The Fortieth Anniversary of Women's Ordination in the Lutheran Church |
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| Authors: | Mary W. Anderson |
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| Affiliation: | Mary W. Anderson is senior pastor of Incarnation Lutheran Church in Columbia, South Carolina. She holds a doctor of ministry degree in preaching and teaches as needed at the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary. She works to end homelessness and to improve race relations through a number of organizations in the Columbia area. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract : This article offers a perspective on the present and future roles of women in the ELCA. It gives some analysis of women's roles in the trend of declining traditional congregations and rising megachurches while imagining the role of clergywomen in the church's next forty years as new models of ministry emerge. |
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| Keywords: | Evangelical Lutheran Church in America fortieth anniversary of women's ordination women and megachurches women and emerging church models |
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