Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

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

Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?

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

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?

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?

Does the New Testament distinguish between the office of elder and that of pastor?

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

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

What are the implications of this for the issue of ordination of women to the headship positions in the church?

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

Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?

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