EQUALITY IN MINISTRY Women in Pastoral Ministries And Ordination By Charles E Bradford past president of the NAD By this time it should be patently clear that this vital issue and it must be a vital issue for us to have spent so much time and energy on it will not be settled by the exegesis of limited and selected scriptural passages or inferences drawn from a few of the Biblical narratives the anecdotal approach Further the testimony of and from silence is no