Seventh-day Adventist Church

Seventh-day Adventists to decide in 2015 on women’s ordination

By Adelle M. Banks — October 15, 2014
(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.

Some Seventh-day Adventists forge ahead on women clergy

By Adelle M. Banks — December 3, 2013
(RNS) For now, statements from church headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., focus less on gender and more on concern that regional church bodies have forged ahead with their own decisions without consensus from the wider denomination.

SIDEBAR: Evangelical alternatives to the Boy Scouts

By Adelle M. Banks — May 13, 2013
(RNS) They have pledges. They have merit badges. And they may go camping. But they’re not the Boy Scouts.

As they turn 150, Adventists still pray for the apocalypse

By Daniel Burke — April 10, 2013
(RNS) They started as a movement determined that Christ would return any day now. Now, as the Seventh-day Adventists turn 150 years old, there's growing tension about building an institution that many hope won't last much longer.

‘Two and a Half Men’ star apologizes for trashing show

By Daniel Burke — November 28, 2012

(RNS) The teenage star of "Two and a Half Men'' apologized Tuesday for calling his show unbiblical “filth'' and encouraging people not to watch it during a videotaped testimony about his conversion to Seventh-day Adventism. By Daniel Burke. 

‘Two and a Half Men’ star becomes Christian, blasts show

By Daniel Burke — November 27, 2012

(RNS) Another star of the CBS sitcom “Two and a Half Men” has gone rogue -- but in a decidedly different direction than notorious carouser Charlie Sheen. By Daniel Burke. 

Adventists call actions to allow women’s ordinations “mistakes”

By Adelle M. Banks — October 18, 2012

(RNS) Leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church overwhelmingly passed a statement Tuesday (Oct. 16) calling decisions by two of its U.S. regional groups to approve ordination of women pastors “serious mistakes.” By Adelle M. Banks.

Seventh-day Adventists facing pressure on allowing female clergy

By Adelle M. Banks — August 30, 2012

(RNS) Two U.S. regional groups of the Seventh-day Adventist Church have recently approved the ordination of women pastors, moving ahead of the worldwide church that has begun a study of the issue. By Adelle M. Banks.

Seventh-day Adventists file suit over door-to-door solicitations

By Kent Faulk / The Birmingham News — July 16, 2012

(RNS) Seventh-day Adventists have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of ordinances in an Alabama city that the church says bars it and other religious groups from door-to-door solicitations unless they first register and pay license fees. By Kent Faulk. 

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