Shrimp here. Minneapolis' City Pages, part of the chain of progressive newspapers that includes the Village Voice, is currently featuring the story headlined "A new wave of gay seminarians prepares to take the pulpit".
Subheaded "The Lutheran church struggles with its policy on homosexuality and the meaning of 'all God's children,'" reporter Bradley Campbell tells the story of three current Luther Seminary students -- Lauren Wendt, Margaret Kelly, and Dustin Nelson -- and one recent graduate, Brenda Froisland, whose approval for ordination has been "postponed indefinitely" while awaiting the ELCA to change it policy regarding the ordination of practicing gay and lesbian persons.
Also included, at least on the website, are extended sidebar interviews on Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries and WordAlone. All are well-written and worth reading, though you'll note a certain inability to comprehend the Bible's and Church's opposition to homosexual relations, most tellingly illustrated by Campbell's description where WordAlone's Executive Director Pastor Mark Chavez "has the soft voice of kindergarten teacher. It belies his fire and brimstone rhetoric…"
Read it all and weep. It's important. Tip of the claw to Lutheran (True!) Confessions. Shrimp out.
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