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After LGBTQ
Abstract: What's next?
On September 24, Sierra Pacific Synod Bishop Mark Holmerud delivered the keynote speech ("Beyond Bureaucracies and Ivory Towers") at the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (PLTS) Founder's Day festivities. Pr. Robert Goldstein of St. Francis (SF) reports:
[T]he Sierra Pacific Synod’s new Bishop, Mark Holmerud called on the synod pastors and lay leaders to move on the LGBTQ issue to full acceptance and welcome of such pastors and laity and to address other justice situations that also call for prohetic leadership.
This refreshing candor and leadership was well received by the majority of clergy present. I did speak to a vocal opponent of LGBTQ rights and he looked visibly shaken by the position taken by the new Bishop.
