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Adventist Heritage, Summer 1996 hing the Frontiers Shirley Pettis, first SDA Congresswoman Women in the Millerite Movement Anna Lula Joseph, forgotten preacher Women-140 years of advice from the Review 11 Contributors Inelda Ritchie Christianson enrolled at La Sierra University in Editor 1943, earning a BA in visual arts in 1983. She received an AA from what is now Riverside Community College in 1946, and a certificate Arthur Patrick La Sierra University in library technology in 1972. Active in community affairs in Norco, she was a cub scout den mother and served as secretary of the Community Welfare Committee. From 1970 to 1995, she headed the Associate Editors periodicals department at the La Sierra library. She is currently acting museum curator at the Stahl Center for World Service, La Sierra Dorothy Minchin-Comm La Sierra University University. In December 1996, she and her husband, Warren, celebrat- ed their fiftieth wedding anniversary. They have three children and Gary Land Andrews University nine grandchildren. Carole A. Rayburn is a clinical, consulting and research psychologist Managing Editor with a private practice in Silver Spring, MD. She received a BA in psy- chology from American University in Washington, DC. She holds an Gary Chartier La Sierra University MA in clinical psychology from George Washington University and a PhD from Catholic University of America in educational psychology. She enrolled at the SDA Theological Seminary, Andrews University, in Production Editor 1978, receiving an MDiv, magna cum laude, in 1980. She is the imme- diate past president of the psychology of religion division of the Heather Miller American Psychological Association. She is also past president of the clinical psychology of women section of the clinical psychology divi- sion of the American Psychological Association and past president of Layout and Design Editors the Maryland Psychological Association. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Orthopsychiatric Scott Griessbach and Rolando Mendez Association, the Maryland Psychological Association, and the American Association of Applied and Professional Psychology. She is a Fellow of six divisions of the American Psychological Association— Managing Board those concerned with the psychology of women, the psychology of religion, clinical psychology, consulting psychology, psychotherapy, and John R. Jones state association affairs. She is a member of the Christian Association Paul Landa for Psychological Studies. She has copyrighted a number of psycho- logical questionnaires, including the Religious Occupations and Stress Heather Miller Questionnaire and the Organizational Relationships Survey (con- cerned with women's leadership in several spheres, including religion), Dorothy Minchin-Comm the State-Trait Morality Inventory, and the Inventory on Spirituality. Arthur Patrick She is the author of, among other things, A Time to Weep, a Time to Sing: Eight Journeys of Women Scholars of Religion (with Mary Jo Meadow), Delmer Ross and of approximately seventy articles. Adeny Schmidt, chair Douglas Hackleman is an editor, author, and activist. He studied at Kit Watts Columbia Union College, Pacific Union College, and Pepperdine University; after receiving an MA in psychology from Pepperdine, he taught psychology at La Sierra University in the mid 1970s. Sub- sequently, he served as the founding editor of Adventist Currents and as the illustrator and publisher of two politically incorrect calendars. Laura Vance received an MA in anthropology at Western Washington University and a PhD in sociology at Simon Fraser University. She is currently assistant professor of sociology at Georgia Southwestern State University. She is the recipient of numerous scholarships and aca- demic awards, including the Weber-Reimke-Schriener Graduate Scholarship and the C. D. Nelson Memorial Scholarship. She has authored several papers on gender and religion and is the assistant edi- tor of Women in Higher Education: A Cross-Cultural Approach (Woodring 1991). Adventist Heritage is published by La Sierra University, 4700 Pierce Street, Riverside, CA 92515-8247; (909) 785-2181; email: her- [email protected]. Bulk postage rates paid at Riverside, CA. Copyright © 1997 by La Sierra University. Subscription rates: $16.00 for three issues ($21.00 overseas surface, $30.00 overseas air); $27.00 for six issues ($37.00 overseas surface, $54.00 overseas air). Available back issues are sold at $7.00 each; out-of-print issues will be photocopied at a rate of $5.00 per issue. Adventist Heritage welcomes unsolicited manuscripts related to the history ofAdventism. Every manuscript received will be considered, but no respon- sibility will be assumed for unsolicited materials. Adventist Heritage is indexed in the SDA Periodical Index, and is available from University Microfilms International. ISSN 0360-389X Contributors Contents EDITOR'S STUMP 4 Gary Chartier EDITOR'S STUMP 5 Arthur Patrick SHIRLEY PETTIS: AN SDA REPRESENTATIVE REMEMBERS 6 Interviewed by: Douglas Hac 14010' WOMEN HERALDS OF "THE ADVENT NEAR" 11 Carole Rayburn HEIRLOOM-WILLIAM MILLER: A FOCUSED LIFE 22 ANNA LULA JOSEPH: SERVICE, SACRIFIC AND SUCCESS IN EARLY ADVENTISM 23 Inelda Ritchie Christianson LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY PRESERVES ADVENTIST ROOTS 30 FROM SECT TO CHURCH, FROM MEETING-HOUSE TO KITCHEN: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADVENTISM AND CHANGING ROLES OF SDA WOMEN 31 Laura L. Vance POSTSCRIPTS: HISTORY FOR A NEW GENERATION? 46 Arthur Patrick ebitee5 tump Gary Chartier clear majority of Adventists— shiped and served is the focus of reviews of relevant books. This issue's like a clear majority of Laura Vance's remarkable study of a review—of two books by noted AChristians generally—are wo- century and a half of Adventist dis- Adventist historian George Knight— men. And women have played sig- cussion of women's roles in the pages is especially noteworthy because it is nificant roles in Adventism's history, of the Adventist Review and its prede- written by our new editor-in-chief. beginning, of course, with the cessors.Vance examines the changing Replacing Ron Graybill, now work- church's co-founder, Ellen White. understandings of women and wom- ing in public relations at Loma Linda But factors inside and outside of anhood that surface in the Review University, is Arthur Patrick. Adventism have contributed to limit- from its inception through the early ing Adventist women's opportunities 1990s. More than that, she offers an Arthur is no stranger to Adventist to contribute to their community's explanatory framework, drawn from Heritage readers. From his home in development and to obscuring the the sociology of religion, that serves Australia, he guest-edited issue 16.1, contributions they have been able to at least in part to explain the changes which brought together a host of make. she identifies. She suggests, roughly, materials on Adventist history "down In this issue, we focus on the expe- that accommodation to the values of under." Last fall, he joined the School rience of Adventist women. Carole the wider society and the desire for of Religion team at La Sierra as Rayburn shows us how actively acceptance by that society can lead a Visiting Associate Professor of the involved women were in the religious movement to relax its com- History of Christianity and Christian Millerite movement and its immedi- mitment to including those who are Ministry. A graduate of Avondale ate descendants. Rayburn highlights marginalized by that society— College, Andrews University (MA, the ways in which many gifted notably women. There is more to be MDiv, 1972), he also studied at women found themselves energized written, no doubt, about the history Christian Theological Seminary in for service beyond the boundaries of ofAdventist attitudes toward women, Indiana (DMin, 1973) and earned an hearth and home by William Miller's but Vance has done an invaluable ser- MLitt in history from the University vice with her extensive investigation. proclamation of the Advent near. Her of New England in Australia (1984) survey is, I believe, unique in its com- Doug Hackleman's interview with and a PhD in history from the prehensiveness, reminding contem- Shirley Pettis, the first Adventist University of Newcastle, also in porary readers of numerous fore- woman to serve in the US House of Australia (1992). Prior to his most sisters whose stories deserve to be Representatives, highlights another recent voyage stateside, he worked remembered and retold. aspect of women's part to the both at Avondale College and at In a more personal account, Inelda Adventist story. Pettis's quiet success Sydney Adventist Hospital. His Ritchie Christianson tells the story as a national legislator represents a scholarly research has focused on the of her grandmother, Anna Lula significant milestone in Adventist interaction between church and soci- Joseph Ritchie, a remarkable woman history, and we are delighted to doc- ety in Australian history, and has been whose experience reflects the diverse ument it by sharing with you Pettis's concerned with both Adventist and challenges faced by Adventist reflections on her experience in non-Adventist themes. His wide women—and the diverse possibilities Washington. knowledge of Adventist history, his they were able to realize. Trained to History is still being made, of openness to new ideas, and his inter- serve as a minister, Lula Joseph was course. And one important way in national perspective will enable him, not permitted to practice the calling which it is being made—and record- I am confident, to make a valuable for which study at Healdsburg ed—is the activity of the Women's contribution to the ongoing growth College had prepared her. An effec- Resource Center at La Sierra of Adventist Heritage as a journal dis- tive Bible worker, a capable busi- University. The Center will con- tinctively focused on Adventism's nessperson, and a committed mother tribute in a variety of ways to the history. and community member, she exhib- welfare of women in university, ited her gifts in the varied contexts in church, and society; and as another We hope that you find this issue— which she found herself.
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