The Most Revd Antje Jackelén is the first female primate of the Church of Sweden and the first female archbishop welcomed to the Vatican for an official audience with a pope.
One tact the conservative backlash has taken regarding marriage equality and the soon to be issued Supreme Court decision, is to urgently try to ramrod through congress a law that would restrain the Supreme Court.
As with Episcopal priests, Lutheran pastors often serve more than one small congregation at the same time. The Revd Mary Duersken was pastor to both Lutheran Church of the Ascension in Waterford MI and Sylvan Lake Lutheran Church in West Bloomfield MI.
I wonder – where is today’s wisdom to be found? What elders do we listen to for their wisdom gained by education and experience? Where is God in all of this?