{"id":1113,"date":"2013-10-28T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/10\/sandra-roberts-makes-adventist-history.html"},"modified":"2013-10-28T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T21:45:00","slug":"sandra-roberts-makes-adventist-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/10\/sandra-roberts-makes-adventist-history.html","title":{"rendered":"Sandra Roberts Makes Adventist History"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"background-color: white;line-height: 1.5em;margin-bottom: 5px;overflow: visible;padding: 0px 0px 10px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Sandra Roberts on Sunday, Oct. 27, became the first woman to lead a Seventh-day Adventist conference, a controversial move the worldwide church says it will not recognize.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;line-height: 1.5em;margin-bottom: 5px;overflow: visible;padding: 0px 0px 10px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Roberts, who last year became one of the first women ordained as an Adventist minister in the United States, was elected president of the five-county, Riverside-based Southeastern California Conference by a 72 to 28 percent margin. A conference is similar to a diocese.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;line-height: 1.5em;margin-bottom: 5px;overflow: visible;padding: 0px 0px 10px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Delegates at the meeting in Riverside\u2019s La Sierra University Church of Seventh-day Adventists stood up and applauded loudly after the result was announced.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;line-height: 1.5em;margin-bottom: 5px;overflow: visible;padding: 0px 0px 10px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">\u201cI think this is an idea that\u2019s past its time,\u201d said Robert Edwards, former pastor of San Bernardino\u2019s All Nations African Church of Seventh-day Adventists, after the vote. \u201cI\u2019m grateful she can be the first, and she won\u2019t be the last.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;line-height: 1.5em;margin-bottom: 5px;overflow: visible;padding: 0px 0px 10px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">The vote puts the Southeastern conference at odds with the worldwide Adventist Church, which does not recognize the ordination of women.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;line-height: 1.5em;margin-bottom: 5px;overflow: visible;padding: 0px 0px 10px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/local-news\/topics\/topics-religion-headlines\/20131028-religion-coronas-sandra-roberts-makes-adventist-history.ece\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandra Roberts on Sunday, Oct. 27, became the first woman to lead a Seventh-day Adventist conference, a controversial move the worldwide church says it will not recognize. 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