10 June 2023 | After some rumored controversy surrounding the issue, a statement was released on the Andrews University website from incoming president John Wesley Taylor V, delineating his position on women in ministry. It accompanies a number of other statements released on a page called “From the Heart,” where Taylor plans to post “a […]
14 June 2023 Early Adventists took steps to support women in ministry, and there was a context to those actions. What was that context? This presentation explores the documentary record, both in Adventist archives and newspapers across the United States. Expect to learn something about women in Adventist ministry that you didn’t know before! Teacher: […]
by Hannele Ottschofscki | 25 April 2023 | We generally think of the Bible as a book written by men, about men, and for men. It is as if the church has tried to make women invisible in the Bible. And yet they exist—and not only as marginal figures and nameless persons. We need to […]
15 December 2022 | Watergate Reporter Inspires Southern Adventist University Journalism Students and Others Carl Bernstein, one of the reporters who helped uncover the Watergate scandal leading to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974, spoke on Southern Adventist University’s campus this December. More than 1,500 students, employees, alumni, and community members attended the […]
by Lindsey Painter, 21 November 2017 In my last article I wrote about having a disagreement with my friend. The comments for that article were fascinating. I was called a thin-skinned liberal feminist snowflake. I’ve been called worse. It got me thinking about this phenomenon of “being offended.” What does it mean, and why do […]
by Loren Seibold, November 6, 2015. I’ve been to a lot of church meetings. But there are none that compare to the marathon business sessions that happen at the Seventh-day Adventist World Headquarters at 12501 Old Columbia Pike. They can be a bit of an ordeal: this latest one stretched over 8 days. Like all business […]
By Loren Seibold, October 29, 2015: This afternoon at the annual meeting of the governing body for the North American Division (NAD) of the Adventist denomination, a report was shared on the division’s Women in Ministry initiative, introduced in 2012. Pastor Alex Bryant, NAD secretary, said there’d initially been some confusion about the program, because some thought […]
From ANN, September 29, 2015: Two female pastors are helping the Seventh-day Adventist Church expand in eastern Cuba. Gilma Carbonell, 44, leads the largest Adventist church in Cuba, the Guantanamo Central Adventist Church in the city of Guantanamo. She ministers to more than 1,000 church members, who pack the inside and outside of the […]