
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November 1–7, 2025
Lesson 6: “The Enemy Within” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine | What is “sin”? Is it, as Adventist historian and author George Knight has said, a disease which yields “sins” as its […]
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Biblical Inspiration and Ellen G. White
RUSSELL KELLY WITH COLLEEN TINKER | From “The Bible: Inerrant?” Series Changing statements concerning inspiration 1976—“That the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament were given by inspiration of […]
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Recant, no! I stand firm.
WALTER REA | Author of The White Lie Editor’s Note: In 1982 Walter Rea published The White Lie after Seventh-day Adventist administrators failed to keep their promise to reveal Ellen […]
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November 16–22, 2024
Lesson 8: “Fulfilling Old Testament Prophecies” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: True to form for this quarter’s Sabbath School lessons, this week’s studies are not overtly “wrong”. […]
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Biblical Inspiration and Ellen G. White
RUSSELL KELLY | Baptist, Converted to Adventism, and Returned Baptist 1976: “That the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament were given by inspiration of God, and contain an […]
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Library of Congress Responds to “The Desire of Ages” Myth
Letter to the United States Library of Congress Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave, SE Washington, DC 20540-4660 Dear Librarian, I was recently told at a Seventh-day Adventist prophecy seminar […]
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False Abraham Created By Ellen White
KASPARS OZOLINS | Assistant Professor, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Growing up in a progressive Adventist household, I was not raised to read the writings of Ellen G. White. While she was […]
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Now Is the Right Time to Claim Salvation
MIKE MEHARRY Ellen White wrote several times that one cannot say “I am saved”: No man can say I am saved until he has endured test and trial, until he has […]
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