Adventist Ordination Crisis

Didn't Mrs. White encourage women to participate in the work of the church?

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?

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

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?

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?