Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

Would voting for a regional option create legal problems for the church?

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

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

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

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?

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

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?

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

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

Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?

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?

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?