Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

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

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

Didn't Mrs. White encourage women to participate in the work of the church?

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 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

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

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

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

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

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?

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