Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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?

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?

Can Joel 2:28 settle the issue for us of men and women filling the same spiritual roles?

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

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