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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed its first openly transgender bishop
Posted on 9/13/21 at 7:34 am
Posted on 9/13/21 at 7:34 am
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Evangelical Lutheran church installs 1st transgender bishop
yesterday
I wonder what Grandpa Marty would say about this. HE sure could fling an insult or three...
Bishop Megan Rohrer speaks to the press before their installation ceremony at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. Rohrer is the first openly transgender person elected as bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. (AP Photo/John Hefti)
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Bishop Megan Rohrer speaks to the press before their installation ceremony at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. Rohrer is the first openly transgender person elected as bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. (AP Photo/John Hefti)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed its first openly transgender bishop in a service held in San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral on Saturday.
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The Rev. Megan Rohrer will lead one of the church’s 65 synods, overseeing nearly 200 congregations in Northern California and northern Nevada.
“My call is ... to be up to the same messy, loving things I was up to before,” Rohrer told worshippers. “But mostly, if you’ll let me, and I think you will, my hope is to love you and beyond that, to love what you love.”
Rohrer was elected in May to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod after its current bishop announced his retirement.
“I step into this role because a diverse community of Lutherans in Northern California and Nevada prayerfully and thoughtfully voted to do a historic thing,” Rohrer said in a statement. “My installation will celebrate all that is possible when we trust God to shepherd us forward.”
Rohrer, who uses the pronoun “they,” previously served as pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in San Francisco and a chaplain coordinator for the city’s police department, and also helped minister to the city’s homeless and LGTBQ community. They studied religion at Augustana University in their hometown of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, before moving to California to pursue master and doctoral degrees at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley.
Rohrer became one of seven LGBTQ pastors accepted by the progressive Evangelical Lutheran church in 2010 after it allowed ordination of pastors in same-sex relationships. Rohrer is married and has two children.
The church is one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States with about 3.3 million members.
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This story has been updated to correct the name of the church. It is the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, not of America.
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Associated Press religion coverage receives support from the Lilly Endowment through The Conversation U.S. The AP is solely responsible for this content.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 7:37 am to Mellow Drama
Time for another Great Schism.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 7:38 am to Mellow Drama
Morality at an all time low and it will continue to plummet. How much longer will God let us mock him?
Posted on 9/13/21 at 7:42 am to Mellow Drama
I got 10k says that thing is using the church to have sex with kids.
This post was edited on 9/13/21 at 7:43 am
Posted on 9/13/21 at 7:42 am to Mellow Drama
Do not be of the world. How fast we are falling.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 7:44 am to Mellow Drama
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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America hates the Bible and the word of God
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Rohrer, who uses the pronoun “they,”
"They" or "dey" be nuttier than squirrel shite
This post was edited on 9/13/21 at 7:51 am
Posted on 9/13/21 at 7:48 am to Mellow Drama
When did they get their first non openly transgender bishop?
Posted on 9/13/21 at 7:50 am to Mellow Drama
Over / Under is 2.5 years before it is removed for sexual misconduct.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 7:52 am to Mellow Drama
People need to pull the eject lever on organized religion and religious adherence, and get in the BIBLE instead to find Christ. Religion is is a diversion from the works of Christ as it deviates from the finished work of Christ and lays upon people their own works, goodness, and works instead. Christ made war upon religion and the religious of the day. That’s not to say Christ and His truth isn’t found in some churches and pastors, but it is to say that if you’re following religion, religious leaders, and denominational doctrine to get you there, you’re following the wrong people. Christ Himself warns us of that over and over again throughout scripture, false teachers, false prophets, and false gospels. We are seeing it everywhere in America today, in Catholic, Protestant, and Non Denominational alike. It’s all over the place.
ROMANS 1
ROMANS 1
Posted on 9/13/21 at 7:53 am to Wtodd
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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America hates the Bible and the word of God
They've become "Unitarian-lite."
Posted on 9/13/21 at 7:58 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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They've become "Unitarian-lite."
Or as us simple Christian folks like say Satan worshippers
Posted on 9/13/21 at 7:58 am to Gings5
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How much longer will God let us mock him?
I don't know but its every denomination doing it. Even the southern Baptist now accept women preachers when the bible expressively forbids it. Either you believe the bible or you do not.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 8:06 am to Astrosfan
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I don't know but its every denomination doing it. Even the southern Baptist now accept women preachers when the bible expressively forbids it. Either you believe the bible or you do not.
You’re exactly right, but truth is, most people have a very iffy understanding of the Bible and Christ, which comes from religion. I believe that Christ is calling people out from that stuff and into a “real” personal relationship with Him through prayer and scripture.
Today’s religion wants to make Christ fit to an image of themselves rather than they fit to the image of Christ. Therein lies the real danger for people as it keeps them from Christ.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 8:15 am to Mellow Drama
This is the liberal ELCA.
There are conservative branches of Lutheran ELS, WELS, LMS where you can still find bible based Christianity.
Over the years the distinction between Lutheran and Catholic and Baptist and Methodist etc has become glaringly less important than the differences between a bible based version of the above faiths vs a progressive version.
There are conservative branches of Lutheran ELS, WELS, LMS where you can still find bible based Christianity.
Over the years the distinction between Lutheran and Catholic and Baptist and Methodist etc has become glaringly less important than the differences between a bible based version of the above faiths vs a progressive version.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 8:16 am to Mellow Drama
So this is news? They are just following the lead of the Catholic Church that has been trying to hide in the closet for centuries.
Posted on 9/13/21 at 8:33 am to Mellow Drama
one of the presbyterian churches after their split already ordains homosexuals as pastors as well as episcopalian church. shite they put in lesbian women.
now mentally ill transgenders??
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Faith leaders applaud Episcopal Church’s approval of rite to bless same-sex unions and the ordination of transgender people
cafeteria christianity. lets just ignore scriptural law. let's ignore old church law. let's redact what we do not want to follow! we do not want to repent like other christians. we want to be coddled and change rules for just us!
mfers have no shame.
This post was edited on 9/13/21 at 8:38 am
Posted on 9/13/21 at 8:35 am to Mike da Tigah
the church came before the bible man.
these rogue heretical churches are not really churches.
these rogue heretical churches are not really churches.
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