Adventist Ordination Crisis

Why is the issue of the ordination of women as elders or pastors of such crucial importance for the Seventh - day Adventist Church at this time?

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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