Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

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

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

Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?

Are altered versions of Ellen White’s writings being circulated to make it seem she supported women’s ordination?

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”?

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 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?

Is it true that Paul's argument about the priority of Adam's creation (“For Adam was formed first, then Eve,” 1 Timothy 2:13) is faulty because it is based on the wrong Creation account (Genesis 2 instead of Genesis 1) and because it attaches significance to the fact that man was created before woma

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

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?

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?

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?