Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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?

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

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?

Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?

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

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