Southern Baptists Oust Saddleback Megachurch, 4 Others for Appointing Female Pastors

Southern Baptists Oust Saddleback Megachurch, 4 Others for Appointing Female Pastors
Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., on March 20, 2014. Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images for Word Entertainment
Micaela Ricaforte
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The Southern Baptist Convention—a Protestant Christian denomination with over 47,000 churches nationwide—voted Feb. 21 to remove Saddleback Church from its group for recently appointing a woman as a pastor.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee ousted Saddleback’s membership—along with four other churches—“on the basis that the church has a faith and practice that does not closely identify with the convention’s adopted statement of faith, as demonstrated by the church having a female teaching pastor functioning in the office of pastor.”

Micaela Ricaforte
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Micaela Ricaforte covers education in Southern California for The Epoch Times. In addition to writing, she is passionate about music, books, and coffee.
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