SDA Articles

It’s been quite a while since I put together a reading list. Here it is: Volunteers in Action: Mike Kontes (Maranatha video, N.D.) A Cinderella Story (NAPS, N.D.) Washington Church Reaches Out to Migrant Farm Workers & Immigrants (Adv Today, 21 Apr 2012) Adventist Students Protest Chinese Industrial Development in the Solomon Islands (Adv Today, [...]

Ordination

Pastor Andrew Clark writes: Speaking as a male Seventh-day Adventist ordained pastor in good standing and active position, I believe those of us that value equality need to give more credibility to great church leaders like Fagal and Damsteegt. I believe these men, at least on occasion, are used of God… I mean you don’t [...]

SDA Potpourri

Faith in the Public Sector? Young Adventist Professionals Speak Out (NARLA) Valley View University’s green campus [video] (ANN, 24 Feb 2012) Dangerous Redefinition: Candidates Recast Role of Religion in American Life (Jason Hines, Religious Liberty.TV, 24 Feb 2012) When Women Break the Bread of Life (Donna J. Haerich, Spectrum, 23 Feb 2012) A House Divided [...]

SDA Potpourri

Here is a bit of reading for your Sabbath: One in Christ – Petition Virginia Seventh-day Adventists Reach Across Globe to Help Kenya’s Children (Rebecca Jackson, Adv Review) College Remembers Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy (Giovanni Hashimoto, PUC, 13 Jan 2012) U.S. Supreme Court ruling is First Amendment defense, Adventist legal counselors say (ANN, 13 [...]

SDA Gender Equality

From Adventist Equality: Imagine Adventist Equality from Robert Jacobson on Vimeo.

Spectrum: TED Votes for Equality

Trans-European Division Votes for Equality in Conference and Union Leadership (Alexander Carpenter, Spectrum, 16 Nov 2011) According to the Trans-European Division news service, “today, forty-five delegates and twenty five invitees (union secretaries and treasurers). . .discussed a Motion on Women in Leadership. After prayer, the 91% of the delegates voted by secret ballot to express [...]

Spectrum: “A Door for Women Opens”

At NAD Year-end Meetings: A Door for Women Opens (Scriven, Spectrum, 31 Oct 2011) In the North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, women as well as men may now serve as president of a conference.  [complete article]

Ordained/Commissioned SDA Ministers as Conference Presidents

Jared Wright shares the following on an up-coming church action: This weekend (October 28-November 1), the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists convenes for its Year End Meetings. At the North American Division’s Year-end Meeting (YEM) in 2009 it was voted to allow “ordained/commissioned” ministers to be conference presidents. The vote was rescinded at Elder [...]

Why Men Should not be Ordained

I am pleased to welcome the newest blogger to the A2 team–Landon Schnabel. Below is his first post here, which considers issues surrounding ordination. Landon is currently a graduate student at Andrews University. An egalitarian deeply opposed to hegemony with broad concern, his major areas of focus are subordination of and violence against women in [...]

SDA Potpourri

Women in Ministry An Open Letter from Doug Batchelor (Adv Today, 3 May 2010) Video|Ordaining Women – Is that what we really want? (Alexander Carpenter, Spectrum, 1 May 2010) New Anti-Women’s Ordination Site Appears (Alexander Carpenter, Spectrum, 29 Apr 2010) Video: Woman Pastors 7000 Member Adventist Church in China (Alexander Carpenter, Spectrum, 22 Apr 2010) [...]