Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

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

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

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?

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

Why does Paul forbid women to teach as leaders of the congregation?

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?

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

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

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?

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?

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

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?