Kansas City Lutheran Champions LGBT Clergy & Racial Justice

Public broadcasting puts this alternative view of the Lutheran Church/sect on blast . . .

"The Central States Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will install the Rev. Donna Simon in September . . . 

Simon already knows much of her agenda as bishop: “The thing I will initiate immediately is strengthening our training of lay ministers.” Such nonclergy leaders are especially needed in small churches in rural Kansas and Missouri, where it’s difficult to attract full-time, seminary-educated pastors.

As she prepares to move into this new role, Simon is glad that, as she says, “the church is looking for different things now. You can feel the difference in our synod assemblies over the 25 years I’ve been here. But even the last four or five years, the sense at assembly is that people are really excited about moving forward and not real excited about grinding the old axes and continuing to argue about things that we’ve been arguing about for years.

“We’ve all come to grips with the fact that the church is in a crisis and we don’t have time to adjudicate whether gay people should be ordained or whether we should talk about racial justice in the church.”

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