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• has been named the new Medical Director of Adult Cardiac Surgery at MemorialCare Heart & Vascular Institute at Saddleback Medical Center .
• The STEMI receiving team works in conjunction with the MemorialCare Heart & Vascular Institute at Saddleback Medical Center to provide the best cardiac care offered.
• "I am honored to join the MemorialCare Heart & Vascular Institute at Saddleback Medical Center to help expand and elevate cardiovascular care to patients in the community," said Dr. Griffith.
• "Dr. Griffith's expertise as a cardiac surgeon will make a significant impact on Saddleback's ability to expand and provide additional care to patients along with associated medical groups and community cardiologists," said Marc Sakwa, M.D., chief of cardiovascular surgery, MemorialCare Heart & Vascular Institute and medical director, adult cardiovascular surgery, MemorialCare Heart & Vascular Institute, Long Beach Medical Center.

• Saddleback founder and former pastor Rick Warren appealed the church’s ejection at the 2023 conference.
• About 88% of messengers – Southern Baptists’ language for delegates – then voted to reaffirm the church’s expulsion.
• The proposed amendment to exclude any church that hires a woman as a pastor must be voted on again at next year’s annual meeting.

The ‘woman question’

• Women were not allowed to serve as messengers to the SBC until 1918.
• Until the 20th century, only men gave the missionary organization’s report to the SBC.
• Those beliefs formed a basis for gender hierarchy that ultimately triumphed over more moderate egalitarianism in the late 20th century.

Southern Baptist controversy

• In the 1970s, greater numbers of women entered the six Southern Baptist seminaries, many professing a calling to the pastorate, even though most churches still refused to ordain them.
• I was a student at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in the 1980s.
• As historian Barry Hankins also concludes, the “gender issue” eventually became a central issue for Southern Baptist fundamentalists as their takeover of the SBC proceeded.
• A number of Southern Baptist churches had ordained women, and some had called women as pastors.

First in the Edenic fall

• In 1984, as fundamentalists gained greater control, the SBC passed a resolution against women’s ordination.
• The Southern Baptist Convention has no official control over local churches.
• Some local churches did ordain and call women to the pastorate, and their local Baptist associations “disfellowshipped” those congregations, excluding them from participating in the local association.

‘Gracious submission’

• For Southern Baptists, the statement of faith is not a creed but rather a set of largely agreed-upon beliefs.
• Seminaries and denominational agencies, such as the International Mission Board, however, must work within the guidelines of the statement.
• In seminary leaders’ thinking, however, she was teaching men the Bible, which they forbid women to do.

Future purge

• If the proposed constitutional amendment passes next year, it will likely lead to a purge of many other Southern Baptist congregations.
• Already, the pastor who proposed the amendment has compiled a list of 170 churches that he claims are in violation of the ban.

• SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Saddleback Communications , a provider of world-class, fiber-based voice and data communications to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC), announced today the availability of new Business Fiber Internet service packages.
• Saddleback's new Business Fiber Internet packages make it simple for businesses to select the capacity they need at a great value," said Ray Napoletano, Vice President of Sales at Saddleback Communications.
• Saddleback's Business Fiber Internet comes in various speeds and two delivery options:
  Asymmetrical connections have higher download and lower upload speeds and are ideal for cost-conscious businesses.
• Saddleback's Business Fiber Internet offering is generally available now to all businesses in the Saddleback Communications service area.

• SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Feb. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Saddleback Communications , a provider of world-class, fiber-based voice and data communications to business and residential customers in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC), announced today that it has implemented an all-new user interface (UI) and experience (UI) for Saddleback's MaX UC platform.
• "We're excited to be releasing our MaX UC platform's new UI and UX to local businesses in Scottsdale and the SRPMIC Community," said Ray Napoletano, Vice President of Sales at Saddleback Communications.
• "Our product and engineering staff constantly look for opportunities to improve our solutions to enable our business customers to communicate more effectively.
• Saddleback's unified communications and collaboration as a service platform boasts a new, updated, fully featured user interface for a better user experience, which includes: