Adventist Ordination Crisis

What does the New Testament actually say about women in elder-pastor leadership roles?

If the Spirit has gifted a woman to preach, who are we to stop her ordination?

What is Ellen White's relationship to this issue? Was she ever ordained?

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

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

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 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”?

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

Is it true that if Paul's argument about the priority of Adam's creation is valid, then the animals should rule mankind because animals were made before Adam was?

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?

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

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

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?