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The Dilemma of a Bishop
Abstract: Metro Chicago's Bishop Elect says the church needs to change. Will it?
Bishop-elect Wayne Miller of the Metropolitan Chicago Synod looks forward to the lifting of the ELCA's celibacy requirement for gay and lesbian clergy. "That's where I think the church is going. That's where I think it needs to go," he said in the July 25 Chicago Sun-Times. Pr. Miller, who begins his term as bishop on Sept. 1, hopes the change will come at the August Churchwide Assembly, and acknowledged that if the policy is not changed, he would feel the tension between his personal beliefs and his vows as bishop to uphold the policies of the church.
"That is the dilemma of a bishop at this particular moment in history," he said.
