Women's Ordination, the Seminary & Structural Damage to The Church

On Thursday, October 28, 2021, the leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Theological Seminary, in Berrien Springs, MI, USA, held a meeting in which they persisted in their advocacy of women's ordination.

But the SDA church is a global denomination with more than 20M members in more than 200 countries. In 1990, 1995, and 2015 the world church voted again and again on the question of whether or not to ordain women to the gospel ministry. The answers in the votes that pertained to this issue, were No, No, and No, respectively.

The SDA Theological Seminary is an institution specifically of the General Conference, the denominational leadership body overseeing the world church. For leaders of that institution to advocate for a position which is exactly in opposition to the stance taken by the world body and voted at the highest level of church member representation, is insubordination and ought not be tolerated. Pastor Kirkpatrick explains why and suggests a solution...

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