Complexity, Contradiction, and Compromise
MICHAEL LOREY My active journey out of Adventism began while I was a student at Kettering College of Medical Arts, in Kettering, Ohio, back in 1995. My family and I […]
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Category: Faith Story
Testify: Soli Deo Gloria!
JESS DIXON 2 Tim 3:12 says: “All who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” No doubt all of us gathered here have our own […]
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Veil Replaced By Tears
LUANDRA A. DANIELS I am a former third generation on both sides of my family Seventh Day Adventist. I was freed from that faith last year in February. What an […]
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Our Journey Out of Adventism
A special note to any of my SDA friends reading this letter: Many of you have had a significant impact on my life, encouraging me to love the study of […]
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“Heretic” Set Free
SKIP BAKER Editor’s Note: This story is republished from FormerAdventist.com where it first appeared in 2007. As the photographer at the Review & Herald Publishing Association (R&H) I could look out the window […]
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Cracking Up and Breaking Free
Life Out of the Adventist Eggshell GENEVA CHINNOCK Some years ago I read an article where the author described growing up in an eggshell. She had been told that this […]
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My Hairdresser Transformed!
COLLEEN TINKER This week I sat in a cubicle shrouded in a black cape while the one person whom I’ve trusted to cut my hair for over 15 years worked […]
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Breaking Open the Adventist Mind
DAVID DEPINHO INTRODUCTION My name is David W. DePinho. I’m happily married to my wife of 16 years, Martha, and have two grade school age children, Amanda and Matthew. I […]
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I Put Myself in God’s Hands
TROI ANDREOLA I was always interested in spiritual matters. My mother had introduced me to God as a young child, and I had a curious mind. I was drawn to […]
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I Chose My Mountain
RICHARD TINKER I was born on a mountain—Howell Mountain adjacent to the Napa Valley in Northern California. This mountain, however, is very similar to another mountain—Mt. Sinai. In order to […]
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“He Has Done All Things Well”: A Personal Update to My Testimony
KASPARS OZOLINS My first post for Proclamation! blog post (back in January, 2019) was my own testimony of coming to faith in Jesus and eventually leaving Seventh-day Adventism and joining […]
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My Anger and Four Hard Lessons
MICHAEL PURSLEY From the get-go, let me tell you that I did not have this list in my hip pocket, far from it! This list jelled gradually as I slowly […]
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Healed From My Shame
LIZ CHURCH My story is similar to that of the blind man whose story is recorded in Mark 8:22-26. Jesus healed him in “stages”, first giving him partial sight so […]
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Finally Forever Free in Jesus
Former general counsel for Loma Linda University Medical Center BILL ZIPRICK Come with me while I share the journey on which God took me when I came out from Adventism […]
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I Chose the Cross
CHRIS BADENHORST I plunged fully into Adventism, getting involved with every possible aspect of it. But because it could not provide me with a sound Gospel foundation on which to […]
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