Adventist Ordination Crisis

Was the Biblical exclusion of women from elder-pastor roles a consequence of a prevailing patriarchal, “male-chauvinist” culture and mentality?

Isn’t it a positive evidence that women are called to be ordained when they experience success in soul-winning?

Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?

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

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

What kind of speaking does Paul prohibit to women in 1 Corinthians 14:34 when he writes, “The women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says”?

Why not ordain women as local elders? Doing so wouldn't mean we would ordain women later as pastors, would it?

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?

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 forbid women to teach as leaders of the congregation?

Does Mrs. White say that Eve was Adam's equal before the Fall and that only after the Fall was Adam to be her ruler?

Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?

What are the implications of this for the issue of ordination of women to the headship positions in the church?

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?