Asscherick Wins!

The 3,729 votes have been tabulated, and the winner of the Caricatures of Adventists popularity contest is David Asscherick, the Adventist evangelist and ARISE guy (not - a wise guy). Of course that this all means Asscherick will be the next lucky candidate to by visually dismantled by the Adventist Caricaturist. Congratulations to David Asscherick, and thanks to all 3,729 of you who participated in the poll!

Stay tuned for a lovely, original caricature of D. A. and more opportunities to have your say right here on Caricatures of Adventists.

Separated at Birth?

Prominent Seventh-day Adventists and their celebrity lookalikes
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Doug Batchelor, Speaker / Director of Amazing Facts and his stunt doubleDon C. Schneider, President of the North American Division of SDAs and Cartman from South Park David Asscherick, Adventist minister / evangelist and Nedly Neilsworth the nerdy kid Don McLafferty, Childrens Ministries guy at the Collegedale SDA Church and Daniel Stern, the bad guy from the Home Alone movieJohn Byington, Adventist minister and first president of the General Conference of SDAs and Captain Ahab of Moby DickLloyd Mallory, Jr. Music Minister at the Sligo Adventist Church and Cedric the Entertainer, actorEllen G. White, Adventist pioneer and prolific writer and Lunch Lady Doris from the SimpsonsHyveth Williams, Senior Pastor of the Campus Hill Church in Loma Linda and Janice the Muppet Angel M. Rodriguez, President of the Adventist Biblical Research Institute and Yoda, Jedi master from Star WarsClifton Davis, Adventist pastor and actor and Denzel Washington, actorJames White, Adventist pioneer and Charles Darwin, naturalist and author John Nixon, Senior Pastor Collegedale SDA Church and the Albino from The Princess BrideGerald Penick, President of Southeastern California Conference and The Rock, professional wrestler-turned-actor. Goodloe H. Bell, Adventist pioneering educator and a broom.

Did we nail it? Are we way off? Have another look-alike suggestion for us? Leave a comment below!

Adventist Celebrity Look-alikes

Alonzo T. Jones, Adventist pioneer who emphasized grace over law keeping in 1888 and Wyatt Earp, law enforcer of the Wild West. Pastor Doug Batchelor, former caveman and President of Amazing Facts and Mr. Potato HeadJohn Harvey Kellogg, Advenist health foods manufacturer and founder of Kellogg's Foods and Harland David Sanders (aka Colonel Sanders), an entrepreneur and founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken Both the Colonel and Kellogg liked birds apparently, though perhaps for different reasons Rachel Oakes Preston, a pioneering Sabbatarian and Woman from the Great Depression Samuele Bacchiocchi, Adventist theologian and author and Sam the Eagle, a MuppetJohn N. Andrews, SDA pioneer and missionary and John Muir, naturalist and conservationistJohn Lomacang, Adventist recording artist and Prince, non-Adventist recording Artist Jose Rojas, Director of Volunteer Ministries and Cousin Pepe from Sesame Street Ned Flanders of the Simpsons and Pastor Dwight K. Nelson of Pioneer Memorial Church.

Hat tip to DC in Sweden for the Flanders / Nelson comparison!

Monte Sahlin

According to Monte Sahlin's typepad bio, he is "chairman of the board for the Center for Creative Ministry, a research organization and resource center helping pastors, congregations and other organizations understand new generations and how to engage with them. He is also chairman of the executive committee of the Center for Metropolitan Ministry, a "think tank" and training organization based on the campus of Columbia Union College in Washington, DC, as well as an adjunct faculty member at the Campolo School for Social Change at Eastern University in Philadelphia and in the DMin program at Andrews University. In addition, he serves on the steering committee of the Cooperative Congregational Studies Partnership, a coalition of researchers from more than 40 denominations and faiths who produce the Faith Community Today (FACT) research."

I lifted all that directly from his page and probably couldn't say it all in one breath. Which means that he does a lot!

Oh ya. He also blogs.

Asscherick Takes the Lead

In early polling (see the sidebar on the right), David Asscherick has a growing lead over Hans Diel and Don Schneider. With only a few days of voting left, can Asscherick ride this wave all the way to the finish line where the Adventist Caricaturist's ruthless pen awaits? Only YOU can decide that!

Not since the cartoon of Mohammed...

...Has a cartoon created such an uproar. This cartoon, slated for publication this week, got pulled because of some angry comments. Ahhh, the life of an editorial cartoonist. If it doesn't get people fired up, it's probably not doing its job. Well, here is the cartoon. Judge for yourself. Leave angry comments. I have a tough hide. I can take it. Maybe.

Vote. Vote NOW!

It's election time everyone, but this poll has nothing to do with politics. Well, maybe a little bit. Right now, there's a poll up on the side bar ---> providing you with the opportunity to select which Adventist personality will be next to undergo the pen treatment here on Caricatures of Adventists. Own a piece of this site by voting today!

Pathfinder vs. Pathfinder - Which Would Win?

For Spectrum:

Both of them are sturdy, adventurous and fun loving. Both have large engines and are equally at home on the streets or on rugged off-road terrain.

But if you had to choose just one, which Pathfinder would you prefer and why?

In a contest of speed, power and agility, which Pathfinder would you put your money on?

Doug is my Favorite!

I just really like doing caricatures of Doug Batchelor. He is soooo caricaturable!

Pastor Doug does a Governor Palin

You might find this interesting (or you might not). Pastor Doug Batchelor, speaker / director of Amazing Facts preached a long-winded sermon on homosexuality. You can watch the video on the AF website under a large banner that says, ironically, "Everlasting Gospel". Not that good news has much to do with it. But whatever.

The video has a couple of interesting lines in it. Like the statement that Jesus predicted this would be one of the obvious signs of the end. Interesting. I don't think Jesus ever mentioned homosexuality. But then, the facts there are supposed to be amazing...

Adventist Counter Cult-ure

A new exclusively SDA clothing company eighteenfourtyfour.com has Adventists talking about fashion and culture. It's debatable whether the two should go together in the SDA context. Still, the company seems to be a hit with their "Homeschool Hottie" and "I [heart] haystacks" t-shirts, among others. But hey, why should they have all the fun? Here is some Adventist apparel for the church-lover in all of us.

SDA Tats

Following up the story that Shawn Boonstra plans to hit the big city (Los Angeles) despite his not being "gangsta", I found this photo of someone who certainly is. At least as gangsta as an Adventist can be. Here's the photo from Flickr, courtesy of user http://flickr.com/photos/sergei1971/

Now here's the big, big question: Is gettting "Seventh-day Adventist" tattooed on the forearm super-tough or just plain nerdy?

Boonstra on the Boob Tube

Adventism has its own honest-to-goodness televangelist, Shawn Boonstra. A friend of mine living in the Los Angeles Metroplex says that Shawn Boonstra was on KCAL 9 TV last Sunday morning (competing with Joel Osteen on the Fox affiliate).

Boonstra gets Gangsta in LA

Boonstra, who took over It Is Written after Mark Finley had "other stuff to do" at the GC (Finley's a vice-president), has apparently getting some face time in Los Angeles. Sources close to the situation (i.e. Southern California Conference of SDA's) reveal that Shawn Boonstra is going to be the speaker for a massive campaign to turn Southern California Adventist green (it's a real color, I'm not even kidding!). The campaign called cLAim is a ramped up revelation seminar-type thing that sources say will cost $1 million. I wonder how much it costs to get Boonstra on KCAL 9.

My friend who spotted Boonstra on the Tube says that his message was part of a series entitled "In Tables of Stone", which unsurprisingly is about Adventism's favorite topic--besides the three R's: Revelation, Remnant and Revelry (meat, jewelry and dancing)--the 10 Commandments!

Boonstra reportedly told a story about some Russian guy who kidnapped a girl. Everyone was outraged that the guy would do such a thing. So that's how we know that postmodernism is wrong. There ARE absolute moral values because everyone just KNEW that it is wrong to kidnap a girl and make her your captive. Postmodernism says that everything is relative, and that one person's morals are just as good as someone else's. But we KNOW that it's not true because of the story of the Russian guy. And that's why we should follow the 10 Commandments!

I wonder how well a message like that is going to go down in LA. Shawn Boonstra is obviously not gangsta. He's not really fly for a white guy. He can't lean like a cholo.

I guess he does have the "in" of being a TV star...kind of. So that should get him a little respect in Hollywood at least. And come to think of it, there are probably lots of people in LA who can identify with a message about tablets and stone--those Californians... It'll be interesting to see how the Million Dollar Man does next year in the hood. Stay tuned!

Meanwhile, enjoy these screenshots my Cal Pal got for me:

Energy Policy [For Adventist Environmental Advocacy]

I created this to go with a post on energy policy for Adventist Environmental Advocacy. Oh, by the way, I do commissions sometimes if you ask nicely ;-)

(and just for the record, the Energy Information Administration had nothing to do with this image, just in case anyone asks)

Ted N. C. Wilson Holds the Keys to the Kingdom?

Ted Wilson has done all sorts of interesting things - lived in Abidjan, been president of something large and significant in Moscow, and received a Ph.D. in Religious Education from New York University. To some astute GC watchers, this puts him next in line for the presidency of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists once current president Jan Paulsen leaves the post. And to further drive the Ted-Wilson-as-president buzz, this official picture from the GC website has Wilson at the front of the line of current vice presidents ahead of Ella Simmons, who looks awfully lonely floating amid the veep sea of men. And what is with the creepy right-eye motif?

Of course from another perspective, the picture above has Ted Wilson as far away as he can be from current president Jan Paulsen, indicating that Wilson is least likely to become the next Prez. Some folks have hinted that Mark Finley (who for some strange reason reminds me of Kermit the Frog) might be next in line.The truth of the matter is that all this guesswork about who might be the next leader of the Free SDA World is premature. Jan Paulsen is doing a fine job of presiding, and until the conclave with its grey smoke and white smoke, the speculation will just have to sit patiently like a kid in church.

Hiram Edson sees the light

On October 23, 1844, the day after the Great Disappointment, Hiram Edson purportedly saw a vision while standing in a grain field that changed the Advent movement forever.

Queen Sarah the Palin Comparison

Sarah mania strikes America, and the new Queen strikes back...with requests for prayer for America's soldiers who are doing a task that is from God in Iraq. Seriously. And praying for pipelines in Alaska. But it won't matter if Alaskans' hearts are not right, she says.

Watch this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4LjsfWbZLA
See also "Hocky mom pitbull with lipstick"

Or was it attack dog?

Editoon - Essence of Adventism

For Spectrum (click image to enlarge).

Rajmund Dabrowski

A while ago I got a request for Rajmund Dabrowski (please call him Ray). Director of Communication for the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. You can find out much more about Ray Dabrowski including a podcast interview he did with Alexander Carpenter of Spectrum Magazine here.

Ray owns one of the top five most caricatureable Adventist faces of all time!