Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

Isn’t defending gender roles from Scripture just like defending slavery from Scripture?

Why should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?

What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?

Why is the issue of the ordination of women as elders or pastors of such crucial importance for the Seventh - day Adventist Church at this time?

What does Paul's instruction in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 on head coverings mean for us today?

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 the Bible clearly teach that a church elder should be a man and not a woman?

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?

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?

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?

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

Wasn't Eve's subordination to Adam in Genesis 3:16 a part of the curse, which Christ came to take away?

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

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