Adventist Ordination Crisis

Because our women haven't been ordained, has our church undervalued their work and treated them unfairly?

Didn't Ellen White have a position of authority in the church?

Is the authority of the Bible really such an important issue for Seventh-day Adventists?

Would voting for a regional option create legal problems for the church?

What has been the experience of churches that have ordained women as priests or pastors?

But most of the people I know (many of them, anyway) are in favor of ordaining women as elders or even pastors. Shouldn't this count for something?

Does 1 Timothy 2:12 really forbid all kinds of teaching and speaking by women in the church? If the Adventist Church took Paul's statement literally, “I permit no woman to teach . . . she is to keep silent,” following it would cripple us, since we use the talents of women so heavily in Sabbath Schoo

Why does Paul appeal to Adam's being created before Eve to justify his injunction that women should not be permitted “to teach or to have authority over men” (1 Timothy 2:12)? Is it arbitrary to assign leadership on the basis of priority of creation?

What is the significance of Paul's discussion about head coverings in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 for the discussion of the role of women in the church?

Why does Paul say, “I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men” in the church (1 Timothy 2:12)? Is it because women in his day were uneducated?

Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?

Can Joel 2:28 settle the issue for us of men and women filling the same spiritual roles?

What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?

Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?

Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?