Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

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

Does Ellen White warn against seeking a role or “sphere” different from the one we're assigned by God?

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

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

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

Does 1 Timothy 2:12 really forbid all kinds of teaching and speaking by women in the church? If the Adventist Church took Paul's statement literally, “I permit no woman to teach . . . she is to keep silent,” following it would cripple us, since we use the talents of women so heavily in Sabbath Schoo

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?

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

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

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

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