Adventist Church Ranks Third in Newsmax Denominations with Most Traditional Stance on Women Clergy

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Although Newsmax ranked the Adventist denomination third, its explanation of the reasoning behind the Adventist tradition is much less clear than the others. “Some have challenged this old decree,” Newsmax reported, giving as an example a vote in 2012 by the denomination’s Danish Union Conference to halt all clergy ordinations until after the General Conference Session in July of this year. Newsmax included some information that is out of date and cited an Adventist source that is not well-informed.

....What the Newsmax editors evidently did not know is the Adventist connection to this issue over the years. James White, a cofounder of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, was a pastor in the Christian Connection prior to founding of the Adventist denomination. The Christian Connection was the first denomination to ordain women as clergy, evidently with White’s support. He long argued against those who criticized his wife, Ellen G. White, for functioning as a preacher and leader in the Adventist movement. She long held credentials as an ordained minister in the denomination. Her voluminous writings continue to have spiritual authority among Adventists.

Adventist Church Ranks Third in Newsmax Denominations with Most Traditional Stance on Women Clergy - Adventist Today

So..........take that Newsmax.