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All participants in the unofficial journal Evangelica were fired. [citation needed] After being dismissed from the ministry, Desmond Ford chose to remain a member of the Seventh-day Adventist church. He founded an interdenominational Christian ministry named Good News Unlimited, which gave him a platform to continue preaching.
Lee Boyd Malvo – former Seventh-day Adventist and convicted murderer who was connected to the D.C. sniper attacks in the Washington metropolitan area and converted to Islam [327] [328] Jesse Martin – boy sailor; his parents were Adventists [329] Wayne Martin - American who left the Seventh-day Adventist Church and joined the Branch ...
Robert Stanley Folkenberg (January 1, 1941 – December 24, 2015) was an American pastor who served as General Conference president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church from 1990 through to his resignation in 1999. His tenure was marked by an unprecedented growth in church membership and his “Global Mission initiative” in the Adventist Church.
Walter T. Rea (June 12, 1922 – August 30, 2014) was a former Seventh-day Adventist pastor who authored the book, The White Lie (1982), an account of his research into plagiarism (literary borrowing as defined by church administrators) and uncredited sources in the writings of church co-founder Ellen G. White. [1]
In some cases they formerly displayed active support for the Adventist church and since changed. Others listed here grew up in an Adventist family; however the status of them ever actually being "Seventh-day Adventist" may be called into question. See also List of Seventh-day Adventists and List of former Protestants.
In 2019, the Seventh-day Adventist Church had 21,000,000 baptized members around the world. [17] In 2020, church officials reported the lowest membership increase in 16 years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Seventh-day Adventist Church added only 803,000 members, the last time annual membership growth dropped below 1 million was in 2004.
Ryan J. Bell (born September 26, 1971 [1]) is an American former Seventh-day Adventist pastor [2] who became an atheist after spending a "year without God" as an experiment. He has publicly spoken about his experiences before, during, and after this year, and he wrote about it in his blog "Year Without God" (later hosted by Patheos ). [ 3 ]
The investigative judgment doctrine is a unique element of the Seventh Day Adventist faith, relating to the nature of judgment of professed Christians. Investigative judgment has been criticized, in part or whole, by a few vocal Adventists since the late nineteenth century, such as D. M. Canright, A. F. Ballenger, W. W. Fletcher, W. W. Prescott, Louis R. Conradi, and Raymond Cottrell. [3]