Robert W. Olson was director of the Ellen G. White Estate

Ellen G. White Estate

The Ellen G. White Estate, Incorporated, or simply the White Estate, is the official organization created by Ellen G. White to act as the custodian of her writings, which are of importance to the Seventh-day Adventist Church...

 from 1978 to 1990.

Biography

Olson was the first staff member who was not a direct descendant of Ellen G. White

Ellen G. White

Ellen Gould White was a prolific author and an American Christian pioneer. She, along with other Sabbatarian Adventist leaders, such as Joseph Bates and her husband James White, would form what is now known as the Seventh-day Adventist Church.Ellen White reported to her fellow believers her...

 to run her estate and the first staff member to hold a Ph.D. He had a wide variety of pastoral and administrative posts before joining the White Estate in the early 1970s. His leadership was characterized by a new openness to her writings (including the release of the controversial "Z file") and the release and publication of Ellen White's published writings on CD-ROM.

Publications

• "101 Questions on the Sanctuary and on Ellen White" (PDF
  Portable Document Format
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  ) (Washington, D.C.: Ellen G. White Estate, March 1981). Also appeared as a supplement to the Australasian Record of June 8, 1981)
• "The 'Shut Door' Documents" compilation, with occasional commentary. White Estate, 1982
• The Crisis Ahead: A Compilation From The Writings Of Ellen G. White, 1974 Published by College Bookstore, Angwin, California

See also

• Ellen G. White Estate
  Ellen G. White Estate
  The Ellen G. White Estate, Incorporated, or simply the White Estate, is the official organization created by Ellen G. White to act as the custodian of her writings, which are of importance to the Seventh-day Adventist Church...
  
  
• Prophetic gift of Ellen White
• Seventh-day Adventist Church
  Seventh-day Adventist Church
  The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the original seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ...
  
  

Offline resources

• Brief biography, a DVD extra in Prophetic Inspiration: The Holy Spirit at Work