Sherman Haywood Cox, II

Sherman Haywood Cox, II. That's the longest name of any person featured on this site thus far! And the name could not apply to a more dynamic preacher / author/ blogger. Cox is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and shares all sorts of helpful homiletical stuff at his web site. It's called Sherman Haywood Cox Ministries (surprise!). He's also got lots of materials celebrating preaching in the black tradition at SoulPreaching.Com. Check it out!

Listen to his preaching, his philosophy on selecting texts to preach from, which version of the Bible to use, how to create a sermon and a whole lot more.

Sherman commented on the previous post (about some negative feedback on this blog):

Well I for one hope that one day I will see myself as worthy of being caricatured...LOL...one day we will say...'you know you made it when you been caricatured on the Caricature blog...' lol....God bless..."

To which we said, a caricature of Mr. Cox? Sure, man! (You made it)

Alternate version - Sherman's other site, the Sabbath Pulpit:

Valdis Zilgalvis

Valdis Zilgalvis is the president of the Baltic Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Did you know there is a Baltic Conference? I didn't. Until now. And Valdis Zilgalvis is its president. That's all I know about Valdis Zilgalvis except that he is also a pastor.

This is a digital painting of Zilgalvis I've been working on for a while.

José Rojas

Kenneth Cox [updated]

Kenneth Cox is a pastor-evangelist, who like many other famous (relatively speaking) Adventist pastor-evangelists has a relatively dramatic conversion experience behind his ministry. OK, it's not THAT dramatic. A literature evangelist (wildly popular among Adventist teens, or used to be...or maybe never quite as popular as Adventist urban legend suggests) left a tract at the Cox home.
The Cox family was converted and Kenneth (who was 14 at the time) later became an evangelist with the very same group that dropped the tract at his home. That was the Voice of Prophecy, in case you were curious.

If you're into the 3ABN scene, you'll certainly be familiar with Kenneth Cox from his frequent appearences during which he covers such topics as practical godliness...and more!

But the real reason we love him is that Ken Cox is a caricature waiting to happen. His marvelously gregarious set of teeth are the first thing to greet you, and his wonderful, meticulously coiffured silver-blue up-do make Cox appear as if he really belongs somewhere among the clouds - way beyond the blue.

And on top of it all, his prophecy charts are second to none!

Julius Nam

Julius Nam teaches Adventist History at Loma Linda University. Among many other things. He is a Korean-American pastor turned educator, and ministered in Korea, Michigan, and California before entering the world of Adventist Academia.

The best way to describe Julius Nam in two words is "Progressive Adventist", which happens to be the title of a blog that he maintains. Well, almost. The blog is entitled Progressive Adventism.

Nam helped organize the 50 year reunion party for the Questions on Doctrine conference, which if you are an Adventist, and have lived in the last 50 years, is a big deal. Whether you are aware of it or not.

Hyveth Williams

Hyveth Williams has the distinction of being the first black American woman to pastor a Seventh-day Adventist Church. Williams is the senior pastor of the Campus Hill Adventist Church in Loma Linda.Pastor Williams earned a Doctorate of Ministry degree from Boston University School of Theology. She is an adjunct professor in the Loma Linda University School of Religion.

Williams, like many other high-profile Adventists, had a rather dramatic conversion experience. A one-time atheist, drinker, smoker, radio personality, political exec. and ...oh ya, I already said atheist, she became a Seventh-day Adventist, and from there it was a matter of time before she would end up in ministry.

Hyveth Williams hails from Jamaica, and her roots are often evident in her energetic preaching and flamboyant fashion sense.

Richest Caveman

Doug Batchelor is an excellent example of the pendulum effect. Batchelor was born to wealthy, influential parents. He grew up a rather undisciplined boy, living life to the fullest, if you know what I mean. From that end of the pendulum, he swung to the other end as a result of time spent in a cave in the desert of Southern California. He wrote about the cave experience in his book, "The Richest Caveman."
In the cave, Batchelor found a Bible, which would thereafter become his primary means of earning a living. Batchelor became a Seventh-day Adventist pastor and eventually the head honcho of Amazing Facts, which recently made news by merging with Weimar Institute.*

In the cave, he was often naked. He now wears suits. In the cave, he had long hair. He now enjoys a more polished look. How the pendulum swings!


*Faulty information corrected thanks to "lmerklin". Batchelor was incorrectly listed as founder of Amazing Facts, when in fact it has been around since 1966 - Amazing!

Doug Batchelor Sketch

Which is not to say that Doug Batchelor is sketchy...Necessarily.