Roger W. Coon

Roger W. Coon, Ph.D., former associate director of the Ellen G. White Estate, is retired and lives in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.

Articles by Roger W. Coon

Watch Tower's Debt to Seventh-day Adventism: A Fascinating Footnote to History

October 1969

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM and the Jehovah's Witnesses movement are of ten confused in the thinking of the public, which sometimes sees them as one and the same organization, partially perhaps because of some superficial similarities.

Both,…

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EVANGELISM: Integrating the Health Program in the Evangelistic Campaign

June 1952

It is paradoxical that such a large number of people appear infinitely more interested in the state of their bodies than in the state of their souls, yet this is often the case. To ignore this fact as we consider evangelism is materially to limit…

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How near is the Omega?

April 1980

Apostasy, that tragic falling away from a faith relationship, is as I V old as Adam and Eve, the gar den, the tree, the fruit, and the first ventriloquist act in history. It has ever been a sad but central fact of life with which the Christian…

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A Christmas litany

December 1983

Seventh-day Adventist congregations have few opportunities to be directly involved in the various components of the Sabbath morning worship service. Traditionally the two (occasionally three) congregational hymns have provided for some public…

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Ellen G. White and vegetarianism

April 1986

Was Ellen White an honest and an honorable woman? Critics of her ministry have, alleged that she was not. They charge that Mrs. White was both devious and hypocritical in commanding vegetarianism on her church in 1863 while secretly continuing…

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Phillips Brooks: The man and his Master

December 2002

For more than a century Christians around the world have marked the miracle of the Bethlehem manger by singing "O Little Town of Bethlehem," one of the best-known Christmas carols of all time. How little we know about…

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