Two U.S. regional groups of the Seventh-day Adventist Church have women pastors and are moving faster than the worldwide church on the issue. The Pacific Union Conference, which includes California ...

The election of Sandra Roberts just over a year ago as the first woman to head a Seventh-day Adventist regional body led to a stern warning from officers of the worldwide church, who reiterated the ...

Leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church have said that recent decisions by two regional bodies to allow ordination of female pastors were “serious mistakes,” and women who are ordained won’t be ...

A year ago Monday, the election of Corona’s Sandra Roberts as the first woman to head a Seventh-day Adventist regional body led to a stern warning from officers of the worldwide church, who reiterated ...

(UPDATED) Adventists warn pastors to steer clear of endorsement in light of Carson’s campaign. It’s not just young Baptist pastors who are worried about mixing religion and politics when it comes to ...

Two churches in two denominations on two different days was the norm for Darriel Hoy growing up. After more than 20 years away, Hoy recently returned home to assume a historic role at two area ...

NASHVILLE, TN — Pastors at several Seventh-day Adventist churches in Nashville said they united their congregations Saturday night in an effort to "cross color lines." Sunday marks one week since a ...

(RNS) The 243-44 vote marks the next step in a decades-long consideration of an issue that has divided the worldwide denomination, which time and again has voted to not permit women’s ordination.

In the basement of Cleveland’s huge Public Auditorium, vegetarian restaurants were serving the kind of meals preferred by strict Seventh-day Adventists. In the gallery two church workers patiently ...

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